My trans son was an emotional wreck at age 5 and although I suspected that he was queer I didn't know what was going on.
So I took him for horse riding lessons.
In a place where you were required to groom and also be there with the farrier.
My kid has almost no memory of this.
But I do.
He did great.
I love horses. They also terrify me.
It was good for all of us.
Oh there's a story.
#horses
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In 1981 my father had me for the weekend and woke up to find me with my blanket elevated like this although I was on my stomach and he freaked out.
I was on my stomach with my feet lifted.
I just checked on my younger son and gloried in the geometry of sleeping soundly.
Who cares as long as you are asleep?
#Sleep

This is a bunch of us #Autistic people every time we misunderstood something because we didn't know if it was serious or a joke.
Yes, we have deep feelings.
We sometimes get confused.

That moment when you walk outside with nicotine gum in your cheek and you truly realize that smoking outside was the only escape time you got from the moment your first child was brought home.
#FutureExSmoker

Here's why you can't afford pizza anymore.
A long time ago you were single and had single people bills.
Now you've got a family. Pizza is expensive.
It's ok to walk into the bathroom and snarl, "Can we make enough money to afford the bills and a real goddamn pizza?"
I can't afford a pizza oven.
It's okay to understand when your spouse is underpaid for the work he does and then panic over a raise due to tax brackets.
#Labor
#Pizza

I was 28 and in the hospital for dehydration and severe pain and they never bothered to figure out the cause of the pain but they pumped me full of Demerol and when my ex husband came to collect me I said, "I understand art and heroin now. I wrote a thousand books last night. I get that, now."
Husband - a paramedic - stared.
Me - "Don't judge. Just help people."
#Narcotics

Just a reminder - brains glitter.
It's beautiful and horrifying.
If you're not a medical professional and you encounter a person's brains in chunks you will likely lose part of yourself and never retrieve it.

After I found my ex-husband's stepmother's brains between her mattress and box spring in 1996 and completely fell apart and his family eventually told me to suck it up and not dwell I started smoking again after 4 years quit.
Sandi would want me to quit smoking.
I thought about her every time I lit up.

As I'm not an ex-smoker yet I want to be upfront with the process.
I am already coughing up junk out of my lungs.
I'm dizzy from increased oxygen to my brain.
I want to sit with my pickle lighter and smoke an entire pack in 3 hours.
It's not easy.
But no one really said that you can't use nicotine gum forever.
#FutureExSmoker

It's really not fine, but I am lying to everyone else who needs to quit because we have to stay alive.
It's sucking badly.
It'll pass.

#FutureExSmoker

Nicotine gum is great.
However.
Between 7 and 10 pm I did the most smoking because by 7pm I have to pace the porch. Watch the sky.
Smoke.
Take pictures.
Inhale the smoke and the end of the day into myself.
I'm doing great all day. Until 7pm.
My husband told me that when he smoked while using gum to quit it jacked up his need for nicotine awfully.
So for now I suffer between 7 and 10pm.
That's fine.
#FutureExSmoker

Just went from screaming with laughter to blood in my eyes Justice for Winnie.
This show rocks.

Ever pause something because you're laughing so hard that if Hell existed you'd be halfway there, calm yourself, hit play, and apparently you paused too soon because now you're screaming with laughter?
That just happened.

Finally getting around to Only Murders in the Building on Hulu and the entire vibe is What if The Good Place were a whodunnit? And I love it.

#TV
#PleaseDontSpoil

That's regular ass seltzer.
Not that malt liquor stuff.

Made myself a spritzer with ice, cheap Cabernet, strawberry-cranberry juice, and black cherry seltzer.
It's really tasty.

#Beverage

Food Lion frozen vegetables recall information including UPC codes

#Listeria

https://abc11.com/nc-listeria-recall-food-lion-mixed-vegetables-super-sweet-corn/13672421/

Documentary- "This is the oldest desert in the world. The Namib in Southwest Africa."
Me- closing eyes- "Aha. Bottom left."

Remember- WE! Not EW.

Found dead on back steps while taking out the trash.
Not too upset because they eats da bees.

#Hornets
#Fuzzy