hivemind - has anyone use a debt consolidator? My mind has been racing about best ways to tackle my stupid credit card debt head-on.

Happy New Years my people!

So last night ended on a pretty meh note, but today has been uneventful. I packed up a box of my eldest sister's photos and mementos to be put up in the attic until I don't even know. I'm sure I should have thrown away more but it's hard to throw away old photos and yearbooks, especially when you know and love the person. But I found some - ugh -

Folks, here's my start-the-year-off-right advice to you: don't save mementos of bad memories

Eh, not summing up. I am currently trying to avoid an unpleasant task I've so far avoided for eight years. Gods willing it may be nine.

Outside decorations are down, exception wreath, which stays up till Epiphany--or Old Christmas, whichever comes last, as do the candles in the front windows and all the interior stuff.

Poking at husband to inventory power tools and firearms. I doubt that will include each item's dollar worth, but at least with proper ID I can find current value should I ever need to sell.

I'm doing the same for my tarot decks (currently 134 tarot, 4 rune, 4 I Ching, 2 Ogham, and 17 Oracle decks), locating and making note of matching books and stored original boxes where applicable, and listing my collector and artist bears, with suggestions of secondary market outlets should he wish to sell.

He's got his 2018 wall calendars up, and I'm dragging my feet on updating my planner pages and storing 2017 with past records.

Happy New Year, Best Beloved Buffistas!

ohh maybe 2018 will be the year my dad will sell some of his guns. That would be good.

Well, 2017 sucked. Starting off 2018 immensely depressed.

Gud, you deserve care for your depression, and you deserve other people to treat you with kindness and understanding. I'm sorry if it hard to believe right now, and I'm sorry you are hurting.

Well, last weekend my wife really lit into me about how selfish I am and... well, maybe I'm just fundamentally a rotten person. I also realized I screwed up and never re-installed analytics when I last redid her website. Maybe I did it on purpose and forgot that I did, I don't know. Just been feeling like a waste of space for the last week or so.

What WindSparrow said. Gud, you need to just hold a mirror up when your wife starts that. She's clearly the one who thinks everything revolves around her.

I was hoping to photograph today, but I stepped outside, and it was 18°, and I went NOPE.

I've been taking photos of the ice creature growing on my window.

And now I'm trying to make the thread about me. Nevermind, I'm fine. I'll be fine.

The thread is about all of us. Talking about yourself is never out of place.

Can you explain to me how you are selfish? I think if you try to express it, you'll immediately see how ridiculous it is.