Kingdom of Knuffel

I also tend to reroll only a few times, unless I get particularly unlucky and only ever get stuff that I don't like at all or already have AND that I think won't sell.

Moi wrote:

I feel stupid now 8u

Me too! But probably not for the same thing.

Hm, I have to go, but maybe we can commiserate with each other later.

Well, it's not like my emotions respond well to logic. But they seem to do pretty well responding to other emotions.

Like, I can feel scared, right? And I can tell myself, logically there is NOTHING to be scared of (in the particular thing that is scaring me; there's always something to be scared of, but I mean particularly. Like, say, the weird drain just made that funny burbling noise, right? And there's that mini local legend about it but the only remotely "scary" thing about it triggers if you toss gum down it and I don't even use gum, and besides it's not real to begin with, so logically there's NOTHING to be scared of).
But it doesn't help, I'm still scared, right?
Because (my) emotions don't respond well to logic.
But then I can go, okay, then, I'm going to trick myself, and I pull up that one memory of the picture of the neighbor who comes out and sings to the drain, and this guy is so cheerful about it but he is such a terrible singer, he has no sense of pitch or rhythm or any kind of key honestly, you can't usually tell what it is he's supposed to be singing anyway, and he was so cheerful and matter-of-fact about it anyhow, and he was doing it in his work suit but bedroom slippers and looked so silly that I start laughing.
See?
Now I'm pitting the emotion of humor against the fear, and it works.


So I don't see why we can't use the commiseration to oust our feelings of stupidity. :P




I'm feeling stupid for a couple of reasons, actually. One of which you know about, it was forgetting to send you pictures of Savta. Another was because I arranged for a garden swap and got some pretty iris starts and then I was really foolish about the timing of it and didn't leave room in my garden for them to go into, so I have to clear out a new spot for them, and I went out to do it without realizing it was my last coat and now I have to wear a coat covered with dirt because it takes a full day to wash a coat (I only have two, and that I have two at all instead of just one is already kind of a luxury), and the other is already being washed, and I have errands and it's too cold to do them without a coat, so I'm going to look like a completely dirty mess, and if I'd just had a little foresight, I could have either gardened in the dirty coat (it was ALREADY dirty) or waited a day, or arranged a different time to begin with, or thought ahead and left room so that it wouldn't require getting dirty to put them in, or any one of a number of common-sense things which I didn't do.
So I'm feeling stupid.

Thank you mynah!


Aw, y'all ain't stupid.


Akili, that's totally something I would do. And have done. Well the getting clothes dirty part, not the flower bulbs part.
Try not to be so hard on yourself.

My husband is super hard on himself. It's ridiculous how intense it is.

Moi, what's that little fluff ball hanging off your head? It's very cute

Oh that's one of the Lost Bommels! Themis I think you were on hiatus when that started, right? Randomly (kind of like the Candy Caravan shows up randomly, except that's once a month sometime and this other is truly random, it could happen twice in a week or not at all for a couple of months) there will be a pop-up and the Queen will tell you something has been sighted in some odd place in KofK, and if you go to that page there'll be a little pop-up icon hiding somewhere and if you click on it you get the item. It's only there for maybe two days, I think? Not long. All the items are named "Lost" something or other, and Moi is wearing one of the Lost Bommels. They are so cute! We've had a couple colors of them so far, and a special winter version.

Thank you Akili! I'll have to keep an eye out for it