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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on May 13, 2026, 06:14:03 PM »

I've got these montelukast pills I am reading they cost under 10.00 to make, market, distribute but the pharmacy marks it as 170.00 for these tiny pills that barely do anything. It's for allergies.

I don't pay 170.00 but I think it's kinda scammy that "list price" can even exist.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Health Updates

« Last post by Hopalong on May 13, 2026, 02:59:20 PM »

Pup got some kind of bird bone outside and I heard him crunching in the gap between bed and wall. I was trying to reach the bone splinters to get them away from him and my body decided to fall gracefully over the side of the mattress and land me on my head. OW.

I drove to the ER, not worried but just obeying Dr Google, got a CT brain scan (I'm okay, no bleed) and all is well. Just another mortality reminder.

It'll make for a fun addition to the Organ Recitals, though. Milking it for all it's worth, as usual.

hugs
Hops

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by Hopalong on May 13, 2026, 02:46:17 PM »

AWESOME!
I remember when you used to talk about nature and its beauty often...so glad you got out in it again. SO healing.

Ditto "hanging with a friend." Hoomins need to rub shoulders with hoomins. I think anxious thinking gets mitigated when social contacts are built into life. Doesn't have to be daily, but regularly.

Yay, you, Hippie!

hugs
Hops

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on May 12, 2026, 09:02:20 PM »

Went hiking with new friend... it was really nice. Was worth all the effort. Felt like a very long day.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on May 12, 2026, 10:43:17 AM »

-- Waking up here

-- I am going to meet a friend and I am feeling stressed about it -- going to meet them and then they are going to drive -- control freak part of me I guess is stressing about stuff like -- what if something happens -- what if I get stranded -- I hope I am not turning into a paranoid narcissist --

-- I think it's going to be a hot day here

-- I don't need to over plan this day but my brain wants to overplan it.

-- I should just take a shower -- water load before I leave so that I am pre hydrated and just give up on the rest

-- I feel tired I think I didn't sleep well

I feel I should not be hanging out with a friend but I've found that I am not being particularly productive recently.

If I say to myself go sit in cafe and work on stuff -- I sit there kinda space out and don't work on stuff.

clearly I need to do something different because my soul is registering my current attempts at being productive as fruitless --- Do A -- Get B - Failure and bad experience

Do C -- and get D mystery outcome idk

Anyhow I do think the therapist has kind of helped me see that I've got a lot of layers of stress "trauma" piling on like a layer cake. -- a series of just too many things not going well but then of course I feel like it's a weakness in me which causes stuff to go very badly anyhow I need to go into departure mode.

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by Dirty Hippy on May 12, 2026, 10:34:29 AM »

And......in 100 years, what will it matter?


Right Lighter

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by sKePTiKal on May 12, 2026, 08:34:42 AM »

In my case, I know it's the "inner critic" raising it's bully head again. A lot of problem solving takes a ton of energy. Mental exhaustion is a real thing.

I have a lot of ways to ignore it now.  <big grin>

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: The Lake House

« Last post by lighter on May 11, 2026, 09:48:15 PM »

No mobs, but we've caught 5 meeces so far.  We're rather committed beings, when it comes to mice and clean kitchens/bathrooms.  Ruthless, some might say.

We gave the clover yard everything we had.  It lives, or dies now.  We have to go.....maybe tomorrow night.  I'd love to visit Ohio cousins, hear divorce court stories, drive to Toronto and fly back for DD's Optometrist campus visit.  She's applied to the top 2 schools. The closest vrr isn't worth missing all that.

Bald patches got scraped, re seeded and spritzed just now.  Root rot be damned.  If it doesn't take, we'll pivot.

All the hay, we scraped up, went on the other new level area with stone retaining wall.....to keep freshly moved dirt in place.

Everything looking much better.

Tomorrow will be cleaning up, and making things neat again.

Lighter

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by lighter on May 11, 2026, 09:36:48 PM »

...."not getting a lot done."

And......in 100 years, what will it matter?

FYI.....healing some generational trauma WILL matter.

Receiving your own permission, to rest, without "earning" it....will matter, IME.

The stuff.....and getting it done.....just won't matter, not at all, but IME.

I wish I could go back and worry less about the stuff .....I really do.

In fact, I wish I could go back and fiercely refuse to worry at all.

Worry got me dysregulated and dumbed down to surviving.

There were so many things I wish I'd done instead.....choose an action, DO IT, then put the problem on a shelf.....turn back to joy, and only that.

What an amazing ride that could have been......if only.

But as they say....
No regrets, lol.

Onward and upward.  Here's to making better decisions/trying out different decisions every day.

Even if it's making coffee different, or wearing different pants, etc ....
I want less of habit, and more of what can be!!!  I want my brain to get feisty.....and choose differently....choose more, and better, and for my highest purpose.

Yes.

Lighter

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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Anything again

« Last post by sKePTiKal on May 11, 2026, 04:32:50 PM »

Me too. Lots of things on my list I want to do - but it's either too chilly making me want to cocoon or too hot, which means I'll be miserable. I did remember that pollen does this to me, some years. But it should be going away soon. I hope!

I dunno; I'm not beating myself up over being "lazy". I have some "have to" things coming up that I need to have a lot of energy/smarts for... sigh.