alyssa 😬

It honestly isn’t fair that I can’t just take all my ear innards out, soak them in a warm vinegar, Dawn, and water solution, scrub them with baking soda on a toothbrush, rinse them off, and then put them back in place again.

My therapist’s therapist is named Skip, and I don’t like that at all. That is a sitcom name. I’m supposed to tell my trauma to someone who goes to Skip for support? C’mon.

🤍🤍🤍

The seasonal nature of things is wildly hard to remember when we’re in the middle of a season. This is so important. Thank you for sharing it 🤍

This is beautiful, Laura. I love those reminders that God’s knowing and love are intimate and particular. You are seen, known, loved, and actively cared for. ❤️

I’m tired of doom and memes about doom.

What have you been learning about God recently?

Texts from me that say “they had a really good selection of balsamic vinegars at their house. Conservatives shouldn’t be allowed to have good balsamic vinegar.” A response that says “no they deserve distilled white vinegar only. Good balsamic is for us” and then me saying “amen”

Texting with a friend.

Anyway, I hate you Healthnet WellCare — you’ve been destroying my life since January 8th and I wish nothing but the worst for you.

You know what makes me angry? I’ll tell you:

When you login to your insurance webpage & try to find a new provider & it asks you to select which insurance plan you have. EXCUSE ME? I just made an account where I had to give you my member ID & now you’re pretending not to know my plan type?

Thanks to everyone who encouraged me in this. I did it!

Two friends and I memorized Psalm 19. We had lunch to recite it to each other and celebrate yesterday!

I’m shocked to say it was easier than I expected, despite my lil brain lesion, and I love that those words are within me now.

“The mountain is out today!”

“Wow the mountain is gorgeous today.”

“Look at the mountain!”

- conversation during every day with a cloud break in the Pacific Northwest

I need a tutorial on how to keep a chair in your room without it always being covered in clothes. This is a deep mystery that I’m surprised the science community hasn’t spent more time investigating.

Just ran into my therapist while walking down the street. Bless her. Running into a client on Father’s Day has got to be the stuff of a therapist’s nightmares.

I want to grow up to be one of the little old ladies out there protesting.

Give me an oxygen tank, a cane, a heart for justice, and a hope and imagination for a better tomorrow.

It’s so fun to just have occasional silliness! The world is heavy and hard enough as it is.

Two years ago I was housesitting for my pastor and his fam and I hid 100 tiny pictures of myself in common areas of their house. Now I still continue to get random texts like this. Highly recommend.

Obsessed

I know it is grainy, but I just passed these two owls while I was on a walk 🥹 followed them from tree to tree for maybe thirty minutes. So incredible. Great horned owls, I think? I forced every passerby to look at them, too.

Far too many migrated to Threads. Talk about mean thoughts… 😭

Finally watched Severance and felt like I was sitting at a brutal IFS boardroom session.

Praying, Holly!

Totally. It feels like two thirds of the posts are just rage bait and people are lining up for it like a concert. Why?!!!

Ableism doesn’t just go away when we become disabled (or face other health challenges). If that’s the reason, I’m just imagining all the internal shame and dis-integration he must be experiencing to have to lie to others and probably himself about his reality.

It’s like Facebook meets twitter in a middle school cafeteria.

I can’t believe we lost people to Threads. It’s awful over there.

What are we all having for dinner tonight?

Plus, physical buttons!!!

But good luck finding good ANC earbuds in this format. 🫠

THIS is the ideal style for earbuds, but it is nearly impossible to find high quality ones in this format.

I don’t want $200 earbuds that I’ll lose in my pocket in ten minutes. I want to be able to lay them around my neck and take them on and off quickly for conversations w/out fear.

We’re y’all not going to funerals every few weeks as a kid, or what? No wonder your sense of humor isn’t dark enough.

My mother’s parents and father’s parents had all passed before my 14th birthday, so now as an adult 20+ years later, I’m absolutely shocked every time my friends lose their grandparents. How the heck do you still have those?? I thought those were a special childhood treat!