Well done, P-C. Sounds like you made your position clear without being aggressive.

New Year's thought:

This year, I want to learn how to be happy with the life I'm living without taking too much things on myself and killing and exhausting myself in the process. Because I think I deserve to, especially after I understood what's deriving so many energies out of me*

And I have no idea how to do this.

The past year I was lazier then I was the previous years, no doubt. But I had a bag of guilt to accompany me for "not doing enough".

How does one gets rid of this feeling?

(note) * - not this feeling. The principle that I won't compromise myself, my opinions or character where I don't have to, even if that will tag me as "weirdo" or whatever, and face that there's not enough explaining in the world for some people, so why bother. And facing that comes with the price of reminding myself everyday that it's not that I'm not getting some of the reaction I feel I deserve, overtime, because I'm not good enough, but because I decided somewhere back that I'm not compromising on my own character; myself. And most of the world just doesn't get along with my mind. But I still prefer to be true to myself than to the agonizing task of following the masses (because frankly, sometime it's a challenge to follow the 479 mph that my mind seems to reach sometimes).

The past year I was lazier then I was the previous years, no doubt. But I had a bag of guilt to accompany me for "not doing enough".

How does one gets rid of this feeling?

Good luck with that one. If you discover the secret let me know.

Good to hear the update on your dad, omnis.

Ha, my little sister knows I won't fast—and she doesn't believe in it either—but she thinks I should just tell my mom that I'm doing it to make her feel better. But stringing her along is probably not a good idea, so there will be ~*drama*~.

The incredible Journey: [link]

Talk about a reason to chip your companion animals...

Thanks for the ~ma so far, y'all. So far it's a nasty skin infection that's gone a little further than it has in the past. Problem is how quickly it appeared. The other concern is how much weight he's lost; we'll have the results of the blood draw tomorrow, a little more ~ma will be much appreciated.

Cereal: Congrats, P-C! On both the promotion and the handling of the parental expectation.

Will keep the ~ma coming, Barb. Our pets have a tough time here in the summer. I have Brandy on Temaril-P to keep her from chewing. The hot spots can get out of control so quickly. She seems to be ok again so I am going to try and get her drug free again.

Happy birthday, erika! and shana tova everyone!

I had a good day today in that I got to go to Lush and buy nummy stuff. The kids are now taking a bubble bath and I swear I can smell it wafting down the hallway.

~ma to Mooshu.

Birthday happies to erika.

Hairpats and congratulations to P-C.

Shana Tova!

Oh, bonny, didn't get a chance to use your line about only calm people can help dogs be calm - but the jumpy dog stayed clear of me altogether at last encounter. Of course, when the calmer dog calmly walked over to me, and just as I was about to happily reach down to pet him, the owner called him away from me. And later, I observed the two dogs fighting with a fair bit of growling. I don't think I've ever seen two dogs of the same family/pack fight like that in person before. But that just confirms how out of balance the command structure is with them.