Alana's Journey

[Alana Ashleigh]

Glad to hear you're having a good week. However anxiety is pretty rough and like you sometimes I go through periods where there is always something to worry about. You basically can't relax. I'm guessing hormones can affect this. When I took progesterone via a more direct route it threw me into deep anxiety. Taken orally no problem.

Also though, anxiety can be transient with things like tiredness, energy, illnesses, weather and such. The first I know that I'm getting a cold or flu is sometimes feeling on edge. We are all different so if it carries on maybe get your levels checked and also general health if you wish.

Charlotte 😻

Charlotte, I think it's a bit of all of the above. It's been too cold to get outside and do anything, and keep my mind occupied. That isn't helping. I think, now that I'm feeling things so much more deeply, it's taking me some time to adjust to it

Alana

[Alana Ashleigh]

This too I hope passes for you. 

Chrissy

I know I'll get through this eventually. I've felt down before, and came back stronger.

Alana

[Sephirah]

What do you like to do that doesn't involve going outside, AA?

[Alana Ashleigh]

What do you like to do that doesn't involve going outside, AA?

I don't have much that I do inside beside reading, and going to the gym.

Alana

[Sephirah]

I don't have much that I do inside beside reading, and going to the gym.

Alana

In that case... girl get a home gym!

What do you like to read? What are you into?

[Alana Ashleigh]

In that case... girl get a home gym!

What do you like to read? What are you into?

Military history.

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

Military history.

@Alana Ashleigh
ONE of my favorite subjects too !
HUGS, Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

[Alana Ashleigh]

@Alana Ashleigh
ONE of my favorite subjects too !
HUGS, Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

It's always been something I've found interesting. If it's not a military history book, I'll find a war documentary.

[Sephirah]

Military history.

Any specific era?

[Alana Ashleigh]

Any specific era?

Post WW2.Middle Eastern conflicts seem to interest me the most.

[Northern Star Girl ✅]

For me, it is WW2 through current times. 
As a US Airforce veteran I like to focus on Air Force, Navy Air, and Naval battles.

HUGS, Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

[Alana Ashleigh]

For me, it is WW2 through current times. 
As a US Airforce veteran I like to focus on Air Force, Navy Air, and Naval battles.

HUGS, Danielle [Northern Star Girl]

I don't know too much about WW2. I know there were several aircraft carriers named after the naval battles in the Pacific.

[Cynthia Brown]

Like you I am very interested in history, similarly WWII and more recent Middle East History.  Just started an excellent book Taking Midway by Martin Dugard. 

[Sephirah]

Post WW2.Middle Eastern conflicts seem to interest me the most.

What is it that appeals to you about it, AA? The geography and battlefields? The technology and ordnance? The geo-political climate? Or something else?

[Stottie Girl]

Military history is a very interesting subject. Especially for us Brits as we we've got so much of it!

I'm trying to get hold of my relatives war records at the moment. I have one who was a glider pilot who died at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden WW2, my Granded was in Burma with the RAF and no-one knows what he was doing there so that is an interesting one to dig into. My other grandad was posted to Iceland weirdly.
I have a great grandfather who was in the Boer War in South Africa and was involved in the seige of Ladysmith (a famous battle) met Cecil Rhodes and ended up an overseer in a diamond mine in Kimberly. He had quite the life.

[Sephirah]

Military history is a very interesting subject. Especially for us Brits as we we've got so much of it!

I'm trying to get hold of my relatives war records at the moment. I have one who was a glider pilot who died at Arnhem during Operation Market Garden WW2, my Granded was in Burma with the RAF and no-one knows what he was doing there so that is an interesting one to dig into. My other grandad was posted to Iceland weirdly.
I have a great grandfather who was in the Boer War in South Africa and was involved in the seige of Ladysmith (a famous battle) met Cecil Rhodes and ended up an overseer in a diamond mine in Kimberly. He had quite the life.

You have quite the interesting family history!

Is there a first name it would be okay to call you by, honey. Stottie Girl sounds kind of impersonal. I am Lauren. It's okay if you don't feel comfortable disclosing it. I totally understand. But I always feel more of a connection with people when they have something I can call them instead of a username.

@Stottie Girl

[Stottie Girl]

You have quite the interesting family history!

Is there a first name it would be okay to call you by, honey. Stottie Girl sounds kind of impersonal. I am Lauren. It's okay if you don't feel comfortable disclosing it. I totally understand. But I always feel more of a connection with people when they have something I can call them instead of a username.

@Stottie Girl

I haven't really picked one out yet but my mum always told me she was convinced I was going to be a girl and had chosen the name Sarah louise for me. she was a bit shocked when I arrived but maybe she was right all along!

I think I'll probably go with that for the time being so, Hi Lauren, I guess I'm Sarah!

[Sephirah]

I haven't really picked one out yet but my mum always told me she was convinced I was going to be a girl and had chosen the name Sarah louise for me. she was a bit shocked when I arrived but maybe she was right all along!

I think I'll probably go with that for the time being so, Hi Lauren, I guess I'm Sarah!

It's very nice to meet you, Sarah! I always loved that name. There are a lot of very special Sarah's But... keep an eye on your dreams. Let your name choose you. When you do, let me know okay? <3 I just always prefer a name people want than a username is all. Unless they're the same thing, haha. You know what I mean.

[Alana Ashleigh]

What is it that appeals to you about it, AA? The geography and battlefields? The technology and ordnance? The geo-political climate? Or something else?

All of the above. It was a battlefield for most of the last century. It's been a battlefield for my entire life so far, so I'm familiar with the modern conflicts there.

[Sephirah]

All of the above. It was a battlefield for most of the last century. It's been a battlefield for my entire life so far, so I'm familiar with the modern conflicts there.

It has been a battlefield for most of modern history. Which is extremely sad. Because it seems like not only do different factions hate each other, they all hate the rest of the world. Wars come and go, but very little changes. Only the scars on the bombed out buildings. Until the next conflict.