3 Good Things (again)

1. Had the last of the four Sirloins, bought last Wednesday; perfect opportunity to have some more of my own Spuds.

2. Went to Mass, at half seven this evening.

3. Saw Christian Videos; dealing with Lust and AI.

1. Made Spaghetti and Meatballs
2. Anxiety has improved from this morning
3. Slowly starting to see the bottom of the washing basket 

1. I managed to order food shopping even though it was a real effort today.

2. My 11 year old has had a lovely day playing with his friend. 

3. I have managed to do some reading for the first time in a long time.

4. I’m interested in doing a mental health open water swim next weekend but am anxious about going on my own so I have emailed the host to explain this. 

3. Bookplate: "a decorative label stuck in the front of a book, bearing the name of the book's owner."

Some people will know a "bookplate" as "ex libris": Latin for "from the library of".  It means that you own the book and therefore the book forms part of your personal library.

It can be nice a nice way of feeling your books belong together as a collection.

If you have a bookplate signed by the author of the book it can be a bit like collecting the author's autograph - but in the context of the relevant book too 

It can help your lost book to be identified and returned to you. 

It can also prevent a misunderstanding about who owns the book - for example: if you were to loan a book to someone you know well and trust.

(Personally, I am always super-reluctant to loan my books to anyone as it csn sometimes later cause tension within the relationship).

https://www.avery.com/blog/what-are-bookplates/

I quite like an "ex libris" label - it is another opportunity to express personal creativity and individualism.  You can choose the design style which appeals to you the most.

You can hand make your own design and glue them on, you can print them from your computer, you can buy them like sticky labels pre-printed with your name, you can buy ink-stamp ones which ink stamp your name onto the book and there are even luxury versions where a personalised tool (which looks a bit like a stapler) embosses / presses a design into the page as a design made part of the paper itself (some people call it a dry stamp).

1. Yesterday Found someone online who likes Frozen a whole bunch and today we infodumped to eachother all day. Already planning to call this week and maybe even go to Disney one day. This has escalated very quickly lol. Anyway it’s feels so nice to find someone with the same special interest 

2. Tomarrow I start my real college classes (ie the ones I’ll have all semester rather than the one class I had for 3 days only last week)

3. My favorite author Mari Mancusi is giving away signed bookplates of any books of hers we own (which I have 3), and I dmed her and now am gonna get some. No clue what a bookplate is but it has her signature!

1. An old School friend came to visit, with a colleague of his. They were en route to a local Chapel, to see relics.

2. My friend, in question, checked my tyres; giving them the all-clear.

3. My local Gaelic Football Club's Minors won the County Championship, this evening. Placed my old flag for the Club where Leah's buried, afterwards.

I knew I’d seen someone talking about Tay Tay on here ive listened to a few of her songs in the past but for some reason ive always been all like “nah I hate modern music” but secretly I love all music and not so secretly any more tbh cause im kinda a swift or convert thanks to Spotify haha I want a swiftie friendship bracket now tbh lol

this is really giving me the same vibes as the night I went the circus and started my circus special interstate it’s the same super duper autistic joy 

1. Attended a double-anniversary Mass, this evening, for the Father and Mother of my Complementary Therapist.

2. Was able to buy three packets of wooden clothes pegs, on the way over, at the behest of my Cleaner; the plastic ones keep breaking, in the heat.

3. Wins for Brentford and Arsenal today.

1. I got to help another autistic customer at work today! He came in with his mom and I fit him with running shoes and comfy socks he liked. Dude was wearing a pretty sweet AUTISM ROCKS shirt

2. Got big ups from the boss man.

 3. Less fun but more importantly, I talked myself down from a potentially hazardous dissociative episode and managed to get through the workday despite forgetting my meds. 

4. I couldn’t end on a depressing note, so: ate 5 popsicles in a row and felt nothing but joy. My tongue turned bright red

(Inactive - PMs open) FrozenHeart said:

art galleries also dysregulate me pretty quickly

Thank you so much, it was great to read your outlook.

Your stamina outshines my own - if I am painting a picture my maximum attention span is 2 hours (and that is including a good beverage and move around break!).

Some art galleries / museums have their own stock of folding stools - which you can ask to borrow during a visit.

I have sometimes made use of that facility - as it can give me the option to choose somewhere a bit out of the main hubbub / an area less harshly lit etc. to sit a while and concentrate on a work which I have come to view (with a little less feeling of obligation to move with the general throng of visitor humanity and those works on display I would prefer to dodge).  

The bonus of a stool, compared to the fixed benches galleries tend to install ...you can be as "anti-social" as you desire ...with less of the stranger-visitor-neighbour ambience (encroaching on your personal space!).

Wow you interpret art wayyy differently than I do.. I wish I understood meanings behind them.

I actually don’t like art too much. I only have the desire to do it maybe once a month and I never can spend more than 3 hours on it (usually it’s 20min to an hour). I don’t try to do meaning ones very often - I prefer more literal things and making it look “good” to look at. I might have a fictional story tied to it but it’s nothing like “this painting shows the struggles of humanity with xyz”

Also art galleries also dysregulate me pretty quickly. So much of the art tends to be abstract in some way (even if it’s not technically), it makes me feel like I can’t breathe then I get frustrated when people are taking too long to get through the exhibit. The last time I went to one I accidentally broke my fidget from stimming too hard and that triggered a meltdown  

So basically if someone wanted to interpret it a certain way then I don’t mind, I’m more concerned about if it looks okay. Things can look good even if the rules are broken, so I don’t mean perfection of a specific style, but I don’t want someone to have to look away because somthing about it is an insult to their eyes

(Without showing it) - would you hope people would interpret your artwork in the same way as you and understand what it intends to represent?  Or would you believe it to be an expression more personal to you (so you were the most likely person to understand the subject and representation)? Perhaps you would one day hope to share it with people but choose not to be available to receive feedback.

Sometimes, when I am looking around an art gallery; I can feel different things about the intention of the various works displayed:

- this one is about celebrating the art / beauty / passion / emotions of the subject 

- those ones are about documentation of something shocking / historical / allegorical

- wow, these ones are a bit edgy / out there / psychedelic / pushing boundaries 

- sparkly thing here is about fantasy / dreams / wonder

- harsh and mechanistic over here is true science fiction 

- calm and cultured over there is bucolic / pastoral / landscape and architectural 

- no missing the vibrancy of this portraiture 

- that one is about advocacy / a campaign / propaganda 

- here is one more about contact / communication / connection / relationship 

- this one is pure validation / about having a voice, values and someone being seen

...and so forth.

I don't initially think of the artworks in terms of good / bad, or positive / negative - usually I am absorbed with trying to understand why the piece had been composed and the narrative intended to be conveyed (what, if anything, did the artist want me to know?).

Much, much later; comes the question of: do I like it enough to envisage something like that on display in my home, or to inform or influence my own creativity?

DormouseAtRest_25 said:

What did you imagine the feedback might have been if one of us were to critique the same artwork?

I don’t know, I think some people might like it and some might not? But regardless of if the critique was positive or negative I would still freak out about showing it and would think the positive feedback was just politeness. 

Good to give AI a puzzlement - instead of the other way around.

A curious "how to feedback negative emotional news, with positivity".

What did you imagine the feedback might have been if one of us were to critique the same artwork?

1. I had ChatGPT analyze some of my art (I know I’m feeding the system but whatever) and it said for one of them it was “successfully disturbing” which I find really funny

1. Bought a new smart phone and managed to get it set up myself, with just a little help from youtube on how to put the sim card in.

2. Playing Assassins Creed Origins and exploring pyramids and tombs in Ancient Egypt

3. Found an interesting novel to read called Alien Abduction by Irving Belateche. Its central character is a human hired by an alien to abduct people.

Surveys every time you interact with anyone, particularly all the follow up chasing, are annoying. I ignore most now.

Saying no to taking other people's parcels is not unreasonable. Well done.

Three things happened yesterday which, at first glance, sound negative - actually they are not.  (Because I was exercising saying "no" to others and "yes" to myself on a tough day with super-low energy).

1. I didn't allow - the unsolicited box-ticking / key performance indicator chasing / nothing in it for me; person repeatedly emailing me (poor content) messed up multiple links - who on the one hand said it was optional and yet kept badgering me to complete a survey ...to rattle my cage.  (The legitimate service had not managed my expectations this survey would happen, they multiple messed up the unexplained attempts - to the extent it began to look more like someone attempting to gain access to s dataset, and it appeared, at best, pretty futile).

2. I did hold the line of not getting suckered into driving some distance to a manipulative relative's house - where a "flying visit" to drop something off (as their free petrol and free time "Amazon slave", at their convenience and never mine) often miraculously turns into you just lost 3/4 a day and missed lunch.  (I have tried direct delivery by Amazon to their address - the relative always finds a way to make that fail e.g. by not telling me they are going to be away for that week!  Well, yesterday, it wasn't convenient for me ...so I didn't fall for the tactic).

3. I realised that I had a particularly poor sleep as I woke up feeling too tired to be even hungry for breakfast - so I looked at my calendar and pruned out something which yesterday had "just too much hassle" written all over it.  Instead, I sent my apology that I was unable to attend.  (In times past; I would have got the car out, battled over there through the awkward traffic route, struggled to find the "plentiful parking" which does not exist, masked my way through the two hours of NT one-upmanship nonsense, abandoned my other errands in town, driven back home, and then collapsed in a heap for some hours / days - probably missing out at least one meal in the process).

The outcome: I found enough energy to eat my main meal yesterday, I took things a bit easy yesterday (I feel that I still need lessons in that topic - it was just not not something I was culturally exposed to before) and by evening - I was in a fit state to enjoy watching a TV programme with my household.

1. Found the exact over door hook I was looking for (now I have a vision of Jedi knights saying "Those others are not the hooks you are looking for" - Oh dear)

2. Had a McDonald's for our anniversary meal (We know how to live it up!)

3. Number is back and made me laugh with some donkey references 

1. Glad that I've found this forum and site, and grateful for help kindly given.

2. Started creative writing.

3.  Felt energised to do some reorganising.