On Friday, I finally got angry in my group therapy. The shrinks had been trying to get me to show anger for a couple of months, but I just didn't feel angry. Well, that day I spoke up about my Asperger Syndrome, and another group' [...]
On Friday, I finally got angry in my group therapy. The shrinks had been trying to get me to show anger for a couple of months, but I just didn't feel angry. 
An aside to my 18 (ish) regular readers:
'Aspie Moments' are not really a true category of behaviour as defined by the greater world (such as the ever-popular 'Senior Moments'), but are rather my own:
moments of extreme embarrassment, silliness,' [...]
As I was saying yesterday, I have some strange stuff going on, which may or may not be related to my blood pressure medicine, a beta blocker called metoprolol. Yesterday I wrote about sleepwalking, and today I'll talk about my other major symptom.
Tonight I will be sleeping on the couch. Don't worry - I didn't earn the cold shoulder from my long-suffering husband. Nope, I am sleepwalking. Or rather, I'm doing weird stuff in my sleep. An aside to my 18 (woot!) regular readers:
'Aspie Moments' are not really a true category of behaviour as defined by the greater world (such as the ever-popular 'Senior Moments'), but are rather my own:
moments of extreme' [...]
Husband said something pithy, so I thought I'd share it. As a family, we tend to suppress our negative emotions, so he was engaged in a dicussion with our child about the importance of appropriately expressing anger whilst still engaged in the applicable situation (instead of' [...] 
For most of my 37 years, I have lived in duplexes, fourplexes, townhouses and freestanding bungalows. I lived in many locations both rural and urban, but one unifying characteristic of most of my homes was that I tended a garden.
I mentioned before that I have recently been creating electronic music on a keyboard. Generating and recording music is very meditative to me. I feel sort of relaxed and calm when I create sound, but sometimes I get an almost out-of-body feeling - like my [...] 
My Canadian province has a very low rate of unemployment. In fact, through 2008, the unemployment rates were under 4% for much of the year. But things are changing. The rate has now increased to about 6.5%. 
I learned something important a couple of nights ago. CN Rail has their own police force, with the right to detain, arrest, and ticket trespassers. In fact, just FYI - up to $1000 in tickets can be issued. To each person caught trespassing in [...] 
I got accepted into group therapy, which I will be starting on Monday of next week. I originally thought the therapy would be geared towards teaching social skills, but no; I will be confronting all of my psychological issues past and present, and thereby (hopefully) [...] 
I recently had a bad experience, but I'll spare you the gory details. It's complicated. However, the experience shocked me into finally consciously realizing how I think about myself. I have been thinking that I am truly worthless.
As I mentioned once before, I have been working at losing weight over the last year. Well, sort of. Mostly, I'm working at not being fat anymore (important distinction, at least to me).
Husband and I were talking about happiness the other day. I got to thinking about what happiness really is.
Well, remember the kidney and bladder infections I had recently? The bladder infection is back. The doctor didn't even bother to consult with me when the results came in - he just left a prescription at the counter for me to pick up.
I saw a counsellor recently who was helping me to find strategies to get through my worst days. And there are a lot of very bad days right now.
I quit drinking when I was 20 years old. I had started throwing up blood after one particular bender, and it scared the crap out of me. Really, I just drank on the weekends, but my body couldn't seem to handle it very well.
I have been experiencing some recent improvements, and I wanted to share some of my positive progress.
A bunch of years ago (10 or so), my husband introduced me to The Dandy Warhols. I have been absolutely infatuated with them ever since. They have the kind of music and lyrics that persuade the listener to be swept off in a wistful [...] 
... but you can't get the Rez out of the dog. Our loving, needy, sweet dog Molly ran away on Friday night. She had a 24 hour adventure before we got her home.
Thanks for all the positive, happy wishes on my last blog post - I appreciate the support a great deal.
I did this cute little quiz that compares a person's personality to a punctuation mark. It ended up complimentary for me, I think... Anyway it's definitely an Aspie punctuation mark!
It's cleanup time in my fabric and jewelry supply storage... Did I mention I was unceremoniously kicked off of Employment Insurance? And my new job was supposed to start next week, but it has been postponed for at least another week... or more... So,' [...] 
