Notices by Maria Liv ✏️ (marialiv@toot.io)

I was supposed to move boxes today, and clean the apartment where I am storing our stuff before moving to the new city. But I had absolutely no energy. I felt bad for not being able to manage more, but I really needed a break.

So I did some laundry, cleaned the apartment where we live now, did a hair mask, took a shower, got my old computer ready to be traded in, set up my new computer, and made spaghetti carbonara. Now I am listening to the autumn rain against the balcony railing.

#Today

@FlashMobOfOne Yes, to my surprise it’s definitely becoming more and more enjoyable. :-)

I had a very rough day. But when I got home, I chose to put my running shoes on instead of crying in my robe. And after running up my usual hill, seeing the sun set in the distance, I suddenly realised that I've actually started to enjoy running.

I can’t wait until the supposed hostile alien spaceship lands. Just imagine them saying “take us to your leader” and we will have to pick one. That will be tricky.

I don’t talk much. Silence is my answer to most things. If I can choose, I will be quiet until I know what to say and why.

I wonder if this is because I am an introvert. Maybe it’s a response to all those times when I was forced to answer before I could formulate my response, and then my answer was used against me.

The older I get, the worse my silence gets. I get a text, I write my reply, but then I delete it. I look at the old oak slowly dancing in the wind, and my answers feel so small.

What if you built your life, so that rest was a part of the strategy. What if you didn’t have to push, or stick to the same routine every day. What if you didn’t have to burn out or crash. What if you created your life around your cycle, your mood, your energy levels. What if you created from softness, intuition and your own truth.

#Art #Writing #MentalHealth

@FlashMobOfOne When I first started working as a paralegal, the young lawyers were like "are you Rachel?" and I never knew what to say except "eh, no. I am just me. Sorry..." :blobcatwhat:

Omg, what a day. I am completely exhausted. Good night lovely people of the fediverse 🥰

@FlashMobOfOne I wish I could join you, it sounds so nice. My self care is at the bottom of a moving box. 😭

I saved a big spider today. I saw it the other day in my bathroom, and I tried to catch it, but it ran under the bathroom mirror. Me and my daughter named it Hans, and said to each other “have you seen Hans?” and “don’t step on Hans!” But Hans kept hiding.

This morning Hans was sitting on the mirror, trying to attack his own reflection. While he tried to scare off his mirror image, I swiftly got him into a soft cloth, and carried him out to the garden. He ran away so fast, with those tiny legs.

@FlashMobOfOne @fskornia Absolutely! Buy a nice pen and some thick paper, and doodle a little every day. It’s good for the soul.

@FlashMobOfOne @fskornia Or you could buy some really nice pens. We can never have too many pens.

So can anyone join the war plans group chat? I feel left out.

The current US regime is violating several articles in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

If you have have information that could help the ICC to issue international arrest warrants for people in the current US regime, you can send your evidence and information to the ICC here, anonymously or using your real name:

https://www.icc-cpi.int/about/otp/otp-contact

#USPol #Ukraine #Gaza

@FlashMobOfOne Well, I guess I could have said "oh, thank you but I have a cold" or something. But I was so surprised I just hugged back. And then it got my mind spinning, like "what about next time I see this person, what's next?" I need therapy.

I don't like to shake peoples hands, and I don't hug people that I don't know. So this morning someone that I hadn't seen for a while and don't know very well stood outside my door. I didn't reach out to shake his hand so he stretched his arms in the air instead and smiled, making the hug gesture.

What do you do if you are not a hugger and someone makes the hug gesture? Imo that gesture leaves us with no other choice than to hug.

If you think I sound extreamly cranky, you are correct.

Overheard conversation.

Parent: Darling, you are wearing your shoes on the wrong feet.

Child: But they are the only feet I have.

Apparently I have just entered my grown woman with a pissed inner teenager who’s not going to crawl for anyone phase. So nowadays I just hang up on rude people and say no to basically everything. Lazy and disrespectful = No business. Rude and negative = brrrrzzz I am in a tunnel, sorry I can’t hear you, click.

Summery of 2025 so far: It sucks fox balls.

I just found out that a friend of mine, has died. And I just can’t believe it.

He helped me in incredible ways when my daughter was little, and I had nowhere else to turn. He was a mountain to lean on. I know that he probably meant so much more to me, than I meant to him, because he was 22 years older than me, we only had sporadic contact for many years and lived very different lives. He was one of the kindest, smartest and funniest people I have ever met.

Go hug your friends. 💗

#Today