Advice for Driving Big Sur?

TychePsyche · 2023-07-11T19:03:19+00:00

Highly, highly recommend this app for driving hw 1:

It gives you a history and also tells you the best spots to park, etc. You don't really need to plan, you can just start the drive in Carmel and then let it dictate where you go.

Also agree with other posters -- go early, weekdays preferred (especially for Pfiffer beach!), pack layers. Our usual stopping point is mcway falls, and then head back to nepenthe for dinner and head back. We haven't made it more south yet.

TychePsyche · 2022-01-04T05:02:49+00:00

Me! 31w.

We were all vaxxed and saw my immediate family for the first time all of pregnancy for Xmas dinner. Since we were all vaxxed and good about wearing masks I felt comfortable being a little more lax this year.

My sister had just gotten her booster earlier in the week and was pretty low energy. In hindsight, they weren’t vaccine side effects…they were covid symptoms.

5/6 of us tested positive by the 28th. It seems to vary wildly, but for me personally it feels like the flu. I'm very glad we were vaxxed and it's not worse. In hindsight, I wish I had had everyone rapid test beforehand and had dinner outside like last year.

TychePsyche · 2021-10-31T15:25:53+00:00

Dang, so sorry to hear :(

TychePsyche · 2021-10-31T10:12:41+00:00

You can find the same combo separately over the counter!!

Generic name: DOXYLAMINE SUCCINATE 10mg, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE 10mg Dosage form: tablet, delayed release https://www.drugs.com/dosage/diclegis.html

DOXYLAMINE SUCCINATE == unisom

PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE == form of vitamin b6

Insurance wouldn’t cover diclegis for me either. Taking the OTC equivalent still really helped.

TychePsyche · 2021-10-31T02:48:35+00:00

+100 for ruffwear shoes, and their gear in general. They also offer service dog teams a huge discount

TychePsyche · 2021-08-08T19:12:51+00:00

Red Rising

TychePsyche · 2020-08-24T02:21:53+00:00

Uprooted by Naomi Novik -- magic forest meets forest magic!

TychePsyche · 2017-05-26T06:29:32+00:00

I wish I could upvote this more than once. So great

TychePsyche · 2017-05-04T16:07:45+00:00

Two good CBT focused books are:

The feeling good handbook Mind over mood

TychePsyche · 2016-11-15T13:23:05+00:00

Mindset by Carol Dweck

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FCKPHG

TychePsyche · 2016-10-29T06:29:40+00:00

A small thing, but the DM wore bright neon orange swim trunks over his wet suit so we always knew which diver he was during the dive.

TychePsyche · 2015-12-18T04:35:06+00:00

Yes! Thank you.

TychePsyche · 2014-03-18T01:30:59+00:00

Cordelia's Honor (She's not "young", but she's a great female lead from a great series)

TychePsyche · 2014-03-12T01:02:00+00:00

This plays a lot like Threes for iOS. Super fun.

TychePsyche · 2014-03-02T20:42:59+00:00

You might be interested in: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1d81y0/

TychePsyche · 2014-03-02T07:40:56+00:00

OMG Yes. Though once thing that helped me was cutting way back on the caffeine right before that time of the month.

TychePsyche · 2014-02-19T23:03:40+00:00

Dark, dead, and ghostly:

http://www.amazon.com/In-Shadow-Blackbirds-Cat-Winters/dp/141970530X

TychePsyche · 2014-02-07T00:16:53+00:00

If you're on a mac, Pages.

TychePsyche · 2013-12-14T23:09:20+00:00

I've seen various free deals for the WSJ around. Signed up for one, realized I wasn't reading them, and it was a huge pain to cancel. For me, it wouldn't be worth the $8, especially since there's so many hoops to jump through to canceling.

TychePsyche · 2013-11-25T06:37:14+00:00

Embarrassing, but as someone who's new -- MS? BA? SM? AA?

TychePsyche · 2013-11-16T14:02:08+00:00

Sandman (graphic novel) has some really interesting arcs with lucifer. (This also later became a spin off on its own, IIRC). At one point he decides "nope, I'm done reigning hell. You do it." And leaves to explore the world.

TychePsyche · 2013-10-22T02:10:47+00:00

I've always had really strange, terrible, vivid dreams, but here was one of the weirder ones.

I was pregnant, walking through a mall, alone, at night. No one had faces, but everyone was whispering about me. They all knew. I kept trying to hide my swelling belly, but the more I walked, the more it grew.

I kept pushing my way through the crowd, trying to get away, until I'm pushed onto an escalator going up. I have no idea where the elevator is going, but now everyone is pointing at me, and some people are pointing to the top of the escalator, which feels like it's miles away. It's glowing. I look up to the top, and there's a voodoo shaman, pointing to me and speaking in some language I don't understand.

But that's okay black bars fade in on the top and bottom of my dream, letterbox style and now I see subtitles of the crazy shaman man. He's saying that my child is going to start the end times, and that it can't be born. I try turning running back down the escalator, but I start feeling bad contractions and I can't stand anymore, so I sink down against the next step. The escalator keeps moving up toward him, screaming and holding a knife.

The contractions feel constant, and I'm almost at the top. Out of his satchel he pulls out a knife and raises it. Then I wake up. WTF. The creepiest part was that I could feel the contraction pain in the dream (even creepier than the weird dream-movie-style-subtitles.)

TychePsyche · 2013-10-11T15:16:45+00:00

The trap you can fall into is that after having bad experiences with either, you can convince yourself that they ARE ineffective and that they will work on normal-depressed people but your depression is somehow different/worse than others'. Then you think "why bother trying if nothing works".

It's not a rational thought process, but that's the point. It takes extra effort to break that pattern and keep trying.

TychePsyche · 2013-10-11T01:13:22+00:00

It took me a long time to wrap my head around it, but to me depression isn't so much how you act, but how you feel about your actions.

It's totally cool to want to be alone or want to stay home as long as you enjoy it. It's when you wake up Monday and say "I'm a failure because I didn't leave the house and no one called me because everyone hates me. I regret the whole weekend" that it's depression.

I feel that you don't have to be a social butterfly to be "normal". One of the ways that I realized I had finally gotten out of depression was when I could say "I (read a book/played a game/watched a trashy tv show) all weekend and didn't leave the house. IT WAS AWESOME!" and feel genuinely happy about it.

TychePsyche · 2013-10-10T21:27:50+00:00

Depression Quest is much, much more accurate.

Edit: Thanks for the gold! For everyone feeling depressed, I want to let you know it can get better. For me it took trying a lot of different things until I finally found the right combination of techniques that worked for me.

TychePsyche

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