The Blogging Platypus

Today we are going to talk a little bit about boundaries.  Sometimes boundaries can have a negative connotation in our minds.  Many of us are raised, especially as women (not all women, but this includes people who identify as female) in society, we're often the ones who are told to be like accommodating to other people.  To put their needs first. While, yes, this is helpful, it may not always be healthy though.  When you keep saying no to what you want to do and are not able to pursue what you want, that's a problem.  I'm not saying if you want to go pursue a wild scheme or things like that, but when you're saying yes to something that you don't want to do, it can kind of put you in a weird position where you kind of start to lose track of who you are or what you want. Boundaries are a challenge.  I learned about it in school for my Master's program and I still have a hard time with boundaries because I don't want to be looked at as the bad person, t...

Sometimes the simple option is the best, and other times, well, you kick yourself for not taking the other options before finding yourself in a jar of pickled pigs feet somehow. My face felt like it was running a risk of ending up with those poor trotters, as the skin on my eyelids, under my brow bone and the outside corners of my eyes was determined to fall off. It would be red and flakey, like biscuits covered with ketchup. Just as tasty too. I tried a variety of things to encourage my skin to stay, you know, where it belongs. I don’t wear makeup, so it wasn’t a new product. I tried cleaning my face with a cucumber witch hazel product, followed by 100% aloe, even neosporin and anti-itch stuff. Nothing was helping and I know that my doctor couldn’t do anything soon because it would have to be a tele-health appointment with the VA in ABQ. Then if a cream was needed, it would be mailed from ABQ to my home, with the whole process taking up to a month. I eventually ran out of the ...