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Good morning andi.
Still haven’t gotten used to my time zone?
and since I’m going home today, I don’t care. 🙂
I forgot if you drove or flew, but be careful on the way home today.
I’ve been up since 1:00 am and I think it’s time for a nap already.
Don’t work too hard and be careful.
It’s 70 miles from the airport to my house so both the pilot and I will have stay awake.
Short nap.
I would hope so more the pilot than you. You can at least pull over, he can’t.
It looks like everybody must be sleeping late today.
What’s that?
at night.
Good morning.
Good morning. It must be rather chilly where you are. I see that Cleveburg is 11 and windy at the moment.
but the windy city has been quite properly windy.
It’s been pretty cold at home too so I guess I’ll have some more opportunities for pictures of ice.
Ever vigilant
Running wild
Morning SN.
Good pictures of Hopey and friends. I wish George was as socialized as that.
Hopey needs some serious running and hind end sniffing every day or she gets surly.
She’s also a hopeless blanket hog and I froze my tush off last night. Maybe I should have closed the bedroom window?
What’s up with you today? Rels gone?
I’m just trying to catch up on naps.
Expecting the rels to leave tonight sometimes.
Any big plans for you today?
I have to go to some swanky affair (ok NOT affair) with Mr. Nature tomorrow night and I have nothing to wear. It’s at a 5 star resort and I believe the style is called “smart casual” whatever the hell that means. Casual to me is something cottony and stretchy and barefoot.
So, I guess shopping for something I’ll only wear tomorrow and the next funeral.
So you get to hob nob with the swanky crowd. 🙂
Yep I’ve got the suit for weddings and funerals. All purpose I guess.
It’s a release party for their newest software product and Mr. Nature is getting an award. I hope it’s money.
Money is always good.
But
I wouldn’t count on it. 🙂
You’re right, of course. Probably another company logo golf jacket. woo hoo.
See you later, FM.
Take naps.
There’s where I’m going now. Back to napland.
See ya.
My husband’s award for his work was a medal, but it is the first uniform foo-foo we didn’t have to buy and that they gave to him. When officers get promoted they have to buy all the insignia that goes on their uniforms themselves.
Yet another drive-by check-in, sounds like folks are waking up.
Does anyone know anything about EMDR? It was suggested to me as a way to treat PTSD. What I’ve found out about it so far is that it’s either miraculous or junk science.
Possibly socially scary weekend coming up-could be fun, could be painful-I hope for the best.
xxxooo
I know that my Uncle that I sadly lost due to PTSD did a few sessions of it. It had been suggested to me to try it after my Mom’s mother died. Losing her was a major loss for me because she was all I had left of my Mom in a lot of ways. My grief was giant. I was told that it doesn’t work for everyone but for those who respond to it it works very well and when I was trying to figure out whether or not to do it my Uncle spoke up and told me that it had worked for him. He thought if it was a genetic thing I might be a good candidate. I had two sessions and it was pretty amazing. My grief for my grandmother became a healthier grief and I returned to enjoying my daily motherhood stuff with baby Josh almost immediately. Unfortunately it looks like the Iraq War brought up a fresh pocket of unaddressed PTSD in my Uncle and we lost him to a very well planned very secretive suicide. I say pocket of PTSD because I have since read a lot lot lot about PTSD and as we currently understand it PTSD comes from a severe psychological trauma too overwhelming to process at the time it occurs. The brain encapsulates it to contain it so the whole organism can do what it needs to do to survive a situation. Problem is that when it is encapsulated that means there are few neural connections to it so that later on when it is safe the individual can return to the trauma and fully process it. Time goes by and then something triggers one of those few neurons connected to the memory and the trauma starts to play in the mind but it plays in a loop over and over again because there aren’t many connections out of the loop. EMDR is supposed to create new neural connects to the encapsulated trauma so the brain can process the trauma and a feeling of safety returns that matches the now safe environment.
In my experience, EMDR is pretty amazing, as long as you are working with someone who uses it in their practice all the time. There is also something similar now called ‘brainspotting’, but there aren’t many people trained in using it yet.
I am so freakin’ sick…no energy, no appetite (for me a real sign that something’s awry), aches, chills…the works. No fever, that’s the good news, but looks like I won’t be making it up to SF for the march/rally. 🙁
Okay, heading back to bed…
I hope you get to feeling better Cali.
Froggy Bottom Happy Hour here