Ookla the Absent

OK, less serious now! We're good!

Umm, k?

A remix of the Dreidel Song I did in a Witch House style...

More interested in the "and stuff". Does that include any sort of art?

I just gave up my age when I decided to join. Works out most of the time, although it's next to impossible to prove I'm over 21... or under 12...

Um, okay?

Uh, I wouldn't count on it if I were you.

While we're on the subject of recruiting, do you art?

Do elder gods do art in their infinite spare time?

Yeah Electroswing! Not electroswing, but...

The Incredibles!

Yeah, guys, this is getting serious...

Well, at least you're not one of those heathen Bingists...

Grr... freaking ebook people...

And don't you forget it!

It's hard to avoid them for the time being, I don't have anywhere else to be and the house is really open. Umm... lately, cry and pray? I try making lists, but that gets me overwhelmed. I don't know, I can't really remember what I tried last time. That's another problem. When I get stressed or overwhelmed or tired or anything, my mind wipes itself and I can't remember what I was doing 5 seconds ago, much less what I was told earlier in the day. And yes, I tend to forget between being told to do something an writing it down to remember later.

I liked the Janitors series a lot. The secret series was good, but I didn't have that great of an attention span back when I read it, so I only got through a couple of books. You'll have to tell me how it turns out, I guess. Yeah, the problem with Pratchett is the humor gets rather... older than I would recommend for any 10 year old. I just read another of his books, The Carpet People, and that was pretty good. I'd reccomend that to a child. Umm... other books... Has he read Percy Jackson and the Olympians series? That one's really good, but don't let him get into any of Riordan's other series. They're truly a waste of time. But that one was phenomenal. A Wrinkle in Time? It's a classically weird book, no idea how old the intended audience is though. I read it when I was like eight... but it's probably for a bit older... Honestly, I've always been a really good reader, so I don't know what's too much for a ten year old. If I think of a series, though, I'll post it here.

I've been super stressed lately, which combines with my depression and ADD and spirals out of control. My father's been getting angry lately. I don't remember him being like this before, but now... I don't know what to do. My mother helps a lot, but i feel like I disapoint her too, she just hides it better. I have so little energy, and I have to get up at 5:10 each morning just to make it out of the house on time. I go to bed late, get up early, and have to keep waking myself throughout the day. But I have so much to do that I can't usually get to bed any earlier. Weekends just turn into days to get everything else done, and I usually can't finish that either. I never really learned time management, and my brain insists on making it even harder. I never learned stress management either, haven't really thought I needed it until now. I'm tired.

I have a feeling it's easier to tell how to build a house. Computers are not instruments. The programs are not instruments. The MIDI's, mp3 samples, and presets are the instruments. And I play them ALL! Seriously, though, electronic music is still music. Random noise, however, is not. Forgetting my age. I've been doing this since I was thirteen and it just gets worse over the years. Forgetting where my ____ is. Forgetting what I was going to say (or type, in this case).

Yeah. They do. They also tend to talk about how other people can't possibly understand how freakin' difficult life's for 'em. I honestly feel like they're often just posers who think depression is edgy and will get them attention. And, at risk of sounding exactly like one, they don't seem to understand what it's really like. I suppose this really should be going on the Bad Day thread.

People talk about how depressed they were and how sucky their life is compared to yours and (sometimes) how they attempted suicide, all with a proud smile on their face, as if they accomplished something.

People bragging about their AD(H)D and/or depression. Suck it up, people, I've got my own problems.

Sorry, I feel a bit late to the opinion party. I typed this up last Friday, but never posted it. I can't tell if we're in the discussion stage or still in the griping stage, but I've been out of it lately. Sorry.

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