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28912. wabbit - 1/1/2017 2:01:45 AM Wish it was visible here, but the rain clouds have arrived. I got Dad out to see the ISS a few times over the last year, always fun.
Hey winstonsmith, great to see you! 28913. arkymalarky - 1/1/2017 7:23:48 AM Happy New Year everybody! Stan and I are having a little 2 person New Year's Eve party and we did have champagne, so we're drinking a toast to our Motebuds. I love you all. I'm going to have a good year as long as I can have one, and live life close to home but do a lot of volunteer work and organizing work. I'm sort of actually looking forward to getting back into it after having taken such a break from the rural organizing and activism. If I retire at the end of this year, I'll have plenty of time to do that sort of thing. Anyway, I hope everyone manages to have their own personal good year this year and leaves 2016 in the dust. I actually didn't think it sucked until November 8th. It was a pretty good year for us up until that point, and then it was a great one two days later when we had our grandson. That's going to be my focus until I look up and see a mushroom cloud. Anyway, y'all, I hope you can do the same. 28914. winstonsmith - 1/5/2017 1:45:56 AM Hi Wabbit! 28915. judithathome - 1/5/2017 5:39:46 AM Well, Mother Nature didn't co-operate on New Year's Eve...it clouded up something fierce. So I missed my little treat. Typical of 2016...disappointment ruled.
Here's to much better year ahead...
Well...we can always HOPE, can't we? ;-) 28916. Ms. No - 1/5/2017 7:11:06 PM Happy New Year! Just got back from Hoboken last night and am off to become a red-head in about ten minutes. Wanted to stop in and say how happy it makes me to "see" all of you. Moties are the best! 28917. judithathome - 1/6/2017 8:38:38 AM I can just SEE you as a redhead! Glad you're going for it! 28918. Ms. No - 1/6/2017 8:36:21 PM It's totally awesome!
Oh my god. That was sooo California. I suppose after nearly 30 years I shouldn't be surprised, but every once in awhile it hits me. 28919. Ms. No - 1/25/2017 5:55:08 AM 
28920. arkymalarky - 1/25/2017 7:09:15 AM LOVE it! 28921. Ms. No - 2/9/2017 4:40:00 AM Anyone else watching Good Girls Revolt on Amazon Prime? I'm loving it!
1971, young women working at a big newspaper as researchers for the hotshot male reporters. Women's lib, counter-culture, civil rights -- you name it! 28922. wombat - 2/9/2017 2:43:05 PM I binge watched it last year. Enjoyed it. 28923. Ms. No - 2/10/2017 2:42:48 AM News Flash!!
I'm feeling validated if not relieved at this moment because I just learned that my unreasonable rage (I know it's unreasonable, have always known it was unreasonable) when I hear certain sounds is an actual thing.
From Misphonia Myths and Memes:
-Pawel and Margaret Jastreboff of Emory University originally described misophonia in 2001 as a disorder in which repetitive and pattern-based sounds trigger autonomic nervous system arousal. Some examples of these noises include other people chewing or clearing their throat, finger tapping, foot shuffling, keyboard tapping, and pen clicking (Cavanna & Seri, 2015; Edelstein, 2013; Jastreboff & Jastreboff, 2001; Jastreboff & Jastreboff, 2013; Wu et al., 2014)
I bring this up because I had to turn on my speakers to cover the sound of the student sitting in my room working on his research paper and eating Corn Nuts which I'm heartily convinced are the most obnoxious food on the planet. They're not just loud, they also stink up the entire room.
So, yeah, even though I've covered up the sound, I can still smell the nasty things. If he gave me some, that would be different. I can apparently calm my rage if I am also chewing when I hear chewing.
Other sounds that make my teeth itch or make me want to punch people:
- swallowing
- swirling spit around in your mouth (or eating yogurt or pudding or any other thing that basically sounds like swirling spit around in your mouth)
- sniffling repeatedly
- repeated throat clearing or coughing
super loud noises - sirens, explosions, slamming doors, rolling trashcans on cement
- loud-talking -- iow, talking louder than the situation warrants. I feel like I'm being yelled at.
- people who whisper loudly and incoherently into your ear
- audible whispering at all, really
- heavy nose-breathing when not engaged in physical exertion
- the vocal fry
So, I'm no less freaky or unreasonably irritable than I was before, but at least now I know I'm not crazy.
Well, not crazy in that way, at least.28924. arkymalarky - 2/10/2017 4:11:32 AM OMG!! Mose has that! Needless to say, I drive her nuts with my allergies. She sent that term to me a year or so ago to prove she's just not just being a bitch :-) 28925. arkymalarky - 2/10/2017 4:17:47 AM I just texted her your post. She is not going to believe it. 28926. judithathome - 2/10/2017 6:40:04 PM •the vocal fry....what is this? Is it when Valley Girls sort of fade into a little growl at the ends of sentences? 28927. Ms. No - 2/11/2017 5:03:19 AM Mose! My sister in soundwackiness!
Jude,
Yeah, that's pretty much it. I can handle a little bit, but it gets on my nerves pretty quickly. Not as bad as some other things. I'm also bothered by that weird British accent that sounds like a speech impediment -- the r/w thing. Drives me nuts.
I'm soooooo pissy! 28928. wabbit - 2/11/2017 5:26:40 PM Vocal Fry makes me crazy, I can't listen to anyone who speaks that way, and I believe it's an affectation for most.
I'm also very sound sensitive. In my family it's known that I have "dog hearing" - not so much that I hear high pitched sound, but I hear things that most people don't, things that are quiet or inaudible to others. I hear way more than I want to hear. I can hear conversations two or sometimes three tables away in a restaurant, or in the next room. My doctor hits the tuning fork and gets quite a way down the hall before I can't hear it anymore. It isn't a blessing. I carry wax earplugs with me at all times. 28929. arkymalarky - 2/12/2017 10:03:59 PM I'm inventing a new word. Y'all help me spread it: thwt--to hell with trump. I visited grandkid this weekend, and it was Mahvelous! 28930. Ms. No - 2/14/2017 2:14:51 AM thwt!
Thats the sound you make when you're trying to spit a popcorn kernel shell-casing off your tongue, right?
At least that's how I'm going to say it.
"What's that you say? He's done what? Thwt!" 28931. arkymalarky - 2/14/2017 4:39:41 AM I think it would be a good replacement for the word shit when you can't cuss in public. Like I'm using trumped for everything now, in all possible verb forms.
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