After stressing about it for months (years?) I finally went to get my Indiana drivers license. Only because my Michigan one expires on my birthday August 5th. I was supposed to get it within 60 days. That was two years ago. So I tamped down my agoraphobia and went in and failed the written exam. […]

This month seems to be getting away from me. The garden, reading my crime boards and building a website for a friend has been taking all my time. I did sneak in a little time to actually open Bryce again recently. What do you think? 

The good is that I’ve made lots of progress in my yard and garden (still not done though). The garden is growing like crazy…of course so is everything else :p I have most of it finally weeded and yeah, I realize that’s supposed to be an ongoing thing 😉 This picture was taken a […]

Meaning my yard. I have successfully cut down 6 trees that were growing where they shouldn’t. Not to mention pulling a virtual forest of maple trees out of my garden. The sad part is I love maples. I’d like to ditch that ugly tree in my yard and have a maple instead. I’ve spent […]

I’ve repeated my DBT class several times and here I am off the rails again. How the heck do I regulate my emotions!? Well, the answer is clearly that I don’t. This is out of order in the class but I needed a quick refresher course.

Understand Emotions You Experience Identify your emotion. Okay, that […]

On my journey through this 13 year depression, which I saw no hope of ever coming back from, I have made huge progress. Sometimes you backslide again, and that old hopeless feeling hits. That is the worst part, that when you are in that place, you can see no hope, no surety that this […]