I'm in a funk, I have no good answers to any of those questions.

*whuffles* to TPS (we still do that, right?)

Uh. I've been in a funk myself but I'm pulling out of it slowly. Something I'm doing for myself is buying some really cool brush pens so I can do more arty stuff. Also am listening to my interruptionware when it tells me to step away from the computer. Oh, also knitting a Dr. Who scarf.

Something I'd like to do? I'd like to wave a wand and make my hip pain go away.

Something someone else has done for me. A lady in my knitting group bought a sock loom and gave it to me out of the blue, saying that she thought of me as soon as she saw it. I'm not sure when I'll get to it but I thought that was nice.

Whuffles for the funk-ified.

I'm coming out of a funk too (it's been rainy and grey and dreary as hell and my HappyLight can only fix so much) and I've been super busy (and my body/brain reacts to stress by pulling a Madagascar*).

Something I've done for myself lately is eating crappy food. Seriously, shredded mozzarella on saltines or on honey wheat bread is delicious. Especially if you throw some Old Bay over it. I haven't had the brain power or the time to make 'real' food so I've been subsisting on this for the past few days.

Something I'd like to do for myself would be to find a way to stop time for a little while so I could get a breather and a nap and make some pizza tortellini and get a real meal in me.

Something nice that someone else has done for me is one of my troupies happily offering to drive us all to Shimmy Mob in Baltimore on Saturday. I know driving up there would totes stress me out because I'd probably get lost and there's the Color Run in the Inner Harbor that day as well and I'd be late and alllllll the catastrophizing in the world and she just said she would happily tote us all up there in her minivan.


*Explanation.

I've been in a funk too, but I'm coming out of it now, the warmer weather's helping. We had such a long, unrelenting winter this year that even I, cold-weather lover, am glad to see the back of it.

For myself - I've been doing a bit more socially, which I always find difficult, going to things I wouldn't normally think of - lectures, a music club.

I'd like to have a massage, I'm sure I'd love it, but I can't inflict my psoriasis on someone else, they don't get paid enough for that.

And other people have invited me to all sorts of lovely things, including The Book of Mormon.

I'm carving out a little bit of time each day (most days) to play a video game, and NOT feel bad about it.

For myself, I go to the Taiwanese bubble tea shop once a week for milk tea. I can't get that flavor anywhere else.

Something that I'd like to do for myself is take a day off.

This evening, my brother, who works at a coffee shop, gave me a small earl grey that someone didn't pick up, and put heavy cream into it too, so it was like drinking tea in Japan again.

I too have been in a serious funk for about six months, and it has kept me from participating as much here, because seriously? Who wants to share their grief over and over again to endless whuffles? I've gotten tired of people telling me they are sorry, that they feel for me, etc.

So I actually have a good one to report, after sharing one of my many sads: one of my dearest people - one of those women closest to my heart - finally got beat by cancer. We hoped against hope for a month that she was going to defy the odds one more time and get just a little more life out of living. She was beautiful and oddball and loving to the.very.end. Even as she was dying, she planned a trip to Iceland (her favorite destination as a world traveler) to take with me and another Dear Person in our Lives. She died just days before the trip. Heartbroken, absolutely shattered, we still went. It was the absolute best thing, and we went secure in the knowledge that she WANTED us to go. She had planned the WHOLE FUCKING TRIP for us. From her hospital bed, she was making arrangements, planning excursions, making restaurant reservations to celebrate my birthday. Can you believe that?
So we went, and it has been extraordinary. Iceland is indescribable for someone with no frame of reference. It is beautiful and wild and and and... everything my dear Susan had said it would be and more.
So that's my good thing I did for myself, and that someone did for me. I went to Iceland with a guardian angel.

msali, that's absolutely amazing. thank you so much for sharing.

I'll chime in with being in a bit of a funk, too, but the weather has become beautiful this week after many days of rain, and I have hopes of actually working on some of my projects...

the thing I currently do for myself is spend time with my bunny each morning, as much as I can carve out (generally 15-30 minutes) and once he's done running around like a crazy beast, he jumps up in the chair with me and snuggles.

So many funksters.
You americans have such flair for showmanship.

msali, what a wonderful story.

I am my usual pretty happy self. This week I got a pedicure and manicure in my favorite cheapie local Asian-run salon, went in for the usual haircut and decided to make it shorter, and have been listening to a really wonderful audio course on the history of the symphony. And my dog and I and my husband and I have daily if brief love fests. And I've been training for my next half marathon with a really great Iphone app.

Re what I'd like to do, we're headed to Tahoe soon with my husband's sister and her husband, and I think that'll be a fun week. Also my brother is coming to town with his wife in early June and they'll be staying with us for a few days.

Re nice things someone else has done, my sweet husband just put my new license plates on the car. He is always doing something kind for me.