What's everyone up to right now?

[Edwardo Piet]

Hamming it up.

Trying not to love myself too hard.

Yes in that sense also.

[Edwardo Piet]

#(8)# And I can tell you know how life this hard can be but still you keep on smiling for me #(8)#

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#So what went right
What went wrong
Was it a story or was it a song
Was it over night
Or did it take you long
Was knowing your weakness what made you strong#

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#Or all the above - oh how I love to see you smilin'
And oh yeah - take a little pain just in case
You need something warm to embrace
To help you put on a smilin' face
Hey, put on a smilin' face#

[hide]#Don't you go off into the new day with any doubt
Here's a summary of somethin' that you could smile about:
Say for instance, my girlfriend she bugs me all the time
But the irony of it all is that she loves me all the time#

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#(8)# I want to be you - whenever I see you smiling .'Cause it's easily one of the hardest things to do. Your worries and fears become your friends. And they end up smiling at you. #(8)#

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Put on a smiling face

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I love life and I love my friends and the two go together like P&J.

[Edwardo Piet]

You know what this world needs? Less jealous people. Less people trying to wipe the smile off happy people's faces. More hugs for cute adorable lovely people who self-pity.

I think the saddest thing in the world is when a very lovely adorable person feels sorry for themselves and everyone ignores them and then they become bitter and hurt others. More hugs and less jealousy-- that's what this world needs

Sometimes I think they [these people] need a hug and no one pays attention to them. [...]yes it's fucking horrible when they then resort to dragging everyone down with them.

#preachyturtle

Apologies, I assure you, people of AF, this is as preachy as this turtle gets.

I'm happy as fuck. I know it may not seem like it sometimes.... but I like people. I don't just love my friends. I like people. I have (non-religious) faith in humanity.

I do not tolerate toxic people. But everyone needs a hug sometimes.

[Edwardo Piet]

Experimenting with what, I call, "emoticon art":

Basically just patterns of emoticons:



Yeah, 'tis the one in my sig, atm ("atm" in all senses. Especially the dirty one).

[Thumpalumpacus]

Shitposting.

[Little lunch]

Just finishing off making a beef stew.
I got apple and rhubarb crumble for later too.
With custard.
My mum's been over on Norfolk Island for the last week and this is her welcome home dinner. :-)

[Jesster]

I'm filling out some annoying paperwork that is difficult to follow. It's from the VA, so I expected as much.

[emjay]

Just finished reading The Call of Cthulhu so finally know what CD's name is all about. Have to say though, I prefer the cute and fluffy version of CD rather than the massive and grotesque monstrosity entombed in the sunken city of R'lyeh, speaking to humankind through dreams and nightmares, and waiting to be awoken when he will take over the world. I hope there's no wish fulfillment in there CD Glad I've read it though... it was a great story

Nah, I'm the cuddly version.

Yay... I knew it!

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[Little lunch]

About to explode from eating to much stew. :-(

[Jackalope]

Contemplating this pile of paperwork I have to do for the clinic Pain Management Committee so that the clinic might do something to actually, you know, manage my pain.

Frankly though, about the best I can hope for is that they'll allow my doc to prescribe the mostly ineffective rx I'm already taking, or make their problem someone else's problem by referring me to a pain management clinic.

It's disheartening to find the in their zeal to crack down on illicit prescription of pain medication that people like myself have to fight just to retain an inadequate level of care.

I don't know that I can do this, it feels like begging - for drugs. How did it come to this?