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violetsystems · 4 years

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My kitchen is my office for the next few weeks at least. It’s kind of been two stories for me. What happens outside in the real world and what really goes on in my personal life. Both are pretty much more of the same and hold their particular weight. I do sometimes feel trapped in the middle here alone with a particularly unique bundle of emotions. I live alone and have for a good decade. I’ve been unhappy with myself in the past. Maybe never admitted it. My environment around me seemed to reflect that. These days it’s not really about me or my environment. Chicago is about the best place to be trapped in this mess going on in the world. I’ve complained a lot how it always keeps tabs on you and never leaves you alone. These days it can be a little less so. It’s gotten to the point where I can’t really leave the house without something over my face. I don’t run with a bandana. You are supposed to wash the fabric after you wear it. Hanging a bandana out to dry isn’t really hard to do. The fact it’s been sitting on my wall for years is funny. I got it in San Francisco years ago on a trip from work. It’s an old toy shop in the Japanese section of town. I had gone with my boss at work. We both like anime. Years later we both still like anime. My job thankfully hasn’t changed all that much. I work maybe a little more productively. I’m in contact with people on video more than I ever was in person. It is a little grueling to wake up next to your office. I watched an all staff briefing from my porch patio. I’m gradually moving my garden in and out in the process. I have specific days where I leave the house for groceries. I usually do it over my lunch hour and never leave the neighborhood. I definitely have spent a lot less on certain things. The over all trend since New York has been focused on spending less money. Maybe I didn’t know how much toilet paper I used on a given week. But I do know days like today I don’t plan on leaving my property. It doesn’t feel as oppressive as it once did. There’s barely anybody out there to bother you. I went out to the west loop to go to Whole Foods when it opened yesterday. There was a line to get in as I was leaving. There was some normal guy wandering around the street with what looked like his belongings. I made a turn around a corner because I forgot to go to the bank and he was waiting for me outside. I kind of barked him off and he went away. But it really felt like he was out there evicted and wandering around with all his belongings. One of my friend’s roommates just up and bailed when this started. Lost their job and moved back home. While that kind of thing does cross my mind I worry a lot less in the short term. Although most of my job these days is delivering the same quality education to people online. People have their emotions about that. That’s not something I care to speak too much on. I can only say I’ve learned far more new skills at my job in the two weeks than I have in a year. And my resume is twenty years solid at this point. It’s just how I apply myself.

For the most part I apply myself alone. It’s been that way for years. But now it’s a particular fact I cannot avoid. I’m not unhappy alone. I’m on video with my coworkers during the week three or four times a day. I have to lead entire conversations and think up new ideas on the fly. I get a lot of appreciation from work for it. But my personal life has very little reward or recognition these days. I stay up with my goals. I work out now in the kitchen. There’s far more space and organization there because it’s my office away from home. My hair has grown back into a style. I feel healthy under the circumstances. But I also feel completely lost. Like I sacrificed my happiness and freedom for the greater good of something that doesn’t ever acknowledge I exist, breathe or hurt. I’m part of some invisible plan that I don’t even know my role in. So I just sit here and wait. And the circumstances get grimmer or more dark as they go by. I don’t have personal relationships to maintain on video. People barely even text me. People do text me. Just not about anything that has to do with my real emotions about anything. I’ve been sharing that here for years. My real friends read it. Process it. Understand what I am venting about. But this shadow world doesn’t translate into the real world. It’s the weirdest thing to realize that being transparent here week after week means nothing to a large population of people. They just see you on the outside how they want to see you. A cog in a wheel that relentlessly holds it down because that’s what you should do. Be a good person. Nobody checks to see how long I’ve been down here in the basement of reality doing plumbing work. How I’m simply just cheering myself on when in the back of my head I realize a grim truth. Nobody celebrated my birthday for the third year in a row other than my parents. I had to fly to New York again by myself. Now I can’t even do that. There is no escape for me. Quarantine is just a stark reminder of how it’s always been. And why it’s a little better these days than it was. Because I no longer have people questioning or challenging my position in society. Because there really isn’t much of a society left except the kindness of strangers holding it together. Everybody is locked in their emotions. Everybody can’t contain their fear and anger. It comes out at the worst times. It needs to come out. When you’ve had a space like mine for years, it comes out over coffee in the kitchen in the mornings. It doesn’t bubble up and boil down in crisis. To me this is all just another day. Another year. And a long gray time of loneliness that just keeps pushing on like a wheel of pain. With a little bit of contactless delivery to keep the work week moving along at a tolerable pace. If it were anywhere but Chicago right now I’d be alone in hell. Pretty much I’m just alone. More in limbo for the entire summer again hanging from that point in your life that screams loudly. “What the fuck am I doing wasting away another year again?”

The truth is I am not a waste. I know my value. I know what i do at my job. I know when it’s appreciated. When it’s not. When it’s not about me. And when it is. I know what billsI have to pay. I know when my rent is due. I’ve known all this for years. And people keep passing me by. Letting me rot. Now everybody is in the same boat and I’m just a mirage.. Still out there alone but burning brightly I guess. Brightly enough where I don’t want to get sick with a fever either. I can’t say somebody who runs distance as much as I do fears too much. But this crisis is a little more drastic. Part of me wearing a mask isn’t just for my own safety. If it sounds meta you don’t know how deeply my life has been drowned into the torture chamber. It’s painful to face. Yet another personal apocalypse. And yet there’s things that I would have never imagined. Delivering an American arts education over the Internet to mainland China. Being able to teach fashion technology no matter what the distance. It goes beyond my resume. Though being able to manage and supervise a staff from miles away is a great skill. What about maintaining our personal relationships across impossible distances? Some of us are learning to what extent. Some of us are focusing on a more personal relationship with ourselves. Some of us may be finding out we can’t stand being alone with ourselves. I’ve been there. I started looking at my environment around me. I make small changes. I make them regularly. I measure the progress. I’ve come very far these days. I made it there by myself. Isolated by my own choices from even more treacherous viral thinking. And I’m still here. Making things. Writing things. Feeling things on my own time. Is the time I spent valuable to anyone else? I don’t know. I feel like if people really valued me as a person they’d know just how hard it has been. They see just how deep I’ve stared into this darkness. How fearful I’ve been at times I’d be crushed and spat out. How I’d fear that people would forget I exist. That I matter. That I’ve done things too. That nobody ever remembers that I’m a human being with emotions that get pissed on daily. I’d be more afraid if I didn’t see this in myself. I see a lot of fear in the world. Contagious diseases are just the start. Life goes on. It has been going on.�� And life passes people by. I would wager ten years of my life just fucking blinked out of existence. It’s water under the bridge. I’m supposed to forget how it all made me feel. How bleak the past is. Focus on the future. What future is something I cannot see. That’s how it feels. To know you have to move forward with what you’ve been doing. With absolutely no validation but your own gut. What you believe is the right thing to do. That part is no mystery to people who really know me. And so I’m not too worried about the outcome. Just know that I’m safe and cranky as fuck. I need love just like anybody else. Self love is where you learn that. Self care is a hard thing to discover. So is your own value. Things of quality have no fear of time I guess. We’ll see how I feel about all that after my Standby Jury Summons. <3 Tim

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kathydsalters31 · 4 years

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Should Your Pet Travel With You?

If you’re like me, you desire your pet to travel with you everywhere. That isn’t constantly a good concept– for you or your fuzzy buddy. So just how do you make a decision when to take your puppy or cat along? And also when is it better to leave them behind? To decide, you’ll need to ask a couple of key inquiries.

Deciding Whether Your Pet Should Travel With You

As a responsible animal owner, there are a few things to take into consideration when making a decision whether your animal should opt for you. Addressing these concerns will certainly assist you choose if the circumstance will certainly be risk-free and enjoyable for you and your pet.

1. Are pet dogs permitted?

The very first question to ask is whether animals are enabled where you’re going. There’s nothing even more bothersome than learning I can not bring my pet, Honey, someplace for no sensible reason. For instance, the outside pedestrian shopping center in our previous town of Ithaca, New York does not allow dogs. Ever before. Outside shopping malls all over the country enable dogs, so why Ithaca demands restricting dogs makes no sense!

It’s the law.

Not only could we obtain a ticket for taking Honey with us, we would certainly establish a poor instance. As well as we absolutely don’t intend to do anything that would certainly make it more likely pets will continue or obtain to be prohibited from a location.

Comedy clubs are certainly not pet pleasant. If Honey was in the room, no comic in the globe could hold a group. Sometimes there are excellent reasons canines aren’t allowed– also if they’re not right away obvious. As an example, the state park officials at Cape May Point Lighthouse only started outlawing canines after they were discovered to be pestering nesting birds. Cape May is situated on a major flyway where birds feast on horseshoe crabs as well as hatch their young. While it’s unsatisfactory that we’re not allowed to bring Honey to one of our preferred beaches, it’s worth discovering one more location to play it to shield the birds.

And pet policies can change, so it’s constantly a good suggestion to inspect a website or call’s internet site make certain family pets are still permitted prior to you go. We had been going to Cape May Point Beach for years with our pet dogs prior to they established the restriction.

2. Is it secure?

I love participating in large, outdoor events like concerts and events, but a couple of I’ve been to were just not safe for my canine. Honey is specifically the ideal elevation to take a person out at the knees. In a large crowd where the average individual won’t observe her, it’s not secure for Honey to be there.

I’ve seen people walking tiny canines on-leash in crushing groups and it was all I can do to limit myself from scooping them up before someone tipped on them!

When the temperatures can be unsafe, I’ve additionally seen family pets waiting alone in cars and trucks for their individuals on days. If it’s too hot or cool outside, as well as you’ll require to leave your pet dog while you run a duty, it’s probably better to leave him residence.

LEARNT MORE ⇒ Is It Illegal To Leave Your Pet Alone In The Car?

3. Will my family pet appreciate it?

Honey is unwinded as well as comfy around other pet dogs as well as in groups, so she’s flawlessly pleased going most locations with us. Not all pet dogs are.

Animal traveling indicates understanding your animal and valuing her constraints, even when you desire things were different. If accompanying will create your pet dog discomfort, dullness, concern, or stress and anxiety, she might be happier at home.

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“467 “srcset=” https://ksk132dvocz3814ql108etk1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Georgetown-storefronts-.jpg 700w, https://ksk132dvocz3814ql108etk1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Georgetown-storefronts–300×200.jpg 300w”sizes =”( max-width: 700px)100vw, 700px “> You’ll discover canine water bowls in front of lots of shops in charming Georgetown, South Carolina. It triggers Honey to ask yourself if she’s additionally invited inside. 4. Can my animal act suitably? When we educated Honey to “go to bed”on sign, eating at family pet friendly dining establishments ended up being a lot easier. While it’s not necessary for her to lie down the whole time we’re eating, it is the very best and most safe habits when a web server approaches the table with delicious-smelling food. And when we stand up to leave, absolutely nothing makes me better than to listen to other restaurants murmuring, “Oh, there’s a dog. I really did not also recognize she existed!”

FOUND OUT MORE ⇒ 5 Commands Every Traveling Dog Should Know

Eating early indicated we even had time to take a couple of fast pictures. If your dog gets incredibly aroused by food scents, possibly he should

await you at home. Or take into consideration packing an outing, where you’re the just one influenced if

he decides to take something off the table. 5. Will bringing our pet dog cause disturbed to others? It is difficult to believe, not everybody likes family pets. Some individuals have allergies. Others hesitate of dogs. So we attempt to maintain the comfort of others in mind when making a decision whether to bring Honey along.

That implies eating at pet friendly dining establishments at off hrs, making it easier for web servers to fit us and provide other restaurants some room. We additionally maintain Honey on a leash around others, also when she’s enabled off-leash. Occasionally you might merely require to ask if including your pet dog in the travel plans is alright.

6. Can we transform strategies if things don’t work out?

Simply in case she disliked it when we took Honey for her first kayak trip with a group of close friends we developed a back-up plan before we left. Packing a patio chair, something to read, and a few of Honey’s favorite toys ensured we could delight ourselves on the coastline if required.

When you decide your pet needs to take a trip with you, it’s constantly valuable to have a Plan B. If things do not go as you intended, you can restore what’s left of your outing.

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at Fort Matanzas.”width =” 650 “elevation =”1138”> We’re constantly prepared when plans alter. While waiting on

other half Mike to run a duty, I had my publication and Honey had her stick. 7. Will I be able to concentrate on my pet? My first responsibility is to Honey.

If she’s tired or awkward, it’s my duty to deal with her. At the coastline, that suggests changing the umbrella to offer her shade, seeing to it she has plenty of water, and taking a dip in the water to cool her down. If the activity I’ve selected means I’m too busy to take treatment of her, Honey is probably much better off remaining home on the watercraft.

And also talking the boat … when you’re on vacation or living a nomadic lifestyle like we are, there is one more inquiries you need to ask on your own when determining to take your animal with you …

8. Will my animal be risk-free if I leave her behind?

I only had to consider if taking Honey with me was an excellent idea when we lived in a residence. She would definitely be secure and also comfy resting on the bed in the house if we needed to leave her behind.

Since we’re full time nomads residing on a sailing boat, I likewise have to ask myself whether it’s secure to leave her on the boat without us.

When your house is a ventilated cockpit on a boat in a gorgeous anchorage, remaining there does not feel so negative.

Specifically if you have a close friend. Our watercraft does not have air conditioning, which implies it can get really hot in the summer season. When the temperatures soar, leaving Honey behind is not an option. If we require to do grocery store buying or washing and we can not bring Honey along, we either full our tasks before it gets hot, or among us stays behind to see to it Honey is fine. If neither of those choices job, Honey comes along and one of us waits in the color while the

other rushes to get the things we need. A hot buying day implies Honey waits outside with Mike under a tree while Pamela shops as promptly as she can. What To Do When Taking Your Pet Is Not An Option In some cases, despite how tough you attempt to accommodate your animal, you just can not

bring her with you. In those circumstances, we’ve found an animal caretaker to be the most effective choice. Honey reaches stay safe in her familiar setting. As well as there are pet sitters that will pertain to your recreational vehicle, boat, or hotel room if you’re gone out to some tourist attraction that does not allow pets.

Travel with pets is a joy, and it will certainly take you locations you would never have actually uncovered by yourself. Ask the concern: “Should my family pet traveling with me?” And after that work out the answers to the concerns above up until the verdict is a precise and pleased YES! You’ll have a great time discovering all type of wonderful areas together.

Taking a walking excursion of the attractive College of Charleston university was enjoyable for everyone. Honey

also made a new feline close friend.

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barryswamsleyaz · 4 years

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Should Your Pet Travel With You?

Deciding Whether Your Pet Should Travel With You

1. Are pet dogs permitted?

It’s the law.

2. Is it secure?

I’ve seen people walking tiny canines on-leash in crushing groups and it was all I can do to limit myself from scooping them up before someone tipped on them!

LEARNT MORE ⇒ Is It Illegal To Leave Your Pet Alone In The Car?

3. Will my family pet appreciate it?

Honey is unwinded as well as comfy around other pet dogs as well as in groups, so she’s flawlessly pleased going most locations with us. Not all pet dogs are.

< img class=“wp-image-30719” src=“ https://ksk132dvocz3814ql108etk1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Georgetown-storefronts-.jpg "alt="Honey the golden retriever checks out the storefront mural in Georgetown, South Carolina|GoPetFriendly.com "width="700"elevation=

FOUND OUT MORE ⇒ 5 Commands Every Traveling Dog Should Know

Eating early indicated we even had time to take a couple of fast pictures. If your dog gets incredibly aroused by food scents, possibly he should

await you at home. Or take into consideration packing an outing, where you’re the just one influenced if

6. Can we transform strategies if things don’t work out?

When you decide your pet needs to take a trip with you, it’s constantly valuable to have a Plan B. If things do not go as you intended, you can restore what’s left of your outing.

at Fort Matanzas.”width =” 650 “elevation =”1138”> We’re constantly prepared when plans alter. While waiting on

other half Mike to run a duty, I had my publication and Honey had her stick. 7. Will I be able to concentrate on my pet? My first responsibility is to Honey.

8. Will my animal be risk-free if I leave her behind?

Since we’re full time nomads residing on a sailing boat, I likewise have to ask myself whether it’s secure to leave her on the boat without us.

When your house is a ventilated cockpit on a boat in a gorgeous anchorage, remaining there does not feel so negative.

Taking a walking excursion of the attractive College of Charleston university was enjoyable for everyone. Honey

also made a new feline close friend.

from Lucky Dog Solutions http://www.luckydogsolutions.com/should-your-pet-travel-with-you/

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