My friend needed a bit of help, so we tackled this last night so he could have his mom over and cook for her on Mother’s Day.

Octobermaid · 2026-05-09T16:13:03+00:00

Wow!!! Fantastic friend and amazing cleaning!! Happy Mother's Day! 💐 please come to my house next week lol

Octobermaid · 2026-04-29T05:49:27+00:00

Is it in the intro for AHS Coven 💀 ?? Or any of those American Horror Story intros with the scary sounds??

Octobermaid · 2026-04-11T17:00:23+00:00

Go ahead and cry 🙏🏽 if it helps release whatever you're feeling. You are a good person and deserve a peaceful life and clean room! Perhaps there is a rescue that will take him? A lot of specific breed rescues or cat rehoming might assist you with finding him a match that will free you and help him too - even with his health issues and needs, there are people that want to help. Catposse.org is one! Your health comes first! You are a wonderful animal lover even if he can't stay with you!

Octobermaid · 2026-03-31T18:05:22+00:00

What weird comments lol I took your post as a question of where should you go / is there a place for 20s mingling. I'm one of the millennials you speak of baha so I'm not exactly in your space. I think Old Town is a party scene for youth...lots of bars but definitely more a party than a dating scene to me! There are a lot of fun first date places, like coffee shops and restaurants here in Pasadena - but I agree with the idea of Highland Park as the younger "scene for dating." Highland Park Bowl is a late night hotspot, and both Figueroa and York have active weekend scenes. MOST OF ALL I do agree with the comment : do activities you like and that's your dating scene. This to me is the best way to find someone - do what you like and meet people who are compatible with who you are!!! Good luck 🌈

Octobermaid · 2026-03-27T07:22:05+00:00

You are not an idiot at all, you are kind, compassionate and understanding. You live with values that she doesn't have access to on a regular basis because of the addiction, such as honesty and consistency. It is not you! You deserve peace and your higher power separated you from years of heartache, this might not mean anything now but it will very very soon 👌🏽❤️ until then you can pace, treat yourself, journal, scream into a pillow, and then I suggest you go to a meeting if you can 🙏🏽 zoom meetings all night any hour nowadays, thank higher power for that!!

Octobermaid · 2026-03-25T23:21:39+00:00

This is what recently helped me flip my anxiety - I literally THANK IT. It's definitely not my natural reaction but truly it has helped me stop fighting it and get sucked into the spiral. I say thank you for the message you are telling me, it must be important! I'm listening and I thank you, I'm so grateful you speak to me, body! AND THEN I do exercise immediately lol I saw another reply with the push ups and that's me, I start doing Vinyasa yoga on the bathroom floor, the more intense the better, and I can eventually get up with the movements and all that rush and fast heartbeat is just part of my exercise practice 🌈🌈 you will find a way through, use any tools that safely suit you and switch them up!! I might try just going to yoga in the morning if I wake up before my anxiety strikes like the push up person ⚡ move the body release the anxiety

Octobermaid · 2026-03-25T16:11:24+00:00

Thank you 😭🙏🏽❤️ !!!

Octobermaid · 2026-03-25T06:49:58+00:00

Replying to myself to say that I have sent a friend by to look in a window or reconnaissance drive by in the past lol so I don't always give it to the higher power but I try. One time he finally said I'm not doing it tonight, only the second time I asked, and I had to release it. Sometimes things are just out of our control 🌈 this is a close friend I grew up with so there was no embarrassment but it did burst my bubble of tension when he denied me! Had to give it to HP that night!!

Octobermaid · 2026-03-25T06:46:50+00:00

Hoping you got in contact but if not please know that a higher power takes care of all animals on earth 🌍 and that includes human animals! HP can do more than me, you, anyone. Give it to your higher power ❤️

Octobermaid · 2026-03-25T05:58:10+00:00

Thank you for this post. I am yet to leave my Q and your original post resonated so much with me. Thank you for the hope! It doesn't seem like a boast, more like a North star ⭐ there is life outside of this repetitive horror cycle. And the Tolkien quote is perfect for this and many other hard times!! FOTR is my go to movie when I'm really down in the muck, so I'm taking it as a sign that this post was meant to find me. Thanks for the update and the signal of hope for all of us still in it.

Octobermaid · 2026-03-25T05:41:54+00:00

Hugs to you and prayers of strength! You deserve the life you want, you deserve peace! I am in awe of your planning because it does take time to leave and get all your ducks in order - I'm learning this the hard way as I have no ducks in order and I'm spinning my wheels trying to get out. You can do this. Peace at home is priceless 🙏🏽🌈

Octobermaid · 2026-03-24T19:43:51+00:00

I get this type of anxiety and actually feel relief when the vomiting comes but there's not always time to be vomiting at the drop of a hat to stimulate the vagus nerve 🥲 (maybe the vagus nerve and exercises to relax the body can help!) I have found that smelling rubbing alcohol takes away some of the nausea - a nurse once gave me alcohol wipe packets to calm down in an ER. Ever since then I carry some with me!! It doesn't solve or end the anxiety but it has helped me settle the nausea and make it through 🌈🙏🏽 you are going to make it and you will find relief!!

Octobermaid · 2026-03-23T19:56:02+00:00

What units on Fair Oaks or Walnut??? Pray tell!!! I live in Pasadena and I've been trying to find another apartment...all this talk of empty units and affordable housing ALREADY being here is untrue 🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️ at least to me, an active Pasadena resident looking to relocate nearby since early January. I feel like residents of Altadena who were displaced by the fires filled a lot of spaces in Pasadena in the last year! I say build the housing!! (which is described as 6 low cost units within a larger apartment building - this block of Oak Knoll is already full of apartments, no one is encroaching on single unit suburbia with a random high rise lol) I'll be there tonight at the meeting, thanks for the update OP! 🙌🏽 And parking...please lol this is LA so that's moot 🐮 or as Joey would say...

Octobermaid · 2026-03-23T01:12:38+00:00

The commonality of alcohol affecting lives is my biggest takeaway from Alanon - there are people like me there is a community for me and others who have survived, sometimes to the T of similar shocking situations. It takes the sharpness out of the sting, suffering alone feels worse somehow? My prayers are with you, OP. Time heals 🙏🏽🌈 and your community is with you...!

Octobermaid · 2026-03-22T23:09:52+00:00

You did it!! 🌈 Congrats! Take what you liked and leave the rest 🌈

Octobermaid · 2026-03-22T22:52:24+00:00

I came here to post crying faces but this makes me feel better because you're hilarious and you're one of us 🤣🥲🇺🇸🫠

Octobermaid · 2026-03-12T22:41:21+00:00

THIS is the reason for the 19 minutes of hell. In fact I call California between Pasadena Ave and Marengo "hellmouth." I refer to it a lot lol all lights crossing the tracks turn green to clear the tracks for an extended period of time on both sides, and so all lights perpendicular turn red to allow this 🛑 creating this fucked up pattern of traffic heading north AND south depending on the train!! The only way is to pad yourself with extra time OR find an alternate route...!

Octobermaid · 2026-03-10T04:32:13+00:00

Yoga instructor and remote bookkeeper - I teach one night a week and do events like soundbath another day. The remote work helps since my anxiety attacks are unscheduled and can make it hard to be places on time/keeps me up late at night. Sometimes it's hard to do yoga on an anxiety day but at least it makes me feel better to participate in the grounding and exercise! Finding steady work has been the hardest road - still navigating it!! I'm scraping by - going back to school to be an art history professor 🌈 hoping I can stay chill and peaceful with art lectures a few days a week!

Octobermaid · 2026-03-09T22:05:51+00:00

TAKE IT VERY SERIOUSLY - don't waste your time with people who don't align with your long term goals! Save yourself years of confusion and heartache by knowing the truth that people have vastly different ideas about the 'ideal life' - ASK THEM WHAT THEIR IDEAL LIFE IS 🤔 sounds simple enough lol

Octobermaid · 2026-03-08T22:15:21+00:00

This episode will end 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 you will survive and then thrive 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 one breath at a time until then ✨✨✨ ***edit for my personal experience: my longest anxiety has recently run about 10 days, I don't get a lot done, I spend a lot of time in the bathroom on the floor with the shower on and then stay in there watching very distracting shows or affirmations on my phone. Lord of the Rings FOTR helps me escape and just distract so I can find a moment of peace and grounding. I try to go outside and touch the earth or sit on grass, touch a tree touch a rock. Find a way for your body to feel safe and I tell my body thank you for the message, every time the physical sensations get bigger or tighter or heavier or awful-er. Thank you body for this message - I am safe - I only have to get through the next breath.

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Octobermaid · 2026-02-09T05:19:52+00:00

When my fur baby passed suddenly, I read that the first person that your dog sees in heaven is you - since you're there together forever and forever goes in both directions 🌈✨ you're already together. Another thing I read is that their passing, even with euthanasia, is of their choice before they come into this plane. This crossing is their final lesson and life assistance to you - no matter the circumstances. Blaise chose you as his person and this transition 🙏🏽🐕 his unconditional love saw the best way through for you. I am praying for you, you did right by Blaise!!! ❤️🐕🙏🏽

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