ok, guys. i'm going in!

[liminal_space]

+ mister husband says he may have found a way to pay for a LJ account without having to give any real personal information. if it works, i'll let you know how he did it so you can too — if you want. 

+ i'm TRYING to be all self-carey, but it's not working at all. AT. ALL. instead of trying to just let the bare minimum be enough, i'm making bread, apple butter, apple sauce, apple apple apple apple THEN i have to prep for tomato, tomato, tomato, tomato. lord jesus, help a girl. 

i wantted many hours to plop my butt on the couch and switch between watching "dragula" (i want the boulet brothers to adopt me, do my makeup, put wigs on me, and lead me around on a little gold chain and tell everyone i'm the distant cousin they keep in the attic) and reading. 

did i get this? nope. 

i did, however, get two whole pints of apple butter. TWO. after the amount of work i put in and the number of hours that had to cook down, i'm a little irritated, but lessons have been learned, so i should get more the next go around. i'm also going to get HALF pint jars....unless i have some stashed somewhere. what pisses me off more than anything is that i couldn't find any wide mouth jars, so had to buy regular ones. 

now, i'm not matchy matchy and my brain does not approve. 

+ speaking of brains and such, my first meeting with my new therapist went really well, all things considered. before picking her, i had to do a two hour intake with a different psychologist so i could choose from a pool of therapists/psychologists that could best fit my needs. during the intake, the psychologist asked if i had been tested for adhd and/or ASD. when i answered no, she said that i could if i wanted to because there are indicators blah blah blah. 

new therapist said the same thing. blah blah blah. 

don't pigeon hole me, people! =D 

i do like new lady....i picked her specifically because her name is barb. =D (if you don't know, i have an alter ego cowgirl who, after taking a shot of fireball whiskey, is NOT afraid of getting on naughty horses. or getting in bar fights. 

you can trust barb to be your ride or die. 

+ the weather is positively amazing today, so i'm going to have to carve out time to go play. a ride/handwalk is going to happen and i wish i could figure out how to get a long kayak paddle in. alas, only so many hours of the day, and most of those are filled with omfg apples. 

speak of which, i must go stir and peel and find cans. UGH. :)

Comments

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

omfg apples

Didja peel them already? If you didn't, you know what? They can wait! 😀

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

Yeah fruit butters reduce waaaaaay down. Like wilted spinach!

Keep me posted about the LJ deal.

[stardust1161.livejournal.com]

Let me know about paying for LJ without the additional info!

[rhodielady-47b.livejournal.com]

That always irritated me too---the sheer amount of apples that you have to peel, core, AND chop in order to come out with such a TINY amount of apple butter!
:^(

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Good luck with all the apples.

[debris4spike]

I will eventually need a way to pay ... LJ have extended it, and extended it, but this last time was only 6 months! So, if there is a way ... great. You would think LJ would have found a way to sort this, as they must have lost a lot of money.

I did therapy in the year after I lost Mum & Dad ... and was meant to do some about 4 years when I was ill ... but the 2nd therapist made me feel worse after just a first session ... no way was I going back!!

[dancing-ghost.livejournal.com]

As someone who did years and years of therapy with the wrong people because neither I nor they knew I was AuDHD, I don't think they're trying to pigeonhole you. Neurotypical solutions and therapy techniques tend not to work super well on neurodivergent people (or in my case, not at all). If your therapist has the expertise and has seen the indicators, then perhaps it will be fine. But not wanting to get tested because you don't want to be pigeonholed is sort of like going to your PCP because you're sick but not letting them do any bloodwork or run any tests. Without the test results, they can try to help, but there's only so much they'll be able to do.