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What can I say -- I like the cold.

A Good Place for Teabaggers: Plugging a friend's ex-wife's pottery show: http://ad.vu/pkki

Am back! No way that I am going to catch up on 6+ days' worth of either LJ or Facebook, so if you know specifically of anything interesting, important, or cute, leave me a note. :)

My ears are still ringing.

Just came back from an Austin club. I'm getting better at fitting in, better at just dancing.

I've been in therapy for a while. I don't make much of a secret of it. I keep learning new things about myself as they get pointed out.

Tonight was all about two things.

First, there was accepting my feelings. Like, "I'm nervous." Instead of ignoring it or pretending it's not there, I just tried telling myself I was nervous, and so what? You live with it, you accept it and that frees you to stop obsessing over it. I had to do it several times tonight when I noticed it happening, but it was still nice.

Then, there's this thing where I'm always wondering if I'm doing "it" right. "It" can be a lot of things, and tonight "it" was dancing, and I was able to notice that I was doing it and remind myself that other people don't really have the answers for me, and that I'm more "normal" than I realize.

That last one only recently came up, and only indirectly, but it's been making me crazy all my life. I can't even remember all the things I haven't done because I was too worried about doing it "wrong". Singing, dancing, asking people out, riding a bike, giving a speech, writing a paper, swimming, writing a story, breaking the ice.... Some of those things I can do now, but it's a process.

A long process.

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gohhhhhhhhhhhd, wells, ur such a n00b.

Heading over to the Town of Woodbridge Holiday Party.

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Introducing: LJLimericks

We cordially here do invite you
To craft a fine limerick. Might you?
Each week, a new theme,
Then a poll, that's our dream
Winner posted on news to delight you!

In honor of all the brilliant writers on LiveJournal, we've created a brand new community: ljlimericks! Each week, we'll enter a handful of limericks into a poll (which we'll tuck snugly under an LJ-Cut). The winning poem will be published in the following newsletter. In addition, the author will receive a virtual blue ribbon! If you have the time, come drop us a rhyme. Please keep the "Nantucket" stuff on the downlow, since this is a youth-friendly community. Our first prompt is: Insomnia in winter.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible images from our global photography community. Congratulations to sempre_marseeya, who has been awarded a virtual blue ribbon as the winner of our second lj_photophile poll.

We hate to squelch your creativity, but, as a courtesy to other users, please post only one photo at a time and keep the main photo no larger than 350x350 (so images display properly via mobile and on friends pages). You can link to a larger image and/or post photos under a cut. Just so you know, we select photos for the poll blindly, based on user comments and staff feedback. Please continue to vote, comment, and, of course, enjoy. You can check out the week in pictures and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay warm and safe out there!

I don't know how other women do it. The first couple days of my period I get so dizzy from the blood loss that I'm practically disabled. Not safe to drive, can't think, sometimes can't even stand.

It's been this way since I can remember, I can recall nearly passing out at band camp in high school under my vibraphone.

Managed to make a curry, however it's so spicy as to be nearly inedible. Apparently I just added pepper after pepper...

Yes I know I haven't posted anything on Live Journal for MONTHS...

I think there have been a few people that are friends with worldofcharlie that friended me (I think individual in question posted a comment on my top/first post) and since I rarely use this journal decided to unfriend me.

I think something similar happened with worldofcharlie as well, I don't know if this friend unfriended him in haste or our group account (well the group account's not all that active anyways).

Well I'm just saying...If you want to unfriend because you feel that since worldofcharlie posts more often or that I don't comment often on your LJ - go ahead do so...

FYI - I've also removed myself as a maintainter of bayareabigirls - the co-moderator made me maintainter without really discussing with me and since I never really do much on my own LJ - I thought it was time for me to remove that status (I'm still a member of this community, just no longer a moderator)..

I'm also going to start purging my flist as well - Everyone that's a friend of Charlie's - I'll keep on my flist.

If you'd like to stay on my flist - please comment here and if I do remove you - I'll add you right back.

Just keep in mind that once I'm employed - I may not post to this journal as often. (right now I'm not employed so I actually have time)

I'll keep this open as a public non-flocked entry.

--Carrie--

I hate clothes shopping. I hate clothes shopping with a burning, acid hate. It makes me feel like a mutant.

In an ideal world, I would have a dressmaker or tailor who would be happy to make me the clothes that I know suit me, and would be happy to make half a dozen identical wrap-around skirts, long jackets, trousers, dresses, etc, in several shades of black, and then not expect to see me for a few years. Five, at least. Every now and then I would buy a hat, or a really good necklace. And all would be well. I do not require variety. I just want clothes that I don't have to bloody fuss with. S/he would not insist that I would look lovely in patterns or frills or brights or shorter skirts or maybe something a bit clingy. I do not require my clothes to make a statement; I can do that with words, and, sometimes, pictures. I would not have to worry that all the sleeves drooped six inches past my finger tips, or have to endure folding up the bottoms of trousers, or rolling the waist that is always too large if the damn things fit around my broad beam.

There are about three clothes makers who make clothes I like wearing. I can't afford any of them anymore.

Instead, no, I let myself be bullied into buying a skirt while, yes, fine, it looks OK, but I would never wear it in a thousand years, let alone to an interview when the last thing I want is to feel selfconscious and be twitching at the bloody thing because it shows my bloody horrible legs when I cross them. Spots! Colours! Not me. It is going *right* back to the shop tomorrow.

from the ADHD newsletter:

Do not wear white. Whoever came up with the term "winter white" should be shot. Everyone knows that if you wear white during the holidays, you WILL get cranberry sauce, ketchup and wine on it. No brainer. Even more important, do not let your kids wear anything other than blue or black between Thanksgiving and New Year's.

I've seen the tamer version of the Skinny video with sexy larger ladies in lingerie doing housework. This is the uncensored version.

Hot.

Oh yeah.

( Likely NSFW... )

People have been posting cool stuff from the video side of things again.

Both megamole and watervole were geeky enough to enjoy the Daleks, Hitchhiker's Guide style



(voice-over isn't a patch on Peter Jones, mind..)