So this is all really weird. :/

The Five Love Languages
My primary love languages are probably
Quality Time and Words of Affirmation.

Complete set of results
Quality Time: 10Words of Affirmation: 10Physical Touch: 5Acts of Service: 3Receiving Gifts: 2

Information
Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love ( Read more... )

I feel like my life is either nonstop or full stop. There's no steady-as-she-goes middle ground. I'd like to be chugging along at a cozy little pace, only *slightly* ever speeding up or slowing down, just for variety. I'm not sure why I can't manage that ( Read more... )

The good news is that I need a new journal name. "A Wild Tango to Slalom" is no longer me. Something closer or better would be "In Transition" or the like, but our community would take that the wrong way. "House in the Suburbs" comes to mind as well, but that's too far in the other direction and doesn't leave much in the way of Queerness. "Unit- ( Read more... )

Accountability dates. They work. Quite productively, too. :] That is all.

One way to sit me down and get me to do something I'm dreading or putting off or just can't seem to get to (like benefits and taxes and all kinds of paperwork) is to set my timer for 1 minute and tell me I have to sit next to it/think about it/focus on it until the buzzer goes off. Then set it for 2 minutes, then three ... if I get to five I've ( Read more... )

I've been saying this for decades but only just now realized it's a Haiku:

I am a mushroom
Up to my neck in shit for
Long hours in the dark

Oh, it's been too long. I keep trying to get back here in a Facebookedup world. I used to write so much more.

I've suffered from insomnia since I was twelve. I remember the first night it started and there's a story there, so if you're ever interested in hearing about it, just ask me ( Read more... )

When I don't get enough down time alone I will sacrifice sleep to get it.

I can have down time when I'm not alone, and alone time that's not also down time, but down time alone is it's own special blend.