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Now this feels good!

Another Brick In The Wall!  

Not a Wonderwall…  

A Wall of Work.

An Album?!

A Gallery.

[o.o]  Trivia Time:

PLEISTOCENE TRIVIA

COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH

• Despite the name, this wasn’t a “woolly” mammoth – adapted for warm climates with sparse hair
• One of the largest elephants to ever exist, bigger than modern African elephants
• Tusks could weigh up to 200 pounds each
• Roamed from Canada to Mexico, including Florida’s grasslands
• Went extinct around 10,000 years ago, possibly hunted by Paleo-Indians

SABER-TOOTHED CAT

• Despite the massive fangs, had weaker bite force than modern lions – used precision, not power
• Stockier and more muscular than modern big cats, built like a wrestler
• Canines were fragile – used to deliver precision throat bites to subdued prey
• Short tail like a bobcat, unlike long-tailed modern lions
• Hunted in packs or family groups, evidenced by healed injuries in fossils
• La Brea Tar Pits in California contains over 2,000 Smilodon specimens

ANCIENT BISON

• 25-30% larger than modern American bison
• Horn cores alone could be 3 feet long – double modern bison
• Direct ancestor of today’s American bison (evolved smaller after ice age)
• Massive herds migrated across North America’s grasslands
• Primary prey for dire wolves, American lions, and saber-toothed cats
• Climate change and human hunting led to extinction ~10,000 years ago
• Fossils found throughout Florida, often in rivers and sinkholes

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^-.-^  I do believe it is getting better and better every day!  

When I got off the plane Oct 30, 2018…  I could barely approach my computer without trembling.  I could hardly work on it, everything freaked me into flashback. [Financial Abuse.]

It wasn’t just what I had discovered when I went looking for it… back in 2012.  [The betrayal] Being “tech savvy” (back then) I looked deeper and found sooo much more[upon betrayal] and how long it had been going on.[on top of heartbreak.]

He Wuz Gonna…

Gonna make it right? Gonna make it better? Learn the lesson?

He didn’t learn the lesson, just learned how to hide it better.

More Time to copy paste repeat???

I gave enough.

I learned.

And left him.

I VOWED I would never

give access to my bank account again.

Short story.  No drama. 

No tea/laundry/gossip/grudges/get-back-plots.

I just let him go about the rest of his life.

I had my own life to RE-build… major repairs and upgrades the GOAL.

Keep Getting Better!!

End of Year Pass Review

Launch my TikTok (check!)

Inconceivable in 2018.

I could barely type without crying.

Do that blurb thing we talked about Robot.

[o.o] DEFINITION:

Distress tolerance is the ability to withstand uncomfortable emotions and stressful situations without making things worse through impulsive or harmful reactions. It’s about getting through crisis moments without resorting to destructive behaviors—essentially riding out the storm rather than acting on urges that might provide short-term relief but long-term consequences.

Key skills include:

• Distraction (doing something else to get through the moment)
• Self-soothing (using your senses to calm yourself)
• Improving the moment (finding ways to make a bad situation slightly more bearable)
• Radical acceptance (acknowledging reality as it is, even when it’s painful)

It’s a core component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and is especially helpful for people who struggle with intense emotions, impulsivity, or self-destructive coping mechanisms. The goal isn’t to eliminate distress—it’s to survive it skillfully until you can address the problem more effectively.

^-.-^  So much Better!!  See how you didn’t go into some “the sky is falling rant”?  Riiight?  

Survival strategy. 

Better to function, than it is to freak out.

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