• Aging Parents,  Family,  Frustration,  Narcissism,  Uncategorized

    From Peace to Chaos

    After the peaceful hour and a half of being pampered with feet and leg massages, oils, lotions, and shiny new toes, I came home to an evening of chaos and anger. I actually wanted to go back to work, lol. My plan was to come home and have an egg sandwich with mayo – a big craving I was having. Nothing from a drive thru even remotely sounded good. I could see that the internet had been down most of the day by the camera alerts saying they were down. But I had seen them come back on and was hoping my video had uploaded properly. It had not. It…

  • Mental Health,  Narcissism,  Video

    School Traffic, Green Screen, and Narcism Strikes Again

    School Traffic Isn’t Pretty It’s mid-week of the first week of August. Schools are starting back and if not, the teachers are. The light summer traffic is no more. I am wondering if I can stand it. It really doesn’t matter if I leave at 3, 4 or 5. It’s awful any direction. Monday it took me an hour and a half to get home, instead of 45 to 50 minutes but there was a main road closure and pandemonium ensued on the road I was on. It’s also been “tax free” days and the road here is also on the way to Providence Shopping area. Quarter End It’s “over…

  • Psyche,  Self-Help

    What is a Narcissist? Am I One? Are We all One?

    I’ve been wanting to do this post for a long time. So here it goes. I haven’t even heard of this term until the last few years. And even when I first heard it, I read the definition and thought not much of it. Some friends and family tossed some names about and said “yeah, so-in-so must of been THAT” and we would laugh and go on. As the term gets used more and more and I learn more and more, I start to REALLY consider, is there really something to this? Could some of the problems I have experienced with others have been narcissistic behavior. And as you sometimes…