The Ways I’m Coping w/the Cornell 7 Situation

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Good Evening, World!!! It is currently 8:46 in the evening here in Seattle. It has been quite a while since I have blogged. The last couple of weeks have been challenging for me due to the Cornell 7 and the other 50 men involved in the chat these frat men were in. As much as I attempt to avoid the news and social media because of the Cornell 7, I still hear about it which is why my PTSD symptoms are acting up.

Since I am having some severe PTSD symptoms, I have been finding ways to cope with them. I am reading a science fiction fantasy book called To Shape A Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. It is the first book in a three-book series. I only have the first two books as the third one is not out yet. The series is Nampeshiweisit. I may only be about 50 pages into the books but I am finding it a very intriguing and has me wanting to read more.

Another thing that has been helping me with the severe PTSD symptoms is doing some artwork. Specifically, I am doing some diamond art/diamond painting. I am doing one that I started last Christmas of a tuxedo cat. I just have not been working on it much. So, I am starting to work on it as it is helping me deal with PTSD and keeping myself focused.

Since we are on the topic of tuxedo cat, my cat, Billie has been helping me a great deal. I really love my cat, Billie. I do not know what I would do without my cat. I love him so very much.

I do not have anything else to discuss or share or to write about in this particular blog post except to say it is time to cuddle with my cat, Billie and attempt to fall asleep. I do want to thank you the reader for reading my blog. It is greatly appreciated from my end of things that you the reader, read my blog. If it was not for you the reader, reading my blog I would not be continuing to write my blog. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my blog. Peace Out, World!!!

Weekly Plans

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Sunday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Breakfast with partner and friends
  • Volunteer at PAWS Cat City
  • Dinner with neighbors
  • Evening walk
  • Artwork
  • Read

Monday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Artwork
  • Read

Tuesday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Artwork
  • Read

Wednesday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Appointment with therapist
  • Clean apartment
  • Evening walk
  • Artwork
  • Read

Thursday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Artwork
  • Read

Friday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Laundry
  • Clean apartment
  • Dinner and movie with partner and friends
  • Evening walk with partner and friends
  • Artwork
  • Read

Saturday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • University District Farmers Market with partner and friends
  • Brunch with partner and friends
  • Movie with partner
  • Evening walk
  • Artwork
  • Read

Sleepless in Seattle Type of Night

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Good Morning, World!!! Right now, I am having trouble sleeping. I have been awake since Friday at around five o’clock in the morning Seattle time. I am tired as hell, and I know the reason why I am unable to sleep. I’m unable to sleep due to insomnia and PTSD. Due to the lack of sleep my depression is starting act up a little. I am sure with some sleep that the depression will subside.

Due to the lack of sleep, increased PTSD and depression symptoms I am extremely grateful that I have two really fun things happening. Those two things are Sea-Meow Convention which is in November of this year and Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) in March of 2027. Having these two events to look forward to is extremely helpful for me even though my depression symptoms are not that bad and are most likely increased due the lack of sleep. I am really looking forward both Sea-Meow Convention and ECCC. For me planning to attend such events such as Sea-Meow Convention and ECCC are key to my mental health recovery because no manner how mild or severe my mental health symptoms are knowing that I have something fun to look forward to is key to my recovery.

I do not have anything else to discuss or share or to write about in this particular blog post except to say it is time to cuddle with my cat, Billie and attempt to fall asleep I do want to thank you the reader for reading my blog. It is greatly appreciated from my end of things that you the reader, read my blog. If it was not for you the reader, reading my blog I would not be continuing to write my blog. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my blog. Peace Out, World!!!

Weekly Check-In

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Good Evening, World!!! I do not have much to write about or say in this particular weekly check-in. The big even that happened this week was that Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) tickets went on sale. I was able to buy my VIP badge which is for all four days of the comic con during the presale event. ECCC is going to happen over my birthday weekend in early March of 2027. I am so excited about next year’s ECCC.

I do not have anything else to discuss or share or to write about in this particular blog post except to say it is time to cuddle with my cat, Billie. I do want to thank you the reader for reading my blog. It is greatly appreciated from my end of things that you the reader, read my blog. If it was not for you the reader, reading my blog I would not be continuing to write my blog. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my blog. Peace Out, World!!!

Weekly Plans

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Sunday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Volunteer at PAWS Cat City (double shift)
  • Artwork
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Monday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Tuesday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Wednesday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Clean apartment
  • Artwork
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Thursday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Friday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Go to Smith Tower observation deck with friend
  • Lunch/Dinner with friend
  • Evening walk
  • Artwork
  • Read

Saturday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Laundry
  • Artwork
  • Evening walk
  • Reading

Middle of the Night Ramblings

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Good Morning, World!!! It is the middle of the night here in Seattle. I am unable to sleep due to both insomnia and PTSD which sucks shit as I really would like to sleep. Since I am unable to sleep, I decided to pick up a book I bought at Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC). The book is call “To Shape A Dragon’s Breath” by Moniquill Blackgoose. It is the first book in the Nampeshiweisit series. It is about a 15-year-old Indigenous girl who trains a dragon despite what colonizers say or at least that is what the back says as I’m only twenty-eight pages into the book. So far, the book is a good read. I will keep you updated on how the book is as I continue to read through the book.

I do not have anything else to discuss or share or to write about in this particular blog post except to say it is time to cuddle with my cat, Billie and attempt to go to sleep. I do want to thank you the reader for reading my blog. It is greatly appreciated from my end of things that you the reader, read my blog. If it was not for you the reader, reading my blog I would not be continuing to write my blog. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my blog. Peace Out, World!!!

Monday Morning Before Work Ramblings

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Good Morning and Happy Monday, World!!! It is another Monday morning and the start of another work week for many people across the world. Right now, I am feeling some uncertainty regarding my supervisor having resigned before his leave (FMLA) ended. Thankfully, I work on an awesome team that has been working pretty well together and have been holding each other accountable especially when our supervisor was on leave before resigning. The feeling of uncertainty comes from not knowing what is going to happen next or who going to be the supervisor. I guess I am just worried when we do hire a new supervisor on how the supervisor will be especially when it comes to communication style. For me direct communication is the best way to communicate with me because it leaves no room for misunderstandings.

I am looking forward to work as I really enjoy my job and as much as I am looking forward to work, I am looking forward having time to read. I tend to read on the way to work as well as on the way home from work as I take public transportation to and from work. I also read while I am on lunch. I’m in the middle of reading two really good books that I am enjoy immensely.

I do not have anything else to discuss or share or to write about in this particular blog post except to say it is time to cuddle with my cat, Billie before going to work. I do want to thank you the reader for reading my blog. It is greatly appreciated from my end of things that you the reader, read my blog. If it was not for you the reader, reading my blog I would not be continuing to write my blog. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my blog. Peace Out, World!!!

Weekly Plan

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Sunday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Volunteer at PAWS Cat City
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Monday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Tuesday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Wednesday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Appointment with therapist
  • Appointment with psychiatric nurse practitioner
  • Clean apartment
  • Artwork
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Thursday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Work
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Friday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Laundry
  • Clean apartment
  • Artwork
  • Dinner with friends at Red Robin
  • Evening walk
  • Read

Saturday

  • Mindfulness meditation through the Calm App
  • Morning walk
  • Go to the U-District Farmers Market
  • Watch movies with partner
  • Dinner with partner at Red Robin (yes, Red Robin, again)
  • Evening Walk
  • Read

It’s Been A Long Day

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Good Evening, World!!! It has been a long day for various reasons. One of those reasons was due to work as well as some news myself and the team I work on regarding our boss. I love my job most of the time and today was a mixture of loving it and being frustrated but mostly loving it.

The news regarding my supervisor didn’t come of a surprise but was somewhat frustrating for me especially since he is a very sweet guy. My supervisor has been on leave or FMLA for most of the summer like last year. His leave was supposed to end tomorrow (Friday) with him returning this Monday. Apparently, he resigned today via email with his supervisor saying that tomorrow (Friday) will be his last day. My colleagues on my team and I are not surprised by this, but we all wish he would have informed us sooner. I’m truly hoping that he is doing okay as I worked with him at a previous employer. There is a lot of uncertainty on my end regarding who the new boss is going to be and will do my best not to worry about it till there is a new boss.

After work I went to go get my meds. I was going to do it yesterday (Wednesday) but didn’t feel like doing it. Some of my meds help with the symptoms of my mental health diagnosis’s. Taking meds for my mental health is just one part of my mental health recovery.

One of the other things that helps with my mental health recovery is reading. On the way home from work and picking up my meds, I went to a used bookstore and bought me a book. Technically it is three books in one by Orson Scott Card. The books are The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth and The Ships of Earth. I am looking forward to reading all three books in one book.

I do not have anything else to discuss or share or to write about in this particular blog post except to say it is time to cuddle with my cat, Billie and read. I do want to thank you the reader for reading my blog. It is greatly appreciated from my end of things that you the reader, read my blog. If it was not for you the reader, reading my blog I would not be continuing to write my blog. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my blog. Peace Out, World!!!

Recovery Focused Ramblings

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Good Evening, World!!! Just a fore warning that this post most likely will ramble on about various things that I plan on doing for fun to help me look forward to something just in case my mental health symptoms start acting up. Thankfully, I am doing quite well mental health wise.

Speaking of mental health, I have some fun things planned. The fun things that I am looking forward to and ultimately will help with my mental health especially if the symptoms of my mental health diagnosis’s start acting up. Something I have come to realize during my years of mental health recovery is that no matter how good or bad things get, having something to look forward is a very good thing to have one’s life.

The first fun thing that I will be doing to going to the University of Washington versus Eastern Washington University football game in September. In fact, I bought the ticket earlier this evening. I am going by myself just for the hell of it. I got me a pretty good seat on the forty-yard line. I am not much of a football fan, but attending the football game is something to do and look forward to.

The second fun thing I have planned is going to Sea-Meow Con. It is a cat convention, and I am finally able to attend this particular one as I had the money to buy the VIP tickets for me and my partner as well as have the time to attend. I am not one hundred percent sure who will being doing meet and greets this year, but I am looking to doing them. When I went to Seattle Pop Cat Convention in April, they didn’t have meet and greets like Sea-Meow Con has. Sea-Meow Con is going to be held the first weekend of November.

I do not have anything else to discuss or share or to write about in this particular blog post except to say it is time to cuddle with my cat. I do want to thank you the reader for reading my blog. It is greatly appreciated from my end of things that you the reader, read my blog. If it was not for you the reader, reading my blog I would not be continuing to write my blog. Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading my blog. Peace Out, World!!!