NaBloPoMo December 2014 Day 5: Happy Playlist

Friday, Dec 5th, 2014: What's on your happy playlist? (NaBloPoMo)

It's not all happy songs but this is my happy/hopeful/inspirational/dancing music playlist that I called "Hopeful Morning Feels Good" because we often play it when we're walking to places in the morning. It's 114 songs compiled from various CDs, mix tapes and fan vocalists. 


1. Adriana Figueroa - Courtroom Revolutionnaire (Fan Vocal)
2. Adriana Figueroa - Child of Magic (Fan Vocal)
3. Adriana Figueroa - The Great Truth Burglar (Fan Vocal)
4. Adriana Figueroa - Turnabout Sisters Ballad (Fan Vocal)
5. from Annie - Tomorrow
6. from Annie - You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile
7. Anna Nalick - Broken Doll
8. Anna Nalick - Walk Away
9. Anna Nalick - These Old Wings
10. Anna Nalick - Shine
11. Anna Nalick - All On My Own
12. Collin Raye - I'm Gonna Love You
13. Collin Raye - Blackbird
14. Collin Raye - Hearts are for When You Want to Love Someone
15. from Frozen - Let It Go
16. Demi Lovato - Let It Go (Cover)
17. Switchfoot - Meant to Live
18. Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
19. Kelly Clarkson - Whyyawannabringmedown
20. Barlow Girl - One More Round
21. Lenka - Bring Me Down
22. Sleater-Kinney - Rollercoaster
23. Mandy Moore - Pocket Philosopher
24. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
25. Sia - Don't Bring Me Down
26. The Dresden Dolls - Half Jack
27. Jack's Mannequin - Swim
28. Muse - Feeling Good
29. Sugababes - Stronger
30. Destiny's Child - Survivor
31. Christina Aguilera - Fighter
32. Spice Girls - Never Give Up on the Good Times
33. Natasha Bedingfield - If You're Gonna Jump
34. Ace of Base - It's a Beautiful Life
35. Britney Spears - Stronger
36. Jennifer Lopez - Feelin' So Good
37. MIA - Sunshowers
38. Kanye West - Stronger
39. Joss Stone - Free Me
40. Kris Allen - No Boundaries
41. from GLEE - Don't Rain On My Parade
42. from Wicked - Defying Gravity
43. Azure Ray - Nothing Like A Song
44. Azure Ray - These White Lights Will Bend to Make Blue
45. Azure Ray - Hold On Love
46. Azure Ray - New Resolution
47. from Honk! - Warts and All
48. Sting - Deep in the Meadows (Lullaby)
49. The Secret Sisters - Tomorrow Will Be Kinder
50. Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars - Safe and Sound
51. Punch Brothers - Dark Days
52. The Civil Wars - Kingdom Come
53. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around the Bend
54. Fiona Apple - Better Version of Me
55. Tremolo - You Were Born for This
56. Collin Raye - All I Can Do Is Love You
57. Missy Higgins - Unbroken
58. Rascal Flatts - ~No ~Reins
59. Collin Raye - Let Your Love Flow (The Bellamy Brothers cover)
60. Jo Dee Messina - I Wish
61. Dar Williams - After All (Live)
62. Limahl - Neverending Story
63. Mary Chapin Carpenter - Sudden Gift of Fate
64. Loreena McKennitt - Beneath a Phrygian Sky
65. Brian McKnight - Remember the Magic
66. Jo Dee Messina - I'm Alright
67. Rascal Flatts - My Wish
68. Donna Summer - The Power of One
69. Plus One - With All Your Heart
70. Westlife - Flying Without Wings
71. Ray Greene - My Best Friends
72. Sheila Brody - Everything Changes
73. J.P. Hartmann - Together, Forever
74. John Loeffler - You Can Do It (If You Really Try)
75. N'Sync - Somewhere Someday
76. B*Witched - Get Happy
77. Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) - Hey You Free Up Your Mind
78. 98 Degrees - Fly With Me
79. Vitamin C - Vacation
80. Billie - Makin' My Way Any Way That I Can
81. Angela Via - Catch Me If You Can
82. Aaron Carter - Have Some Fun with the Funk
83. Blessid Union of Souls - Brother My Brother
84. from Rankin & Bass's Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer TV Special - There's Always Tomorrow
85. Marjorie Jacobs - Always Near
86. A7 - Bringing In The Noise (Rise Up)
87. Sister ChanKhong - I Smiles
88. Marjorie Jacobs - Start the Day
89. Glenn Campbell - Try a Little Kindness
90. James Taylor - Shower the People
91. Amae Ellen Allen - Thank-Full
92. Ravenna - May My Mind Turn to Others
93. Fo Guang Shan - Harmonize
94. Miriam Makeba - 'Cause We Live for Love
95. India Arie - A Beautiful Day
96. Hayley Westenra - Flower
97. Libby Roderick - Cradle of Dawn
98. Libby Roderick - How Could Anyone
99. Vixy and Tony - No Hurry (2012)
100. Rascal Flatts - Every Day
101. Copeland - You Have My Attention
102. Jon Robert - Hear You Call
103. Satellite - What You Need
104. Tremolo - Room 139
105. Satellite - Ring the Bells
106. Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
107. Anna Nalick - Paper Bag
108. Anna Nalick - In My Head
109. Laura Shigihara - Everything's Alright
110. Dale North - Everything's Alright (Short Steps Mix)
111. Danny Schmidt - This Too Shall Pass
112. Simone Felice - You and I Belong
113. Carrie Elkin & Danny Schmidt - Echo in the Hills
114. Sara Watkins - Take Up Your Spade (Folkadelphia Session/Full Version)

[NaBloPoMo Dec 2014] Day 4: Companionship

Thursday, December 4th, 2014: 

Who do you like being with when you're sad? (NaBloPoMo)

To be honest, we usually don't want to be with anyone when we're sad.

If we were forced to choose someone it would probably be a toss up between fiancé or little sister.

[NaBloPoMo Dec 2014] Day 3: Happy Foods

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014:
What food always makes you happy when you're eating it? (NaBloPoMo)

Chocolate end of story.

I agree with our Reiki Master's justification: "Almost everything can be solved with either an Epsom Salt Bath or chocolate."

Though at this time of the year, I'd say peppermint bark is the happiest chocolate-related candy. :)

[NaBloPoMo Dec 2014] Day 2: Happy Surprise

Day 2: Talk about a surprise that made you happy. (NaBloPoMo), When did you work out you were plural, and what were some of the adjustments you had to make after finding it out? (Plures^K, December Blogging Meme)

This is one of those weird things where it's our discovery of our own neurodivergence that was a happy surprise.

I identify as plural, meaning that there's more than one person sharing this physical body. It's actually a kind of relief. I'm never alone and I never have to be the only one doing something -- there's always someone who's good at something that needs to be done!

I'm not sure when exactly we worked out we were plural. We started off in the soulbonding communities not long after we first came over to LJ back in 2004 (we made our first account in 2003, but didn't end up using it until 2004).

At some point in, I think, 2004 or 2005, we had a huge over-the-phone fight with a suicidal classmate/"friend" named Casey, and Ryou (Bakura Ryou, YuGiOh!; on our website and on plural sites, he usually goes by Nathan) kind-of projected himself as comfort. That story's here on Deviantart.

During high school we were a fairly small system (I think there were 6 of us at the largest point).

In college, we just kept picking up more and more headmates. Most of them with trauma experiences that didn't match the body's experience. Learning to manage triggers and related dissociation without any previous knowledge of how to do this was probably the biggest adjustment.

Nowadays the biggest adjustments are still similar: managing triggers, managing related dissociation, also finding low-cost workarounds for the headmates that need additional accommodations, and dealing with the fact that a few of us bypass the voice-filtering system, which can get annoying when our parents don't really understand plurality, particularly when younger parts/headmates [we have both] are fronting and sound childish.

[NaBloPoMo Dec 2014] Bringing A Little Bit of Joy

Monday, December 1, 2014
What do you do when you're down to bring yourself a little joy?

There are two.

One is to sing and dance to our "happy/inspirational/hopeful-ish" playlist, but that's another prompt for later in the month, so you'll have to wait to hear that one.

The second is to play Katniss's game from the Epilogue of Mockingjay: "I make a list of every single good deed I've seen."

Common House Residents Journal #11: 2014-11-30

Entry #: 11
Journal Type: inworld
Date: 2014-11-30
Replies: yes
Author: Cecil
Trigger Warnings: chronic health issues, some talk of death and doom

Carlos and I got some very... exciting and surprising news this weekend. I'm going to keep the details a secret for a bit longer, but I'm kind of having mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, it's neat and something I want. On the other hand, all my chronic pain issues are flaring up because of this and it's emphasizing the bad parts of the experience.

Carlos is... distracting himself with science, but i kind of expected him to do that. He's been very busy documenting a highly time-sensitive project an alchemist and a witch are working on to try and make a synthetic mirror of this potion some folks call "Water of Life" that only works at reviving some people in-system so that it works for everyone because some parts of our inner world are more dangerous than others and it's nice to have a working Plan B if things go wrong and also because one of the residents is very ill and they're trying to see if they can revive him IF the inevitable happens because he has a family.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #10: 2014-11-04

Entry #: 10
Journal Type: mixed
Date: 2014-11-04
Replies: yes
Author: Carlos
Trigger Warnings: SI [mentioned, non-graphic], triggers, anxiety, mental health, some ribbing about coping techniques

Last month was weird in both good and bad ways.

One of the residents inworld kind of accidentally triggered me a few weeks ago with some blatant disregard about SI-stuff.... At least people have told me he doesn't always have control of those filters. They've been working on it. He did make it up to me though. We fashioned the usual Halloween remembrance circle into an all-guilds masquerade with a Days of the Dead theme since he kind of ruined inworld game night's LARP by giving me a panic attack that lead to a second one because people were crowding me. It was kind of embarrassing and I'm still getting a bit of bleedthrough on the anxiety coming outworld. I've been doing some research on science while we write our NaNo because I really want to try to make a Science Fiction Science bingo on that card in allbingo. Cecil keeps giggling about "science as comfort defense mechanism" since DreamWriter started calling it that on Sunday after the conference teacher said "if you're stuck on characterization, you should think about characters as people and people are essentially a set of unique defense mechanisms for how to cope with the world. what drives stories and makes authentic characters are the moments when those mechanisms crack". Even though I know it's true and Cecil and DreamWriter mean it in the nicest possible way, it kind of makes me feel underappreciated (just a little bit).

The body rarely stims (I've been told repeatedly that other fronters have attempted to get the body a HFA/AS diagnosis [our formal dx is "Learning Disorder NOS, nonverbal deficits" to us it's mostly semantics; nonverbal disability tends to have a lot of overlap with AS], but between clueless parents, our interest in people, and the fact that we've apparently been passing since grade school we apparently don't qualify enough or something) but since I've been fronting it's more pronounced and more frequent (though some of the stims the body has are different from what I would do personally... like the toewalking). At least I can pretend I'm shaking/massaging our hands because our wrist brace is missing and NaNo apparently makes us really prone to carpal tunnel and ulnar nerve entrapment.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)