As a group therapist, I witness what’s bothering people. I also hear how these people I work with worry about bothering others.
It’s bothering me how people in power aren’t bothering about about how their greedy, selfish, and short-sighted actions are bothering those they are supposed to serve and protect.
Is there anything bothering you about my blog post for today?
It’s bothering me that today’s online list of holidays and observances has a grammatical mistake.
When I search for “bothering” on YouTube, I find this …
When I asked this weird question on a weird social media site last night, somebody asked me to define “weird.”
Weird is in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it? When I was a weird child with a weird heart condition, I thought weird was a bad thing. Now I think weird is wonderful.
Here’s a definition of “weird” from Merriam-Webster:
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The word “weird” is weird because the usual rule is “I after E except after C.” I don’t see any “C” in weird.
Yesterday, on International Joke Day, I asked this question on Twitter:
My last question for the (International Joke) day: Who is an international joke?
Because of international joke Elon Musk, I can’t access that question on Twitter at the moment …
… but I can share some of the answers (which I gathered before my “rate limit” was quickly exceeded this morning).
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Do you see any international jokes in the other images I was able to capture for today?
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On I Forgot Day, I’m going to forget about international jokes Musk, Trump, Putin, and the Supreme Court as I, without limits, work on my book and joke with my husband Michael’s family.
Here’s what I find when I search for “international jokes” on YouTube:
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Thanks to Dawn Wong, Wes Anderson, sane people on Twitter, and everyone else who helped me create this International Jokes post, including YOU!
Even when your place has no air conditioning during a heat wave, it’s still possible to find your happy place.
This sign was at a happy place in our local shopping mall, where we were searching for a fan to make our place a cooler and therefore happy place:
How do you find your happy place? Is it inside yourself? Is it outside?
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Can you find your happy place shopping at a mall?
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Can you find your happy place on social media?
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Sometimes you need to find your sad place before you can find your happy place.
Very soon, I’ll be finding my happy place when I have a ZOOM call this morning with my friend Megan, who is moving to a new happy place in Connecticut with her family.
Let’s see if the Daily Bitch can find her happy place.
This is what I find on YouTube when I try to find “find your happy place.”
I find my happy place through gratitude, so thanks to everyone who helps make this blogging place happier, including YOU.
Let’s see what’s not dead in my other photos from yesterday:
I mentioned in a recent not dead post that I’ve been playing Peggle on my phone, so that I can remain not dead and self-soothed during anxious times. I’ve been stuck on Level 105 for MANY not dead days. I always die on the second of three very difficult “battles” and have to start over again. Yesterday, while I was Peggling at the mall, I lived through the incredibly difficult Battle 2 of Level 105, much to my amazement. After I paused the game and then wondered if my dying phone had lost my progress, I said to my dear and not dead husband Michael, “If my phone lost this and I have to start this level over again, I’ll kill myself.”
And I stopped and thought, “WHAT did I just say? There’s no way I’d kill myself over Peggle!”
Even better, I realized, there’s no way I’d kill myself over anything.
When we got home, I told Michael I was going to try to complete Level 105 and if I failed and died, “You’ll hear an unearthly moan of pain.” However, when I did die almost immediately in the much easier third battle, I neither moaned nor cared. I was happy to restart Level 105 with a new life.
As I said to Michael, “Now that I know that it’s possible, I’m fine.”
Then Michael and I danced to this not dead song (living here on YouTube):
Edwyn Collins, as of this writing, is not dead, although he is struggling to stay alive, according to the YouTube comments.
Now it’s time for my undying gratitude to all who help me create these not dead posts, including YOU!
Does that mean I care too much? Or have too many cares? I’m not sure, but I do care to tell you that I just woke up from a dream where I said the word “kill” (as in “Did that make you want to kill them?”) which was overheard by somebody I knew, who then dropped to the floor in obvious emotional pain and crawled laboriously away (like a snake) down a hallway, as her husband told me not to care about her reaction. He said, “This happens and she’s just going somewhere to pull herself together.”
Yesterday, when I was having another day of self-transformation at the enormous South Shore Plaza mall accompanied by my boyfriend Michael and my son Aaron, I saw this:
And, as usual, everything else I saw spoke to me of Self-Transformation.
Those last four self-transformation images show Aaron’s father’s large-format camera and his transforming photographs of our self-transforming son.
Self-transformation can come in many forms, including
books,
beliefs,
being in the moment,
blogging, and
those are just the b’s!
Here‘s “Self Transformation” music which has transformed a grand total of three people on YouTube:
Last night, as I was window-shopping my way to good health, I saw this sign:
As I read my way to good health, I thought, “I haven’t gotten eight hours of sleep for decades!” But I didn’t want to worry my way to bad health about that.
Instead, I figured I would blog my way to good health today by filling in the blank of “______ your way to good health” in other ways, including:
Walk
Talk
Hope
Vote
Think
Feel
Share
Create
Smile
Laugh
Cry
Eat
Drink
Sing
Dance
Write
Read
Work
Rest
Socialize
Meditate
Exercise
Watch
Participate
Accept
Change
Move
Love
Live
Imagine
Express
Act
Believe
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Do you see ways to good health in my other pictures from yesterday?
As I watch my back, I DO want to know how you’d fill in the blank of “_____ your way to good health.”
Watch your way to good health with these two videos (here and here on YouTube):
Please comment your way to good health, below.
It’s time for me to thank my way to good health, so here’s gratitude for all who helped me create today’s post and for YOU.
