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Toothbrush Candy Hand cream Teeny bottles of booze

But mostly candy

Awesome, that is great progress no matter what. Practice is what matters. Take care of yourself. Not kidding about the yin yoga - slow and cold, with pillows, it sort of tricks your nervous system into feeling safe.

Good luck to you! A beer, a healthy supper, a walk in the night before bed. You can build healthy habits not just unhealthy ones. Do things to replace that beer. Yin yoga is really relaxing too, good bedtime practice.

Purity is a bullshit concept. You can’t be good without understanding what that is. Doing bad things is one way to figure that out, and yeah you can be good after doing harm, particularly if you face the harm you’ve done and work to fix it and not repeat it.

Lady, about 174cm and yeah I like it, I think of it as the short end of tall height.

Husband was drinking 3-4 a night and I was freaking out about it, he got it down to 1-2 by not buying it in packs except on weekend. Like he will stop at the corner store and get one beer for after work.

If you buy only one on your way home, instead of a six pack, do you think you would go out and get more, or might it work for you as it did for him?

Sitting at my desk at work is probably the biggest health risk I face.

I eat well, exercise, drink moderately (not every day, never more than two, almost always one drink only), don’t smoke, have sex every day, manage my blood pressure, really try to be good to my body and do things to reduce anxiety but the enforced idleness of desk job is for sure unhealthy.

Yahoo for my spam, the commercial emails. It makes me feel a million years old, but I don’t feel like changing them.

Things I didn’t choose or earn? Taller than the average woman in my country. Both parents were smart as hell, university professors. Dad who thought women had every right and ability to do any job they wanted, we weren’t raised differently based on sex.

Oh, the tearjerkers:

Emmylou Harris - Boulder to Birmingham and Red Dirt Girl

Lucinda Williams - Sweet Old World

So good, so sad, so cathartic.

Sometimes yes, if I can’t help it.

And sorry you are having the flu, that is dreadful, but enjoy the delirium.

Slightly off topic but there was an escaped monkey around and people would never report it until they were sure it was gone, they didn’t want it caught.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2012/10/25/163620501/floridas-mystery-monkey-captured-after-three-years-on-the-lam

I just want to learn to juggle anything! And to whistle. Both elude me still.

Nah it’s more like putting soap in a flannel and thinking “where is the soap, oh that’s a nice smell, did I feed the cats? Why is he snoring again? Oof it’s cold. What was that song? All of the things that I said that I wanted, come rushing back in my head when I’m with you…”

My sister had to take a final exam at college right after having a baby, my mom held the baby outside for her while she did.

I went to university after having my first set of kids while they were little but wasn’t working much. Tried to go to grad school while working full time and parenting and it wrecked my life so completely I didn’t think there was any amount of future income that would have made it worth doing. Even now, I can’t imagine it.

So far, yes. I think being able to be physically embodied is so remarkable. And on top of that, to be able to hear and see (sort of) and think and feel? It’s not gonna last forever, so I want to feel it while I can. Absolutely yes.

I found it in the reddit kerfuffle and stayed because it reminded me of a combination of Usenet text forums and early Reddit. The pace here is manageable and it’s mostly nice.

So I am here for whatever I was on Usenet then Reddit for, just to have a space to read people’s opinions and maintain a niche community.

We had 4 daughters and one bathroom in my old house. My ex had to pee out in the yard and nobody was allowed to use the bathroom for dressing/undressing/makeup or hair styling. It was rough. It wasn’t even a small house, about 1800 sq ft! Just the one bathroom though.

One of my friends at work was looking specifically for a small house, they love theirs, it’s cozy; but we use the heck out of every square foot of the one we have and I’d call it pretty big. 1,850 sq feet but arranged so it feels bigger than that even. One small bedroom for each kid, we have a pantry, living room and kitchen, a separate living room for the kids, the enormous dog crate (one of our dogs likes to be created, it’s her bedroom) and cat tree thing and for us a bigger bedroom with its own bathroom. Plus a small front porch and big back deck and truly, all of it is used every day. One side of our bigger bedroom is all my husband’s weights.

Even when the kids leave, I would love to keep all this space and have one of their rooms as office, one for the weights, their living room for a bar/lounge space. I fucking love having all this room. We entertain a lot, and are a space for the kids friends when their parents are not accepting of them, there are often extra people around.

Now if it was just me? I haven’t ever lived alone so not sure but if I had enough money to eat out a lot, then probably yeah a smaller space would feel better. Less stuff in general would. But for now I am so enjoying all this, I love it.

Transition your work so it doesn’t make others have to figure out what you did or didn’t.

Leave your laptop at work or completely turned off, put on automatic replies, do not work, like really do not work.

If you are trying to accomplish something at home, schedule it and do it at a relaxed pace.