No worries, please. I'm a very poor communicator due to my limitations with pain and everything having to do with a connective tissue disorder, as well as age, all of which I fear I'm repeating but I don't remember what I said previously and there's so much to do here lately (plus neopets) that I can barely keep up. I am 71 as of June and also have emotional issues, so I never expect others to respond in any time frame.

I think many of us are suffering from a variety of health and wellness issues that are often both physical and emotional. I've met so many ppl over the years who are on disability (as am I) and we all do the best we can. Also I'm sympathetic to your pain issues, swollen hands etc. My biggest problem with typing is the position I have to put my arms in, and also that my keyboard is tiny.

I'm using a very small chromebook laptop that I bought several years ago then didn't use. I was replacing one exactly like this but I decided to get a larger laptop and I used that for a long time until the power cord would NOT work anymore, and I replaced it twice w/out good results. So I bought a new laptop and it's just sitting in a pile of papers.

My brother says I have technology PTSD (along with all the other ptsd, lol) and he's the same and we have no kids or grand-kids who are much more of the digital tech age, so I have put off setting it up because it makes me so anxious, and the reason I said all that is this: the keyboard on this tiny chromebook is so small. I am big boned with hands that are bigger than most men I've known as well as just about everyone else who falls into a different gender than male.

Just a big boned gal struggling to type and yet I'm babbling. Believe me I have unintentionally "ghosted" many ppl due to running out of steam everyday and once I've moved from where I am to my living room bed with TV on the wall and Netflix and Hulu I'm a goner. So please know that I'm really truly not expecting anything. Also I'm best at giving gifts and have NO expectations of anyone to return. I don't remember if I gave you a gift yet but I intended to do that for everyone I see at the gardens and I'm only up to about 4 or 5 ppl out of at least 18, maybe even 20. And my longest known friend here had a birthday recently so they were the top priority. and I think that's all I've got for now!! :)

you’re welcome lovely - i hope you had a good masq! ;u; ♥️ and thank you so much. i’m glad i could help this year!

oh it can be confusing for sure! if you need any help, let me know ;u; omg somebody else mentioned my garden too xD i’ve been so busy i neglected it! gonna try to get back on that after masq and once rl stuff quiets down a bit ;u; i hope you’re doing okay too!

Oh yeah, now that I look more closely I can see your HA legs, feet through that gauzy dress!! I'm not trying new wardrobe until they force me. We've seen SO many changes over the years and It always baffles me. I know what you mean about feeling older. Both my sister and myself have ED-S which is a connective tissue disorder and we've said it seems we're more instep with ppl 20 yrs older. I went out on disability at only 37 and fought for years to get soc sec. I say I'm not sickly cuz I look healthy as a horse, rarely get colds/flu etc, but I'm delicate in my joints etc. I have the hyper-mobile type.

I do NOT envy you with that move, sounds awful. I moved to CA from the Midwest in 1991 just before turning 36, left most of my belongings behind. It was grueling. My mother had moved here and I had a very dysfunctional relationship with her, love-hate yulch. But then my fave sibling came here and it's just the two of us "little" queers now, mom died 7 years ago (she loved her two gay children, lol and was so proud). He's gay, I'm bi and we're both childless* and partner-less and old. He's 64 and still works and one of his jobs is my caregiver, so he cleans and shops etc and I stay home being a hermit. We don't live together so that's good for autonomy. I've got PTSD so that's more than you ever wanted to know, lol.

But I don't require anyone to respond or remember anything about me because I'm no longer able to remember ppl's stories and typing is very difficult so I have about 10 comments that are unanswered right now and those are just the most recent ones. I love being social but it's just so hard lately. Anyway, I'm better at giving gifts than at talking so that's how I show my love. ❤ (besides that I have SO much to share with others)

*we have a grt niece who's 30 and about to become a first time mommy so my bro and I will become grt grt uncle and aunt, and my sister will be a first time grt grandma because our grt niece is her only grandchild via her only child, her daughter. Our family isn't very prolific. We have one other bro who had 2 sons and one granddaughter and then a cpl yrs ago the son who was the father of that little girl (she's 13 now) died by suicide. A very very messed up family have we. And that child is my other grt niece and that's it. I don't know either of those "girls" because they're all in WI and I don't travel anymore.

So . . . sorry, I'm not sure why I'm going on and on--oh I know because yesterday we got pics of our grt niece Sabina, the 30 yr old who's baby boy is due Sept 26th. She's huge!!! And that due date is my fave bro's birthday, he'll be 65. So that's very cool. We haven't had a boy in our family for awhile. My sis having one kid-a girl, who had one kid, another girl and now that "girl" who's 30 having a baby. It's all so exciting! Becoming a grt grt aunt is something I never thought of!!

Your HA is stunning!!