Try making a list. Not a big list. Not a serious, inspiring, motivating, nudge-your-butt TO DO LIST. ‘
No. No. No. No. No.
A Little List. A FUN LIST.
I make a nice, relaxed, no pressure, doesn’t-have-to-be-perfect, not final, not-gonna-be-laminated, fun list of say 3 items.
A list that requires some thought. Something fun to think about. And I give it a name. Because it’s fun giving names to lists. It makes them official. And it’s fun when things are official. Even if they are unofficially official.
Try making a list. Not a big list. Not a serious, inspiring, motivating, nudge-your-butt TO DO LIST. ‘
No. No. No. No. No.
A Little List. A FUN LIST.
I make a nice, relaxed, no pressure, doesn’t-have-to-be-perfect, not final, not-gonna-be-laminated, fun list of say 3 items.
A list that requires some thought. Something fun to think about. And I give it a name. Because it’s fun giving names to lists. It makes them official. And it’s fun when things are official. Even if they are unofficially official.
(This impassioned speech was in response to a question asked on LinkedIn. That is attached below.)
Side effects matter for those who can’t work if they are sedated, lethargic, losing their balance, falling, confused, unable to find words to make sentences, crying while speaking or unable to understand the directions they are being given. All because of side effects from medications that have to be at a high enough dosage to actually treat the symptoms of the related disorder effectively.
That is why side effects matter to us. Because we need to work.
If you are interested in getting health insurance to pay for treatments that enable you to be free of your worst symptoms and able to work, you might be interested in this conversation. Even just as an example of how a person like me, a nobody in the grand scheme of things, starts a conversation like this.
I could have had this treatment seven years ago. In theory. In reality, I wouldn’t have been able to get it, but I would have started fighting for it. It has changed my life completely. I have gone from planning my death to planning my life.
Are your side effects keeping you from living your life? Or are you unable to get to your effective dosage because the side effects disable you and keep you from working? Maybe there is treatment with fewer side effects. Maybe you can get insurance to pay for it. Like I did.
If you are sick of reading about #TMS, if this stuff is not for you, don’t worry. It’s over.
And I PROMISE the very next post will be F.U.N.
I SWEAR!
Or, as Missy used to say, it will be FUNNER!
Happy Friday Eve.
Do something different today.
I did something different and it changed my entire life.
xoxo2nth, d and bella
And JK about Bella. She doesn’t take any meds. She meditates and does yoga.
🤎🤎🤎
This is the LinkedIn post that prompted my response on LinkedIn today – which prompted this post – which violated my own rule that I wouldn’t post anymore about TMS for a while – but it’s okay, because we’re flexible now that we’ve had TMS. : )
Now, Â does anyone know where one can watch the first five years of MTV over and over again. Is there a way to do that?
Playing MTV years 1981-1986 in the background would be amazing. And I’m not just talking video clips. I want the mix of videos and talking so I feel like Martha Quinn and Nina Blackwood are hanging out with me. Those two  could go everywhere with me on my laptop. Now THAT would be fun.
Everyone is completely fascinated by something. Completely drawn to something. What is your fascination? What is your thing? And is it mostly good for you or not really so good?
Your fascination may be something new. Â Or maybe it’s something you’ve been fascinated with all your life. It may be something or someone. Maybe it’s more than one thing. Maybe you are attracted to, drawn to, devoted to more than one thing. But remember, we’re talking fascinated. F-a-S-c-I-n-A-t-E-D
Do you currently engage with your fascination in a way that is satisfying to you? Did you in the past? The near past? Far past? Do you want to engage with your fascination the same, more or less?
Do you engage with your fascination in a way that is satisfying to the person or people whose opinion you care about most? Do they want you to engage  the same, more or less? And how does that work with with your responses to the questions you just answered?
Trying to figure out whether to punch, hike or walk. Need a better default method for decision making. Current default doesn’t work on days ending in day.
But it tastes good.
Hope your Saturday has more good parts than bad. Hope you’re moving in the right direction. Even if it’s hard. Hope it’s the direction you want.
What’s the current status on hugging? Is there any good source of current guidance on that in light of the world’s current intensities? I feel like it’s either all or nothing. Maybe there are  two camps:  huggers and non-huggers. Oh. But there are halfway huggers too. They want to hug, but they’re not really huggers…. but they want to hug.
My money was always on Brenda and Dylan. I never believed in Dylan and Kelly. I mean I get that Dylan wanted to save Kelly. Everyone wanted to save Kelly. Kelly had many circumstances that she needed to be saved from because she was kind of a baby. But Dylan needed someone tougher than Kelly and Brenda was definitely a billion times tougher than Kelly. Brenda was the real deal. Brenda didn’t need the Peach Pit. She went off to find her own life and be a real actress. She didn’t wait around for Dylan to make up his mind. That’s my kind of girl.
But I did love their little threesome. And I watched it over and over and over. For decades. Because they were my family.
Watch Mark Manson’s videos on YouTube if you have only read his books. Â And definitely read his books. He says everything in such a simple, direct way that makes total sense. Â And he’s really nice. Â So it’s nice hanging out with him.
The real challenge of writing comic strips and cartoons is that I’m not always in the lightest of moods. Â So no matter what’s going down, or how much of it there is, I still need to produce something decent on deadline. Â And once the editors send those off to the printers, they are gone. Even if they are too dark. Â And sometimes they are too dark, I think. But I guess every writer, artist and creator of a regularly scheduled work product feels the same pressure at various points. Sometimes you just aren’t producing your most amazing work. But your work gets published anyway. And it is what it is.Â
It’s like getting your school photo taken on the days you feel sick.
Adventures of an AT Widow is the tragic love story of a heartbroken young lawyer, abandoned by her cruel S.O. who left her alone on the sofa while he dashed off to discover the dangerous wilds of the Appalachian Trail.
He chose 2,200 miles of unknown who-knows-what just to get away from his significant other’s total failures at cooking, cleaning and html coding. At least that’s how it’s written in my script. But no, that’s not exactly what happened in real life.
I am not yet so shallow and self-obsessed to think the dude hiked 2,200 miles just to get away from me. Â He could have gotten away from me far more easily than that. Â A restraining order would have been cheaper and faster. Plus, I could have gotten one for him. I would have been a pal and helped him out that way. I know my way around a courthouse.
Cartoonists and dogs. Need to make plans for cartoonists and dogs to do something helpful.
Some days are snapshot days. Take a snapshot. Because everything will look different to you soon. And you can’t figure out how it will look different even though after it looks different it will look like a puzzle that was only missing once piece.
And if you don’t like the way your life looks today, it’s the BEST DAY to take a snapshot Because if you take a snapshot you will be committing yourself to moving in the right direction of hoping everything will look different to you soon
Let it be funny. Let it. be fun. Let it be fun. And funny. Just try seeing it the funny way. It’s easier to see if that way.
Change up the question from time to time if you already know the answer. Instead of “How are you feeling?” try “What are you doing?” Instead of “How are you doing?” try “What’s going on on?”
That is the answer No more homework All action items now Do I understand that? Just updated Journal #OCD #TMS
Lizzie and Drew are better as friends. I don’t think they’re good for each other anymore.
There. I said it. Since nobody else was going to say it, I said it.
Or maybe they just need a break. Some time apart.
Or maybe a getaway. Maybe they need to get away to the beach.
So now I have to do something about it and I don’t know what to do. I’m thinking about having them continue to live together because they really do love each other. Then they could just date other people until something else sparks and causes a situation. Is that an awful thing to suggest?
I’m scared to break them up, but I’m scared to keep them together.
Were You a Carrie, Samantha, Miranda or the other one? The one whose name I can’t remember is actually the one I relate to the most. But maybe that wasn’t true when the show was on. I can’t remember now.
Harry married her. Charlotte. That’s it.
Yes, I relate to Charlotte. Except I am probably half Charlotte and half Harry. Actually, I would really enjoy hanging out with Charlotte and Harry. That would be fun.
Anyway, I remembered this weekend that we used to ask which one we were. And I recalled thinking I wasn’t really any of them. And the reason I realized it was because a movie was playing with Diane Keaton and I realized I’ve become Diane Keaton. And that’s pretty cool because I like Diane Keaton.
So that’s it. In Sex and the City, I play the Diane Keaton character.
Okay.
And that is the end of the entertainment. Below there is a very un-entertaining journal entry. It’s only for the die hards so get out while you can. : )
Happy Monday.
It’s not too late to make it start heading in a different direction.
