https://youtu.be/XCCWjgWCI4g

Frosting!!

In Texas we’re at almost 3 million votes! My family is going this afternoon.

It sounds so dumb, but it really works for me. I can almost always put myself back to sleep now within a few minutes- except for the nights when I’m really mad at work and, instead of doing the process, i wallow in the misery of insomnia as if that’s somehow hurting the people I hate.

I get in a good position and get my pillow and covers just right. I take 3 breaths and focus really really hard on my breathing. I take 10 breaths to focus on relaxing, being calm, and feeling the comfort of my pillow, the weight of my covers, and how good my bed feels. I start at my feet (both feet on a regular night or one at a time if I’m really struggling) and for 3 breaths i relax them and feel their weight sink into the bed. Then i work my way up, moving to my ankles, lower legs, knees, … taking 3 breaths at each one…and I’m usually asleep before upper legs. The hardest part was learning to focus hard on each breath, in and out, and each feeling, so it fills up your brain and other thoughts won’t fit. If something else creeps in, i reset with 3 focusing breaths, then continue.

I spent about a year practicing going back to sleep. I’ve become pretty good at it, but my job is very sucky right now, so sometimes i forget to turn that off and do the steps.

First step is voting!

Start investigating/prosecuting the little guys and work your way up!

Lounge in bed together for an extra hour or two, have a coffee, and watch a show or college game day. Make some breakfast. Work on little projects or hobbies (today we need to go empty a storage unit before the next billing cycle), maybe go swimming, run some errands, maybe haircut or nails, maybe have friends over in the evening or have a date night.

ETA- forgot to mention my favorite weekend activity-the rerack! Wake up early, browse my phone or read for a bit until you start to feel the sleepies, and then go completely back to sleep for an hour. I don’t know why, but it feels like the best sleep ever, and you wake up feeling so good and rested.

I hate the glass screen protectors. Naked screen. Single layer medium plasticy case with the mag circle on the back because my last car had the magnetic attachment thing.

Agree with that. It’s like all of the movies where a plain girl gets a haircut and makeup and is suddenly popular.

As for the movie as a whole, it’s just a reminder that it’s good to talk to people outside your circle - many have similar feelings and struggles.

Omg! Can you imagine if Trump were asked to write an essay?!?! The bestest essay ever they say. What a fucking dingdong.

How long before the j6ers get paid?

Do you take an antidepressant? When i did, i had a feeling of insignificance - being an ant, one of a bajillion beings who have lived or will live on earth and whose death will mean nothing once my immediate circle is also dead. I wasn’t sad about that, just very matter of fact. Here today, gone tomorrow, no biggie. In 120 years the earth will be all new people.

When you’re on a mountain, an empty beach, a forest, etc., you certainly feel the presence of something bigger than yourself. Is that god? I think so. I think John Denver agreed. Not a religious scholar, but he had something with Rocky Mountain High. You can talk to god and listen for his casual reply.

I can sometimes get a wireframe image of a general shape like that - not solid, no color or details.

Aren’t we still missing a lot of people who were taken there and then disappeared?

You’re sitting with most joints in a flexed position. Sand up and stretch in extension- neck, shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, and do some heel raises.

I hate that feeling! I’ve been trying to learn to take 20 minutes power naps, but not having much success. Sometimes eating something spicy or crunchy will wake me up a bit.

This is my second favorite thing on the Internet today. You’re close behind those retired barn cats.

To get on ‘the news’.