Author: BrainWars

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I remembered when I told my dad he had colon cancer. The surgeon couldnā€™t wait for my dad to wake up from the sedation so he handed me the photographs and charts. The surgeon had places to be, after all, and my dad hadnā€™t slept well in probably years so we all just let him […]

ā€œItā€™s a Little Muchā€

Ahhhhhhā€¦ too much has happened recently. Let me just sayā€¦ all of that unsaid stuff has either healed me more or made me that much closer to stepping off the unseen edge. Iā€™m hoping itā€™s the former and a sign of healing. Soā€¦ uh, whatā€™s ā€œitā€? ā€œItā€ is lately being really into things which are […]

Let’s Be Real

Well, Joker Part Deux the film comes out in theaters ON my birthday again. Also, it turns out that I didn’t fail the test I referenced in my last post which signified how I was falling apart. So I guess I’m not falling apart. That should be a comfort to me but of course it […]

Uprisings, Revolts… Mutants, Naps

First of all, this post is being published on 4/14/2024 and it was started in February. I can’t edit the date of publication because this old Dell is too old for the Word Press updates and I spend most of the time writing a blog valiantly defending my right to edit my own post. ANYWAYS, […]

January is Eternal: Psychosis and Time

I don’t mind “gaining” an hour with Daylight Savings Time. I thought Daylight Savings Time was discontinued but then… well, it wasn’t discontinued as it still happens where I live. Or no one told Wisconsin it doesn’t exist anymore. Wisconsin is usually the last to know about things. In any case, I genuinely enjoy “gaining” […]

Roller Coaster of Life – 2 jobs, LowLights and one new dog laterā€¦

Wow! I need to either stop paying for this blog or make a post! šŸ˜ŗ For the 4 of you who kept trackā€¦ I used to post weekly and thenā€¦ I stopped posting entirely. What the hell? Well. Iā€™ve been holding on by a thread. šŸ˜ŗ So, in this blog, I aim to catch you […]

Profile of Broken Dogs

Hello there. šŸ‘‹ I canā€™t access my site via my PC anymore due to systemic changes and, since it was such a DIY build, I can no longer update my site (I had manually add each new post to my Rants) butā€¦ Oh well! šŸ˜ŗ As a quick recap, Halloween is alive and well here. […]

I Just Got Used to the Witches

Big picture, making the decision to keep or sell my dadā€™s Badger football season tickets after he died shouldnā€™t have been a big deal. Yet, navigating grief is a lot like that scene from The Jerk where Steve Martin’s character says he doesn’t need anyone or anything. My dad’s Badgers seats are a lot like […]

Happy Post Halloween!ā€¦ plus LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN!

I’m a vampire every year but mortality felt inappropriately close this weekend. But, before the brush with death, October was fun. It’s the best month and it didn’t disappoint. We dressed up more than we have in the past few years and that was fun. Also, Halloween seemed to go on and on because Milwaukee […]

Joy Divided and Halloween Rising āš”ļøšŸ’”āš”ļø

Wow. Itā€™s been a minute since Iā€™ve posted anything on this site which I pay $120+ to maintain and donā€™t have the time to useā€¦ But I love the five of you who read and then commentā€¦ itā€™s like a really specialized form of social media as youā€™re not on my other social media or […]

Our House Is Trying to be Haunted: Fun New Things

So it seems our old new house is haunted as I originally feared/expected. First of all, spider webs are EVERYWHERE. I dropped a cap from a juice bottle accidentally and it fell down the basement stairs. I groaned and walked ALL THE WAY AROUND the banister to go down the stairs to pick it up […]

You’ve Been Too Much, Summer: Halloween, Save Us All

I think the last time I enjoyed summer was back when I was a kid. Back then, it was all waterparks and swimming pools and fireworks and staying over at friends’ houses and running around in the dark of our neighborhoods playing Ghosts in the Graveyard, Witches Come Out Tonight and other shocking children’s games. […]

Struck, Hacked and Hauntedā€¦ yup, Itā€™s the Same-Old, Same-Old. How You?

For my 4 readers, Iā€™ve long discussed the dangers of driving in Milwaukee. Last Friday, I was hit so hard my car was deemed totaled on the scene. It took insurance days and days and drama and stress but eventually they said the same. A driver had hit my car so hard in my passenger […]

Working Hard But Not Yet Playing Hard…

Well. A few weeks ago, I for the first time had a chance to engage in reflective practice – aka had the extra brain space to really think about what I was actively doing – and found myself feeling surprised I was driving such far distances in my social worker visits with my members/cases/clients/people. And […]

The Dog Is Turning Out To Be a Little Creepy

For those who have kept vague track of what Iā€™ve been ranting about latelyā€¦ my husband and I adopted a incredibly-traumatized dog named June Carter Cash back in December 2021. She is cute. No doubt about it. But she is also the hottest of hot messes. Case in point, she ran full speed into the […]

Full-Blown Social Worker

I wondered when IT would kick in. (Here I have repeatedly tried to insert a photo of Stephen Kingā€™s It – the 1980s movies version of course but my phone refusedā€¦ soā€¦ I guess itā€™s a fan of the more recent movies. Letā€™s seeā€¦ Yup. Huh. In any case, Iā€™ve been going through all this […]

The Tale of the Haunted Knight

Iā€™m back on the ghost wagon which is nice because I’m otherwise too exhausted to talk about anything real. You see that white ā€œfogā€ above? I saw that in our house one night when I was standing at the sink doing dishes. NOT EXACTLY LIKE THAT OMFG! šŸ«£šŸ˜± Because if it was like that I’d […]