Mushy the Mushroom

1: Wow, this is a 5 year old topic. 2: Not sure I fully grasp how a movie co. would “own” LEGO constraction? Would this mean making constraction sets of their movie characters? If so, I agree with definitely-not-Disney (I used to be a huge fan of it until I over-researched and ruined it eternally for myself). I intentionally avoid most entertainment these days, but I could see some Ghibli movies making cute constraction character sets. ❤️

“What Child is This?/Child Of the Poor” medley by The Hound + The Fox. The latter half of the medley is likely my favorite song, its words resonate so deeply with my soul and are a joy to sing. Had to hear some holly-jolly today as per tis five months until Christmas Eve! ❤️⭐️🐑🙏

Inexpressible gratitude to this site (and friends here!)for being such a safe, stable, joyful refuge for me, amid a life some might consider streaked with desolation. It feels like the childhood magic of Narnia here, and I am filled with greater appreciation for it and the dear friends here each year. For what joy and laughter you’ve brought me! Thank you all eternally! 🫶🥹❤️ Such a lovely new spinny as well! I assume it is the fine work of Xccj? 👏⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Lovely” cover by One Voice Children’s Choir a lot today and yesterday. I know it wasn’t written for such purposes, but the cry of “I know someday I'll make it out of here, Even if it takes all night or a hundred years” can aid in hopeful coping on the days when infirmity writhing is breathtakingly painful. 🙏❤️‍🩹

“Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee” by JJ Heller. Mentally frolicking to her “I Dream Of You” albums, as of yesterday. ❤️

Heidi (YT audio)book again, as per I remembered it existed! I only read it fully once before, two years ago. Its charm is unrivaled. But as a mostly lifelong disabled/chronically ill person, It’s a bit bittersweet to read the stories where the sickly characters miraculously recover at the end. Another example of this is the boy in The Secret Garden, as well as Pollyanna. I appreciate the sentiment and understand the longing to free the sufferer of pain, but I wish it weren’t so prevalent. As if happiness wouldn’t be unattainable in spite of the challenges some face, and what others would consider unfair. The amount of times my family has pushed me with pure intentions “to get well/be cured” only for me to never quite achieve it, pretend to be okay then fall sicker has been disheartening. I think sometimes the world fails to see that joy can shine brightest through those who daily battle shadows others cannot comprehend. In a tunnel of darkness, how can one not rejoice at the slightest star, flicker or sunlight streaming into their world? Or that hope and longing that a present pain provides, to one day reach that dear place where tears and infirmity are no more? It makes one look at life through a lens less blurred, for how many great little things do we take for granted? I appreciate how books like Little Women and The Hiding Place ( although nonfiction) accept the chronically ill characters without trying to write away their suffering or limitations, and depicts how the joy and hope of the soul can persevere…and even flourish, in the midst of human frailty. ❤️💐

"Voi Che Sapete Che Cosa E Amor"/Music box covers of classical songs.

It is so visually stunning! I so badly wanted to inquire about what is was of on discord, but 🐔 ed out. 😆🙈

I always wondered if people actually bought the huge Lego sets like that! 😮😆 Is it so big that it’s going to be hard to display? Sounds like a lot of fun and glad you had a good birthday month! (also, sorry for huge text on mobile 🙈)

Wow, I’m surprisedly delighted that BZP isn’t as dead as I feared, I love it here! You blogs are very well written and interesting, and the tiny bear photography on your Flickr page is adorable! Hoping and 🙏 your health/life stuff will improve. 😢I'm really sorry and relate to the chaos of that. All those projects sound fascinating , I look forward to possible future entries. 🙌

I can’t quite recall why, but I remember not being allowed to like/watch Hannah Montana, but this was years after it aired. Same with Wizards, but was allowed to watch reruns years later. So weird about the Jonas stuff. All I remember about them is some of my older acquaintances were in love with/fan girling embarrassingly over them. 🤦‍♀️😆

“Be Thou My Vision” by Audrey Assad. Also have been enjoying cursive-writing hymns/parts of scripture each day, doing this one now. Tis also helpful for me to learn these lyrics, for I am trying to learn to sing them …in utter aloneness, only. 🙈😂❤️🙏

This is the cutest thing I’ve seen all month and I’m having a terribly hard time containing my joy over it. 😭❤️👏

What a wonder that it’s already July! The days feel long but the weeks pass swiftly! As usual, I don’t feel as though I’ve been very productive, even though I’m always spinning in circles/perpetually in motion. This month threw some curveballs and a concussion, so perhaps that contributed. Got a few more drawings stashed away. Sometimes they’re ready six months early, so it’s hard to remember that I’m accomplishing anything. Still working on that same oil painting, my first oil painting and first cityscape. I’m 76+ hours in, but I’m counting it as a learning process. And to be fair, my last painting (acrylic), which was a little smaller than this one, took over 120 hours. And, a few months ago I could not sit upright at desks for any length of time, pre thyroid improvement and figuring out how to elevate feet under desk in wheelchair. Tis such a treat to get to use my beloved old art desk again! I’m amazed by people who can quickly churn out creations! What is life like without obsessive perfectionism? Merely a few makes and mishaps below. Not a lot happens in my little hermit life, for which I’m grateful. ❤️ also, the ugly links here are because I take excessive photos and don’t want to overload the site spamming them and am not sure if my written descriptions cover stuff I’ve not screenshotted. Think I won’t bother next time because UNSIGHTLY. 🙈😆 https://www.instagram.com/p/DZXg4x4EWt3/?igsh=MWZmYmxubGZ6bXg1aQ== A 2x3” 8hr #randomartsofkindness drawing for an old friend of ours, it’s her birthday today! This is their new grandchild. Plus birthday card-doodles in coloredpencil. And other cards sent + life miscellaneousness afterwards. 🌼 https://www.instagram.com/p/DZXjoT8EYkD/?img_index=1&igsh=bTQyZnExNHA5M3Ni 🦌 🦌 Visitors. The child’s swing box still needs another coat. The moto’ tag was found by my mom outside our gate.😆🫟. The landscape is getting a bit of love this year, but is very much a work in progress. Tried to paint the concrete things a more clay color, but I mixed it a touch too pink. 🤭I also was paint sponging new bricks to match the existing landscape boarder granite slabs. And I made this coffee can purple beaded “lantern” for the front door to hide where there was damage on the metal doorframe. We then fixed the dear old lamp post! I do hope the Narnians would approve. It’s wounds were as follows: decapitation by our famfriend cutting a tree, 2022 and later, the (former) furnace oil delivery man backing into it and breaking its post/spine (just prior to him rolling and flipping the oiltruck down the hill in our field, 2024). 😂🙈 first, I used picture hanging wire to weave the head back on and removed the zip ties that had been on it the past few years. Then, I covered the tan with this hammered black spray paint (found in the basement), and sewed these faux glass panes for it. I sandwiched a clear plastic fabric between two layers of window screen and handsewed four of these together with Tex 70 thread. It’s held in with twist wire on top and a can lid ring inside near the bulb. Next, my mom and I dug out the base, joined the broken post with epoxy and 6 inch metal braces, then wrapped it all in an oatmeal tube and poured quickcrete around it. Worked perfectly! Mom picked up a few more d retaining stones for the flower bed below. In other garden gossip, I broke the handle off the ancient wheelbarrow when dragging these massive landscape stones in it. 😳🙈They were from the old walkway that my mom is in the process of replacing. So I hand carried them away instead, thus resulting in a couch-stuck flare for a few days. I have no regrets. Have to get stuff done! 😂🪨 🪨 🪨 My mom’s mini garden is coming in nicely. it’s her first time seriously landscaping after 4 years of rebuilding life here. Is it weird that I like to pet and kiss flowers and wish them good morning, noon and night? Probably so! But is that going to stop me? Perhaps not…🙈😆 https://www.instagram.com/p/DZaW4fnEWdZ/?igsh=YWdleHFtNWZjYXJu Another mostly successful Dollywood Adventure…except my sudden, uncharacteristic worry over being possibly car-less one day became a reality. Also the speedometer hitting something like 06660(?)miles on the way there 😆🙈. Crazy how God mentally preps us sometimes. On the drive home, on highway 40 (an hour from home) In pitch blackness, a giant red boulder/hard debris thing bashed under our car. So hard that it launched my mom’s GPSing phone off the magnetic dashboard. We pulled over and something was leaking clear oily stuff underneath. She got it towed and our famfriend (who’s in his 70s) had to pick us up at midnight. Thankfully, seems like the car is mostly fine, needs tires + adjustments and oil/antifreeze was leaking. We’re so grateful for mom’s coworkers and friends giving her temporary transportation as we’ve no reliable family. She’s picking it up today. Still was such a fun vacay-day. People are so nice and some asked to take pic’s of The Child.👽❤️ Being a ride junkie, I filled up all my accessibility pass time slots again and they had to fetch me another card. It’s not big enough when you’re staying 10-11hrs. 😂Thanking […] for protection! https://www.instagram.com/p/DZpepZKlkcR/?igsh=MWJhbXp0ZzI0dTNqOQ== Sweet spring. ❤️ Shasta with the blooming Shastas, my favorite actual, non-fungi flower (but dandelions, daffodils and buttercups are close behind). Their sunshiny shapes seem so joyfully approachable. Roses and orchids, though beautiful, feel frightfully formal in comparison, to me https://www.instagram.com/p/DZpftEXFtgX/?igsh=cjFrbnRmb2xud2w1 Met this adorable, inky garden friend by my mom’s echinaceas. 🐌The first blooms resemble the wonky “first pancake” from a frying pan. 💜😂 And kimchi restock, we have a spoon every day for probiotics! Recipe by @maangchi . I used molasses instead of sugar. ❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/DZpiw4kluKD/?igsh=bmN5bmZhYXo1Z3Y5 So stoked we accidentally have a mega mailbox now. 📫 😂❤️‍🩹it was taken out in the 13th, as well, but thankfully on a Saturday afternoon, so we had all of Sunday to tackle this. Really can’t believe Mom and I accomplished this, and how challenging it was. 😭🙏It actually rained for about an hour mid project, and I had to scoop a few gallons of water out of the post hole. 😂 Had fun with it, and love it more than our last one. We’ll either wood fill or caulk and paint it in a couple of months. 🙌🥹 P.S. Sanded cedar sawdust smells so sweet 🪚🪛❤️ https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ0nFg0FqMj/?igsh=NGx5OXUyZDRyMnJ4 A fairytale flower frolic🙏💖 💐. Good June news: My alarming, fast-progressing neuropathy and pain and numbness in my hands has significantly (almost entirely) improved! I’m able to sleep again, and without wrist braces. It was becoming torturous from accidental months-long b6 over-supplementation with a combo vitamin. I’m able to cut out a lot of my vitamins now as per the multivitamin is causing overdoses with the separates. Weird news: Peanut allergy came back after years of eating them. I just had hives, lip swelling and hoarseness, so took charcoal tabs and was fine without ER. So now I have an EpiPen RX even though I have a more recent history of severe epi intolerance/carcinoid crisis type reactions. 😂 So the possible future reaction plan is: get to ER, use epi there, then if it provokes carcinoid crisis-like collapse, they could use octreotide to stop it. 😳 Unpleasant thought process. 😂🙈 Giving thanks for answers though, I already wondered if peanuts could be the trigger for my recurring episodes of enterocolitis. 🙏❤️‍🩹🤷‍♀️ https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ0oqOukXde/?igsh=MW1keGR3N29hdTc4YQ== Plants, piano setup & plans to finish my current painting at some point. 🙈 🙏🎨100% lifezeal, %0 brakes = sporadic limp puddle of humanity in between creativechaos ♿️🩰 ✍️🎹🫶🪡 https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ0ptDPEfq1/?igsh=ZzN6N3Y1a3ZuZXQ= Forgot to post about these for a reason I’ll explain later. Rushed to make these felt, bead and leather flower ornaments. All hand sewn. Made three of them, one for each of mom’s coworkers and friends who gave her rides when our car was out. Plus one for Mom. And this little makeshift belt for her as she needed one. Real leather, but not thick enough to be superb quality.🙈💐💖 (This bit contains a little bit of my religion. I can remove it if that’s a problem, and my apologies! It’s hard to genuinely describe the joy of being alive after a jolt like that. ) On Wed, the 17th, I took a tad of tumble. Thanking God for protection. 😭🙏😳I went out to swingset like I do everyday for 30ish mins (♿️joy) and the plastic side piece broke (guessing sun damage, swing age and how gloriously high I swing). Was all happy, praying and had worship music on and… click..I was thrown backwards into that cinder wall/stairwell. I later measured and I was flung 6 feet back at a considerable speed into the wall. I screamed 3 times but stayed conscious between blackness flickers. My head took the most force and hit first. Messaged and FB called my mom. I was able to get up and inside. My head was profusely bleeding, elbow, hand and ankle hurting. My mom came, left work (4 miles away) and drove me to closest ER. They CTed head and Xrayed limbs. Giant bleeding head hematoma with 1.5/3cm laceration. ER Dr “tied” it up with glue and my own hair. While I bled on everything in every room they took me to.😳 Lying in a CT like this is a painful, puddle producing activity.Small fractures/chips on my ankle and mid finger on dominant hand. So I got a head wrap like this🤕, foot boot/cast and finger cast. 🙈 I definitely feel like I got a concussion from the lasting symptoms. 😵‍💫So grateful to God I didn’t get serious injury! 🥹 I check the swing hardware frequently because I actually thought “if I ever fall down there off the swing, I’m going to die. God, you know this” Angels are no joke. 🪽🙌My mid body hit nearly nothing. We are definitely moving the swingset in the future. 😂😳 I really thought I’d fractured my skull and might not survive it. 🫪😭🙏 I’m recovering okay ❤️‍🩹, it’s just hard to slow down/notice injuries with existing chronic pain, so am wilting mid project more often 🙈🥀😆 Hoping wound will seal soon so I can wash hair and get in the infrared sauna daily again. The regular pain management/energy is noticeably worse not using it. Seems like the healing is taking longer due to ehlers-danlos . I’m able to do doubly adaptive ♿️ ballet, still stationary bike with pedal adjustments, and do all the art my heart desires. God is so merciful! Giving thanks and I love you all. ❤️‍🩹🫶🙏 https://www.instagram.com/p/DaIjelnEWIZ/?igsh=eDQ2MDU1cWc4Z2t0 video-output-FB9FED1F-A94B-4F71-839C-1746799004E4-1.mov ☀️🌼💛I will never understand why the words “celebration of life” usually means that a life has ended. What if we just celebrated life while we were living it? Celebrating the close calls, the “almost didn’t make it”s and just the sheer joy of waking up another day and feeling the sunlight on your face? This was a simple celebration of washing the concussion wound out of my hair. 🤕I’ve always dreamed of wearing a daisy crown like Alice in Wonderland, but never did before. I can confirm that frolicking in a boot cast is risky business (especially when usually in 🦽)but the Plush Pham didn’t mind! 💛😂(Also, yes, not my dress and it’s pinned to pseudo-fit with random garments layered like a crazy cake. 🎂 never too old for dress up 💛. Still waiting for the day that my thyroid medication starts to aid in the metabolic issues+ me not having to semistarve and exercise chronically to try to manage the monster (my body temp is finally in the 98s instead of 95!) Starvation is just something I’m used to with the severe GI dysmotility, but to deal with that while looking normal totally twists ones mind. My self worth is so distorted over these things I can’t control. 🫠 So glad [..] doesn’t care what I look like! ❤️‍🩹🙈) I also realize it’s the two year survive-iversary of near occult GI bleeding to death 2 years ago. [..] mercy never ends! 🫶🙌 https://www.instagram.com/p/DaIlrOBkfb7/?igsh=MXBlemF3ZTdkajMwcg== Petted a Persian Silk tree( finally!), and the bachelor buttons are in bloom. So hard not to adopt a bunch of leaves on the occasional frolic. & enjoyed the sweetness of spared life, summer’s start, Second Mother’s Day & [..] Day. 🙏🫶💐💖☀️🫂Had to hobble to garden runaway a lot lately, not being able to swing stole a bit of my sunshine, so was finding ways to fill it. Fields and forests are great for rest. I feel like I’ve missed on a lot of living for never having laid on the bridge watching clouds and trees above before. https://www.instagram.com/p/DaMFBr0kQL4/?igsh=aG9yb3I4NzQzamtw Canyon, 3x4”, 5hrs for a new friend. Big thanks to them for allowing sharing! 🐶❤️#randomartsofkindness I hope it’s okay that I’ve declassified this project?. Made these 4 pairs in April-May. 🫶 Was I too early? Did I jump the gun? Apologies if so, I never quite know. 🙈 I so wish I could make a set for everyone here. 😭❤️https://www.instagram.com/p/DaQiWyKEX_I/?igsh=MXRnbWZyNnd5ZjNqNg== I think that’s all! It’s been a little two weeks since the fall. My head wound unexpectedly reopened after a week. Giving thanks that it’s sealed now. EDS wound healing is…interesting. I can’t really tolerate the finger cast, so I hope I’m not doing any damage there. The boot cast is also a sensory disturbance with existing knee braces. I’m trying to wear it as little as possible since I’m mostly in the wheelchair anyway. We are kind of wondering if I also broke the left ankle because it’s been swelling massively. I’m really bad at pain assessment because I’m used to chronic pain. I’m supposed to see an orthopedic at some point? I think the concussion is a bit better! Definitely the worst one I’ve had. I’m not sure how extensively it has impacted my cognitive ability or memory. I’m sorry if there are obvious deficits. I’m very grateful to say my mom has moved the swingset to a non-deadly location. We had picked that questionable former spot simply because our yard isn’t level anywhere else. She dug out an area for it nearby. It’s been such a thrill to swing again! Feels like flying or how running used to. It’s the delight of each day to swing to songs while stargazing after nightfall. 🌌 But as I write this, my mom is removing the temporary cinder block anchors to attempt to install better concrete ones, meaning no swingtime for a while. We wish we could hire someone to do it, but who even installs/anchors swingsets professionally?😆This is an important thing disabled people need for joy purposes! I suppose we can always visit the nearby church swings again in case I need to” get my fix”. 🤷‍♀️😂I’m a swingset addict and have no plans of recovering from it. 🙌 Happy summer & July! 🫶

Oh my goodness,same! I’ve been blasting this too lately after seeing it on IG. So ethereal! 🥹 Currently listening to a mix of that ^ and Cathedrals & It’s a Wonderful Life by John Lucas. Can’t quite decipher the lyrics on the first, but adore the music. And firework echos off the mountains from our neighbor’s field! 🫶🎇🎆