But I feel like recognizing that is progress.
It is, it really is.
Like any of that's enough to fight the Dark Master. Bator.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?
Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
brenda m - Jun 13, 2017 6:01:54 am PDT #542 of 8185
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Connie Neil - Jun 13, 2017 6:07:09 am PDT #543 of 8185
brillig
I like Tim more every day!
Wrod!
sj - Jun 13, 2017 6:10:24 am PDT #544 of 8185
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I like Tim more every day!
This. Also, no apologies. That's what we're here for.
WindSparrow - Jun 13, 2017 6:50:47 am PDT #545 of 8185
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I'm glad Tim is ready to celebrate YOU, Steph. You deserve it.
Zen, I'm glad the bleeding has bloody well stopped. I hope it stays that way.
6:30 meeting and then starting your work day? Yeah, that's a long day, meara.
sj - Jun 13, 2017 7:32:14 am PDT #546 of 8185
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
It's hot and ltc is cranky.
sj - Jun 13, 2017 7:44:22 am PDT #547 of 8185
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I've been trying to push her nap back to 1 because she won't be able to nap before that when she starts school, but I gave in today and put her down at 12:30. She fell asleep immediately.
Atropa - Jun 13, 2017 8:31:35 am PDT #548 of 8185
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Steph, feelings dumps are part of what we're here for! And good for Tim on telling you that YOUR birthday is special and deserves to me celebrated. He's a good guy.
(Short version: My needs/wants "don't matter" and I shouldn't even HAVE needs/wants, let alone express them.
Therapy twinsies? I love my mom, and miss her every day, but wow, did she give me some messed-up emotional programming.
Steph L. - Jun 13, 2017 8:44:44 am PDT #549 of 8185
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
Therapy twinsies? I love my mom
I'm really naive because I didn't expect it would be so hard to be a caretaker for Mom this past week while still trying to come to grips with the idea that everything she programmed in me was wrong and a lie and damaging. Because I love her and wanted her surgery to come out okay, and I was 100% there for that. But being in a position that forced me to put her first has dragged my progress back by about a billion steps, no matter how much I've tried to logic myself through it.
And I'm sitting here telling myself that I have NO RIGHT to tell my freelance coordinator that I'm going to need a break and to take fewer articles for a couple of weeks. When people take vacations/sick days all the time. But my gut is screaming at me that *I* don't get to do that, who am I to think that I deserve that, why do I think I have it so bad that I need time off?
I want my brain to be better.
Steph L. - Jun 13, 2017 8:46:27 am PDT #550 of 8185
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I'm even skipping improv tonight, because I cannot be around people. It's all too much.
Connie Neil - Jun 13, 2017 8:48:10 am PDT #551 of 8185
brillig
I think if you say the words "My mom had open-heart surgery a few days ago," any decent human being would go, "Say no more, take the time you need" without any further explanation necessary.