My Journal

  • My Happy Place

    My happy place is snuggled up on my couch with either a book to read or my laptop to work on one of mine, with at least one fur baby asleep under the blanket with me… listening to the rain drum against the leaves in a lazy all day thunderstorm. Which is today. I’m so

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  • View from My Balcony

    I forgot my pain medication yesterday completely and I’m paying for it. It takes about two minutes to make a breakfast smoothie and I had to sit down three times because my joints couldn’t hold me up. The energy it took to get through breakfast (ended up taking 45 minutes 😵‍💫) used up all the

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  • Daily Prompt: Best Compliment

    What was the best compliment you’ve received? At my first solo art show, a woman came up to me and told me my work reminded her of Frida Kahlo. She’d never been covered in my courses (yet) so I had no idea who she was. I rushed home after and looked her up. Instant obsession.

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  • Weak Pancake Days

    I posted this on my personal (not professional) FB account today, and realized I should share this with everyone. The chronic fatigue aspect of hypermobility disorders is brutal. **** Trying very very hard to not be enraged at the chronic fatigue aspects of my body. I’m so tired of having Weak Pancake Days, where I

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  • Daily Prompt: Favorite Weather

    What is your favorite type of weather? A good thunderstorm (with no chance of tornado or hurricane). I love sitting in the dark and drinking in the rage and power of Mother Nature. Lazy rainy days, preferably with mist like north Georgia or Portland, Oregon in winter. Let me snuggle up with a blanket, coffee,

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