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Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

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.


msbelle - Feb 08, 2024 10:15:00 am PST #28524 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

First of all fuck menopause and double fuck the patriarchy for VIRTUALLY NO RESEARCH INTO IT.

Second (preaching to the choir) grief is exhausting and nonsensical. I don’t want to do anything and everyone is annoying me (I’m being snappy) simultaneously I’d very much like to be around people doing something.


DebetEsse - Feb 08, 2024 10:20:45 am PST #28525 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.

I feel you, msbelle. It sucks.

I am not yet in the perimenopause crew, but I have a composition book for at work and a very nice leather multi-notebook thingy for everything else. I imagine new-baby-brain is not dissimilar. Someday I hope to get a full night's sleep again.


Atropa - Feb 08, 2024 10:24:43 am PST #28526 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Magnetic notebook! These things are like magic.


Atropa - Feb 08, 2024 10:25:53 am PST #28527 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Grief, any type, is so weird and debilitating. A very old friend passed yesterday, and all of us who knew him are flailing. My life wouldn't be what it is today if I hadn't met him.


msbelle - Feb 08, 2024 10:28:02 am PST #28528 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

At work I've taken to keeping a daily to do list in word open at all times. It is saved by the date, I update it frequently marking things out and making progress notes. Each morning yesterday’s gets copied to a blank doc and all things completely marked out are deleted. Then it’s saved as the new date. I think I have 4-5 months of these now.


Cass - Feb 08, 2024 10:45:37 am PST #28529 of 30000
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I have been reading a lot lately on how high-masking smart neurodivergent women just FALL THE FUCK APART during perimenopause because all of the coping mechanisms we've been using since puberty were built on a foundation of mostly reliable hormone levels, which, as it turns out, were pretty important for day-to-day functioning.
Seriously, just @ me next time.

Right? Perimen sucks and it's getting worse. The night sweats are awful. It's really more like night dampness before dawn but I rarely get back to sleep in good time.

(preaching to the choir) grief is exhausting and nonsensical.

And goes on.


Steph L. - Feb 08, 2024 10:53:53 am PST #28530 of 30000
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Right? Perimen sucks and it's getting worse.

I am going to be 53 in 4 months, and if my period doesn't go away soon, I will lose my fucking mind. I'm not using it! I don't need it! This is ridiculous.


Toddson - Feb 08, 2024 11:13:46 am PST #28531 of 30000
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

For those who will be celebrating Sunday's, um, event I came across this recipe for deviled tater tots. I know there are some who really enjoy tater tots.


-t - Feb 08, 2024 11:14:49 am PST #28532 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

You mean my birthday, Todd? I like tater tots :)


Laura - Feb 08, 2024 11:15:21 am PST #28533 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

Those tots sound wonderful, if someone else would make them for me.