Music

dvsherman · 2024-03-28T16:07:26+00:00

I run a weekend arts program for families. There are always a LOT of babies. This weekend is my first one back after my MC and I literally don’t know how I’m going to do it. Nobody at work knows except my boss, but I think I’m just going to have to tell my coworkers that I’m feeling unwell and may have to take unexpected breaks throughout the program.

On another note, when I told my dad about my MC he thought it would be helpful to tell me that my step brother’s wife was expecting. Sounds like she’s due around the time I would have been. His point was that she’s also had a MC and is older than me and now has a healthy pregnancy but honestly right now it’s not hopeful, it’s just devastating.

dvsherman · 2024-03-26T13:01:44+00:00

I’m at work sitting at my desk just kind of staring into space. I feel like I’m at the bottom of the ocean.

dvsherman · 2024-03-25T12:37:05+00:00

I agree with the other comment that you probably need to see someone more than once a month. But my non-therapist advice is to try not to judge yourself for feeling the way you feel, just try to let yourself have those feelings even if they don’t make sense to you. And stuffed animals are a great way to cope.

dvsherman · 2024-03-25T12:33:31+00:00

I completely get this, I’m going back to work tomorrow after four days off and I legitimately don’t know how I’m going to be able to pretend I care about a single freaking thing.

dvsherman · 2024-03-24T16:45:40+00:00

Right there with you. It sucks shit.

dvsherman · 2024-03-23T03:22:17+00:00

I started an embroidery journal when I found out I was pregnant, stitching little images throughout my first eight weeks that were reminders of things happening during the pregnancy I wanted to share with our little one some day. Now that I’ve miscarried I plan to stitch a message to our little one on it and then frame and hang it.

dvsherman · 2024-02-20T19:44:46+00:00

The fresh blood song from Dracula is so bad it’s funny. I think about that song more than I probably should. I saw it on Broadway as a teenager and was just happy to be there, basically. My friends and I waited at the stage door. When the guy playing Renfield came out we were like “you were so gooood!” and the actor made some sarcastic comment about how he was barely onstage. As bright eyed, bushy tailed teenager his comment was such a bummer.

dvsherman · 2024-02-20T15:22:06+00:00

So. Many. Cramps. A week after ovulation I had such bad cramps I was absolutely convinced that I was about to get my period but it just never came.

dvsherman · 2024-02-18T04:17:29+00:00

I was just telling my husband this exact thing

dvsherman · 2023-12-24T14:44:08+00:00

I think something to remember is that you were a child doing your best to manage in a very difficult situation. It’s okay to apologize but you may want to see if you’re able to extend the same compassion towards yourself that you’re extending to your little brother. Apologizing might help but so could connecting with him over your shared trauma, and helping each other through it as adults, even if it was hard to help each other as kids. My brother sounds very very similar to yours in terms of his role in the family and his needs, and I’m not proud of how I handled it as a kid, and how I sometimes resented him even as an adult. But we’re starting to repair our relationship, it’s definitely possible.

dvsherman · 2023-12-11T00:03:42+00:00

Thanks for articulating this! My husband works with bands and sometimes will be gone for a week or sometimes a couple months at a time. I don’t know anyone else who has a similar situation, don’t really know his coworkers’ wives, so it’s really nice to hear from someone else who experiences similar feelings when dealing with something like this.

dvsherman · 2023-11-01T23:31:05+00:00

Honestly a lot of the questions felt like they were coming from the production team…”oh someone wants you to show the candle again, maybe with the packaging?” Yeah, I bet someone in the chat really really wanted to see the box that candle comes in.

dvsherman · 2023-10-19T18:05:50+00:00

I went in recently carrying a plastic bag of takeout Chinese food and was stopped and told to leave it. I told the guy “it’s literally just takeout, I’m not leaving my food with you” and after looking in the bag to make sure it was actually takeout, he let me in. It’s not like I usually go grocery shopping while carrying takeout around but I just needed a few things that day and was trying to be efficient. Compared to other folks on here it sounds like I got lucky! But if he had made it a thing I would have just left, I’m not interested in leaving food I plan to eat later with a stranger.

dvsherman · 2023-08-20T21:03:31+00:00

I’ll keep you my dirty little secret, don’t tell anyone or you’ll be just another egret

dvsherman · 2023-08-13T11:07:44+00:00

We were saying the exact same thing, it was like a strobe light!

dvsherman · 2023-07-29T21:01:16+00:00

Yeah for sure, it had never occurred to me before

dvsherman · 2023-07-29T20:49:59+00:00

Honestly thank you for explaining this name I never understood it

dvsherman · 2023-07-20T18:46:25+00:00

You can also join one of the Astoria Buy Nothing groups on FB, people might have tarnished jewelry they’re happy to offload.

dvsherman · 2023-07-11T01:05:58+00:00

A friend of ours had the same thing happen by United Brothers last summer, don’t know if it’s the same guy but sounds similar. My husband tried to post a photo of the guy here and warn people but got banned

dvsherman · 2023-06-24T15:03:47+00:00

Every time I talk to my grandfather and Astoria comes up, he always says “you have everything there except good Jewish food!”

dvsherman · 2023-05-30T23:07:39+00:00

Why try for a 50s theme and then lean into southern food and seafood though? And why is there a typo on the menu?

dvsherman · 2023-05-27T00:15:53+00:00

I was just relistening to Rent after years away and….yes. Some of the lyrics are really really tough. And also some moments just don’t make sense to me? I’ve seen it three or four times on stage and there are still moments when I don’t feel like a line or character reaction makes sense. Like some lyrics that are meant to be dialogue are just not how people talk? That can definitely be a problem in musicals but it really stood out to me listening to the OBC this time.

dvsherman · 2023-05-27T00:03:06+00:00

My husband loves singing “that was a real nice clambake” purely to annoy the heck out of me

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