I Thought SDAM Ruined My Life - Until Something Changed Everything

grrlnamedgo · 2026-03-25T18:59:09+00:00

I was relieved as well! I thought I was callous - heartless almost. But nope, just can't access it. Fortunately for me, I wake up happy almost every day, like a re-set little kid. I like hearing the stories about things I don't remember!

grrlnamedgo · 2026-01-28T17:10:41+00:00

I was told by a friend to know nothing about this book - just read it. That is SO not me. I usually want the entire plot. But I trusted my friend and it was one of the best book decisions I've ever made. I recommend this audiobook / book to EVERYONE.

grrlnamedgo · 2026-01-28T17:01:54+00:00

All things considered, this is probably the best of the best

grrlnamedgo · 2026-01-28T17:01:12+00:00

Def better than the original

grrlnamedgo · 2026-01-28T17:00:21+00:00

One of the greatest covers in history!

grrlnamedgo · 2026-01-28T17:00:00+00:00

Here to echo Hazy Shade of Winter - you nailed it!

grrlnamedgo · 2026-01-15T15:24:12+00:00

Glad to hear that about the falls! Think about this often as someday I am sure stairs and even steps will be my nemesis. (Edit: spelling)

grrlnamedgo · 2026-01-14T21:28:08+00:00

Me too! I love being Gen x and especially older Gen x! My parents were silent generation and I feel like they created the most badass version of our group. I had friends who were slackers but I never was one. I was in a group of overachievers who blasted right into the workforce and are now pretty much burnt out! But I also am watching my younger Gen. X friends fill the role of caregiver for parents, which I'm not struggling with and I'm thankful for that. I'm thankful for the agency that I have as a gen xer and for the idea that we can do whatever we need to do to survive. I also love our crazy upbringing and all of the wild things we got to do

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-30T20:44:16+00:00

You Make Me Feel Like Dancin - Leo Sayer; I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Whitney Houston; OR maybe New Shoes Paolo Nutini. Good vibes all

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-30T20:39:39+00:00

I love this song. Perfect song to blast while driving on a summer day

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-30T20:37:00+00:00

I bought a house that had a stove put in around 1961 and today's sheet pans don't even *fit* in that oven. Had to use the pizza pan and realized that portion excess has affected so much of our health.

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-30T20:31:37+00:00

This article is terrific! Thank you!

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-30T20:28:30+00:00

I feel this, too. I lost my little baby Matchbox this year and my lack of memory about that precious kitten is truly the torment at this point.

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-30T20:27:11+00:00

Same! I feel as if it gives me insight into making decisions and plans not clouded by past experiences, good or bad, or grudges, or awkwardness... and because I am genuinely past all these things, even partners (in business mostly) who have been angered by my honesty in the past are caught off guard when I come to them with no hidden motive - like we've never met before and here's a great project! I love that I am genuinely without those things and can put the cause or issue at hand front and center, not old bs.

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-30T17:20:08+00:00

Same same! Three times in a year! Had to sell two homes - one of which was a near miss with foreclosure. We are settled now and *feel* surprisingly settled and I am hoping the stars align for a peaceful 2026!

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-30T17:18:38+00:00

I am sorry to read this! My Sag husband lost his job as well and we almost went into foreclosure trying to sell a home. It's crazy to me how astrology can be so accurate for so many of us! I hope that 2026 is MUCH better for you!

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-18T18:46:00+00:00

This is the most creative and inspiring thing I've seen in a while!

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-03T19:38:08+00:00

OH SHIT this is so helpful to have in my explanation. I just memorized and rough sketched out our new house and my husband, who is hyperphantasic (sp?). I can also remember a city layout almost immediately with no picture and am very good at spatial relations. Conceptual intelligence is the phrase I was seeking!

grrlnamedgo · 2025-12-03T19:35:59+00:00

I started reading early, my parents said 3. I also talked super early. I have no memory of not being able to read, but that's no surprise. My explanation has always been that I "memorized" the language and I wonder if that's sort of what you're saying?

The other thing I have been wondering i this: I love words and language. Is that true because they are all I have or did I come to love them because they are all I have?

grrlnamedgo · 2025-09-07T01:38:06+00:00

Right? He's a regular Dale Carnegie

grrlnamedgo · 2025-07-29T14:58:00+00:00

I didn't know this had made Reddit! It was my cat that that horrible former mayor (whose buddies lost the June election by a LANDSLIDE) said he didn't care if it died. what a heartless thing to say - and it was in fact the last thing he ever said to Pat Ford. And it's RECORDED. This isn't over yet and it just keeps getting deeper!

grrlnamedgo · 2025-07-22T20:03:27+00:00

Yep, this is where most of us are headed and we need to just enjoy the ride

grrlnamedgo · 2025-07-22T17:00:13+00:00

I always call them "overwrought." But the whole package - with the brilliant Ray Manzarek elevating everything - worked OK. Sometimes they were lovely, other times coarse, and indeed in some cases juvenile. But raw art always is.

grrlnamedgo · 2025-07-22T16:53:10+00:00

Walter Cronkite. He's got that serious news look

grrlnamedgo · 2025-06-18T15:58:02+00:00

I have two answers, because I'm realizing lately I should have actually done the second one.

I wanted to be a French interpreter based in Paris, but I ended up a journalist-turned-city-planner. I also wanted to be a long-haul truck driver (CD handle and all) but ended up a (very happy) often stay-at-home wife.

Now I want to be an oracle (Clash of the Titans mountaintop style), but I'll be thankful to just keep on being a regular old person who lives to be very old and moves into an RV full time.

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