“Other people’s residual issues can ruin your stuff.
I hardly had anything to begin with!”
“Other people’s residual issues can ruin your stuff.
I hardly had anything to begin with!”
Pieces
“I get to pretend that I’m a smoker!”
(Too much 2nd-hand smoke in my system.)
“Making decisions from ‘have to’s,’ instead of ‘want to’s.”
“Due to a song that was trendy-aggravating.”
“Remember that cute little microwave that I got that fits so nicely on my counter top?
Well I am taking it back!
Because having to also unlock it every time before I press the open button is actually just one more step too much to tolerate for me!”
“Downsize my responsibilities.”
“The rhythm kept getting broken up.”
(Continuous life disruptions)
“What do you do for fun, Athena?”
“Moonlit strolls are off of the schedule for now…”
“I just feel like a stack of wobbly bowling pins, trying to dodge that ball…”
“More pain and difficulty in walking.”
“Like onto the ground – with a twisted ankle.”
(Title lyrics from an ABBA song)
“Stepping sideways onto a suddenly unraveled shoe string can send you into a barely-controlled fall…”
“A piece of my occipital compression shift-released at last!”
“It is hard for me to be in such close quarters with so many people, and hearing them through my walls and on top of my ‘ceiling.'”
“Why would you have to – or want to – lock your microwave’s door?”
“If the air smells like cologne, I want it to be from my guy’s – and I do not particularly like heavy scents.”
“When I miss my workouts.”
Why did she feel compelled to touch the dead female deers abdomen?
In case there was a fawn trapped within.
She arrived so much later, and yet…
There was still such warmth within the doe’s abdomen.
“What happened to having one?
Was that just illusion?”
“How my life seems, lately…
I guess that’s survival mode.”
“Nothing’s wrong, but synaptic impulses claim otherwise.”
After calling doctors for new symptom help:
“Now, back to my own physical therapy restabilizing exercises – because that’s the only thing that has ever really helped!”
“If back off, I can receive help and time for more needed recovery.
But if I don’t also push – and precisely at that – then I miss the basic sustenance marker, under which I could still qualify.”
“From one emotion to another, like tides meeting me on an open sea, while doing my best to direct where they will carry me – even when they are choppy.:
“I see glimpses of my true self returning.”
She carefully transferred her beleaguered weight onto it, and let it swivel her up to the next higher plane.
“Some of my stuff in the kitchen is now exactly where I need it!:
(A better kitchen layout)
“They were surprised and pleased by the results, and by my efforts.”
“And that’s…how it’s done!“
“Might be offline for awhile.”
She told the billing department in no uncertain terms that if they did not stop harassing her several times a day, she would never pay the bill.
“A feck-ing valiant hero?!”
“But I would like it to be a whole lot better.”
“Are designed for resistance, in the guise of convenience.”
“But having to be civilized around people.”
One last heave-ho to finish clearing the yard.
I feel like I am on a treadmill…
And I can’t seem to ever get off of it.
“Can often seem to stretch on forever…”