Common House Residents Journal #15: 2015-02-14

Entry #: 15
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2015-02-14
Replies: yes
Author: Maureen
Trigger Warnings: language, food/health issues

Some jerk on the bus this morning was eating a peanut butter bagel. The smell of most peanut butters makes us nauseous bodily (we aren't allergic bodily that we know of, but that's been a known vertigo trigger since the body was probably 7). For some of us, like me, the dizziness is worse than others (inworld I am actually allergic to peanut butter among many other food allergies).

It's supposed to snow again tomorrow. Apparently we're supposed to get thunder snow in the wee hours of the morning tonight/tomorrow. Carlos, Cecil and I might set an alarm to watch that.

Tomorrow I might mess around with our hairchalk and see if I can do my faux undercut hairstyle better with elastics since the bobby pin method doesn't hold very well.

Also going to do a lot of writing and catching up on online classes. Hopefully the power won't go out.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #14: 2015-02-10

Entry #: 14
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2015-02-10
Replies: yes
Author: Maureen
Trigger Warnings: none

It's been a week. All this snow is annoying. We don't usually read the news, but this is definitely the hilarious thing of the day Break-up Letter to Snow from the City of Boston. (Also totally my sense of humor.)

Tomorrow we're stopping by the bank to deposit money so we can order our early birthday present from fiancé: tickets to the Welcome to Night Vale Live Show when it comes to Boston. It gives me all the more reason to finish updating my cosplay of myself around our actual birthday. I think we're also going to see if we can pick up the rest of the pieces to make a few other Night Vale cosplays around then (bonus if they can also double as actual clothes). I might also put our gift certificate to David's Tea in our purse. Maybe I'll go get a cup of tea while we're downtown.

I'm also poking at different online things. Hoping I can figure out what to do about money. Not sure what exactly we're going to tell KR (our MRC counselor) tomorrow. But we're doing what we need even though there's a pretty big learning curve right now for the three things we want to do.

I got 1.5 weeks of one of the MOOCs we're studying done this morning. Hoping I can do another 1.5 -2.0 done tomorrow.

Also might have to restart the artist's way again (we are so behind on it might just want to do a re-do again I'll figure it out tomorrow. It is the end of mercury retrograde after all. Also this E-squared book Carlos adores is actually kind of fun. The first experiment only gave us small blessings (admittedly we were in a bad mood so that could be why), but the second experiment has been somewhat successful: I spotted 6 sunset-beige cars today. Tomorrow I have to keep an eye out for yellow butterflies. (I'm using the 48 hour rule loosely because the snow has thrown off all the local timing; we're doing things on more like a 72 hour cycle).

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #13: 2014-12-24

Entry: 13
Journal Type: mixed
Date: 2014-12-24
Replies: yes
Author: Kevin
Trigger Warnings: sickness, kid talk/pregnancy

Well the body's sick. Which sucks because I wanted to do a holiday songs video so I just did a brief introductory video on our system account instead (which has really crappy sound and video quality but whatever). If anyone got added by dreamersunited1339 that's our plurality account.

Cecil and I are now on speaking terms. We had a long talk the other day about everything and Carlos and Cecil both said I'm allowed to announce both of these news items here for them: 1, Cecil's pregnant and that's what he was flailing about in his last entry, and 2, Carlos proposed last night. Cecil says they're waiting until after the baby to have a formal ceremony but yeah. Lots of exciting stuff going on in world. I'm about to go toss towels into the wash and then head us out to church service even though this cough is killing us. Then back home, vacuuming and decorating our baby tree.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #12: 2014-12-07

Entry #: 12
Journal Type: mixed
Date: 2014-12-07
Replies: yes
Author: Kevin
Trigger Warnings: i don't think there are any

Front doesn't seem to like me much. But that's probably the fact that my reputation apparently precedes me and no one wants to front with me, but because I'm new I'm not allowed to be alone.

Emmy's making me also leave notes inworld and out for Cecil to show that I'm learning now. So far, I've learned that Desert Bluffs definitions don't match up with Outsider definitions inworld or outworld, magic exists inworld and that I can sort-of use it to help me with what Strex fixed though i'm at square one with a few of those things since magic doesn't work on all of them, and that outworld i am really bad at figuring out the body's limits, but i'm pretty good at getting things done.

Carlos seems to agree with Emmy that maybe next week IF Carlos and Aeslyn are present, maybe they'll let the front mechanism pair Cecil and I together as a stretch team, even though Cecil didn't seem happy about that. But that might be because he's been really sick the past two weeks. He fainted over breakfast the other day. Which was weird.

Outworld we got a new coat. It's pretty, but not a color I'd choose personally (it's blue) and I'm still not sold on if it's warm enough for this weather. And we have a whole box of trader joe's knock-off oreos gathered from the 3 different boxes that were available at the NaNoBoston TGIO party. Emmy says they're rewards for doing good work. [I ate some for dessert after dinner and then combined them into one box].

I've been doing lots of cleaning but there's still lots more to be done this week.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

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)

Common House Residents Journal #09: 2014-09-14

Entry #: 09
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2014-09-14
Replies: yes
Author: Carlos
Trigger Warnings: none

So I just did a science experiment with the body and peanut butter. It seems like one of the other people's theory is pretty sound: it's either the sugar, the molasses, or one of the vegetable oils in Skippy brand peanut butter that makes us dizzy. Natural peanut butter didn't do anything...

It's not going to change the fact that most people here still probably won't eat peanut butter sandwiches, but at least now we know that it's definitely something in the processing additives that makes us dizzy.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #08: 2014-08-20

Entry #: 08
Journal Type: inworld
Date: 2014-08-20
Replies: yes
Author: Carlos
Trigger Warnings: none that I know of

It's been a while since anyone has posted over here. I'm new to the system and here with my boyfriend as well... And I am so glad I have my allergy medicine here. There are way too many cats and they use the lab space. Where am I supposed to work? I should probably ask that Angel (I'm pretty sure he identifies as an Angel even though he names himself after a Corvid).

At least this place is just as scientifically interesting as the last two places I've been. :) though science seems to work a little more normally here, even if this world seems to work within a "your science is our magic" trope.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #07: 2013-11-27

Entry #: 07
Journal Type: mixed
Date: 2013-11-27
Replies: yes
Author: Alan
Trigger Warnings: none

I'm somewhat new to our system. Right now I'm going by Alan because as Apollo and Emmy keep quoting, "Spoilers." Since I'm from a new canon installment and apparently Emmy, GLaDOS and a few others have decided that those of us who chose to walk-in need to be kind to the fans who haven't finished this installment. It's making things a little awkward but we're managing for now.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #06: 2013-09-26

Entry #: 06
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2013-09-26
Replies: yes
Author: Vera
Trigger Warnings: none

We're having a weird week. Trying to figure out when we can meet w/ case manager. We have a ridiculous schedule right now. I don't know when we will be able to meet ATM.

Its frustrating a little.

We're still having a little weirdness with switching lately but managing and we still haven't been able to decide *when* we can go visit the local plural folks. Time is at a premium lately and it's *exhausting*. I'm kinda excited. We had photovoice today and it seems really neat. I think it'll be interesting.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #05: 2013-09-04

Entry #: 05
Journal Type: outworld
Date:  2013 September 4
Replies: yes
Author: Dr. Nidhi Shah
Trigger Warnings: anxiety, depression, mental health issues, burnout

The past 2 weeks have been rough. We're still working on our crowdfunding fundraiser (which currently hasn't raised any funds) but I'm not worried; it's the thought that counts, right?

After our whole flip out last night of identity and lack of plural-friendly socialization ops messing with our creativity, Apollo and I came to the conclusion this morning that we have a too-many-masters problem right now, so we marked what online classes we're still doing and what ones we're auditing again. And what ones will start soon. We're still a little overwhelmed but I think we'll manage. We just have a lot of writing to do in the next couple days. It's been a while since we had trouble with ficlets....

We went to see a MRC counselor today. Now we're waiting for paperwork to go through. And considering whether we want to do the easter seals vocational assessment. Thinking but leaning towards yes.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #04: 2013-08-17

Entry #: 04
Journal Type: mixed
Date: 2013 August 17
Replies: yes
Author: Kalli with help from Apollo
Trigger Warnings: health whining

It's not fair! :(

Every time I end up fronting my issues carry to front (chicken or egg, no one's really sure, I think Emmy and/or Apollo have mentioned that elsewhere on this board).

I wish I could be like my big brother. For all his issues at least he can be more "normal" at front than me. I feel like I'm wasting spoons because I come front and basically the body shuts down to the same level I'm at inworld. It's ANNOYING. I want to be able to be a little girl sometimes. >:(

The only good thing that has happened this past week is that Daddy let me watch Rise of the Guardians with him and Emmy the other day. And we went to the art museum too. :D It was fun but I think I had enough adventure for the week. Unfortunately have to help daddy with homework now. (Technically we're kind of cheating on one of the homework assignments, but it's the best we can do on short notice.....)

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #03: 2013-08-09

Entry #: 03
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2013 August 09
Replies: yes
Author: Nico
Trigger Warnings: none

Having a weird week. Registered for classes for the recovery education day program we go to on Wednesday.... Vocational Photovoice (which doesn't count), Qi Gong, Cognitive Remediation, and Stress Hardiness... We'll get in at least 1, maybe 2 of the last 3. And hopefully we'll also get in the photovoice class. We also registered for a networking for introverts seminar through the adult ed program at the high school.

We're still doing stuff on coursera. the songwriting class Thalassa mentioned though we're probably not going to pass because the people who wanted to take it aren't the fronters who are doing the work... this happens to us a lot, unfortunately. Thankfully the other courses we're taking right now everyone wants to do even though we feel a bit out of our element because we're neither teachers nor psychology students. It's just 2 fields we're heavily considering going back to school for and want to see if it IS a good fit first. It's kind of amusing to look at our notes because those of us who are working on this run the gamut from early teens to over 40 and those of us who are younger are basically helping with redefining things simply just so that anyone can get the basic gist of what we're studying even if they're younger than I am.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #02: 2013-07-28

Entry #: 02
Journal Type: outworld
Date: 2013 July 28
Replies: yes
Author: Emmy
Trigger Warnings: illness

Apparently there are more things I can't eat than dairy, fish and peanut butter. Stomach's been bugging us all morning and pretty much like "nope no food for you". I hate it and it doesn't help that it's impossible to shop for ourselves when we live with our parents.

Thinking of things we'd like to study and the more we do inner child work with our therapist and the more we work on The Artist's Way, the more I think we'd love to do expressive therapy/play therapy... one of my friends said she would bring me to St Francis House to meet people and talk about art therapy as a career option... though I feel guilty because while technically I'm low-income personally, living with my parents means I'm higher income than most of the people I know. It's a little awkward.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)

Common House Residents Journal #01: 2013-07-21

Entry #: 01
Journal Type: mixed
Date: 2013 July 21
Replies: yes
Author: Siren/Thalassa
Trigger Warnings: kid talk

Inworld things have been busy, but I have... almost my full chosen family (even though most of them aren't "actually mine") and my triplets too. Everyone grows up so fast. Trucy got married in June to Vera. Those two are cute together.

Outworld, we're planning on going back to school, so we've been exploring MOOCs in potential areas, but just for fun and writing purposes, myself, Machi, Sasame, Emmy and with some encouragement from Scholars' Klavier and Marigold (who tend to crossover because they need the social outlet), decided we wanted to try the songwriting class from Berklee because we all have a vested interest in making some of our inworld skillset available out front. So far we all like crowding in front and it's working better than the other MOOCs we're taking. Plus it's a nice follow up to the fact that we're currently finishing a poetry class at the recovery center.

We wrote a poem mapping out our innerworld earlier in the term but we're thinking about making a poem coming out just for our class. I'm not sure if there are other systems because we "aren't supposed to talk about whatever our Dx is" and we aren't DID overall though some of us fit the criteria, so we get kind of nervous and don't want impostor syndrome feelings to happen, even though we've been in this community long enough to know that we're not alone in this identity variation.

(x-posted from Plurality Resource Forum)