Fixing to pop me some Skinny popcorn after finishing my third writing session.
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Sitting here finally narrowing down one of the books I have been planning to write for years and did a lot of research on, compiling my notes and topics of said book, finally settled on a title. Hopefully my depression will stay away long enough for me to get something written, and my OCD backs off so I am not jumping from book to book, I have enough material to write 15-20 books. True Crime of course.
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Good luck and good writing!Originally Posted by pkstracy
Just finished brunch. Now messing around. I'm going to window shop, so to speak, on amazon and Walmart for a better tapestry to hand over my chest of drawers. The crow--non related to the move--arrived yesterday. Got a real bargain. It was 31 bucks when I first spotted it, went down to 21, and finally nabbed it for less than $15. I'm mostly hanging tapestries on my bedroom walls because they are way bigger and cheaper for the bang. I'm decorating in boho with a touch of old European.
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I was seriously about to start this thread myself if it hadn't been started soon... LOL I've been only on my laptop briefly every few days, and this board on my phone is a royal PITA with ads. I have news and I've been bursting at the seams....
Okay. For those of you on my FB, y'all already know some of this. So Wednesday was my GF's birthday. I took the day off to spend with her, we went to the casino where between us we lost about $60. Not a big deal, but we had fun. We went back to her place, for dinner. I hadn't been to hers before because she's in an ISL, or assisted living place because a car wreck in 2000 left her with a spinal injury. And due to no privacy AT ALL, she preferred to always come to me. But my stairs are an obstacle.
While the staff at the ISL made her birthday dinner, we watched some Marvel Runaways, and after 2 or 3 episodes, went outside so she could smoke. As I usually do, I went outside with her to keep her company. We sat for a few minutes, both of us enjoying the breeze and she having a smoke. She uses a walker, and keeps her purse hanging on the side of it. I wasn't paying attention and she reached in her purse and took out a small red box.
And y'all....SHE POPPED THE QUESTION. I of course said YES!!!! Pictures of the ring are on my FB, or I can post here if y'all want to see. We'd been looking for a place together for the last few weeks, and once we find one and get moved I can get the divorce from my ex-husband going. I don't want any paperwork getting lost between addresses. Pretty much everyone around me has noticed that the last four months I've been happier than I've EVER been.
So until we can set a date, we're starting basic wedding decisions like colors, will I wear a dress or a suit (she's wearing a suit), etching in stone that I will NOT wear heels OR a full face of makeup. Miss E is going to be my maid of honor, and since both my dad and stepdad are gone, Schmoo will give me away. Fiancee's daughter will be her "best woman," and if our grandsons will cooperate, they will be our ring bearers. She has one grandson, and I have two.
Miss E had the idea of everyone in the wedding party wearing a different color of the rainbow, so when we line up for wedding photos, we look like a Pride flag. Fiancee loves it, so we're giving it serious thought. *squeals*
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Waiting for my Walmart groceries to arrive. They, or at le3ast the store up here in Commerce, does not stay booked up. It's likely because there aren't anywhere near as many people as there was in Athens. I'm going to miss Publix's fresh subs, but I can make my own. And their chocolate-iced vanilla sheet cake is to die for. Lol.
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congrats ria pm a pic of the ring girl...
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I'll text it to you tomorrow, PK. I'm catching up on everything tonight. Tomorrow I'm off. I told her tonight, "Babe, you liked it so you put a ring on it." ROFLMAO
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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LOL awww how cute I am so happy for you. Can't wait to see it.
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What she said in response is unprintable. ROFL. The ring itself has meaning, though, which I'll explain when I text the pics.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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You okay, PK? You know you can text me any time you need to?
Right now I'm watching Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous on Tubi and piddlefarting around. Tubi's a free app for movies and TV shows, and apparently now it's got live TV but I never watch TV as it airs, unless Wifey-to-Be and I are watching something. Usually we watch Food Network or Marvel.
Finally got 2 days off in a row, and I've done little more than be a lump. Wifey-to-Be has been in the hospital since Wednesday with kidney stones, but is going home today. I've gone to the hospital every day after work, which wore me out. I took yesterday off to let her rest from having visitors but we did video chat. I do have something to kvetch about, and will in the vent thread.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Piddlefarting online, texting Wifey to Be, and watching Lizzo on Carpool Karaoke, it's a segment on James Corden's Late Late Show. Love me some Lizzo!!!! She's right up there with P!nk for positive, down-to-earth musicians.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Piddlefarting online, as per usual, and watching the first Miss Congeniality movie. Got a 3-day weekend this weekend because we had enough people working today. I told the scheduling manager if she wanted to just put me on Monday through Friday I would not be mad about it. We'll see.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Having a lazy after putting my walmart groceries up, snapping together my new floor bookshelf, setting my lighted bakery house on top of it and my books--all two of them--on the shelf below, and moving an end table near my desk for added clutter space, My room is small, and I'm using every inch of it that isn't needed for a footpath. Actually, even when I purchase another shelf later there'll be plenty of room to move around in.
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Piddlefarting online, listening in on a friend's TikTok live. Been sleeping much of today. I figured I'd spend one of my 3 days off asleep.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Wedding planning. *squeals* Date has been set, once I get moved I'll start the divorce proceedings. Ex-hubs and I have no property to fight over, kids are grown, and the decision is mutual so it should go pretty quickly....I'm so nervous and excited at the same damn time....
I always said I'd only get married once. But realized when ex-Hubs and I split that I just couldn't continue living a lie. I pretended to be straight for so long. When I came out of the closet in 2019 at 46, it was like a HUGE weight was lifted off my shoulders. When I met Wifey-To-Be, it felt RIGHT. I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her, and I wanted to be her wife.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Compiling a list of music for the wedding reception....
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Watching a TikTok live and waiting for my phone to finish charging so I can go make dinner. Got a list of 15 songs for the reception so far, I'll of course see what Wifey-to-Be wants played, and add her songs to the list. I'd LIKE for us to have the same number of songs so I can alternate mine and hers every other song.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Ria, get married as soon as you can before SCOTUS decides to overturn same sex marriages and make them illegal again. I am so happy for you and wish you many many many years of happiness and love and laughter. As for me modding and about to go curl up with a book.
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Just finished meditating, modding, and about to read and then sleep, I have been sleeping a lot lately to the point my therapist is worried.
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woke up not to long ago, hubby made spaghetti, and about to go for my walk, I may read a bit or watch some law and order svu, or go back to sleep, I just have no energy but I keep pushing myself, my doctor says its just due to my depression, my results came back great.
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We've set the date for April 15, 2023. I have to get divorced from ex-hubby first, and I'm waiting to do that till I get moved so paperwork doesn't get lost in the mail. Kids are grown, ex and I have no property to fight over, and we are in agreement to the divorce, so it should go quickly.
Wifey-to-Be said even if it is illegal by then we'll still have the ceremony. It just won't be legal. Which will suck. I think we're going backwards instead of forwards as a country. First abortion is now illegal, and soon it'll be illegal to be gay again. THIS is what the Stonewall Riots were all about all those years ago.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Modding a TikTok live. Friend of mine is broadcasting the news conference about the Greenwood, IN shooting that happened yesterday at a mall there. I haven't checked the True Crime section here yet to see if anyone's discussing it.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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I didn't see it, either. Very sad. 4 dead, including the shooter. 12-year-old girl injured when a bullet fragment ricocheted and hit her in the back, one other injured, too. Two of the dead were a married couple.
ETA: I made a thread, but put it in Real Life Rears Its Head instead of True Crime where it belongs...it'll need to be moved, my mistake.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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took a break from writing, started a fiction book, so now I am modding sipping an ice cold seven up zero, I can't have caffeine anymore. I don't have a title yet nor a name for my main female character, nor my male characters, I am going through something painful right now and this inspired me to write, also after watching The Lost City with Sandra Bullock, if you haven't seen it yet I would suggest doing it.
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Ria, Just saw where SCOTUS upheld same sex marriage. Cindy yes it's very therapeutic as for me I just got up at three pm, didn't go to sleep until three am this morning, yeah I am sleeping like 12 hours, I do get up at 8 am just enough to give my dog her medicine so she doesn't have accidents on herself, she will be 12 this year and has become incontinent, then I go back to sleep. I also just took a shower and bought a crap ton of books, I am not kidding I have 100 books total coming in from bookoulet and thriftbooks, I saved up for months to be able to do this. Right now I am fighting with myself to eat and then go for a walk and meditate and read.
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Messing around, mostly. I didn't get to bed last night until somewhere between 1 and 2 am, slept until about 5:15 am, and haven't slet a wink since. I do that now and then. I rearranged my room and did laundry and played lame computer games, and of course, morning and evening devotions. Haven't writed a word and don't plan too. I'm going to be soon.
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Thanks for moving it, Cindy! I thought I posted it in Police Blotter, but oops. Didn't.And I was fixing to start my second writing session.Won't take a minute to fix. Thanks for sharing.
Oh definitely same. I find it therapeutic to write about abusers getting exactly what they deserve. In my book "Silent Cries," which is still being written, I wrote my own abuser into it and killed him off. I used his real name, description, and everything. I even added the things the real person had said to me as a child. The only thing I changed was I made him not quite an alcoholic, but definitely a drinker. If it's ever published, even just to Wattpad, I'll have to change his name.
From what I understand, Congress passed a bill that protected same-sex marriage and interracial marriage among others. Because it's a BILL, SCOTUS can't touch it. SCOTUS wants to eliminate it, make being gay illegal again, but not touch interracial marriage because Clarence Thomas is married to a white woman. And for the record, I keep wanting to call them SCROTUS. ROFLMAO
I'm relieved, and I know Wifey to Be is, too. I told her when she first started talking marriage that THAT'S what I was afraid of. Not marrying her. Because I want to do that, I want to be her wife. I was just deathly afraid of it being illegal.
Already from what I understand they're trying to discourage people sharing homes/apartments as platonic roommates. Yet you NEED two incomes (or more) to keep a roof over your head because rent and utilities are sky high while wages are stagnate. Yeah I'm now making $14/hour, BUT because of my transportation issues I can only work 30 hours a week. It's not enough to rent an apartment by myself.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Just woke up, I have been sleeping about 12 hours a day, yay bipolar depression cycle, anyway, so I am messing around online, checking the forums, about to drink some water and not sure what I want to eat. Ria yeah they are going to try to control every aspect of our lives...it's getting closer and closer to Handmaid's tale, I told hubby soon they will try to make it to where women can't have their own bank accounts again, or credit cards, the husband will have to set up the accounts in his name, and if you're single you'll have to get a male to cosign for you or open it up for you, like they did in the past-1974 (yes in 1974 women could have a credit card and accounts in their names for the first time, and not have a man cosign for it or open it up in his name and her name be on there as an approved user. )
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Laundry and piddlefarting around. Meeting the fiancee's family tomorrow night after work, so I'll need to look presentable and human.
Been exhausted, the Show Me State Games start in the morning, and people started coming today. The Games are held in the city I live in, and Freddy's is one of the sponsors. They go all weekend long this weekend and next. We made about 800 custard cookies, some for a fundraiser and some for the Games. This weekend the other store is providing 80 hot dogs, 80 bags of Baked Lays, and 80 bottles of water, and next weekend we're doing it. I'm already tired tomorrow....
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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Just got home a few hours ago. Original plans were to go out to dinner last night with Wifey to Be, meet her daughter and family. At the last minute, Wifey to Be texts me, "If I can wrangle a motel room for us would you spend the night with me?" Um DUH. Is the Pope Catholic????
Went to a Cajun restaurant for dinner, I had a shrimp and scallop dish in a tequila sauce over pasta. Oh....my....GOD. It was supposed to be over dirty rice, but in our defense we got there a little after 8pm and they closed at 9, so they subbed out pasta for free. (It's usually a $3 upcharge.) We couldn't really talk much because they had live jazz music and it was hard to hear.
Spent the night with Wifey to Be in a motel after dinner, stayed up till 4am deep in conversation. Discussed how our pasts affected us in our present, wedding plans, everything under the sun. She said we were in the middle of a great conversation, and I started snoring and it was adorable. ROFL
Today we spent wedding window-shopping. Looked at dresses for me, not sure what I want yet. Did pick out the tuxes for Wifey to Be, Schmoo, and everyone else in our wedding who's wearing one. I'm seriously considering everyone wearing Chucks with their tuxes/dresses.
Miss E and Schmoo will walk me down the aisle, and both will stand beside me as well as one other I've chosen. Wifey to Be also has three standing on her side. We're not really using the words bridesmaid and groomsmen, because our wedding party is mixed. Wifey to Be has a best woman instead of a best man, and she has a guy friend standing with her also.
"Tequila may not be the answer, but it's worth a shot."
"I just go here!"
"I am not psychic. I AM psychotic. BIG difference."
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