I can and probably will. Right now I'm trying to decide if I should text my friend with my surprise at her mother's reaction.

I was hurting. Then I took meds. Now I'm hurting less, but my brain is all spinny. I was going to watch a movie, but didn't. I read silly fic instead.

I've unfollowed most of my family, and I don't regret it.(except for where FB has turned into cavalcade of half-dead-relationships...I actually thought it would revitalize me socially)

Happy birthday, JZ! I hope it's been fantabulous!

sj, I had to speak up. If you want me to delete, I will.

sj, I had to speak up. If you want me to delete, I will.

No, please. I was counting on my friends to speak up. I said what I had to say and she didn't respond, so I myself am done for now. She's my bff's mother, and I have known her for over 30 years but haven't spoken to her much since they moved from here 8 or so years ago. I'm quite surprised she feels that way, to be honest.

Bah! An evil comment from someone on my facebook rainbow post. Not from someone I expected and not from someone I can unfriend easily.

A friend of mine was dealing with someone posting a nasty 'gay marriage leads to bestiality' meme on her FB page yesterday. Complete with pictures of people kissing animals. And then having it supported by several of her Christian friends who liked the 'slippery slope' ridiculousness. And telling Friend to come to church and then she'd understand. Friend asked for my help, as she knows I'm a gay sort-of-Christian, so I jumped in and attempted to talk about different interpretations of the Bible and so on. It's unlikely to stop the silliness on the feed, but at least it might make Friend feel better.

I am editing a book chapter I have to submit on 1st July. I'm so bored with it. Trying to scare myself with 'publish or perish'...!

Good luck with the scaring yourself bit, Seska.

Ah well skippage happened because I was overwhelmed by life. My sister got her finger caught in my car window, which led to us being awake well in excess of 24 hours with going to multiple hospitals. It happened at her office which is an hour from the closest hospital. We called the local volunteer EMTs and they wrapped her up and told us to go to the hospital. After being at the hospital 9 hours in the ER they told us it was too complex and she needed to be transported another hour away to Syracuse. I was being responsible knowing I shouldn't drive after so many hours awake and drove the shorter distance (45 miles) to get my son to drive me to SYR to see what they were going to do. They said it was no biggee and the broken bone was sitting where it should be. The skin was too damaged to stitch, but would heal in place so they just wrapped her up good and immobilized it. So many hours of concern and sleeplessness over the closer hospital being idiots. Grrrr. We have caught up with our sleep now and Mona's finger is hopefully mending away.

Sending strength, love, and all kinds of positive vibes to the Tickybox family.

Ugh Laura, I'm sorry that has been such an ordeal!

I'm glad she's okay but sorry for the ordeal.

things I learned about my self - while the "big" grocery store may have more options it's more stress inducing and going to the grocery store on Sunday is a bad idea. I think Friday mornings are going to be the only day that will work.

I need to brush up on different breathing techniques but I did that and the grounding thing of naming five things. 5 things for each sense is really popular but the store was so overwhelming I just went to categories. there's an app that has stuff like name 5 colorful birds, name 5 spicy foods, name 5 thing the color yellow and you press a star for each one you name.

Personally I'd love to make a geeky version of that. Name 5 races from Star Trek universe. Name 5 characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Name five types of weapons used in D&D. Or whatever. And you could pick your theme - comic books, movies, tv shows, musicals. Whatever y our geek is.