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Yesterday I was feeling small and sad and quiet, and it was my day off, and aside from making the Nightmare Fuel Prompt happen I did not do anything that could really be considered my usual posting. Some folks noticed this, and independently of one another reached out to me in private to make sure I was okay. And I guess I kind of am, really. I'm spending a lot of brain cycles considering my posting habits - frequency, content, public versus private. What I am putting out, and what I am taking in.

In the wake of the Pluxodus, and how few people have made the effort to connect with me here, I find those very deliberate connections, those checkings-in, to be incredibly valuable and gratifying. Too, there then comes the accompanying question of just how much am I continuing to seat my sense of self-worth in the regard of others for me, in the attention I get.

It's all a process. Mindfulness versus self-centeredness.

Work continues apace, with some interesting developments that I will perhaps make a filtered post about.

Home is in flux. Not in a bad way, but in a got-home-from-work-and-it-was-Surprise-Clean-All-The-Things-Day way. So, having been up since 6am and worked till 2, I launched into helping, because I was raised in such a way that if someone is cleaning, everyone is cleaning or else they are having A Bad Time. A piece of the kitchen that had been let go fallow is now clear and clean again. There are almost a half dozen boxen and bags ready to be donated to the thrift shop. Youngest Spawn now has caution tape wrapped around his door, and we are both delighted.

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This post was disrupted by dinner. We have a bonus child tonight, as Eldest's bestie is sleeping over tonight. We re-cleaned the table (which had become covered in laundry and donatables) and for the first time in a long, long time had a sit-down dinner with everyone at the table. It was pleasantly tumultuous.

Hello, Blisstopia. <3

Hi

28/10/18 00:58 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] rokenford
I thought about checking in here and on the blr, but I saw you rebagling stuffs and other than the art I tagged you in, i figured you needed a quiet day. Glad to hear everything is ok.

Re: Hi

28/10/18 15:21 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] rokenford
Yes, quite perfect. I am definitely working that scene into a one of her journal entries. But it's still two or three entries away I think.

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28/10/18 01:20 (UTC)
Posted by [personal profile] misterangel
I was worried a little and hoping the lack of a mornthing wasn't due to Serious Problemsβ„’; but the lack of "daily" posts from other people made me think it was more likely Dreamwidth not showing me things for some reason.

I wish our part of the world included a sit-down dinner more often.

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28/10/18 01:39 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] johncomic
"Mindfulness versus self-centeredness."

Bingo.

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28/10/18 23:41 (UTC)
johncomic: (Uncle Old Guy)
Posted by [personal profile] johncomic
oh gosh that is true of so much in life and in every case it is a tough lesson to learn

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28/10/18 07:13 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] shredded_paper
Glad to hear there's nothing terribly upending going on - feeling small is a Thing That Balances and everyone needs to be able to regroup and regather as they need to. Plus I'm so terrible with timezones that I never know if I'm overreacting or if people are actually just sleeping through their nights.

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28/10/18 18:58 (UTC)
shredded_paper: Small loudmouth from Labyrinth, trying to be helpful (Default)
Posted by [personal profile] shredded_paper
I'm as far in the future as you can get, currently GMT+13. It's working out where everyone else where I trip up. Part of my brain insists that if it's Monday you can't possibly be talking to me from Sunday morning.

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28/10/18 07:29 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] joseph_teller
Just a check in wave to let you know I've been by.

Yesterday my wife was ill so I was a bit preoccupied (Stomach bug she got at work it appears; burnt itself out by evening).

Namaste

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28/10/18 17:15 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] fractalfrog
Sit-down dinner with everyone at the table happens on a regular basis here, but only because Chaotic Neutral Boy really likes his daddy's spaghetti dinner, and his daddy makes spaghetti dinner happen 3 or 4 times a month.

Next spaghetti dinner will be a huge undertaking, because we ate the last of what was in the freezer last night, and sauce making takes a couple of hours, 3 big batches are created, and we have enough to eat plenty and then put up enough for 3 more dinners and smaller quantities for lunches, or daddy-son dinner on occasion.

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28/10/18 17:39 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] fractalfrog
Would it make you feel any better about anything if I told you you're the only reason I set up this account?

You're worth that extra effort to me.

Remembering to check daily, I need to work on. But I have tools to help with that. I might want to use them.

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28/10/18 23:18 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] wa_bob
Like Fractalfrog, you are the reason I am here. You're that friend on the internet who I am as happy to be with as a warm cup of coffee and a good book. I also figured that you needed a time out like all of us do, but if I hadn't seen anything today I was going to start inquiries of my own.

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30/10/18 14:51 (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] littleweeds
I'm having a hard time with everyone going to all different plaes and trying to evaluate whether I want to add yet another social media site to my checklist. I have limited space for online stuff and I hate feeling like I have to choose to loose contact with people.

I'm glad you're here but I would have followed you elsewhere too.