Your excerpt made me read the article. For those who haven’t or just don’t want to read it, ducks aren’t the only “crazy” birds. Crows and Magpies have been using these spikes and other dangerous human liter as defense from predators. What type of dangerous liter you might ask?
In 1933, a South African museum reported a crow’s nest fashioned from hard-drawn copper, galvanised iron and barbed wire. Nails, screws and even drug users’ syringes have all found their way into birds’ nests.
Some have even ripped metal off nearby factories to build their nests. These birds are on another level.
Wanna get a post out to show appreciation for all types of journaling. Personally I’m boring and traditional with weekly entries that can be pages long of just emotional venting or thought processing. All of course written with a fountain pen with sparkly ink. I kinda want to switch it up a bit, get the creative juices flowing or maybe some productivity integrated somewhere. So how do you journal? Feel free to show off some entries (if you’re comfortable) or of your journal cover.
I also switch methods often. I used to write my feelings down in sticky notes and then throw them out to just get them out of my system. Currently I think I’ve “officially” filled out two notebooks, since I just started getting into handwriting journals maybe a year ago. How do you feel about the A5 size?
If you are expressing your emotions through writing I’m sure that’s considered as journaling. Sounds like a very interesting et up though I’ve never been able to get into poetry writing, it’ difficult to get a rhyming scheme going for me. I hope you feel welcomed in this community as it grows and share some of your poetry!
Sometimes we like to shake things up or just see how other people do things. Currently I have a super simple set up, hardcover Moleskine notebook with a fountain pen. Thinking about changing it out when it’s done due to minor bleed through.
Hi, thanks for your post! I really appreciate the kind words. I was honestly surprised there wasn’t a journaling type community already made when I first joined and it took a lot for me to decide I should just make one. Working on some stuff at the moment to try to get some engagement up soon so stay tuned!
Sounds almost crazy saying that and to be honest I’m not really sure how to explain it. I don’t want this to sound like I’m complaining for what could be perceived as mild symptoms. I want to use this post mostly to laugh at my ignorance and maybe as a warning to others. For some context I do have moderate ADHD and I’ve definitely been over working myself these past few years. I have been having my regular fibromyalgia symptoms throughout this time but decided to ignore it. Telling myself I had to get through the day and I could take some pain killers later. Now I guess I’ve been doing this so much that I “forgot” all about my fibromyalgia. I ignored it and just pushed through, to the point that I’ve been able to not notice my lingering chronic pain as much. Sounds great right, I somehow managed to mind over matter this. Well the inevitable happened. For the past months I’ve been having the worst symptoms I’ve ever experienced. My chronic pain reached a point that my bad day pain killers felt like I took a Tylenol instead, my fatigue has me feeling like instead of sleeping my body decided to participate in some sort of triathlon, and the muscle spasms and my pain sensitivity have reached a whole new high. I was going crazy trying to figure out what was going on. It wasn’t until I started venting about my back pain to a co-worker who asked why I had such high dosage pain killers that I remembered all about my fibromyalgia, and realized I’ve been ignoring it for a little over a year. So yeah, all that to say don’t ignore your symptoms as they will come back with a vengeance.
Got really bad ADHD so short-term memory things like this are not something I can remember consistently. There are other factors like new drivers or how others have mentioned using multiple vehicles due to work or leasing.
Hi sorry about that! Thought I had it in the text body my bad. Just added it in.
I learned this recently. I would end up circling the gas pumps trying to remember if it was right or left. It wasn’t until the person who was on the pump beside me, who also saw me do this circle before getting it right, told me about this feature. I remember telling a friend of mine about it and they told me that they already knew, but no one ever told me about it. Glad to know I’m not the only one who would have to play the guessing game of “which side is the gas tank”.
It seems like the logical thing to do, but when I first started driving I had no idea how the side mirrors had to be adjusted. I eventually decided that I should at least have it angled to see the other lanes for when I wanted to merge. It wasn’t until much later that I learned that the side mirrors could and should be used to check the back of the car as well.
Not sure if this is common knowledge or not. Why YSK it’ll save you the guessing game of which side your gas tank is on when pulling up to a gas station.
I have to literally isolate myself from anything that can distract me. I’ve noticed that pressure from a looming deadline helps, but that’s not very healthy. What really gets me is the motivation to actually study, but I have been getting some good results with putting those ambient music or sounds on noise canceling headphones. For motivation, it’s hard. The mindset of “might as well” seems to work but is hard to get into the habit of doing. I have long commutes to school and if I’m bored I might as well look over my notes on my phone then be bored. Sometimes I just have a “blah day”, which is literally a day I just won’t get anything productive done if I don’t have to. And that’s ok, we tend to burn out quickly so it’s good to listen to our bodies. But I hope this helps!
