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Find out how many marshmallows is really “too many” in a cup of hot chocolate.
BLASPHEMY! There is no such thing as “too many” marshmallows in a cup of hot chocolate. You just need a bigger mug if they don’t fit.
Ah, but see, the process of finding out means that I get to drink a LOT of hot chocolate. :p
TDM, something I forgot to mention: exercise! Go for a walk, borrow an aerobics disk, take yoga lessons (my sister swears by them), chase an escaped hen, put on loud music and clean the house top to bottom…. Getting your heart rate up and using your muscles causes endorphin release, which counteracts depression and sadness. It really works.
These are the things I do when feeling lonely and bored:
Read something that will make me laugh until my sides hurt. Any book by Terry Pratchett does the job admirably.
Tackle a crafts project that takes a lot of time, concentration, or both.
Go on-line and spend a couple of hours noodling through YouTube or Wikipedia, just wandering and looking at whatever catches my eye.
Go to the library and do the same kind of thing.
Take on a research or planning project for something I want to do “someday,” and fill up a notebook with notes and ideas.
Call a friend I haven’t talked to in ages and talk her ear off. If I can’t call for some reason, I write a letter instead.
Try out a new recipe.
Muck around in the garden or the chicken coop.
Sit with the chickens for a while. I love chicken TV.
Write how I feel. Don’t edit a thing, just let it all out on paper. If the process makes me start writing about something else, I’ll go with that too and see where it leads.
Find out how many marshmallows is really “too many” in a cup of hot chocolate.
My card arrived too. It’s just beautiful! (And what a great choice of image, with Reptangle being posted and all.) Thank you so very much, Melody: this is such a thoughtful and sweet thing that you do, and it tickles me pink to know that you care so much about your fans. A Merry Christmas to you, and best wishes for the coming year!
Blast. Missed them completely. Rough day at work, got home all jittery, chose to go down and check over the chickens for a little “cluck therapy” to help me wind down . . . and that was when the unis posted. While spending 45 minutes checking the birds over definitely helped me relax, I wish I’d chosen a different 45 minutes. 🙁 I sure didn’t expect the unis to post so early in the week!
Thanks for the heads-up! I had a lot of fun watching tonight’s session (well, what I could stay for). It’s great to be able to add a bit of input into the creative process! :bigsmile:
I’m sorry to hear that your family hasn’t been supportive of non-smoking requests in the past. I would say that if they can’t refrain from smoking while you are there, then they do not deserve to have your company that day. Which sounds horrible, I know, but for crying out loud, you have clear-cut medical reasons to need to protect yourself. Smoke will NOT help you and could even trigger an attack. Therefore, smoke needs to not be present. Is there any way you can set up a “backup plan”, someone you can spend the holiday with instead of your family, if they prove unwilling to behave themselves? Having a Plan B, even if you don’t need to use it after all, would be a way of reducing the stress. Nobody wants to spend a holiday alone…but at the same time, nobody wants to spend a holiday in the emergency room either. Protect yourself. First and foremost, protect yourself.
Waiting impatiently for a swap with baby poads painted like birds. 🙂
Me too! Fantasy color schemes, natural color schemes, or even just something in a feather motif . . . I’d be over the moon if I could snag a baby Poad like that. 🙂
I am so sorry to hear that you’re having these troubles, drag0n! I wish I could reach out and bump your name to the top of the wait list. Although honestly, with your symptoms they NEED to put some priority on you. Keep after them, I’d say. This isn’t just a persistent sniffle or an aching back, this is your heart and lungs. I can translate the medicalese for you; I’ll send you a PM in just a moment.
Hang in there, and take care of yourself! We all want you feeling better!
It might be this one Pam XD
OH YEAH. That’s the guy. Blargh! o.O
We also had critters like the one in the photo Pam posted, but we called them millipedes. I kind of liked those: they reminded me of super deluxe stretch-limo pillbugs. 😉 Totally harmless, didn’t bite, just don’t give them a great big kiss! But they had an unfortunate habit of wandering into the chicken barn at night, and getting underfoot. Eew.
Gosh, I don’t mind the centipedes in that photo link nearly as much as I mind the six-inch-long armored rascals with the shorter legs! (Which probably aren’t “house” centipedes; they’re some other type.) They’ve got a body almost as thick as my little finger and look like an armored mecha out of a ’70s anime series. I’d never seen one before we moved to the Central Valley, and one night I was reading on the couch when a big one wriggled out from under the couch. I don’t mind snakes but this dude gave me the creeps. And of course when I startled the poor thing it started moving REALLY fast! I got him scooped into a shopping bag and dumped outside in the pasture, then came back in and shivered and went “Bleaaahh!” for about ten minutes.
There are definitely critters I will not share my house with–scorpions, giant centipedes, sun spiders–but I confess that I just can’t justify squashing them either. I put them outside and pray they don’t get curious about my house a second time! 😐
