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  2. Willow

    Good morning All. Coffees on.

    Good Friday Morning I will be spending a good portion of my day at church today. I don’t know how any of my family would have been with me. They all passed before I figured myself out. I often think my mother and sister may have figured it out before I did but maybe it was just my depression that they saw. I don’t know and never will. My grandfather Young unconditionally loved me but he passed when I was 9. Same with my wife’s parents, both gone before. We’ve never had the greatest relationship with my wife’s brother but we do see them occasionally. They words and actions aren’t always in sink when it comes to me. Sour kraut or boil cabbage were never big even with my parents so that was something we were never expected to eat. Nor was anything with mustard. My mother hated mustard and it turns my stomach. My wife tried to sneak it into things early in our marriage but I could always tell. She stopped after a while. well I wave to go get ready to go to church. I have a committee meeting at 10 and then we have a Good Friday Service at noon. Willow
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  4. Mmindy

    Good morning All. Coffees on.

    Good morning everyone, @KymmieLI hope you're misreading your bosses communications. As you say keep plugging a long. Don't give them signs that you're slow quitting, just to collect unemployment. I have a few things to do business wise, and will be driving to the St. Louis, MO area for two family gatherings. Have a great day, Mindy
  5. KymmieL

    Good morning All. Coffees on.

    Good morning everyone, TGIFF It seems like I am the one keeping or shop from being the best. According to the boss. I don't know if my days are numbered or not. But anymore I am waiting for the axe to fall. Time will tell. I keep plugging a long. Kymmie
  6. In the warmer weather, Mine is hitting the road on the bike. Just me, the bike, and the road. Other is it music or working on one of my many projects. Kymmie
  7. LC

    I did it!!!

    That is wonderful. Congratulations!
  8. What is relaxation to you? Nature? Movie? Reading? Cuddling with a pet? Music?
  9. Heather Shay

    Six Word Stories

    Having just a normal emotional day.
  10. Heather Shay

    Emotion of the day

    AMUSEMENT The feeling when you encounter something silly, ironic, witty, or absurd, which makes you laugh. You have the urge to be playful and share the joke with others. Similar words: Mirth Amusement is the emotional reaction to humor. This can be something that is intended to be humorous, like when someone tells a good joke or when a friend dresses up in a ridiculous costume. But it can also be something that you find funny that was not intended to be humorous, like when you read a sign with a spelling error that turns it into an ironic pun. For millennia, philosophers and scholars have been attempting to explain what exactly it is that makes something funny. This has led to several different theories. Nowadays, the most widely accepted one is the Incongruity Theory, which states that something is amusing if it violates our standards of how things are supposed to be. For example, Charlie Chaplin-style slapstick is funny because it violates our norms of competence and proper conduct, while Monty Python-style absurdity is funny because it violates reason and logic. However, not every standard or norm violation is necessarily funny. Violations can also evoke confusion, indignation, or shock. An important condition for amusement is that there is a certain psychological distance to the violation. One of the ways to achieve this is captured by the statement ‘comedy is tragedy plus time’. A dreadful mistake today may become a funny story a year from now. But it can also be distant in other ways, for instance, because it happened to someone you do not know, or because it happens in fiction instead of in real life. Amusement also needs a safe and relaxed environment: people who are relaxed and among friends are much more likely to feel amused by something. A violation and sufficient psychological distance are the basic ingredients for amusement, but what any one person find funny will depend on their taste and sense of humor. There are dozens of ‘humor genres’, such as observational comedy, deadpan, toilet humor, and black comedy. Amusement is contagious: in groups, people are more prone to be amused and express their amusement more overtly. People are more likely to share amusement when they are with friends or like-minded people. For these reasons, amusement is often considered a social emotion. It encourages people to engage in social interactions and it promotes social bonding. Many people consider amusement to be good for the body and the soul. By the end of the 20th century, humor and laughter were considered important for mental and physical health, even by psychoneuroimmunology researchers who suggested that emotions influenced immunity. This precipitated the ‘humor and health movement’ among health care providers who believed that humor and laughter help speed recovery, including in patients suffering from cancer1). However, the evidence for health benefits of humor and laughter is less conclusive than commonly believed2. Amusement is a frequent target of regulation: we down-regulate it by shifting our attention to avoid inappropriate laughter, or up-regulate it by focusing on a humorous aspect of a negative situation. Interestingly, amusement that is purposefully up-regulated has been found to have the same beneficial physical and psychological effects as the naturally experienced emotion. Amusement has a few clear expressions that emerge depending on the intensity of the emotion. When people are mildly amused, they tend to smile or chuckle. When amusement intensifies, people laugh out loud and tilt or bob their head. The most extreme bouts of amusement may be accompanied by uncontrollable laughter, tears, and rolling on the floor. Most cultures welcome and endorse amusement. Many people even consider a ‘good sense of humor’ as one of the most desirable characteristics in a partner. At the same time, most cultures have (implicit) rules about what is the right time and place for amusement. For example, displays of amusement may be deemed inappropriate in situations that demand seriousness or solemness, such as at work or during religious rituals.
  11. April Marie

    Good morning All. Coffees on.

    Good morning, everyone!!! Two cups of coffee in the books and I am just feeling so wonderful this morning. Not sure why, but I'm happy and smiling. Enjoy this beautiful day!!!
  12. A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear. -You cannot snore and dream at the same time. -The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime. -A hippo’s wide open mouth is big enough to fit a 4-foot-tall child in. -Chewing gum while you cut an onion will help keep you from crying.
  13. Love it! This is great news. We need more of this to combat the excessive hate-filled rhetoric and misinformation.
  14. Susan R

    Breast Forms Realism

    The experience was the same for me @April Marie. I slept much deeper and I woke up each morning feeling so much more restful sleeping with forms solidly in place. For me, wearing breast forms at night started when before I was a teenager. I had no access up to modern breast forms and certainly no way to buy mastectomy bras back then. I wore a basic bra my mom had put in a donation box and two pairs of soft cotton socks. I have some crazy memories of things I did in my youth to combat my GD but regardless, these makeshift concoctions helped me work through it all. All My Best, Susan R
  15. awkward-yet-sweet

    R's In Colorado Trying The Ballot Initiative Route To Hurt Trans People

    Colorado isn't exactly a Republican place, and won't become one anytime soon. I think those folks might be better off not spending their time playing Don Quixote. We certainly have our share of California "refugees" moving into where I live, so I wouldn't be surprised to start seeing Coloradans too. I suspect the trend over the next few years will see the blue areas getting more blue and the red areas getting more red as anybody who can relocate tries to find a place where they fit better.
  16. awkward-yet-sweet

    Sacramento, CA Declares Itself To Be a Sanctuary City For Trans Folk

    Well, at least it'll be a place some folks could choose. Options are a good thing.
  17. awkward-yet-sweet

    Good morning All. Coffees on.

    My family would have gobbled that jar up in a minute or two. When we do have pickled herring, its usually for Christmas. I didn't grow up with that particular dish, but I grew up in a Greek family so I like just about any kind of fish if I can get it. However, ocean fish and freshwater fish taste so different. We usually have more catfish and tilapia to eat than anything else. What I can't quite get used to is the tons of cabbage my GF insists on eating. When you live with a Russian, there is always cabbage soup. Always. When I first moved in with her, breakfast was "shchi" for soup and either bread or "kasha" which is a bowl of boiled buckwheat with butter and salt. Those dishes can be made in any number of ways, some are better than others. In the winter, it can even be salty and sour like kraut. Not exactly sauerkraut, but packed in tubs with vinegar and salt so it keeps partially for the winter. But I drew the line when the cabbage soup included pieces of fried snake one day.
  18. Ashley0616

    Good morning All. Coffees on.

    Good evening to you as well @Mmindy That is awesome that you have support from her side. My dad has communicated with me once and that was because he was forced to. His new wife wanted to spend time with my kids. He hated me so much he was in the process of taking my rights away as a parent to my two boys. He was talking to a lawyer and I called him out on it. I don't love him at all. I'll respect him because I wouldn't be here without him but I wished I had another father. My uncles don't talk to me and unfriended me on Facebook. Almost all cousins except for two are still Facebook friends but they don't give me any support. My mom said she won't support me with that but she has said that she loves me. I have nieces and nephews that are still Facebook friends but they have yet to talk to me. I have one sister that supports me out of three. The other's disrespect me by deadnaming me. They have never called me their sister. I think for them they think it's still a phase. They don't ask questions about me being trans. I have to bring it up and on the look of their faces they don't look comfortable about it.
  19. Mmindy

    Good morning All. Coffees on.

    Good evening @Ashley0616, I just got offline with HP tech support trying to get my printer tool box icon locked to my tool bar. This is one of the most important features of my printer that I like because it keeps track of ink, paper, and scanned documents. I'm diffidently not a computer geek. I'll catch up with the other bookmarks next week. We leave to go home for the Easter Holiday with our families. Saturday with her side, and Sunday with my side. What's odd about that is I'm out to more of her side and they're reluctantly supportive. My side on the other hand are less supportive, and my sister just under me in age will not acknowledge my being there. She will be constantly moving to keep from dealing with me. I'm dead to her. Hugs, Mindy
  20. Ashley0616

    Baseball Opening Day! Tell Us Your Favorite Team & Why

    I used to follow baseball and the team I would cheer for is Boston Red Sox. My favorite player was Papi. He was an awesome guy and even held a child during the National Anthem. I haven't watched baseball for a long time. It just died off to me.
  21. Ashley0616

    Good morning All. Coffees on.

    That stinks that nothing transferred, and no bookmarks were saved!
  22. Ashley0616

    MaeBe's Trail of Discovery

    I'm doing patches for now but I think soon I'll go to shots because it's hard to alternate when you are doing two xx patches at once. Unless she gives me Estradiol and progesterone
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  24. Sally Stone

    Baseball Opening Day! Tell Us Your Favorite Team & Why

    Go Cleveland Guardians! I love baseball and I loved playing it when I was younger.
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    • Willow
      Good Friday Morning    I will be spending a good portion of my day at church today.  I don’t know how any of my family would have been with me.  They all passed before I figured myself out.  I often think my mother and sister may have figured it out before I did but maybe it was just my depression that they saw.  I don’t know and never will.  My grandfather Young unconditionally loved me but he passed when I was 9.   Same with my wife’s parents, both gone before.  We’ve never had the greatest relationship with my wife’s brother but we do see them occasionally.  They words and actions aren’t always in sink when it comes to me.   Sour kraut or boil cabbage were never big even with my parents so that was something we were never expected to eat.  Nor was anything with mustard.  My mother hated mustard and it turns my stomach. My wife tried to sneak it into things early in our marriage but I could always tell.  She stopped after a while.   well I wave to go get ready to go to church.  I have a committee meeting at 10 and then we have a Good Friday Service at noon.   Willow
    • Mmindy
      Good morning everyone,   @KymmieLI hope you're misreading your bosses communications. As you say keep plugging a long. Don't give them signs that you're slow quitting, just to collect unemployment.   I have a few things to do business wise, and will be driving to the St. Louis, MO area for two family gatherings.   Have a great day,   Mindy🌈🐛🏳️‍⚧️🦋
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      Good morning everyone, TGIFF   It seems like I am the one keeping or shop from being the best. According to the boss. I don't know if my days are numbered or not. But anymore I am waiting for the axe to fall. Time will tell.   I keep plugging a long.   Kymmie
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      In the warmer weather, Mine is hitting the road on the bike. Just me, the bike, and the road. Other is it music or working on one of my many projects.   Kymmie
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      That is wonderful. Congratulations!
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