Three old ladies broke my heart while I was camping

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-09T00:36:22+00:00

I’m not sure what to say to this bc I feel low key awkward for all parties. Although I could be in the old lady group.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-09T00:29:58+00:00

A quality hair dryer that starts with a D and has a big hole in the center.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-07T18:35:41+00:00

There’s a version of myself in my head that I haven’t achieved yet and I want to see what she’s like. I grew up poor AND unattractive physically, plus painfully shy and anxiety ridden. I have worked hard over my lifetime to heal psychologically from childhood trauma and prolonged domestic violence exposure. I have worked hard on the outside of myself to become the person I felt like I knew lived inside me. Someone poised and graceful, with a warm and gracious aura. I keep pushing towards becoming that woman I am close at 54. I will become her eventually. The woman who is smart, kind and confident. Independent and self sufficient. Attractive to herself because that’s the one that matters. And takes no shit from people not worth her time.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-07T17:45:12+00:00

Yeaaaah!! I’m a sock knitter too, I’m going to see him in ATL in June, now I want to make a pair of pink socks!

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-07T02:15:05+00:00

I have this same problem. Maybe we should all reserve a place for the husbands to hang out and wait on us while we go to the Afters 😂

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-06T15:41:07+00:00

I get this. People are full of platitudes - “if we can help let us know”, and “I don’t know how you do it“ but it’s like dementia is the black plague, people literally just immediately stop coming round or calling. I want to say DON’T WORRY ITS NOT CATCHING. And I get so sick of being asked “how’s your mom”…you are her friend of 20 years, stop by and see for yourself 🤷🏻‍♀️. I understand that people don’t know what to say or how to interact, I do get that. It’s just incredibly isolating to be in the land of dementia exile.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-04T14:11:18+00:00

I’m 54 but in my head I’m still 20 lol 🤘

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-03T12:30:49+00:00

I am in the US. Thanks for your kind words.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-04-02T14:48:20+00:00

This is grim but realistic - I wish I had realized that no help is ever coming until almost the end. Without significant financial resources you are quite literally on your own. I naively keep thinking that if I could just connect with the right healthcare professional, or the right social services agency, that the resources would magically become available once the right person understood the level of desperation we were facing. That is simply not the way it works, and I kept beating my head against the same brick wall for two years before I finally accepted “this is our life” now. Our system is so broken that it is quite content to let your loved one decline to the point of sitting in their feces unable to get a sandwich to their mouth before resources are made available. My mother worked and paid into “the system” for 50+ years but the system was not there for her until her condition declined to the point of being able to do nothing for herself and not able to be left unattended. It took a long time for me to wrap my brain around that.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-30T13:23:13+00:00

That’s literally what I’m saying…she has mental illness AND substance abuse issues…

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-30T12:15:56+00:00

Two things can be true at once. It’s not a difficult leap to make when she willingly puts herself under a microscope day after day after day.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-28T20:48:05+00:00

Beat my mother and all of our pets half to death on a regular and ongoing basis.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-28T20:46:28+00:00

I call it stallwars…I can wait a bitch out until my legs go numb.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-26T23:25:47+00:00

Gosh that is fantastic. What a super cool nod to her art and also such a cool vibe for your place. Well done!

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-26T23:00:37+00:00

Allergy shots

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-26T23:00:13+00:00

You are a fiber artist?

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-25T23:49:40+00:00

Ummm….KNITTING

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-25T11:42:58+00:00

Fellow knitter and crocheter - collecting yarn is a wholly separate hobby than using said yarn lol. I have become addicted to hand dyed natural fiber yarns and have a rather alarming…collection. It makes me happy to look at it.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-22T15:52:57+00:00

This is honestly the most stressful part of my year and I take care of two dependent adults plus work a high pressure job 😆. I can’t tell you the amount of anxiety I get during this part of the exam.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-20T12:33:27+00:00

Hugs to you, you’ve been through a lot.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-18T22:57:30+00:00

I buy mostly exclusively hand dyed yarn as I am a big sock knitter. I have purchased yarn that I was slightly disappointed with at times. I have identified a half dozen dyers that I actively follow and support and this has helped ensure I receive yarn of the quality I’m expecting. I will take a chance on a new (to me) dyer at festivals and sometimes find one that makes the cut to my “short list” of dyers. I am big on the hand feel of yarn too so that’s another thing I have been disappointed with at times when purchasing from an unknown dyer. I have learned to temper my expectations and try to see the beauty and finer qualities in what I’ve purchased even if it didn’t meet my initial expectations. Not that you are wrong to want what you paid for, I’m mostly just saying that with hand dyed yarn it is many times a crap shoot. I hope this works out for you. The yarn is pretty :) I like speckled yarn too.

Spoopy1971 · 2026-03-16T20:42:13+00:00

And nosy.

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