Man talking loudly on Bluetooth with his mortgage company. Doesn't sound like an amicable conversation. I sympathize, but he also sounds like someone who'd try to sell you on a pyramid scheme.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - May 02, 2017 1:06:23 pm PDT #10778 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Steph L. - May 02, 2017 1:07:31 pm PDT #10779 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
To stave off anxiety.
There's a post I saw on Tumblr that's a drawing of a person picking up and hugging this round squishy creature, and the idea is picturing your anxiety as something outside yourself that you can calm down when it gets all freaked out. I've tried it this week, and it actually helps. (I also tell it "I gotchu, baby girl," but that's optional.)
Steph L. - May 02, 2017 1:11:08 pm PDT #10780 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I mean, to be clear, it doesn't make my anxiety go away, but it dials it down, which is enough.
Connie Neil - May 02, 2017 1:33:34 pm PDT #10781 of 30002
brillig
I picture my anxious self as myself at around six years old.
Beverly - May 02, 2017 1:50:04 pm PDT #10782 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Peace, Biscuit, and comfort to his humans.
Congrats, flea, and salute to your reflexes, Matt.
Sympathies on the illness, msbelle and mac, and oh yes, exec dysfunction, so familiar, so much fun.
Have a good trip anyway, Zen.
Yeah the loud drumming is actually mate-calling. "Bachelor, here! Reeeeeaally good bachelor here, all you hot woodpecker chicks, come check out *this* drumming action!"
Sheryl - May 02, 2017 1:52:21 pm PDT #10783 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
I'm sorry, Liese.
Congrats, flea.
Sophia Brooks - May 02, 2017 2:27:24 pm PDT #10784 of 30002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am so sorry about Seabiscuit, Liese.
-t - May 02, 2017 2:33:04 pm PDT #10785 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Got my mammogram. That was a super quick appointment, and not too uncomfortable, as these things go. 4 stars.
askye - May 02, 2017 2:49:05 pm PDT #10786 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
Sometimes I imagine my anxieties as imps. At first it was seeing them dancing around taunting me
Then it evolved to giving them names and personalities. Like Squidge the "penny is going to die and is sick" anxiety in. Or the left turn one who likes blue and dragons. I've visualized either hugging them or sometimes bribing them. And talking. Like...penny is fine so what is this really about..stuff like that.
My therapist talks in terms of the internal parent, child and adult. And I talk to them and work out some understanding. I mean it's so just me but it's what helps, you know?
SuziQ - May 02, 2017 3:18:23 pm PDT #10787 of 30002
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
(I also tell it "I gotchu, baby girl," but that's optional.)
I love this imagery, including your talking to your anxiety.
My therapist talks in terms of the internal parent, child and adult. And I talk to them and work out some understanding.
Hmmm, I like this too.
I got to the gym today for the first time in almost a month. I didn't realize it had been that long. I walked a mile and did a 30 minute weight circuit. Driving over I had aspirations of walking 2 miles, but I'm ok with keeping it simple and working back up to that.