23 Dec 2017, 11:36 am
23 Dec 2017, 12:31 pm
[EDIT: Beautifully said, Esme. I particularly agree with the 'you think too much' comment... Grateful to have a place where it's okay to have a brain that refuses to stop, ever.]
[EDIT #2: Good lord, I'm so slow at posting I've been beaten twice now! Nice mushrooms though! Haha]
Ashariel - here is a hug, or whatever equivalent you're most comfortable with - my personal favorites include a warmed blanket, coffee or cocoa, and lots of kittens -
23 Dec 2017, 3:24 pm
23 Dec 2017, 6:17 pm
Those are lovely. You're cordially invited to post them also in the Mushroom Appreciation Thread:
viewtopic.php?t=337819
("Mushroom" is there taken broadly to include cool things like lichens, slime molds, etc.)
Thank you for advising me of the "mushroom" appreciation forum. I would have never guessed....
23 Dec 2017, 6:19 pm
23 Dec 2017, 6:28 pm
Never would've guessed there is a Skunk Appreciation Thread either, wouldja.
viewtopic.php?t=63998
24 Dec 2017, 6:26 am
Never would've guessed there is a Skunk Appreciation Thread either, wouldja.
viewtopic.php?t=63998
Spot on, Darmok. I will have to check this out too. And for today, the thing that has made me happy to start with are mushroom and skunk appreciation threads. I am smiling and not being sarcastic.
24 Dec 2017, 6:27 am
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24 Dec 2017, 9:39 am
) and it's *even better* when it's shared true that!
24 Dec 2017, 4:58 pm
^^
OK, this didn't just make me happy, it absolutely shocked me.
I had dental surgery shortly after Thanksgiving. It went well, but it required *extensive* work (which, yuck, I will not describe). I haven't had terrible pain, but have taken much longer to heal than I expected, and haven't had much of an appetite most days. Which has not helped with the whole recuperating shtick.
So... I've been convalescing, very tired, and mostly housebound for the better part of what, a month now. I stocked up on bouillon and canned soup before I had the surgery, so I haven't been out more than once or twice for milk and the occasional newspaper. Plus, I'm just not 100% and it takes forever to get my lazy rear end moving, which means I'm going out around dusk, and nobody has seen me. Just this week, I finally started to get it in gear, but I've still been going out very late in the day.
Here comes the happy-making-shocking part.
Today, my doorbell has been ringing and ringing. Turns out that several of my neighbors have been worried about me.
Worried! About ME!! !! ?????
And they compared notes. And they all decided they should come and check on me... so they showed up at various times today, bringing cookies, and bottles of wine, and banana bread, and brownies... and here I am in my robe and jammies, doing my laundry, blushing like a schoolgirl, inviting them in, offering coffee, tea, snickerdoodles.
I moved in here two years ago. I'm not unfriendly, I've chatted with the folks around and I know their names and like them, but I did not expect this. It's not what I'm used to. I am not used to mattering to people, not like this, not for many years (unless I'm at work and somebody needs something.)
Instead of being sad about that (because I made peace with it years ago), I'm just surprised and delighted about this.
And thank God I do my Christmas gift-giving on Epiphany, so I'll have ample time to find the right things to return the kindnesses.
Holy mackerel.
24 Dec 2017, 5:11 pm
^ That is wonderful - what nice neighbors!
Today I am happy for... a foggy Christmas Eve
24 Dec 2017, 5:13 pm
24 Dec 2017, 8:11 pm
OK, this didn't just make me happy, it absolutely shocked me.
I had dental surgery shortly after Thanksgiving. It went well, but it required *extensive* work (which, yuck, I will not describe). I haven't had terrible pain, but have taken much longer to heal than I expected, and haven't had much of an appetite most days. Which has not helped with the whole recuperating shtick.
So... I've been convalescing, very tired, and mostly housebound for the better part of what, a month now. I stocked up on bouillon and canned soup before I had the surgery, so I haven't been out more than once or twice for milk and the occasional newspaper. Plus, I'm just not 100% and it takes forever to get my lazy rear end moving, which means I'm going out around dusk, and nobody has seen me. Just this week, I finally started to get it in gear, but I've still been going out very late in the day.
Here comes the happy-making-shocking part.
Today, my doorbell has been ringing and ringing. Turns out that several of my neighbors have been worried about me.
Worried! About ME!! ! ! ?????
And they compared notes. And they all decided they should come and check on me... so they showed up at various times today, bringing cookies, and bottles of wine, and banana bread, and brownies... and here I am in my robe and jammies, doing my laundry, blushing like a schoolgirl, inviting them in, offering coffee, tea, snickerdoodles.
I moved in here two years ago. I'm not unfriendly, I've chatted with the folks around and I know their names and like them, but I did not expect this. It's not what I'm used to. I am not used to mattering to people, not like this, not for many years (unless I'm at work and somebody needs something.)
Instead of being sad about that (because I made peace with it years ago), I'm just surprised and delighted about this.
And thank God I do my Christmas gift-giving on Epiphany, so I'll have ample time to find the right things to return the kindnesses.
Holy mackerel.
Amazing! I enjoyed reading about that.
24 Dec 2017, 9:03 pm
@Ashariel, @blooiejagwa:
Thank you too.
24 Dec 2017, 11:06 pm
24 Dec 2017, 11:12 pm
