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1 week ago @ Crasstalk - Quiet Weekend Open Thread · 1 reply · +15 points

You've been in my mind lately. I know you're going through an awful lot and I'm glad you're checking in even if it's to say life stinks right now.

I don't think I've ever been in a group as understanding as this one when I've found the courage to say everything sucks. You all have shored me up many times, especially when I thought I couldn't take any more. I get more strength and guidance here than anywhere else. You know we'll always be here to lift you up as much as we can.

I agree with everyone else. Get outside, go for a walk or a drive with the music blasting. Scream the lyrics. Look for small miracles, grass growing through concrete, rain on a spider web, little things. As the old Yes song goes, don't surround yourself with yourself.

We'll all get through this. Somehow. But don't freeze frame this moment in time and think it'll never change. It's all temporary.

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - Happy 14th Crassiversa... · 0 replies · +16 points

What a great community of people. I honestly would be lost without you. Happy 14th!

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - A New Week Open Thread · 4 replies · +14 points

Wow. That's a great idea. But I just asked the other Mr and he says he wants to see them, so I guess we have them shipped down here. I'll just have to deal with the emotional mess.

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - A New Week Open Thread · 9 replies · +16 points

The stuff in our storage unit was auctioned off a couple of weeks ago. I got a call from someone on staff telling me that they put aside all of our photographs and what do I want to do with them.

I mean, it's boxes of us everywhere. Us in front of places. On paper, before digital. The Eiffel Tower, the Pyramids, the Grand Bazaar, Tokyo Disneyland...everywhere we've ever been. On one hand I'd be thrilled to see them again. On the other, I will cry and cry and cry once the memories start tumbling and I see how young we were. It's already making me sad thinking of the travels we can't do any more.

I have to decide whether to have them sent or to have them tossed. I am so torn. And to make it worse, in addition to the photo boxes is a box that holds ashes of Henry, our dog before Curly. It'll never make it through customs, so now I have to consider leaving Henry behind, too.

I've moved so many times that I've cleaned out everything along the way. This is the last of our memories. The very last of them.

Letting go is damn difficult. There's nothing left to hold onto. I mean literally hold on to. It's all gone and I'm big sad.

1 week ago @ Crasstalk - A New Week Open Thread · 2 replies · +12 points

We had a punched tin tree in Mexico and I loved it, especially at night when the colored glass lit the room. They mostly small and can be expensive but they're real cute and a big conversation piece. Try Etsy or EBay.

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Weekend Open Thread · 2 replies · +14 points

Believe it or not I can sympathize with a lot of what she says. I still struggle with cultural differences and it's been 7 years.

But this? “People go, ‘Oh my god, the French food is so fabulous,’” she says. “Yeah, if you want to eat brie, pâté, pastries and French bread all day long,” she says. “But who eats like that?”

Honey, the French do. In France. Where you chose to live.

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Weekend Open Thread · 0 replies · +12 points

I'm still in denial. I'll be in denial for the next 4 years.

I thought I could sail past it all for a while but every time I open a browser there he is, or one of his goons. Smirking. Threatening.

I hate.them. With a passion.

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Midweek Open Thread · 2 replies · +7 points

Raw milk is a thing here too, especially among the idiot nomads. I simply can't understand what possible benefit could outweigh the risk. But it seems we're sliding more and more into the whole "science is bad, pure nature is good" level of stupidity. I honestly don't think the young kids these days even know what pasteurization is. I'm guessing they think it's a vaccine for milk. And ohmygod no, not a vaccine!

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Midweek Open Thread · 0 replies · +7 points

I deleted Twitter today and I should have done it a long time ago. I'm abstaining from all broadcast news and news websites. No matter what he says or does, it'll only make me feel worse so fuck it.

2 weeks ago @ Crasstalk - Midweek Open Thread · 1 reply · +17 points

I went to bed early last night after having a bad feeling about the election. I woke at 4, read the headline and I've been sick to my stomach ever since. I actually feel like throwing up. Or crying. Or both. Between that and some Latin drama going on here, I don't want to deal with reality at all this morning. Not at all. It's 9am but it'll be 420 in a few minutes. Then 420 all day.

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