Karen's place

Watcher. Introvert. Loner. ISFJ/INFJ🤷🏽‍♀️Melancholic. Mostly rubbish blog. As you were.

[maryschild]

[animentality]

[maryschild]

[salmon-n-hazel]

Dandelions

[alice-is-annoyed-deactivated202]

[jvlianbashir]

my friend's discord server has a "proof of touch grass" channel where they post pics of them doing regular activities outdoors/in public. i think many online spaces could benefit from such a thing

[weaselle]

when i was super depressed - like struggling to eat anything barely able to get out of bed to pee depressed - my good friend asked me every day to send her a picture of me holding a leaf and a picture of a meal i was eating and it helped me significantly

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )

which is to say, i agree proof of touch grass is a good idea for online spaces

[yadelah]

This kinda required my brain a bit

[maryschild]

The menu around here is most often random stuff I just throw together. Because

Today I cubed up some tofu and dumped a can of roasted tomatoes on top. It was not bad. It also wasn’t particularly good.

7/10 would eat again tho.

[ruinedchildhood]

[maryschild]

[arte-artem-artibus]

Tiffanie Delune - Wanderlust, 2020, mixed media on stretched cotton canvas, 70 x 50 cm

[ms-demeanor]

How do you feel about driving?

I can drive, I am good at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am good at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I think I would enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I do not think I would enjoy driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I enjoyed driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I didn't enjoy it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I enjoyed it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I didn't enjoy it.

Voting ended onJun 4

[maryschild]

[maryschild]

[theclassicsreader]

crazy how much i could get done if i didn't have "doesn't want to do things" disorder

[animentality]

[maryschild]

[maryschild]

How did I wind up on a menopause thread?

People are really struggling with this. I can’t decide if my experience is so mild as to almost be unnoticeable, or if my base level of shit is so high that symptoms don’t register.

I don’t know. I decided early on that I would treat this as a natural process that didn’t need outside help. We are raw dogging menopause in this house.

I clocked hot flashes with interest and amusement. A wave passes through you and each cell in that path goes supernova.

It’s Texas and I’m dying in the heat for most of the year anyway. I think we got four days of winter this past year. So, hot flashes are kinda nothing and apparently I live to sweat.

I stay angry so no big surges of rage there. I thought my base level of pissed-offness and grudge keeping was just the Sicilian in me. I marvel that there could be a pill for this.

I reached a new max weight. I was not proud of my old max weight so I’m especially not happy with the new max.

I can’t keep my feets warm at night and that electric throw blanket is on all year. This might be just an age thing.

Then I go poking around the interwebs looking for menopause symptoms. The fuck is this list?

Fuck me. I’m experiencing 82.86% of this list. There’s a treatment for all this?!! A treatment that I am probably too late to receive.