Thread: Rant and Rave, Cry and Complain

Originally Posted by Hilary

Yeah, actually it was my finger. And you know what? It's still sore! I think I messed up my joint or something. It's still healing.

I meant the time that you bit your daughter's finger. But I see. Sorry to hear that. It sounds very stressful to deal with both Corona and an injured joint.

Originally Posted by andreasdevig

I meant the time that you bit your daughter's finger. But I see. Sorry to hear that. It sounds very stressful to deal with both Corona and an injured joint.

Wow, you knew about that? Dang, thanks for reading my posts I think that was like .. 2 years ago?

It's not that bad. I just complain a lot. :-)

Originally Posted by Hilary

Wow, you knew about that? Dang, thanks for reading my posts I think that was like .. 2 years ago?

It's not that bad. I just complain a lot. :-)

Yeah Monkey told me about shared dreaming. And he showed me that thread. So I read that recently. A strange experience you had indeed.

Originally Posted by Hilary

It's not that bad. I just complain a lot. :-)

Hey, that's what the thread is for.

A funny story: the other day I could sense that my daughter (8) was up to no good. She was doing something clandestine in the bathroom. Usually, these activities are "science experiments", and often involve things like paint, shampoo, soap, and that one time she found an old unused diaper and tore out and hydrated the inner absorbent material all over the bathroom floor... So, I go in the bathroom after her.

Lori: "Mom! Stop smooching in the bathroom! Go out! Stop smooching!" [She meant "snooping"]

Turned out it wasn't too bad this time. She had acquired one of my Mom's orchid flowers and was trying to pin it into her hair.

You're very intuitive. I wish I could tap into my intuition like that. I feel so out of touch with my intuition.

Originally Posted by andreasdevig

You're very intuitive. I wish I could tap into my intuition like that. I feel so out of touch with my intuition.

Haha, thanks, but I just know my daughter.

I slept on my arm wrong and ended up dreaming that I got shot in the shoulder blade. It still hurts. But, I still managed to have 5 dreams, 4 non-lucids, and a Wake Initiated Lucid Dream, that night. Despite the pain and being really hot in my room.

Wow! I find this awesome app. It's called PictureThis. I hold up my phone to any plant and it identifies it for me (98% accuracy!!). To say I'm having a lot of fun with this today... WOULD BE A MASSIVE UNDERSTATEMENT!

I ate 3 smilax shoots, and can verify that they DO indeed taste just like green beans. Also! I found a LOQUAT tree! Wild!! AND... a Barbados Cherry bush!!


----- 5/21/22

Feeling really sick today. And my dad has been running a fever again, too. My son had a fever 10 days into covid, and other symptoms. It's like it goes away, comes back, goes away, comes back.. Honestly? When I was on the bus yesterday to go to Universal, my stomach was off even then, and my chest felt achey. I think this is Covid fallout.

Oh, and I haven't had an appetite since it first started. Oh yeah. And when I went to the dentist a couple days ago, they were concerned because apparently my blood pressure was really low. Not uncommon for me, but not surprising having had covid recently.


---------- 5/24/22

Work rant:

I was very annoyed today, which is rare. I had an IEP meeting that I had to run this morning, as usual. With a parent and all. Yesterday I was told by the testing coordinator that she would be needing my room for kids making up classes they failed. I told her that I would just need another place to run my meeting that is private. Then come this morning, I get another email from her (with principal, assistant principal CC'd) that she'd be taking my room for the remainder of the year. Again, I email back (CC'd as well) asking her what room I could host my IEP meetings in, and reminding her that it starts at 8:45 am this morning (aka, in 15 minutes).

Left high and dry with no place to host my meeting, kicked out of my room, and scrambling trying to find a place. Thankfully the speech therapist did not mind sharing her office with me today. That was nice.

I was so mad! But, happy ending. The idea of confronting her about this issue was scary to me. In the past I probably would have said nothing, but I was brave and went up to her office at the end of the day. I politely let her know that I really can't be scrambling to find a room, etc. Of course she said she forgot, got busy ,etc. But it's a big deal to me. Anyway, I felt like I effectively communicated the issue with her, without having any kind of argument. Just laying my boundary out there in a way that hopefully she understood. It felt very empowering! And I think most likely in the future she will make a greater effort to make sure this doesn't happen again. If I hadn't spoken up, I'm sure it would have.


------- 5/28/22

Officially summer break