yesterday i was grateful for a lovely dinner with k&b…
today i am looking forward to the farmers market and a quiet day at home…
my new year coping strategy - smbk - Obsidian Publish
this year i decided that i need a solid coping-strategy for meeting it all with quiet fortitude… i needed a strategy that keeps me fully grounded… i have put together a coping plan… it begins with a manifesto…
Are you aware of the balls it takes to be sissy?
yesterday i was grateful for time spent with family and for Beauty Ritual where Karen added awesome blue and green highlights to my hair, and for the feminine comraderie i experience there…
today i am looking forward to getting the household chores done and dinner with longtime friends K&B…
yesterday i was grateful for time spent with family and for Beauty Ritual where Karen added awesome blue and green highlights to my hair, and for the feminine comradere i experience there…
today i am looking forward to getting the household chores done and dinner with longtime friends K&B…
yesterday i was grateful for the three pairs of new shoes that were waiting for me when i returned from yoga and pizza with Holly… and that they all fit!…
today i am looking forward to breakfast with K, lunch with Holly and her brother Matt, and getting my hair highlighted with blue and green to harmonize with my glasses…
yesterday i was grateful that my mother was finally getting over her cold…
today i am looking forward to restorative yoga and maybe a slice of Pizza John’s pizza afterwards…
From yesterday…
2025-01-06 - smbk - Obsidian Publish
immediately after the election i felt significant fear about my trans-feminine explorations, which i have been openly pursuing for more that a year… i believed i would have to tone it down… that the political climate would lead to the repression of my trans-feminine identity… i left my dresses, especially my midi and maxi dresses in the closet… i imagined i would have to take my most feminine clothing and accessories to clothing donation boxes in the middle of the night…
yesterday i was grateful for arriving safely at work… the Teconic was a sheet of ice at a certain point…
today i am looking forward to yoga and lunch with Holly…
yesterday i was grateful for a clean house and the fresh baked bread that Holly made…
today i am looking forward to the farmer’s market and an exploratory trip to Home Goods…
yesterday i was grateful to be found in generally good health by my doctor…
today i am looking forward to getting the laundry and vacuuming done, and dismantling the Christmas tree with Holly…
yesterday i was grateful for an afternoon of reading by the fireplace with Holly…
today i am looking forward to getting my annual physical over with (it makes me anxious)…
January 1, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Not a must read post by HCR, but this closing paragraph stood out to me…
As we launch ourselves into 2025, one of the key issues of the new year will be whether Americans care that the U.S. government does the hard, slow work of governing and, if it does, who benefits.
2025-01-01 - smbk - Obsidian Publish
happy new year!… for reasons that should be obvious…
this year i decided that i need a solid coping strategy for meeting it all with quiet fortitude… i needed a strategy that keeps me fully grounded… i have put together a coping plan… it begins with a…
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yesterday i was grateful for all the work Holly and i got done in preparation for our New Year’s Day open house…
today i look forward to further prep and yoga at the end of the day…
experimenting with Obsidian Publish… check it out…
in the wake of the election, which is an unmitigated disaster from my point of view, i have decided that i need a coping/resistance strategy… i believe it necessary to ground myself in a vision of the world as i “wish to see it”… though i would have vastly preferred to be dealing with a Harris/Walz administration, i would still have needed this strategy, because as arguably better as they would have been, they still represent the business as usual that continues to destroy the planet…
Just finished reading SEVENEVES by Neal Stevenson. Nearly 1k pages of reasonably compelling sci-fi story telling that fails to do much character development and fizzles at the end. I feel like it should have been two novels with as much effort to develop character as to describe technology.
Yesterday i was grateful for the blessings of Christmas Eve with Holly.
Today i am looking forward to Christmas dinner with friends.
We are having a white Christmas…
To those celebrating Christmas, in either pagan or Christian form, i wish you fulfillment of your nostalgic expectations and the creation of new good memories for the coming year.
It’s amazing how satisfying it is to find a lipstick color that matches my nail color!
Yesterday i was grateful for the shops with interesting stocking stuffers that are on Main Street and only a couple of blocks away.
Today i am looking forward to making a Feast of Seven Fishes dinner for Holly and myself, Christmas music and watching It’s a Wonderful Life.
Christmas movies we have watched so far:
Lost at Christmas Polar Express Spirited The Man Who Invented Christmas Charlie Brown Christmas A Christmas Carol, George C. Scott version The Holiday Falling for Christmas An American Christmas Carol The Red One Silver Linings Playbook White Christmas Good Old Summer Time The Shop Around The Corner It Happened On Fifth Avenue The Feast of Seven Fishes Love Actually
Yesterday i was grateful for the shearing coat i inherited from dad… it was sooo cold!
Today i am looking forward to a relaxed day with a few Christmas prep things to do here and there.