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Blogging To Compensate For Poor Social Skills Since 2003.
No really, I'm not kidding.
Created on 2003-05-25 04:58:32 (#1077683), last updated 2009-11-16
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Basic Info| Name: | Affordable Beans |
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| Location: | Australia |
BioI am a shut-in! Join me on my exciting adventures around the house!
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A few other things you might like to know:
1. I think lj-cut is kind of stupid when there's a perfectly good pagedown key. I generally only use lj-cut when I post multiple photos or when I'm discussing squicky medical stuff.
2. If you think I need a *hug*, try offering me *chocolate* instead. A number of my other preferred alternatives may be found here.
3. I'm a left leaning feminist and I can't be bothered proving that I'm not one of those man-hating evil ones that everyone's heard of but never actually met who totally ruined your career in musical theatre (and I forget who I'm quoting there, sorry). Best not stick around if that makes you see red.
4. I'm also one of those whining sickly types - I have severe ME/CFS/CFIDS. If you want to know more about how this effects me, go here. As it happens, I also have Crohn's Disease and a couple of other health problems (they travel in packs, dontchaknow) but the thing that cripples me appears to be ME/CFS. At least, that's the best theory anyone's got right now.
While I prefer not to get maudlin(more for my sake than yours), to avoid talking about this stuff would involve a level of denial that would send me insane, so don't stick around if reading about the vagaries of life with a severe chronic illness is going to wig you out.
5. The severity of my illness is such that I've been bedridden to the point of needing personal care in the past, I'm now housebound and rarely get past the front gate more thanthree timesonce or twice in a week fortnight, and if I do go out that many times in a weekfortnight, chances are I'll be hit for six. I don't get out much, I don't move around much, I can only do things in very short bursts and my goals in life are - by necessity - very modest. However, this does not mean that, within my limits, I am doing anything less than my very best to live my life to the full. Like all of us, I seek both some level of comfort/happiness and some level of meaning in life, and spend a lot of time trying to work out a balance between the two.
6. No exciting miracle cures, please.
7. If I've added you and you're wondering why, try asking me. FWIW, if I'm reading your stuff it's bound to be for a nice reason, I don't add people in order to watch train wrecks or anything (that's what the 'random' option is for). I do not expect you to add me back. I do not expect you to expect me to add you back. I do not expect you to expect me to expect you to add me back. Nor do I expect you to expect me to expect you to expect me to add you back. Which is not to say we won't get on famously and become the bestest, bestest friends ever, just that the unwritten rules of LJ engagement confuse the hell out of me so I try and ignore them.
I trust that's all clear.
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A few other things you might like to know:
1. I think lj-cut is kind of stupid when there's a perfectly good pagedown key. I generally only use lj-cut when I post multiple photos or when I'm discussing squicky medical stuff.
2. If you think I need a *hug*, try offering me *chocolate* instead. A number of my other preferred alternatives may be found here.
3. I'm a left leaning feminist and I can't be bothered proving that I'm not one of those man-hating evil ones that everyone's heard of but never actually met who totally ruined your career in musical theatre (and I forget who I'm quoting there, sorry). Best not stick around if that makes you see red.
4. I'm also one of those whining sickly types - I have severe ME/CFS/CFIDS. If you want to know more about how this effects me, go here. As it happens, I also have Crohn's Disease and a couple of other health problems (they travel in packs, dontchaknow) but the thing that cripples me appears to be ME/CFS. At least, that's the best theory anyone's got right now.
While I prefer not to get maudlin(more for my sake than yours), to avoid talking about this stuff would involve a level of denial that would send me insane, so don't stick around if reading about the vagaries of life with a severe chronic illness is going to wig you out.
5. The severity of my illness is such that I've been bedridden to the point of needing personal care in the past, I'm now housebound and rarely get past the front gate more than
6. No exciting miracle cures, please.
7. If I've added you and you're wondering why, try asking me. FWIW, if I'm reading your stuff it's bound to be for a nice reason, I don't add people in order to watch train wrecks or anything (that's what the 'random' option is for). I do not expect you to add me back. I do not expect you to expect me to add you back. I do not expect you to expect me to expect you to add me back. Nor do I expect you to expect me to expect you to expect me to add you back. Which is not to say we won't get on famously and become the bestest, bestest friends ever, just that the unwritten rules of LJ engagement confuse the hell out of me so I try and ignore them.
I trust that's all clear.
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