The secret is having the right size hoop. Adults will be fighting the laws of physics with a hoop made for preschoolers.

With the right size hoop, then it's just patience and being mindful of how your body can move. I do off-body moves because waist hooping screws with my hip.

I need to get back into hula hoop dance this year. It really helps with my arthritis, does amazing things for my mental health, and it's one thing I'm not embarrassed about if someone sees me.

My autistic self abhors being OBSERVED. But my fat middle-aged body delights in having someone not know how I can make the hoop dance all around me like that!

Finished the neurographic piece I've been working on. It will be interesting to do more of these pieces, collect them, and see how the representation of my brain activity in art changes over time.
#CoSoArt

Working on the neurographic art again. Taking my time. This is just the base colors in place, so it still looks very flat. #CoSoArt

If you take multiple medicines, be sure you're taking the right ones at the right times!

Thankfully, all that happened was I spent the day having all the symptoms of a migraine except the pain.

Accidentally took one anxiety med and a muscle relaxer instead of two anxiety meds this morning. Didn't realize what went wrong until later. Muscle relaxers are being kept in a different place now.

Mother-in-law: "It didn't come with a book, but you could look things up online and..."

Me: *already playing "Iron Man" riff*

MiL: ...

Me: "If I can play something on a telephone, I can play it on this."

Everyone: "On a telephone???"

Me: *playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb"*

My husband is Puerto Rican, so I was introduced to Second Christmas...um, I mean Three Kings Day...when we met. Things got in the way this year, and it was today that his mother gave us our gifts.

Y'all! She got me a tiny kalimba! 🥰🎶

The book is absolutely worth getting, by the way! The author is Tiffany Hammond, and the book is "A Day Without Words". She is a Black autistic woman who is mother to two autistic sons, one of whom is non-verbal.

It's a children's book about all of them communicating without verbal language for a day. This is something their family regularly does to understand and support non-verbal people.

Saw someone who has a book coming out in May say we'll all have her book on our shelves before we have a Speaker.

Experimenting with neurographic art again. After the first piece, I let myself get too caught in what I wanted the end result to be and hated the next two pieces. Working this time on being more mindful of giving myself over to the process and appreciating the result for what it is. #CoSoArt

An article on why all dinosaur stories are cosmic horror. Yes, it references "The Land Before Time".

My generation was doomed early. We didn't make it out of elementary school before the deaths of Optimus Prime and Littlefoot's mom.

https://www.tor.com/2023/01/04/the-land-beyond-spacetime-dinosaurs-and-cosmic-horror/

Me: "I can do this real quick! It'll only take, like... 10 minutes!"

Me, 4 hours later: "Am I ever going to accept the fact that I cannot estimate time with any level of accuracy?"

We're pretty sure I had a seizure in my sleep again. All the symptoms are there. My seizures are non-epileptic, and having one makes me afraid for a while...which increases the chances of having another one.