rapid meara:
Oh, Tep, I am so relieved that your dad turned out, improbably, to be a REASONABLE hallucinating gun-owner, and so sorry for all the monumental stress that preceded that resolution. Also, I fully endorse every single food item you described as a possible self-soothing/feelings-eating/culinary therapy option, and I hope you took advantage of all of them and they helped. And YAYAYAY for Tim being back on the day shift!
Ugh, Jess, you need a post-vacation vacation. Bees in the wall sounds alarming, much less bees STILL in the wall after all that.
Hooray noncarcinogenic House of Scrappy!
Gud, ITA with everyone noting that TCBITW has grown into a beautiful bride and a glowing, lovely young woman. I also TA with my husband's recommendation. You are better than this and you deserve better, and nobody should feel like admitting a fact about their emotional state to their spouse is a fatal misstep. This is 10000% on your wife, none at all on you. You've been an extraordinarily generous, devoted, giving, creative, hard-working husband and father all your adult life. You are worthy of boundless, unconditional love, not whatever this is.
Toddson, your DIY flatbread pizza sounds amazeballs.
Personal update: Working on my dad's memorial, stressing over meeting deadlines thereof and making sure that it stays small and manageable so it can actually *happen*, because if Delta causes a cancellation I don't think we'll ever be able to make a go of it. The only good thing to come out of the stress is that I'm fully back in the groove of an old coping mechanism, burying myself in gigantic-ass books. Reading intently and voraciously feels like a piece of me that went into hibernation, and I missed her. (Currently, diving into Helen Oyeyemi, Kate Atkinson and Octavia Butler and loving them all.)
Also, that personality quiz informs me I am 84% Willow Rosenberg, Tina Belcher and Will Byers and 83% Charlie from
Perks,
which is all quite nice, but also 81% Bran from GoT and 76% Georgiana Fucking Darcy and Buster Bluth, which HOW DARE. Also only 71% Radar O'Reilly or Chidi Anagonye, which I question. But at least only 24% Mister Wickham and 19% Gaston, so that's a relief.
eta: Also, Tom, take the class! Any photography teacher on earth would feel lucky to have you as a student.
Can I just say that I love me some JZ? Cuz I do.
I'll just stand over here with Scrappy. (Hi, Scrappy, lovely to see your pixels.)
My Dad's been in the hospital since Saturday evening when he had a fall and then was very out of it. He didn't seem to hurt himself falling but they haven't figured out what's going on yet other than not a stroke. He's ok in the sense that he's not in pain and has been eating well but he's pretty confused. He keeps thinking school is starting "tomorrow"and he doesn't know what grade he's teaching yet (he's been retired from teaching for 15 years or so). I feel so bad for him. It's like a stress dream you can't wake up from.
Lisa, I’m so sorry, that sounds horrible.
I signed up for the class this morning.
From a while ago:
To be fair, the kind of work that a class is is very different than the kind of work therapy is
The class involves talking about my art, which involves opening up about myself and leaving myself open to criticism. It’s a lot more like therapy than you may think. The actual photography work I’m not worried about.
Oh, and Debet, congrats! on that thing that you mentioned on a different, green web site.
Oof, lisah, that sounds rough. Your poor dad, and you. "like a stress dream you can't wake up from" is a powerful description
Way to take a brave step, Scola! I hope it's a good experience.
Also, that personality quiz informs me I am 84% Willow Rosenberg, Tina Belcher and Will Byers and 83% Charlie from Perks, which is all quite nice, but also 81% Bran from GoT and 76% Georgiana Fucking Darcy and Buster Bluth, which HOW DARE. Also only 71% Radar O'Reilly or Chidi Anagonye, which I question. But at least only 24% Mister Wickham and 19% Gaston, so that's a relief.
I had to scroll down pretty far to get to a character/show I actually knew, but once I did I got 81% for Ben Wyatt AND Twilight Sparkle, which, honestly, I find incredibly flattering!
Awesome, Scola. Also, awesome Scola.
Lisah, sending love and healing vibes your and your dad and family's way. That is a very scary and apt description. I'm so sorry this is happening.
Also on the JZ love train.
Meara, I hope it's a no news is good news scenario... though I understand the worry.
How's new home, Scrappy?
Scola, that makes sense. And thanks, though I'm planning on waiting till things firm up a bit before talking about it because everything is stressful omg and I just cannot even with dealing with all the people.
lisah, I hope that he can get out of his loop.
I got 93% Ender Wiggin, 92% Ariadne from Inception (whose character traits I basically remember not at all), 91% Michale Scofield (Prison Break) (???), and then my 90%s: Hermione, Gandalf, Daniel Jackson (Sam Carter comes in at 89. Are they basically the same character?), and Jemma Simmons. I am also equally Remus Lupin and Elizabeth Bennet (87%) and just slightly more Jean-Luc Picard (88%). So, there's that. I would take it again to see about how the questions they sample influence the results, but that is a rabbit hole I do not need.
