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the_siobhanQuestion of the Day: Global Family Day: How do you define family?
There is a Robert Frost poem. "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." That's pretty much how I define family - the people who are stuck with you. If you play your cards right and get lucky, that can be by choice.
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No shit.
I mean, I used to have had some... pretty pronounced self-destructive tendencies for a large chunk of my life. I am genuinely astonished to still be here. (Albeit with some of the long-term health repercussions of those tendencies. Nobody gets away with that many head injuries completely scott-free.)
Huh. Sixty. How about that.
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The holidays were good, although I ended up letting myself be pushed way past my normal comfort zone around being exposed to a bunch of strangers. (How's that for not being twenty any more.) This year I have promised myself I will do more outside stuff in the summer with my family, it will mean I can more easily say no to high-risk activities in the indoor months.
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Pretty sure this is going to be an eventful year in the Gin Palace. Money is going to be a problem. We'll see if I'm still living here at the end of 2023.
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For the fanfic writers, Martha Wells has posted about a company that is scraping fanfic sites and selling the stolen stories on Amazon.
https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/601475.html)
There is a Robert Frost poem. "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." That's pretty much how I define family - the people who are stuck with you. If you play your cards right and get lucky, that can be by choice.
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I spent yesterday doing chores, then had a glass of wine at midnight and watched the fireworks going off outside from my window. Today I am doing some prep cooking and playing video games.
Tomorrow I will turn 60. Six. Zero.No shit.
I mean, I used to have had some... pretty pronounced self-destructive tendencies for a large chunk of my life. I am genuinely astonished to still be here. (Albeit with some of the long-term health repercussions of those tendencies. Nobody gets away with that many head injuries completely scott-free.)
Huh. Sixty. How about that.
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The holidays were good, although I ended up letting myself be pushed way past my normal comfort zone around being exposed to a bunch of strangers. (How's that for not being twenty any more.) This year I have promised myself I will do more outside stuff in the summer with my family, it will mean I can more easily say no to high-risk activities in the indoor months.
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Pretty sure this is going to be an eventful year in the Gin Palace. Money is going to be a problem. We'll see if I'm still living here at the end of 2023.
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For the fanfic writers, Martha Wells has posted about a company that is scraping fanfic sites and selling the stolen stories on Amazon.
https://marthawells.dreamwidth.org/601475.html)
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Date: 2023-01-02 06:11 am (UTC)All the best people are born at this time of the year!
The holidays were good, although I ended up letting myself be pushed way past my normal comfort zone around being exposed to a bunch of strangers. (How's that for not being twenty any more.
Comfort zones are comfortable! Apparently you are enjoying third 20s!
Pretty sure this is going to be an eventful year in the Gin Palace. Money is going to be a problem. We'll see if I'm still living here at the end of 2023.
That sounds not great, and assuming the housing market there is akin to here, even worse.
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Date: 2023-01-02 03:26 pm (UTC)The housing market here is a shit-show. The ex and I decided to try co-housing based on the fact that neither of us can afford to buy in this city if we sell this place, and rent is even higher.
But we'll see what happens.
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Date: 2023-01-02 05:51 pm (UTC)Same with two adult children. None of us can go anywhere. The kids are calculating university like this: "I have this education money in the bank. If I spend it all on housing for university, then I have to work ten years to get the money back that I already have in the bank." Online-courses-a-go-go.
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Date: 2023-01-02 07:44 pm (UTC)