Random Info About Me

 I didn’t really feel like writing a blog this week, so went to my file of general questions to expound on.

 

Favorite website

Right now it’s Bored Panda. That place has given me so many topics to write about and pictures for memes. It used to be totally free, but now if you really want to explore more topics you have to pay a subscription. No thanks.

 

Favorite planet

In the words of The Tick: Earth! It’s where I keep all my stuff!

 

When I was a kid, who was my favorite relative

Hands down, Aunt LoLita. My mom’s sister. She was so much fun! Lighthearted and a joy to be with.

 

Have I ever been in a physical fight

Scrapping with a sibling doesn’t count. When I was about 8 or 9 I fought the kid next door. His name was Gene and he was about the same age as me. I don’t remember what we were fighting about, but we were really going at it. At one point I accidentally poked my finger in his eye. The feel of his eyeball totally grossed me out and that was the end of the fight. No real hard done to his eye, thankfully.

 

Am I a competitive person

Only in word games. Then watch out – I am ruthless! No holds barred! No prisoners taken! I will spell you under the table and laugh while drinking your tears in a glass goblet!

 

Who taught me how to cook

My grandmother. Grandma and grandpa lived with us and I learned everything I needed to know about running a household.

 

Do I have a good sense of direction

Absolutely not!! I could get lost in my own back yard if it was nighttime and no moon. Pathetic, really.

 

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Random Thought

A freezer is just a pause button for decomposing food

 

 

I GET IT

I have no idea who wrote this, nor do I remember where I first saw this, but this is GENIUS writing!!! I wish I could write like this! (It’s also funny as all get out…)

 

I get it

You think you're gonna quit your job

Throw on a backpack

Hitchhike to Colorado

Meet some girl who knows the breeds of rocks

Play the spoons in a street music ensemble with her and her old man and her twin flame and a fella name of "Custard Bob" they met outside of Durango during the eclipse

Listen to Custard Bob talk for hours about a friend’s uncle who works for the FBI and gave him a document about chem trails

Follow Bob down the rabbit hole

Come to your senses 2 weeks later standing in a field strapped to a cardboard "bomb" filled with pork n beans and a note taped to it says “ARREST TONY HAWK"

Find out you're in Utah

Find out they robbed you

Find out you have a pitbull now

Go live in a cave in Moab with a dude who stopped using money 15yrs ago

Kiss every single rock climber in Moab at the same party

Steal toilet paper from McDonald's

Charge your phone at McDonald's

Eat 3 meals for $8 at McDonald's

Be asked to leave McDonald's ‘cause whatever Custard Bob got you strung out on gave you the "hippy screams"

Learn how to hop freight in Salt Lake from a genderless dirty kid named Latté

Ride in a boxcar full of air fryers all the way to Portland

Get hooked on what Latté calls "Kansas City Dancing Shoes" someplace east of San Jose

Roll your ankle hoping off the moving train

Watch Latté land it flawlessly then steal your boots

Limp 12 miles to the nearest Walmart

Fly a cardboard sign that says "Bad Advice $1"

Split a kicked down rotisserie chicken with your new pitbull

Hang out at Trader Joe's hoping a woman with a cart full of vegan snacks will see the dog and let you sleep on her couch if you pretend to care about astrology

Wake up to her kicking you out for "inviting Capricorn energy into her home" but really its cause you slept with her roommate

I say do it

You have nothing to lose but your stuff and your teeth most likely

Go. Be. Free.

 

 

Mind Blown

 

This is a long post, but I felt it was pretty important to address all these statements at one time. As usual, I have no idea where I picked them up in my travels across the web…but they really made me think.

 

The fact that you are high functioning doesn't mean that your illness is easier for you to deal with, it means it's easier for OTHERS to deal with. I’ve surprised a lot of people with some of my posts about my life during childhood and young adulthood. It took me many years to be able to talk about it.

 

You do not have to attend every argument you are invited to. I have always disliked confrontations and arguments. I always preferred to remain silent. If it’s an issue I am truly adamant about, like protecting the life of the unborn, I will engage. Otherwise, I will back away. If it makes the other person think they’ve won, so be it.

 

The brain isn't designed to keep us happy. It's designed to keep us alive. I love this one! No one is happy all the time, but they can achieve contentment. Big difference! I try to cling to St. Paul’s statement in Philippians 4:11-13.

 

Your internal monologue isn’t always reliable. Boy howdy on this one! I can have HUGE conversations with myself where I go back and forth in an endless loop and neither side wins! Positive thinking and positive self-talk is a good idea, but you can get caught up in that endless loop.

 

 

No one sees the version of you that you see of yourself. This kind of goes along with the statement above. Not much more to add to that, except that it helps to focus on something other than yourself.

 

You're the only constant you’re going to have in your life. This one I take exception with. I was raised with knowledge that I was NOT alone. I had Jesus Christ with me ALWAYS. He is the perfect constant. Obviously, having consistent love from friends and family is very important, but they can’t be with you 24/7. Jesus can! And is!

 

Be a friend to yourself. You wouldn’t say any of the negative things to your friends that you say to yourself. This one smacked me between the eyes. I have always had the tendency to judge myself harshly. Over and over. Part of it came from things said to me when I was young and in school. And I believed those things and reinforced them in my mind.

 

Progress, not perfection. Yes! I am absolutely NOT perfect. But I have progressed SO much farther than I ever thought I could in my younger days.

 

That my mental illness isn’t my fault, but it is my responsibility. The first part of this statement is true and should be reinforced. Completely. The second part depends on the age of the person and the nature of the mental illness. A child can’t take complete responsibility, but can be taught and encouraged on how to deal with it. Filling someone with antidepressants won’t help if it’s not accompanied by some kind of therapy. And hold that person responsible for their subsequent behavior as much as possible. It’s a tricky illness and everyone is different.

 

You can watch people on their rollercoaster, you don’t have to ride it with them. This SO applies to me! I can get very emotionally involved with someone who is struggling. I know what it is to struggle and if it’s someone I’m close to and love, I’m ready to climb on that rollercoaster myself. Empathy and sympathy is a good thing, but it won’t help someone else if you’re standing there sobbing into the Kleenex yourself.

 

You can’t love others if you can’t love yourself. ABSOLUTE BS!! I know this platitude is 100% false. Yes, you should have a healthy self-esteem, but it’s not a requirement in order to love others. For so many years I hated everything about myself. BUT…I had no problem loving and being fiercely loyal to friends and family. I still can’t say that I love myself, but I can say we’re pretty good friends…