My son, having fun with the pressure washer. (Taken with Instagram)
Enlightenment
All life is suffering.
Attachment is the root of suffering.
It is possible not to suffer.
If you are a robot.
a.k.a. Asimov’s Four Noble Laws.
Normally, Lissi sleeps on the ground. Sometimes she decides to sleep on her bed. Tonight, I guess she didn’t like either of those options. (Taken with instagram)
OK. This kit is pretty darn impressive. (Taken with instagram)
See this new red 2x4 LEGO brick? Cal says it’s “the first ‘regular’ LEGO that they’ve gotten in a kit.” (Taken with instagram)
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[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “”Well, if you’re tired why don’t you sleep?” Would never be awake.”]
I’ve gotten this increasingly more, where I’ll make some thoughtless little comment about being tired, or I’ll complain or say something about being tired, and people will be like, “Go to bed then!” And will proceed to shout at me in all caps to go to bed over and over again until I go ‘invisible’ so they think I’ve left whenever I say anything because apparently being awake when I’m tired isn’t good for my health or something?
I don’t think they understand that I am literally always tired. I am tired when I wake up, and I’m tired when I go to sleep, and I’m tired the entire time between those two times. If I slept whenever I was tired, I would never be awake. Might as well be comatose.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0c2ut8k3Z1qi36g3o1_400.jpg)
[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “”Well, if you’re tired why don’t you sleep?” Would never be awake.”]
I’ve gotten this increasingly more, where I’ll make some thoughtless little comment about being tired, or I’ll complain or say something about being tired, and people will be like, “Go to bed then!” And will proceed to shout at me in all caps to go to bed over and over again until I go ‘invisible’ so they think I’ve left whenever I say anything because apparently being awake when I’m tired isn’t good for my health or something?
I don’t think they understand that I am literally always tired. I am tired when I wake up, and I’m tired when I go to sleep, and I’m tired the entire time between those two times. If I slept whenever I was tired, I would never be awake. Might as well be comatose.
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(Reblogged from chronicallyscrewed)
For the chronically ill, details are all. To cope with chronic illness means to routinely scan minute bodily processes. Attention is vigilantly focused, sometimes hour by hour, to the specifics of circumstances and events that could be potential sources of worsening. There is the daily quest for control of the known provoking agents. Enervating decisions must be made about when to initiate or terminate an activity, when to move from baseline medication to second-level drugs, and when to seek professional help. And all this occurs in the context of active lives that are filled with the same pressures, threats, vagaries, and exultations that make of normal living such a ‘blooming, buzzing confusion’ [James] Is it any wonder that exhaustion is one of the common shared experiences of chronic illness?
Arthur Kleinman, The Illness Narratives (via shanghailil)
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[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “What doesn’t kill you, makes you wish it did”]
I love this blog because people always say “I know how you feel” but in reality they don’t. People here actually do.
I know suicide is a “permanent solution to a temporary problem”. But what do you do when your problem is chronic? I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease at the age of 14 in January of 2009 and I’ve had fourteen surgeries, I currently have a temporary colostomy, I’ve had over 20 kidney stones, no medications work for me, I’m chronically anemic. To top it all off I already had clinical depression and generalized anxiety disorder. This is going to sound terrible, but sometimes I wish I had an illness that would either go away, or just kill me. Anything but living like this for the rest of my life.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzqxh9CxZG1qi36g3o1_400.jpg)
[Image: 6-piece blue colored background with a Siamese cat with blue eyes. Text reads: “What doesn’t kill you, makes you wish it did”]
I love this blog because people always say “I know how you feel” but in reality they don’t. People here actually do.
I know suicide is a “permanent solution to a temporary problem”. But what do you do when your problem is chronic? I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease at the age of 14 in January of 2009 and I’ve had fourteen surgeries, I currently have a temporary colostomy, I’ve had over 20 kidney stones, no medications work for me, I’m chronically anemic. To top it all off I already had clinical depression and generalized anxiety disorder. This is going to sound terrible, but sometimes I wish I had an illness that would either go away, or just kill me. Anything but living like this for the rest of my life.
I have some very creative fans. (And so did he.)
I love how it comes with the beheaded noggins of defeated opponents/incompetent employees.
Snow! (Taken with instagram)
