I have had the same upheaval in my family’s dynamic in the last year-ish as well. When I removed my scapegoated self from the equation their little house of cards fell in. Suddenly my golden child sister was scapegoated (along with her children, which upsets me but I have no control over) and my nonentity brother…

I knew it was happening when I woke up with headaches and my jaw still clenched, I remembered the symptoms from when I was a kid. I used to share a bedroom with a younger sibling and they told me what my face was doing. When I moved away from my family the stress I had been under dropped dramatically. I try to avoid…

Holy fuck that's so much sadder. There's KITS!?

Oh Meh. We’re in the same generation. ‘Gen Y’ was just another term for the generation after Gen X (so named because they are considered the tenth generation born after the founding of America or X in latin script).

Yiss.

No, I screamed so loudly at Teddy in Toys R Us that my parents didn’t bother buying it. It’s why they went with Casey, tho. He was a cute little robot alien cassette player thing. Shit. He was a stand-in parent now that I think of it. Casey read me more books than my mother ever did.

What generation are you, Meh?

Oh no, the cars are stationary and not running. The whole area is usually cordoned off with ropes and the event is highly coordinated via the church or business whose parking lot is being used. Also there’s a raffle at the end for the trunkers based on who had the “coolest” minions-based trunk decor. God I feel…

SEE! You get it.

Welcome to Trunk or Treating, where dreams go to die.

I actually have started seeing a physical therapist for a couple things and she has helped me learn some relaxation exercises for before bed. Between that and better stress management generally the clenching is mostly gone. I haven’t ground my teeth in the last twenty years, but this week has been a little much.

I feel like Natasha will make an excellent didgeridoo replacement.

I have no idea if it’s regional. Honestly I thought everyone does it since it’s all over here. God. One more reason to hate the bible belt.

I’m in Kansas City, church is everywhere here. And the churchladies have a work around for the parking lot... everyone parks on the edges of the lot and then we line up. This year there might be snow, so, yay.

HAHAHAHA YAAAAS! There should be a mandolin in this band. Also a trombone. And we’ll need a youtube channel.

They quit that at my house after 1990. 

“My So-Called Peers” *screaming* oh sweet god yes.

I did not, but only because I didn’t have one. I did, however, burn out the lights in both my glo-worm and my Gem doll’s earrings. Any my god the shit I put Casey and Big Brother thru. *shudders*

Ah, always a delight to chat with another Generation Catalano/Oregon Trail/Xennial *hard eyeroll at our circumstances*

It is really depressing and it is literally in parking lots. It is terrrrrrrrrrrible.