meara, shoot me an email with questions about Al Anon, if you like. Also, cannot recommend DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Theray) highly enough, just to give you something to give you a few more names, maybe.
Also, yikes.
Tracy: 'When you can't run, you crawl... and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that--' Zoe: 'You find someone to carry you.'
'The Message'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
smonster - Jan 10, 2013 6:52:58 pm PST #24849 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Burrell - Jan 10, 2013 8:06:45 pm PST #24850 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Yes, ironical AND shit. Oy!
SailAweigh - Jan 11, 2013 6:31:00 am PST #24851 of 30001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Massive hugs to all the hurty people here. I have so much love and respect for all of you. Especially the way we all have each others' backs. I feel like we have the largest polyamorous (without sex, except for those of you who actually are couples) relationship in the world. Like that huge fungus under half the midwest that is all one organism. May you all have better days to come!
smonster - Jan 11, 2013 6:57:23 am PST #24852 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Does Gris post here or Natter? I can never remember who's where. Anyway, Gris, that is absolutely awful and I'm so sorry. Wishing you strength and love for when the grief breaks through.
Sail, lots of ~ma to your coworker.
I'm so proud to be part of this fungal organism, I can't even tell ya.
On a mememe note, this panic attack can ease any time now. C'mon, Tara Brach, work your soothing Buddhist magic!! I was an hour late to work this morning after another crappy night's sleep, and am trying to relax out of the spiral of self-loathing.
Amy - Jan 11, 2013 7:11:54 am PST #24853 of 30001
Because books.
Like that huge fungus under half the midwest that is all one organism.
I am so afraid to ask.
smonster - Jan 11, 2013 7:46:17 am PST #24854 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Dear boss,
NOT. HELPING.
Grok you but I'm frustrated as hell,
Me
Maria - Jan 11, 2013 7:52:06 am PST #24855 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
smonster, this may not alleviate anything, but I have definitive dates for my NO conference. It's July 16th-18th, and I will either be taking the weekend before or the weekend after to spend time with you and Nora (and anyone else we might pick up along the way).
Laura - Jan 11, 2013 9:21:05 am PST #24856 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Like that huge fungus under half the midwest that is all one organism.
Should I be grateful I am on the coast?
Hil R. - Jan 11, 2013 9:26:31 am PST #24857 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The landlord said I can get a dog, no additional deposit, as long as it's not one that barks all the time when I'm not there.
Kate P. - Jan 11, 2013 9:50:04 am PST #24858 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Gris, I'm so sorry. Wishing you ease of travel, and much comfort to your family. I know you don't peek into Natter very often, but people have been sending condolences and ~ma from over there too: msbelle "Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet" Jan 11, 2013 7:07:23 am PST
And Hil, that's great news about the dog!