I appreciate that much needed reminder! My default setting is “how can I learn and grow from this so I can do better for other people” but I’ve been working hard to evolve that to “so I can honor myself and consistently live by my values”.

Trump and Musk are eliminating any part of government that works well, because that undermines their thesis that government doesn’t work.

GSA (which houses 18F) turns a profit as an agency. Naturally it has to be destroyed. 18F’s healthy revenue stream also means it must go.

The memory popping up has me feeling like shit & hating myself for not seeing/believing the abuse at the time even though my therapist clocked it & tried to help me. But even though those horrible years caused long term harm to most aspects of my life, I’m trying to be proud of how much I’ve healed.

Nope. I did consider just dying the rest of it but then I’d probably accidentally dye the floor and the bookshelf and the pantry door and and and

This is great news I choose to believe is an undisputed fact.

At one point my freezer was so over full it barely worked because I repeatedly bought more of the same frozen meals at the store, forgetting I had a freezer full of stuff I hadn’t made because as soon as I closed the door I forgot it existed.