Here's Something to Hold You Over

It's not a caption, but something I discovered recently I wanted to share.

This is one of my earliest TG pop culture moments, and it really did influence me, even though, looking at it now, it was very stylized in that Don Martin way, mean, YUCK!

I had been given some old Mad Magazine collection paperback books as an 8 year old or so, and this was one of the comic strips that was towards the back. I had lost it many, many years ago, but still vaguely remembered it, well at least the plot. Many of my early fantasies revolved around this exact method .. accidentally making a change like this. Hell, I still remember this panel every time I see an actual change machine at an arcade, or an old style ATM.

So, every year or two, I would try to find it again, and even looked through some old books at flea markets and antique stores. No success, until a week or so ago, then BINGO! Just in a search engine for "Mad Magazine & Change".

Hope you chuckled, and thought of young Damien having his eyes opened to the world of TG!

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I am hanging in there. The nights are really rough. My blood pressure is almost normal again. I am "eating" occasionally as millennials would say, though I've dropped 20 pounds. This is the worst time to be isolated .. I was sort of looking forward to being able to "stay in place" with the person I most wanted to be with, and now I'm by myself for the next month or more. It sucks, but everyday I am trying to be better than the day before, and I am achieving that so far.

It's weird, because I don't have to hide any of this, but I still find that I switch to a different page when I hear someone out in the hallway, though there is no one else here. Just now, I went to use my bathroom, and minimized the web browser. Habits die hard I guess!

I will have new captions up at some point soon. I need things to do, and I want to start up work again as well .. and I've got all the time in the world to do whatever it is I need to do to keep my sanity intact. Some will be older ones that were in the pipeline. At some point, I'll be making new ones.

I thank you for letting me indulge myself to some outpouring of grief, when there is already much sadness in the world already. And I can't say that I won't let it out again here in the future. She was a much bigger part of my life than anything else, and even on par with my daughter. For many years, this blog and captioning. One of the reasons I had some captions lined up was in case she stated home, I'd have some things for everyone to keep them entertained, but I was going to take the time to spoil ourselves with each others company until we couldn't take it anymore!

Oh look! Dee is rambling again. Indeed. You've seen me at my best, my worst, and everything in between. I'll be jumping around those stages of grief like a drunk stripper on a pogo stick. I hope you stick around with me and see where the journey takes me, with the glow of my beacon of light hopefully brightening up each of my days going forward.