ItsMeMaven

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Salty margaritas, salty bacon, and salty language. INTJ, C-PTSD, I lather my nethers with the tears of my enemies. Don’t be a dick. #crochet🧶 #pugs #otters 🦦COVIDisAirborne🦠 #DoNoHarm❤️

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We are going to fall spectacularly short of some peoples' expectations. We are gonna be emphatically NOT what some people think we "should" be. We are gonna disappoint & disgust some people. Those aren't our people. If our realistic recovery isn't for them, they're not for us.

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Communicate to your inner self & all your "parts:" you do not have to "earn" your right to safety & dignity. You do not have to "earn" the right to exist. Once upon a time, the people around us made us feel like we did-- but you don't have to "perform" to be valid. Not anymore.

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When dealing with hurt, anger, pain, or sadness- ask yourself "If my most cherished friend were having these thoughts and feelings, what would I say to them?" You owe yourself the exact same compassion with your own problems, and nothing less. Be kind to yourself.

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www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/5899674

Taiwan reports 99 COVID deaths over past week | Taiwan News | Jul. 9, 2024 18:36www.taiwannews.com.tw

@nameshiv.bsky.social The perfect recipe for that lorry full of rice.

This is the right amount of Biryani to make.

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Yeah-- trauma survivors have to live life far more purposefully than others. We have to develop philosophies & use skills & ask for help others don't. And yeah-- it's not fair. But: I'm not gonna NOT show up for the people, pets, & causes I love just because "it's not fair."

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Did you know? Similar to HIV, COVID-19 is also capable of destroying immune systems and leaving people more vulnerable to future infections. At Pride and beyond, we encourage everyone to take pride in protection: in the sheets, and in the streets!

I love kibbitzing in French with a friend from Haiti. I was trying to translate agita from Italian to English to French only for us to LOL that it essentially is the same word.

So two weeks to the day I initially contacted HR to explore the idea of retiring early, I submitted my official notice of retirement to my bosses & HR. My last day of work is 7/5. I had to take a penalty to do so, but it works out to my advantage in the end. #NoRegrets

I’d rather be upset that I gave someone the benefit of the doubt (& they hurt me) rather than be upset with myself that I hurts someone else. #BeCuriousNotFurious #BeKind

The husband has turned me onto a concept of “scheduled worry time.” So far 2 days into it, and it also is couple up with me getting back into journaling. Feeling optimistic, yet at same time I wonder how long I can sustain it.

One of my favorite things on here is everyone sharing their peony pictures this Spring.

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Sometimes you need to give up on people, not because you don't care but because they don't 🤷‍♂️

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Ask not “what the fuck is wrong with you?” Ask, “what the fuck is wrong with *me*?”

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Maybe Mondays don’t like us either, you ever think of that?

In a world where you can be anything, try to be kind. Everyone you know is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Extending grace shouldn’t be that hard, should it?

It’s “dejá vu all over again!” Go out to the car to discover it dead again. Who knew a 4 yr old Acura would become a colossal pain in my ass. Reminder: solitary car for our household!

Desk is nearly empty. Looks like I might be able to keep my insurance. Waiting on a reply from HR for the next step. Have a rough draft of resignation letter. Hope I can pull the trigger on Thursday. Stay tuned.

So in other news. I have been in a pain flare since October 2022, which limited my daily footsteps to 3K or less per day. I have spent time, money, and patience to try to resolve this issue, because as you get older, the less you walk the less you will be able to walk…

So, in unrelated news, we returned from vacation on Tuesday to discover our car battery died. AAA replaced the battery & by friday it was dead again. Only vehicle for our house, btw. Yesterday we had it towed to the dealership to have computer diagnostics run on it, so we are without a car atm…

As a democrat from NY, and given the current state of things with our politicians/law makers, I wonder if the crushing disappointment I feel is similar to what die hard fans of NY Jets feel every year.

Spoke to HR on Friday to start the process to retire. From their perspective, I am resigning but doing so in such a way to maintain my medical insurance & defer pension payment until I reach 62. I responded with, “I’m taking an unconventional path to retirement.” Tbh, I wish I could just quit now.

Little did I know I was doing #maskbloc stuff before I ever saw this tag.

do #maskbloc shit 😷🐮

Everyone in the family keeps catching it. My bil has an MS exacerbation & now has muscular wasting. My uncle who had quadruple bypass now shows signs of cognitive impairment. My cousin who’s 15 yrs younger than I am looks older than I am. Yet no masks at my niece’s graduation party last week.

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The first rule of kindness is to be kind to yourself. The second rule is don’t talk about kindness club.

For those who care & have followed my workplace drama (September would have been 23 years.) Oh and by “would have been,” I mean, even though I have not hit age 62 (I have 6 more years to slog until that day comes), we the spouse & I decided it is time for me to retire…

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I learned as a young person that most people (like 99%) do not consider or think of you AT ALL. All of that time and energy worried about what others will think is wasted. What do YOU think of YOU? That's what counts. How are you shrinking the gap between your values & your actions daily?

My career trajectory: I started out like Radar O’Reilly from M*A*S*H. When I was hired here 22 almost 23 years ago, I thought I was Miss Moneypenny. As the years went by & each subsequent regime ground the good out of me, I am now Milton Waddams from Office Space. 🔥🔥🔥

Gotta love getting a crappy annual evaluation & be told I’m difficult to work with, and I remind them that they know I have c-ptsd & what they think is me being difficult is me suffering with crushing performance anxiety. Understatement of the year: I need a new job.

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I’m hurt & betrayed by the news that the WHO quietly upgraded their ventilation & filtration while telling the world COVID wasn’t airborne. Where do we go from here? disabledginger.substack.com/p/the-who-en... #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsNotOver #CovidCautious #sarscov2 #maskup #WearAMask #CleanAir

The WHO Ensured They Had Clean Air and Ventilation While Telling the World Covid was Not Airbornedisabledginger.substack.com And in doing so - they've shattered the trust of people the world over. A look at why their handling of the pandemic has caused trauma and distrust - as well as how we can move forward.