What I'm Reading This Week #16
Good Friday to you! Literally. I can't believe Easter is here. Anyone else having epic wind and rain storms over the past month? I mean good friggin' luck trying to enjoy any time out there and we're not afraid of weather. As I type, there are 40mph gusts. I went out to paint the critter cages on the planters and feel like I have hypothermia at 47 degrees when yesterday's weather forecast said it would be 74 today. Da fuq? Guess who finally took the bedroom Christmas tree down Wednesday? It was neutrally decorated so it was fine but it came on every night and gave a cozy glow. I knew one day I would look at it and know it needed to go to sleep until November 1st. That's the other thing, I will be decorating for everything extra early from now on. August 1st- Fall decor as I will thoroughly be over summer by then and given that's the day Mom passed, I'll need something to lift my spirits. November 1st it'll be ...
I am definitely a cryer!! Luckily my parents are too so they didn't ever give me a hard time about it because they were usually crying at the same things I was. My brother did not get the crying gene so he always looked at us like we were crazy.
ReplyDeleteThe family that cries together bonds together, I always say! (Well, not always but I just did.)
DeleteI have never been a cryer until I started creeping up on menopause. Now I have feelings and can't wait for the menopause to be over and go back to being the soulless ginger I know I am.
ReplyDeleteDarn those hormones! ;-) Hoping you're back to soulless ginger status sooner than later...all those feelings. Bleh!
DeleteDefinitely a crier. My family always says I cry 'at supermarket openings'. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that it had a negative connotation and the implication that my feelings weren't real. To this day I get teased if I tear up - no matter the cause.
ReplyDeleteYou have found your brethren, so you cry away! There is NOTHING negative about crying, it's far worse to keep it all inside whether at a sad movie or a supermarket opening.
DeleteI used to be a crier at the drop of s hat when I was young. I didn't understand the strong emotions I had and it was not okay to express too much joy or anger in any way, so it came out in tears. In recent years I went the opposite route and pretty much shut down any and all tears (PTSD has a lot to do with that for me) and I could describe my feelings quite clearly but couldn't let myself cry because there was always the next thing that needed to be done. So the things that I should have been able to cry about were on a very long delay by months, if not years. I don't know if I have more balance today, or just a greater understanding of why my brain handled emotions the way it did in all phases of my life. I don't cry often now but when I do let go, it's a deep-well kind of cry.
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