Our first foster child is arriving any minute.
junipersky
@junipersky
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RE: Real life happy
13 hours in. No one has died and/or cried yet. So this is good. She is safe at school and all is fine.
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RE: Macha Awareness (And Unappreciation) thread
If some internet person changes and doesn’t do the problematic shit so well that I can’t tell they are the same person, then congrats, I’ll never know.
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RE: A Constructive Arx Thread
I have so many positive feels about Norwood’s end. I’m really happy now it wasn’t RPed out, because I’m not sure it could have been done as gracefully as the action result came out.
Norwood was such a big part of my soul that even after I came to admit I didn’t have room to actively RP any more, I couldn’t let him go. I would sign on every few days to check on him.
Everyone who was involved gets .
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RE: Pets!
May I share my foster kittens with y’all here? Even if I can never find here because it doesn’t show up on Google Results. (I have it bookmarked finally.)
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RE: Pets!
My foster fail Calypso is a HUGE cuddle bug. She loves to cuddle up with other cats.
My senior baby Kiva is not a cuddler, but she doesn’t mind Calypso much, and basically raised her.
So they’ve come to a compromise. Calypso is allowed to lay NEAR Kiva and Kiva will not complain. Calypso tests this sometimes to see how much cuddling she can get away with. Today it was being curled into Kiva’s tail with one Calypso aw on Kiva’s butt. It makes my heart melt.
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RE: Ruiz Thread
Yeah - Until the very end they had me CONVINCED I was the bad person in the interactions. I fell over myself apologizing for hurting them and making them uncomfortable. It wasn’t until I found myself sobbing with my laptop on my lap at the top of a staircase that I finally realized - this wasn’t okay. It WASN’T ooc personal my female alt didn’t like their PC. It WASN’T my fault I didn’t want to RP some things. All of those were perfectly good boundaries and I was being emotionally manipulated by someone who knew exactly what to say and when to say it.
Now, do I think the person behind the screen is some kind of cartoon villain twirling their mustache, petting a white cat, and itching to press the destroy button? Nah. I think they found a way of behaving that typically results in them getting attention (often it doesn’t matter if it is positive or negative) and so they repeat the behavior because it fills a need.
If they are reading this, I hope they know that it is possible to get attention for doing the right things. This doesn’t have to be your entire internet legacy.
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RE: Pets!
Tiny asshole kitten Benjamin Sisko was wrapped around my leg chewing and clawing.
I got tired of it, and now only 60 seconds later, he is asleep with his head supported by my palm.
My revenge will be letting one of the insane other six pounce him once they realize he zzzzed out.
Latest posts made by junipersky
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RE: Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
You don’t have a fever nor are you throwing up.
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RE: RL Peeves
Getting yelled at by a 7 year old just minutes after they woke up is apparently a huge trigger for me. Who knew?
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RE: Celebrities We Lost 2024
Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS ‘NewsHour’ nightly newscast, dies at 93
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
Isn’t it funny how our perception of things can be so different from what other people perceive?
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RE: Real life happy
Government jobs take FOREVER. It took almost four months for my husband to finally get his tentative job offer with the county sheriff.
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RE: MU Peeves Thread
You should ask staff for permission to rp something that works for you better! I feel like banned = NPCing is reasonable.
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RE: Real life happy
It has been 3 weeks today!!
She is still in her honeymoon phase, but I’m starting to see the shift happening where she is losing her ‘public’ face and her trauma is raising its head like in past houses. I’m banking every yes I can give her right now, and if I have to leave because she has started to get physical I tell her how long it will be till I come back to check on her again. Even if she isn’t in a rational mind right then, the words will be in the air she isn’t alone.
I got to meet her BFFs mother, and former foster parent, and then she introduced me to another woman currently fostering. We exchanged numbers and went out this morning for Starbucks. They talked a lot and I was able to just blurt out questions generally along the line of “I’ve been doing x,” and generally they affirmed what I was doing, and then also added a handful of ways to tweak said things when they stop working (because they will!). One of them I was like “Well duh!” (Get her help picking out a toothbrush and hairbrush!) and I’m going to do it.
It was such a blessing.
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RE: Real life happy
I’m so happy for you!! Losing a job is such a gut punch.
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RE: Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
I feel bad that I’m super grateful little foster child is in school today while I’m home on my spring break. (She is in a different district than I teach in.) But I am grateful. I needed a solid rest from the constant stimulation. I hope it helps me be better for her.
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RE: Real Life Struggles/Support/Vent
~lice~ and this little girl HATES when any of her knots get tugged on. So once I get permission to treat her she will be one sad little muppet.