NaBloPoMo Day 12: Funny Texts

Friday, Dec 12th 2014: Tell us about the funniest text you've ever sent or received. (NaBloPoMo)

Honestly, we don't get any funny texts. :( I think the closest thing we've ever gotten to a "funny text" besides really dull spam was that one time little sister sent us the message intended for one of her other friends who shares our legal first name.

NaBloPoMo Day 11: Happiest Person

Thursday, December 11th 2014: Who is the happiest person you know? What is their secret? (NaBloPoMo)

... That's another good really good question.

Off the top of my head, one of the interns in the Heartbeat Connection class that just ended. For the purposes of this being a public blog I'm going to call her H. She was just... always smiling even if she had a crappy afternoon.

I'm guessing her secret is just... kind of going with the flow and not worrying too much. She was just kind of very... present.

NaBloPoMo Day 10: Balancing Happiness

Wednesday, December 10th 2014: Do you think you maintain a good balance of making yourself happy while making other people happy? (NaBloPoMo)

I think it still needs work. We tend to be better at making other people happy more often. But we're getting to the point where we can also be pretty selfish with our own happiness. It's a work in progress. There's definitely more balance than there used to be.

NaBloPoMo Day 9: Breakup Movie

Tuesday December 9th 2014: Your best friend just broke up with her partner. What movie do you bring over to get her through that first night? (NaBloPoMo)

... This would highly depend on the friend in question (we don't really have anyone we'd call our "best friend" in the typical sense of the word "best friend"), but it's probably highly likely that something from the View Askewniverse will probably be involved.

NaBloPoMo Day 8: Recipe

Monday, December 8th, 2014: What recipe are you known for amongst your friends and family? (NaBloPoMo)

To be honest, we aren't known for any recipes. We don't really cook much on our own. HOWEVER, fiance and I almost always bring a comfort-food spicy bean dip to parties.

NaBloPoMo Dec 2014 Day 7/100 Things We Have Or Want To Add To Our Self-Care Toolbox: 004. Reiki

Sunday, Dec 7th, 2014: Free Write: 100 Things - Self-Care Toolbox: Reiki

For the past 4 years we've been involved with reiki. Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a healing approach from Japan that promotes the relaxation response and brings the mind and body into its natural balance. Hand placements correspond to the body's energy centers or chakras which parallel the endocrine system.

For us, Reiki is a spiritual practice, a healing practice, and a life practice.

The Reiki precepts are an important part of our spiritual practice:

Just for today, I will be free of worry.
Just for today I will be free of anger.
Just for today I will live the attitude of gratitude.
Just for today I will do my work honestly.
Just for today I will treat all beings with kindness.

The healing practice of reiki has brought so much to me. I am more comfortable talking to people. I'm more grounded in the body (we weren't hurt as kids really, but we grew up with a story that implied our body was breakable because it was born 7 weeks premature). I'm more open to touch in general.

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)