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[tyme]

Hugs. That's what we're here for @Appleblossom ..

Reminds me of Woolworths "The Odd Bunch"! That's me! And I'm proud of it!

[PinkFlamingo]

Hey there @Appleblossom 🙂🌺

I experienced several forms of systemic warehousing as a young person, not quite places to call home as such. 
But this made me able to take on a different view, willing to recognise and help others my own age who seemed to be in similar situations while being resilient to the negativity of where I happened to be 🙂

I think this did contribute to not fitting in, because I was busy living with situations that other people may not be able to relate to, and was pretty fatigued physically and emotionally most of the time.
It’s great you’re standing up and being less people-pleasey 🙌🏻🙂🌺 I’ve kind of thought that’s not anyone’s job anyway 😉😊

[-abbey-]

@tyme @ and everyone thank you for asking. I've been hammered at work the last couple of weeks. I'm trying to throw myself into everything that comes my way to distract myself - not much other than work comes my way but you gotta make the best of things aye. I rode my horse down the highway today. That's huge for us both. And we didn't get eaten by the sabre toothed giant marshmallows over the road either although my horse is fairly convinced everything in that paddock dines on pony chops. I had a really bad weekend but was also really tired. I and sleep at the moment. Oh well. Thank you for being there all of you.@Ruisseau how are you going? 

[-abbey-]

@tyme and everyone thank you for asking. I've been hammered at work the last couple of weeks. I'm trying to throw myself into everything that comes my way to distract myself - not much other than work comes my way but you gotta make the best of things aye. I rode my horse down the highway today. That's huge for us both. And we didn't get eaten by the sabre toothed giant marshmallows over the road either although my horse is fairly convinced everything in that paddock dines on pony chops. I had a really bad weekend but was also really tired. I and sleep at the moment. Oh well. Thank you for being there all of you @Ruisseau how are you going? 

[Ruisseau]

Hi Abbey, I'm going ok, thanks for asking. Like the sound of you riding your horse. Must be a good one to tackle the highway. Haven't been on a horse for about 10 years. A guy from near where I used to live started riding his horse around town when he lost his licence. I like the sound of that. 

[-abbey-]

@Ruisseau it's been a long time since I did much riding out because some one veered across the road and almost hit us. My horse and I developed fear. It's the old highway so 80 kph, not a 110 one. Yesterday while crossing a bridge I indicated (for a tour 44 seconds) to a truck to stop. He didn't start trying till he was nearly on us and my horse was jumping around, then his air assisted squeaking breaks scared my first even more. I wish people knew more about how to drive around horses. He's a good horse though. 

I like the idea of riding around town too. One day maybe I can. 

How are you gong this week? I'm having a sad one so kept to myself. I do that all the time anyway so not much different to normal. I hope something was nice in yours.