You really should buy a bedbug proof mattress cover and interceptors for the legs of your bed and furniture. Trust me when I say that an ounce of prevention will save you a lot of trouble, cost, and emotional trauma. Even if it costs more, buy then anyway.

It’s hilarious.

Merge Dragons.

Neko Case, who is also a member of the New Pornographers. I have seen both her solo act and TNP probably about 10-15 times.

I don’t play a dedicated video game setup, but I do play a merge game on my phone that’s endless that I can whip out and do anywhere.

Have you been x-rayed? You could have a disc problem or something. My father had diskectomy at a young age.

The community center pool. It’s nice to just float around for an hour in warm water.

Saying this with the caveat that many people don’t love religion and I get that, but please hear me out. I am Christian (the kind that loves queer people and supports women’s freedom to choose and whatall), and a couple of years ago my ex was in hospital which was a big shock. I did not have the supports and friends I do now, and it was lonely and scary and stressful. A very nice man on the street stopped me and asked if I would like a Virgin Mary medal to bless me, and that just made me feel so loved and cared for in that moment.

Yes indeed. Not to be braggy but I’m super friendly and fun and loving.

She sounds like she has no idea who she is and you were part of finding that out.

I highly recommend watching the comedy special by Daniel Sloss called Jigsaw. It explains quite nicely why we get into relationships that don’t make us happy…

The trans widows things is extreme, but it would really be nice if the spouses of trans people had space to acknowledge that this is not what they signed up for, and while trans people should always be supported, their spouses DO have the right to say no, I don’t feel the same way about you without being made to feel badly for not just going along with it all. I would be supportive if it happened to me, but I would not be attracted to them any longer.

I’m not quite there yet because of logistical reasons, but I feel like I spent over 25 years getting a PhD in narcissistic personality disorder. If you are previously vulnerable prior to your relationship to people like this, your partner will take you for all they can get and make everything out to be your fault, no matter what heinous things they do. When they inevitably discard you, the light will go on about exactly how horrific they were all along. I do not blame him for everything that went wrong, but he sure orchestrated most of it, and magnified and distorted my every flaw to the umpteenth degree until I felt like I ruined everything all of the time. I absolutely did not, he’s just bat shit crazy.

And it’s the ka-yutest little bebe.

In the late 90s there was a women’s magazine called Bust, and for some reason they’d also let you have a bust dot com email account if you wanted. You could email me at cleavage@bust.com, and those were creative fun days of the Internet.

ETA: it still exists as a quarterly internet magazine but it is NOTHING like it was, it was a great magazine.

Cool, how do I disable this shit feature?

I’m 50 and I will do literally anything to not climb any stairs. My knee just doesn’t wanna.

This is a really good podcast by an actual psychiatrist about it. Don’t listen to Andrew Huberman and his garbage science.

The important thing is getting the meds right, and taking them faithfully. They really do work remarkably well but figuring out what to take is hard. But plenty of people do really well on them, I have type 2 myself, and I work normally and have lots of friends, and you’d really never know because I’ve been on them for years and am really even Steven and responsible and calm and managing fine.

I think type 1 is harder in many ways because the manic episodes are so disabling, but type 2 is really hard to diagnose and makes you WILDLY irritable. A work friend recently got diagnosed, she’s a very educated physician, and yet she ended up manic, and I do believe she maxed out her credit cards, and was driving recklessly and wrecked her tire, and she ended up hospitalized after telling ALL of her friends and colleagues on WhatsApp, which she has no memory of, as well as being really out of it trying to do clinics. It has devastated her and I’m honestly not sure she’ll ever be able to work again.

https://www.psychiatrypodcast.com/psychiatry-psychotherapy-podcast/dealing-with-bipolar-illness

Threw out my back just sitting in my chair and shifting slightly, couldn’t bend over for days.

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