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Contractor still on roof project, but I think ...I hope....I scored some amazing sky blue glass tiles.... think Restoration Hardware blue!!!!

I'm Huffing and puffing after loading almost 3/4 of a pallet......just began raining. 

I don't have any bullnose to match, but will figure this out.
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Current house in the hills, Hops.  And the dresser is impossibly heavy solid wood, tall side, beautifully handmade with smooth as silk drawer action hardware.

The contractor coming this morning, as if now, and I have bulk food to brine and get garbage out before 8:00am! 

At least the bathroom is ready for demo!

Lighter
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Realized I'm confused about which house the elegant toilet is in, lakeside, current in hills, or island. But good news you have someone who sounds like a good contractor. If he's the frog you kissed, hope that's a safe situation.

Kudos on a cherry dresser as a vanity, sounds lovely!

hugs
Hops
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Found the sink base!  Beautiful solid cherry dresser!!!
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I think the reason I for now choose to "still love her" (unless she acts out unsafely again) and to try to "understand" her aren't really self-abnegation, but the core remnants of my religious upbringing. I'm not abandoning myself for codependency, though I'll observe and resist it in ways that make sense to me.

I didn't throw the baby out with the bathwater when I let go of a traditional faith, but kept the single core idea, which is enough for me. Super simple. Golden Rule. For me, after years of confusion and angst, I worked out that faith simply means "experience trust." Not foolish naive blind stupid trust, but a general trust in possibility. Not expecting it, but always allowing for it. I'm home in agnosticism, which is for me optimistic. Not worried about it; it's probably just Universe.

hugs
Hops

PS I learned a lot from all this. Not obsessing, not even regretting. Well, we all regret pain. But this was an obvious and helpful lesson. What stays with me is the fact that I stood up, pushed back and refused ill treatment. With clarity in the moment, not just afterward. All those things are good for me, not wasted.
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Yard
« Last post by lighter on June 10, 2025, 10:35:47 AM »
 6 guys.....1 blowing street clean now....front loader loaded....a pile of ugly trees in cg'svfrintvyard........ they're leaving.
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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board / Re: Yard
« Last post by lighter on June 10, 2025, 10:13:56 AM »
The nice neighbors have 3 vehicles moving things out of their garage.

The cowgirl, it's presumed, has a street full of tree clearing vehicles on both sides of the road ...almost blocking it.  A little front loader is busy moving tree parts from backyard....and now the chain saw kicked in.... they're stacking all the logs in cowgirl's front yard ....not sure why.

The pug ran out, just as the first loaded vehicles were heading out.  Pug sat, barking, but motionless, as they drove by us.  So glad she listens, now, but she's 11yo.   She's old enough to listen.....old enough we think of the day we'll lose her...and it breaks us inside, esp DD22, to imagine it.

I bet the tree guys are clearing a huge pile of trees out.  This is second time that's been done, in a year ...maybe.

I'd like all the branches, over driveway, cut. Will see about adding that on to their day.

It's rained, daily, for days.  Pollen better, but I hav gunk in my pipes and things feel scratchy and inflamed.  Will take another Alovert and see how it goes.

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It makes me sad.....
to notice things board members have accepted, as love, or parts of love, wrestling with it, like some live thing, when really..... it's just malformed......beliefs.....about love/earning love,  and worthiness.  Esp when it involves parents.

I guess the, often very toxic people, board members struggle with, are in the middle of their own struggles, involving childhood trauma.

Some people do more, or less, harm in the world.  Some people (perpetrate?) more or less kindness/help in the world, but it comes down to neeeeeed, doesn't it?  Needing things to be different.......
Choosing people, broken in familiar ways, so one can change past outcomes, in the present.  That's what happens, right?

Poet's abusive husband reminds her of a childhood trauma, she's trying to change, in the present....right?  Your relationship, with Poet, is/was about trying to change/heal relationships/trauma in your past....right?

That's pretty complicated, if one needs to go back, find the origin trauma, and heal it, rather than refile one person, and decide they'll simply install boundaries, practice and enforce them.  Difficult to do, and not repeat..... if the struggle is about past yearning to fix old trauma overlayed onto present relationships......right?

It was niggling thing, for me, to notice what past small transgressions, I had allowed years and years ago....bc they lead to larger transgressions.

 Some I let slide, some I didn't, but my blindness......my ability to ignore, shut out, explain away..... honestly not feel bothered by, in some astonishing cases....or......
accept, in other astonishing cases.....
that was all mine to discern and own.



Once we know better, we can do better.

There's 5 trucks, including 2 dump trucks, and various equipment he hauling flatbeds, on my street....I think working at the cowboy's house. 
::calculating cash on hand::.
Maybe I can get some stuff done too!

I'm glad you're feeling less anxious,((Hops.)) Will likely come and go, ebb and flow, until something clicks.....heals that needful part, IME.  Then, will feel like an old key,burning in an ancient lock.  Calm and done ness.....zero desire to think about it for another minute, I think.

Lighter
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Thanks, Lighter, sorry for the delay.

I feel much better, not anxious about it any more, just letting a new reality settle in.
I'm just stunned at how ready (eager?) I was to believe this was genuine loving friendship. And, in ways, it has been. Her simmering rage was out of my sight, imo.

I just don't know where that decision comes, that accepting or not pushing back against abuse is a good thing. This is what she's done to herself, and I can now see that the justified rage anyone could feel about having been abused as a child, beaten by a husband, date-raped, etc etc -- could erupt in moments of shame-trigger or fatigue. That's what I think has happened to Poet. I don't judge or blame her for being too afraid to examine/heal it, though I profoundly wish she'd try.

I feel I understand it. The reality that remains for me is that unguarded, wide-open trust is no longer appropriate in this relationship. So sadly, that's changed forever. But I can accept it and still love her, and communicate with more formal (as Amber mentioned) and also lighter exchanges. It'll be good to have a year off from visits now. Or two.

I think the being-alone crucible she's going through right now could be transformative if she lets it. I wish she could find some peace. She reports nonstop plans to see people so she isn't fully alone. I get that too though I can't do it myself.

But to your question: I feel okay. Rebalanced. Thanks much for ALL the support and insight.

hugs
Hops
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Hops:  The kind of people, who leave dog mess on other people's property, aren't the kind who bother picking up dog mess, IME. Ever.  They can't bend over/see OR they figure the rain will wash it away, no big deal, IME.  I know people who say these things out loud.  Not bad people.  Just people who hold piggy beliefs around their dog's messes, and not feeling responsible for them.

Gently suggesting, they become people who care, is wasted effort, IME.

I'm happier, accepting their piggy ways, sans needing them to change.

It's the way it's always been.....some clean up messes.  Some are little piggies.

And....
Killing people with kindness.  I still do, some, but it's not on auto pilot anymore.

My inner gremlin wants to rise up.....perhaps BE the person some neighbors think I am. Ya.

People aren't used to me creating chaos, just bc I can.  I wonder if it would feel like freedom......and/or release....to BE that gremlin?  Well.....just saying their embarrassing truths, out loud, would feel like being a gremlin, I suppose.  Will see.

Curiosity, replacing judgement, is an interesting thing, IME.

Lately ......the urge to bark ....
"You should have known better" and "Let that be a lesson to you," when dumb stuff comes up, is on the tip of my dismissive tongue.  Wag my finger at them, maybe, but with humor.  There's very little emotional charge involved lately, if any.  I simply don't care.....and it's revelation!!!

Not sure, but it's a balm to "consider the source, and dismiss."

Yup yup yup.

 DD22 and I enjoy barking....
"I simply don't care about that!" And, just like that, freedom and release arrive.  It's a celebration every time.

DD24 pretty much rolls that way.  So did my mother.



Lighter





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