Once I was forced by our great government to switch to digital TV I discovered yet another DID anomaly. When I dissociate I lose the signal on my converter box. If I get too excited by what I’m watching , I get that stupid “searching for signal” code. I have to remind myself not to walk anywhere near the box when watching TV or…..wait for it,…wait for it… I lose the signal.
I know I can’t wear a wrist watch cause I short out the battery too fast. I spend an ungodly amount of money on light bulbs because I blow them so easily. Who knew DTV would be an issue too.
While watching a DVD or even yes a VHS I don’t have these problems. I never had this problem with analog television but I do now. When it comes to my MP3 player I have to replace it often because I short it out. I’ve gone through 3 of them in the last 2 years. For me the MP3 player isn’t just for fun it helps with hypervigilance and other PTSD issues which is why I keep buying them. I don’t buy the expensive kind. No sense in totally wasting money, ya know? Digital clocks in the room are a joke for me because of the battery and now DTV …. I guess I wonder if this is happening to any other multiples out there with a converter box which was forced upon them by a government take over of TV which was just fine the way it frikin was…..
Now to end this thing…..I should file this under abuse. I feel abused by the signal. It comes and goes and causes unnecessary abandonment issues. I think it’s toying with my emotions. I also have the category “stupid people”, I could put this there. I should add the category “conspiracy theory” to file all the posts about people who are dead set on making my life hell such as…. wait for it….wait for it… the new DTV law by said government officials who certainly sat down and said, “Hmmm…. how can we mess up Austin’s down time of junk TV?” I probably missed half of the Big Brother premier as I sat waiting for the signal to find itself.
Tomorrow is the finale of Harper’s Island. I know I’ll be disappointed… Oh wait, ya know what I was thinking about? I’ve seen all the HI episodes and still the token black guy is alive at the very last episode. Why? Why haven’t they killed him? Usually the black guy gets it first. You see the black person and know for certain he’s gonna die quick, like in the first half hour of the show, but not on HI. I wonder if they’re going to shock us all and make him the killer. That’s the only reason it makes sense that he’s still alive. Oh well, since nothing else much makes sense on the show I suppose it’s okay that they keep our cultural representative alive even though Hollywood format says he should have been dead 11 episodes ago.
Note to self: While watching tomorrow don’t move, don’t think, don’t feel and by all means DO NOT go near the TV.
J of A
haha I’m not either! I could probably talk up a storm about this book right now lol!
Yeah, I did notice that. It’s hard for me to get my head around the whole core(s) concept but then when they talked about her having 2…that somehow felt right to me (as I think for myself there is me and one who is “gone”). So now the part that’s still hard for me is the concept of having a non-aware/functioning core. I’m always so insanely curious about how other multi’s function especially when it’s so different from the way I do.
The average experience…snore. They would have a tough time selling that maybe. She sounds like she’s fairly normal outside of therapy, lil eccentric/quirky maybe more than some of us, but she had her thriving business etc. Ok, so she had her marriage problems… But yeah, I’d say she went through a hell of a lot and this is mainly focused on her therapy sessions and so yeah when you can find someone your comfortable letting it all out with it can seem freaky deeky. So I understand those people but that’s what I have to say to them ha!
I agree about relating to her inner world and parts. It’s amazing how different we can be and still have the same sort of worlds/parts/functions/etc. Blows my mind sometimes. I sometimes feel like “Wow, she’s got one of those parts too. Huh? Maybe I’m not so weird. I mean, how could I have not read this or heard anyone else talk about something like this and still have “come up” with at age ___!” Like her Weaver, I have a some what similar part but I’m not sure if I’ve ever heard anyone else talk about a part like that so I felt a little less odd.
I was cracking up a bit ago about the dialogue between Mean Joe and LambChop. Mean Joe wanted her to pick a spelling for her name because it was confusing other wise and LambChop didn’t want to. I almost died laughing, just nodding my head thinking “I’ve got those that do that too and it drives me bananas!”
I think I heard that years ago it was a TV movie? Don’t think I want to see it at all. I’m kind of treating this book like a movie, constantly yelling at it (well in my head cause I share a house)! If I didn’t short out the TV on the movie I think for sure I would end up beating the crap out of the set (because of her “parents”).
Yeah, Paul (Mind Parts) suggested I not read it at night lol! So I’m trying my best and do my best to pace myself. I should probably switch to my art book and try to wind down for the night.