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Woke up crazy early again, but I had just enough time to take a half pill and crash for a bit. Carl had taken care of a bunch of eservice yesterday, but the rest of it still took me forever. Photographer Matt had watched The Last Unicorn, and tagged me in it. I do love that people associate me with it. I offered to buy him the book, but he'd already bought the ebook, and had many questions, mostly about Haggard. I've been Haggard. I've had the only light be watching something else. His depression, of course, moves into sociopathic or sadistic selfishness. He's happy seeing the unicorns in the waves, but he knows they're miserable there. I opted not to buzz for the meeting, admittedly because I was considering whether I want to keep my mustache or go back to my beard, but I did put on the Chimney hat and sombrero sunglasses for them. Took the opportunity to post my holiday check-in for everyone on FB and quote the Feel It track by the Tamperer. I got to reach out to a few people, so I felt great. My survivor's guilt over having had a pretty decent 2020 is transforming into gratitude. If everyone else is having the kind of year I had in 2019, but I'm not, I can be a source of support for them in a way I couldn't if I was having that kind of time again. Suzanne messaged me, and we talked some about our respective years and venerable pets. She was a little bummed that the conversation bobbed at the surface instead of sunning on the beach. Sorry.

After work, I started looking at sleeper sofas and futons. Ikea has the best prices, unsurprisingly, but I'm mostly looking for something affordable that won't creak while I'm fucking on it, and that's sort of a hard category. Tim texted me, asking if I could pick up his money from Jae tonight or if tomorrow would be better. He also mentioned he didn't want to do Christmas dinner, as he's worried about covid with the impact from his broken leg. I sort of thought that might be coming, but would've liked the news sooner. I messaged Colleen, and we're going to do just us.

On my way out, I saw I had a package at the door - it was Lady Miss Friday's space heater! Tim critiqued it again, and ultimately my getting it has the most to do with her sleeping under the covers a while back, since the last time she did was after rehab. I am desperate to make her happy. Headed over to get his money, which turned out to be an envelope full of cash. Chatted with Jae a bit, but the conversation felt forced. There was an awful accident on the freeway, so it took me longer to get to Tootie's, and in spite of having taken both my pills, the waves were choppy. I stopped at Ralph's, perfectly willing to just get a tofurky there, and kind of excited about buying wine, too. Actually, really excited, and kind of disappointed I didn't have an excuse to get it. I'm gonna need creamer soon, too, so figured I'd get that. Unfortunately, they opted not to sell vegan roasts this year, and TJ's was out of them, too. Frustrated, tired, and facing rough waters, I went home. Tried to turn her space heater on, but it wouldn't work. There's always tomorrow.
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Lady Miss Friday laid with me in the morning, under the covers and right next to me, just like when I got back from rehab. On the one hand, of course I'm delighted she wants to be close to me. On the other, that was after such a dark, miserable time for her, and so now I'm concerned.

I stayed on track again, got through a ton of claims and a bunch of NOAs, but it left me so exhausted by the end of the day. Tim made the Event for Thanksgiving To-Go, and I started inviting folks, but ended up just posting it to my wall. I was surprised at the response. We do Orphan TG's every year, but I guess us putting in the extra effort to do even a distanced version means more to folks this year. I went hunting online for to-go containers, but the ones I found that were eco-friendly wanted to charge just as much in shipping as the containers themselves. I'm anticipating spending money for TG, but there's no sense squandering it. I zipped over to Smart & Final, and while I absolutely adore that they've taken Economy Size to absurd extremes, I also couldn't find any seitan or fake meat products like say, tofurky, and every clerk I asked was just confused. I managed to find those same eco-plates that were going to be $40 online for $16 in store, so at least there's that.

My mom called after work because Mike has been buying guns but not contributing financially to the household, and she wanted my advice on how to bring it up. Even though I'd started drinking, I think I gave pretty sage advice. Find that Venn Diagram between assertive and compassionate, keep your fangs sheathed. Many of the suggestions she had were passive aggressive, which led to a discussion of how I grew up thinking my family experiences were standard, and she had a similar realization to her relationship with her sister. Unfortunately, she then started going on about QAnon-type conspiracy stuff. One of her points was about Social Security, and I literally put my phone down just to find a citation correcting her. She apologized for going into politics, and I corrected her that I have ZERO problem discussing politics, I just insist it be done via text. Text message, internet chat, or even email. I need to be able to show you evidence you're wrong. Thankfully, Tim called, so I had to stop. We talked some about the TG, and I did sneak in that even when I'm not educating the masses, I still prefer text based communication.

FHA tagged me in a post about The Last Unicorn. Apparently it was a surprise hit in theatres, but as it was blowing up, the production company went bankrupt. I never even knew it was a big screen release, much less the series of unfortunate events that followed. It was at least a good reminder that as much as I rage at my failings over the years, I'm pretty ecstatic that the film was released the same year I was born. Like...really ecstatic.
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I still couldn't get the video to upload, and still couldn't decide between cutting it or linking it. I watched more Community, and decided to look up Rachel from S:4E:8 because I loved her hairstyle. Turns out it was Brie Larson, who would later go on to play Captain Marvel. In going to post about it, I realized that's sort of a quirk about me. Like I looked up Tessa Niles and Lisa Noya. But at first, I couldn't remember Lisa Noya's name, so I went a-hunting. Finally found it after waaaay too long, and spent some time listening to Klaas's remix in 2009.

I drank more, napped more, smoked more. Actually dreamed about dosing with the remaining G. As I poured a drink instead, I thought about Katie's joke when she was my Beard. We'd been drinking and watching TV, and an ad came on asking "What's Your Anti-drug?" Katie looked at me and said "Alcohol." Turns out she was right!

I saw that Bryan had messaged me last night, so I messaged him back in the afternoon. He thanked for inspiring him to go on a Community binge, and noted that he's taking a break from Bojack. That's completely understandable, since Bojack is as stellar as it is heavy.

Tim asked to come over in the evening, and I agreed, even though I'd already taken my pill. He brought Pupple, and an over-sink dish rack he's going to install. I think we're both somewhat concerned with my reliance on the happiness of others to keep from sinking. But I didn't come to any conclusions. We got onto the topic of The Last Unicorn, and apparently everyone he's talked to has tagged me as Lady Amalthea. I don't really know whet to do with that.
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Remembered to pay my rent in the morning, but kept forgetting I'd remembered. I had a really hard time staying on task all day, but I managed to get through all my mail and catch up some on claims. I did, however, manage to share and take a jerkoff vid. And I figured out how to stop getting confused on which I've posted and not. We have a new way of logging in remotely, but I couldn't remember my password, and then couldn't get back in via CudaLaunch. I almost didn't make my video, due to my usual anxieties, but I'm glad I did. I think I now have a tie for my biggest cumshot on camera.

A few items I'd ordered showed up in the mail. One was a 5 lbs bag of watermelon sours and I may have been tipsy when I ordered it. The other was a 3TB external hard drive. During some fit on GHB last year, my last 2 TB drive died, taking with it porn I've been collecting for years, including all the scenes I downloaded from Staxus. I finally saved up enough Points from one of my games to get a $25 gift card, and I've been wondering where to send it, and thought I'd start there. They offer a 1 week trial for $8, and I'm weighing that or the full month again. Ultimately, I'm gonna go with the 1 week, because if you go past your week, the total is the same. I decided to wait on it, though, so I can take full advantage of the 3 day weekend for downloading.

My mom called in the evening, and she's doing well, consulting a head hunter to get a job, but then she started rambling conspiracy theory nonsense about Blue Lives Matter. When she stopped talking, I started to rebut her, but she immediately picked up talking over me, as though she hadn't stopped and I was the one interrupting. I refused to stop talking, and it ended up in a shouting match. I started to tell her we shouldn't have this conversation until we can cite sources, and I got to "conversation" before she hung up on me.

Tim called, in the area for coffee with Tootie, so I went along. It was a good time, and at one point we were talking about The Last Unicorn shirts that I bought for Jake, Ashley, and Tim....then realized I was wearing it. I noticed it was 9:30, so had to cut out so I wouldn't oversleep from my pills.
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NOAs took me forever in the morning, but I got through them. I tried to jerk off after work, but something was off in my head. I did finally post FHA's hilarious quote re: The Last Unicorn, and even got to send copies to a few people. I watched Community in the evening, particularly enjoying Annie's sass. Jeff: Don't kid a lawyer. Annie: "Well, if I see one I wont."
I got into it with another Trumpet, and one of his friends, who "can't be racist, he's Mexican!"

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May. 9th, 2020 10:35 am
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I just missed the Alliance event for Rise of Kingdoms, but it's not like I would have been much help anyway.

Lady Miss Friday was in the closet, but as soon as I was awake, she moved next to me on the bed. She's so wonderful.

I took 4 Kratom, but....a little queasy, a little sweaty, but no real difference. I threw up by noon, but it didn't look like the pills.... And then I kept throwing up every now and again all day. It wasn't even stomach acid though... Just saliva.

Cecile messaged in the early evening, letting us know Gabe was not gonna make Zoom karaoke, but she'd picked up "clues" earlier that he would. I don't really have any working sound and video equipment, so I wouldn't have been able to join anyway, but I'd at least thought about trying to be there on camera for support and backup dancing. There was some question over whether to confront Gabe about it, and there were just too many variables involved for me to give any input. Call it a reason I went to law school, but there were too many things that needed defining, examples, etc. for me to give much input. It turned out several other people couldn't make it either, so we just called the night off. Gabe has reportedly been clean from everything but weed for a week.

Cecile messaged me separately after, though I initially thought it was a notification from the Group chat. She wanted to double check they weren't being jerks, and check on me personally. I mentioned The Maybes, she expressed concern over how fresh it all must be for me. She talked about how related to victim blaming it is to call addicts "selfish," since they/we almost always, if not 100% of the time, have underlying mental health issues that are the proximate cause of addiction. I explained about the weird interconnections between my various mental health issues (mostly depression), addiction, and "recovery." Our conversation eventually got me raking myself over coals for all the exits I missed. I should have at least stopped for a few months while Jeff was with me. I should have quit any of the many times I just vomited all night. I should have quit after The Murder Scene with Jeff. I could kill myself for not throwing my stash away when I first tried to take a "break." I could have at least asked someone to hold on to it. I also started me flogging myself over the many, many, many Red Flags that I should get mental help throughout my history. She noted access and economics, and I suppose she's right.

I thought about The Last Unicorn, and the castle crumbling. Obviously, my fall has stopped partially down the cliff. But it eventually led me to thinking of the cat, and Lady Miss Friday, and suddenly the scene where Molly McGrue says "I forgive you" to the unicorn sprang into my head. It actually helped for a few minutes before I got the scourge out again.

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