As a long time sufferer of emotional suppression (where feeling emotions just isn’t a thing but continues to slowly improve over time thanks to vitamin D supplements), finding things that bring joy has been a rare occurrence. I’m not referring to being happy, I’m talking about joy - the feeling of marvel when looking upon something, the desire to ( Read more... )

And it cost me some friends due to inactivity but I decided to keep using LJ for posting serious stuff, like life stories-n-shit. I've got a perm account, might as well use it!

I stopped posting when I started using Facebook and it didn't make sense to post in two places when most of my connections were there. Leave a comment

Looong time no post. I'm actually fairly active over on Facebook. I just find it redundant to post things in more than one place.

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If anything good came from the WTC tragedy, one thing would be that Americans became more friendly with each other. We suddenly became aware that we all had something in common - we were Americans & we were proud of it. People would make eye contact with strangers that they pass on the street & would greet them ( Read more... )

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The new Kitten Cam PC build has been up since last night. I'm currently stress testing the CPU by generating long prime numbers and so far, things are looking really good. The new cooler comes with three presets - high, medium, and low. The lower the fan speed, the less noise generated ( Read more... )

Decided to update a lot more frequently, so here's another ( Read more... )

I started a new medication last week for managing my cholesterol, notably my triglycerides which has always ran high my entire adult life. Sometimes, it's so high that they can't even measure my cholesterol ( Read more... )

Received a new batch of fosters a week ago, five in all along with their super-friendly mama. They were born March 16th and are 10 days old.


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