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sup dudes
Name: Bailey/Bai.
Age: 32. my birthday is 6/8/1990
Sidenote: if these kinds of things matter to you, i am an ENFP & a gemini sun, sag moon, and aquarius rising. ♥
I mostly post about: whatever i'm feeling in that moment. i love to write, so it mostly comes out in poetry, prose, lists or playlists, photos, cryptic subliminal posts, or sometimes posting about my day like a normal person. i post a lot about my son, as i'm a first time mom. but overall, my journal is just a catch-all for me feelin' too many feelings at all times, always. it's a safe space for me, and can be a safe space for you too
My hobbies are: you're welcome to browse my interests in my bio if you'd like or i'll just tell ya i'm into writing, reading, music, painting, journaling (both online, and hand-written; i'm currently very into bullet journaling), astrology, any form of art, houseplants, gardening, skateboarding, surfing, anything involving nature, hiking, camping, concerts, road trips, long deep talks, beading/bracelet making, thrifting, the sims 4, anything true crime or anything high strangeness (missing 411, aliens, cryptozoology, creepy, dark, mysterious, etc.), hair and makeup (i am professionally licensed to do both: i love making others feel beautiful and confident in their own skin), animals, playing any stringed instrument, psychology and how people's mind's work and why they do what they do, and many more things that i cannot think of right now, i'm sure.
My fandoms are: no hate to anyone who's into fandoms, but personally, fandoms aren't my thing.
I'm looking to meet people who: understand the beauty and nostalgia of keeping an online journal and the era of internet that WAS that time... i want to meet people who are passionate, welcoming, funny, weird, quirky, kind, emotional, sad, people who are interested in the same things as me, people who aren't like me at all, those who would like to be friends, -- basically no matter if you're like me or not, if you want to be friends, i'm down. regardless of your background, life, and history, regardless if we have things in common, i am so interested in people in general, and reading whatever they decide to put out there on their little corner of the internet. i welcome all of you, so if you wanna, please reach out!
My posting schedule tends to be: daily/weekly/monthly/sporadic/etc - all of the above. so i guess it would be classified as sporadic. i will say, right now i am updating daily... and will continue to do so as my schedule allows; even if it's just a quick post from my phone. i am currently super active here, and am trying to continue that habit.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: just being unkind and spreading unnecessary hate. that's really all i can think of. no matter who you are, i am not here to make your journey on this rock floating in space any more complicated than it has to be - and i don't tolerate that from others. i will never bully anyone else, so i don't expect you to bully me or anyone else. just be a good human, that's all.
Before adding me, you should know: i am a very open-minded person who posts whatever is on my mind. i don't censor any feeling i have. expect honesty from me about my life and what i feel and think. i've been diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar (specifically type 2), and i am a recovering addict with years time under my belt at this point. i am 420 friendly, and can't wait to see what cannabis as well as certain hallucinogenics can do for medicine in our future. i really hope the stigma around addiction and mental health won't steer anyone away - but if it does, then i don't think we were meant to cross paths in the first place. i will never tolerate racism or homophobia or anything along those lines. i don't necessarily post DIRECTLY about these things usually; i tend to post more abstract or cryptically about my feelings or experiences with these sorts of things. i don't tend to get into politics or religion; but i will go ahead and let you all know that i lean to the more liberal side of things. i am also more spiritual than i am religious. i don't tend to deliberately post about these sorts of things - that's just the vibe i give off. i do not mind anyone who has opposing beliefs and will only show love to everyone, everywhere. i accept people for who they are, as they come. ♥
if you wanna be mutuals, i welcome you with open arms.
thank you for your time if you read all of this, i realize i typed a small novel without meaning to.
my bad.
Edit to add: if you do end up adding me, please leave a comment on my journal so i can know so i don't accidentally miss you. ♥ thank youuuu.
Age: 32. my birthday is 6/8/1990
Sidenote: if these kinds of things matter to you, i am an ENFP & a gemini sun, sag moon, and aquarius rising. ♥
I mostly post about: whatever i'm feeling in that moment. i love to write, so it mostly comes out in poetry, prose, lists or playlists, photos, cryptic subliminal posts, or sometimes posting about my day like a normal person. i post a lot about my son, as i'm a first time mom. but overall, my journal is just a catch-all for me feelin' too many feelings at all times, always. it's a safe space for me, and can be a safe space for you too
My hobbies are: you're welcome to browse my interests in my bio if you'd like or i'll just tell ya i'm into writing, reading, music, painting, journaling (both online, and hand-written; i'm currently very into bullet journaling), astrology, any form of art, houseplants, gardening, skateboarding, surfing, anything involving nature, hiking, camping, concerts, road trips, long deep talks, beading/bracelet making, thrifting, the sims 4, anything true crime or anything high strangeness (missing 411, aliens, cryptozoology, creepy, dark, mysterious, etc.), hair and makeup (i am professionally licensed to do both: i love making others feel beautiful and confident in their own skin), animals, playing any stringed instrument, psychology and how people's mind's work and why they do what they do, and many more things that i cannot think of right now, i'm sure.
My fandoms are: no hate to anyone who's into fandoms, but personally, fandoms aren't my thing.
I'm looking to meet people who: understand the beauty and nostalgia of keeping an online journal and the era of internet that WAS that time... i want to meet people who are passionate, welcoming, funny, weird, quirky, kind, emotional, sad, people who are interested in the same things as me, people who aren't like me at all, those who would like to be friends, -- basically no matter if you're like me or not, if you want to be friends, i'm down. regardless of your background, life, and history, regardless if we have things in common, i am so interested in people in general, and reading whatever they decide to put out there on their little corner of the internet. i welcome all of you, so if you wanna, please reach out!
My posting schedule tends to be: daily/weekly/monthly/sporadic/etc - all of the above. so i guess it would be classified as sporadic. i will say, right now i am updating daily... and will continue to do so as my schedule allows; even if it's just a quick post from my phone. i am currently super active here, and am trying to continue that habit.
When I add people, my dealbreakers are: just being unkind and spreading unnecessary hate. that's really all i can think of. no matter who you are, i am not here to make your journey on this rock floating in space any more complicated than it has to be - and i don't tolerate that from others. i will never bully anyone else, so i don't expect you to bully me or anyone else. just be a good human, that's all.
Before adding me, you should know: i am a very open-minded person who posts whatever is on my mind. i don't censor any feeling i have. expect honesty from me about my life and what i feel and think. i've been diagnosed with ADHD and bipolar (specifically type 2), and i am a recovering addict with years time under my belt at this point. i am 420 friendly, and can't wait to see what cannabis as well as certain hallucinogenics can do for medicine in our future. i really hope the stigma around addiction and mental health won't steer anyone away - but if it does, then i don't think we were meant to cross paths in the first place. i will never tolerate racism or homophobia or anything along those lines. i don't necessarily post DIRECTLY about these things usually; i tend to post more abstract or cryptically about my feelings or experiences with these sorts of things. i don't tend to get into politics or religion; but i will go ahead and let you all know that i lean to the more liberal side of things. i am also more spiritual than i am religious. i don't tend to deliberately post about these sorts of things - that's just the vibe i give off. i do not mind anyone who has opposing beliefs and will only show love to everyone, everywhere. i accept people for who they are, as they come. ♥
other than that, i am just a tiny lil' quirky vegetarian gal from South Carolina, with a giant heart, too much hair, and too many feelings.i just recently found out i have stage 4 chronic kidney failure/disease. my kidneys haves stabilized at 25% healthy function, so no dialysis or transplant for now. i have frequent doctor's appointments so we can monitor things and keep them in check. i'm a licensed hair and makeup artist, was a bartender for ~8 years (in the service industry for ~12 years or so), but currently i'm lucky enough to be a stay at home mom. i would eventually love to go back to school for psychology (i have a few semesters of credits in the subject, but left for cosmetology school at the time). i'm engaged and have been since 2018 to my best friend, Andrew. i like to think i'm the perfect fusion of a punk and a hippie if you muddled them together in even parts. i was raised by my dad (a sort of bluesy rock musician) and my mother (an old hippie soul); so i guess i get it honest. i have one sister who has special needs (if you want to know specifics: she has an imbalanced translocation involving the 3rd and 4th chromosomes, it's very rare) -- and she speaks in sign language... so that is my second language. truthfully, i was signing fluently before i could talk. i love the outdoors, nature is my church. i've been to countless festivals and outdoor concerts and the like, but that has calmed down in recent years, as i am a new mommy. my son's name is Odin, and he's a little over a year and a half now. i had a perfect and healthy pregnancy up until (despite taking every precaution) i caught covid in the 3rd trimester. we had a very traumatic birth - i had preeclampsia that came on very suddenly, and had a scare involving an almost postnatal hemorrhage situation and near cardiac arrest: there was a lot going on. Odin was hospitalized for 3 long months due to eating issues, and he was discharged the day he turned 3 months old with a G-tube. we have made wonderful progress since, and he is such a happy and healthy little boy. ♥ we have two dogs named Turner and Hooch (if you know, you know) - Turner being my dog, a rescue shepherd/boxer/pitty mix, and Hooch is Andrew's dog - a giant black german shepherd/lab mix. we live directly in the country (all our neighbors have chickens = yay, free eggs!) but we are a 15 minute drive from the mountains (yay, hiking!), and about 3 hours from the closest beach (yay, daycations!). i strive to find beauty in the small moments. lately my blood type has been peach tea and matcha. i just believe we are all souls having a very human experience on this rock floating in space wearing our skin suits - and we must be good to ourselves, and good to others.
if you wanna be mutuals, i welcome you with open arms.
thank you for your time if you read all of this, i realize i typed a small novel without meaning to.
my bad.
Edit to add: if you do end up adding me, please leave a comment on my journal so i can know so i don't accidentally miss you. ♥ thank youuuu.
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I'm chronically ill and mobility challenged, mentally ill [PTSD, OCD, treatment-resistant depression], neurodivergent [ADHD, autism], and also in recovery [alcohol since 2014, benzo addiction since 2007, though I'm 420-friendly which may or may not be a dealbreaker]. I'm a gay trans man [he/him] in my 40s who lives in the Midwest US with my best friend and a bunch of cats and I post about my boring hobbity life and some news/politics commentary, and nattering about my writing projects [Tolkien fic and o-fic]. I'm mostly vegetarian but I eat meat 1-2 times a week because of anemia. I am further to the left of Bernie Sanders. I try to be a decent person, and I try to be supportive though I'm socially awkward. I love hearing about the outdoors/nature and people's pets.
If you'd like to add me, that's cool, I think we'd get along well, if not that's also fine, have a nice day!
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i edited to add my post that i am 420 friendly - as well as super excited to see what cannabis as well as hallucinogenics will do in the medicine world of the future. i am in recovery, but when i say that, i just mean i stay the hell away from my doc. i don't have issues otherwise, and am very to each his/her/their own about mostly all things.
i guess i should also edit my post and add that i also have stage 4 kidney failure/disease. your comment sparked more things about me because we have so much in common, haha! i am stabilized for now at about 25% of healthy kidney function. no dialysis or transplant for me... yet.
i also have issues with anemia (i've had so many blood transfusions) -- and underneath the umbrella that is bipolar type 2, i have generalized anxiety as well as panic disorder, CPTSD, amongst a plethora of other things going on. i also struggle with treatment resistant depression. i've actually been considering ketamine treatments.
i love that you have a ton of cats and that you're living with your best friend. that must be super fun. i think the midwest is so beautiful in parts. i would love to visit someday. my fiance loves Tolkien anything. he's obsessed. don't hate me, but i don't have the attention span to easily sit through movies easily (ADHD problems, lol) so i've never actually paid super close attention to LOTR, despite my fiance's best efforts. we do have a really old, super cool, collector's edition of The Hobbit.
i am super mega awkward myself, but i'm very open about it (if that makes sense)
so even though i'm unapologetically awkward (i don't take compliments well without stuttering or rapidly subject changing or blurting out super random unrelated things) -- see: Jess from New Girl (that's me)... i think you being socially awkward, and me being awkward but quite talkative can make for a really good balance. ♥
i'm adding you right now.
thank you so much for being interested, and for taking the time to read/reply.
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Hullo! I'm very into astrology and journaling (slash organization, like todo lists), and I'm also the type that's interested in people in general. Maybe we could get along. Gave you access to let you take a look around.
Signed, INTJ and Leo Sun, Aries Moon, Cancer rising ;)
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i'm adding you & am happy to get to know you better ♥
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it's always lovely to have things in common, and to know that someone understands the deep longing i have of early 2000's internet. ♥
i added you. :)
i look forward to getting to know you more!
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Want to be friends? :)
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you had me at "reading" and if that wasn't enough, the other 5 absolutely sold me. i loooooove the sims 4 and true crime; i could talk about these things until i'm blue in the face to be honest. i look forward to being your friend! ♥
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I have watched so much true crime with my boyfriend, he is kinda the person that got me into it lol.
I look forward to getting to know you as well, I added you back babe! ♥
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i want more expansion packs, but i would have to get a new macbook/mac for it. mine is *too old* to load any new sims stuff, so i have all the packs up until university... and it burns a hole into my soul. i do watch youtube videos of people playing so i can get my fix of all the newer packs...
gosh, i wish my fiance was into true crime.
he will be beside me trying to sleep, or watch his stuff on youtube, and i'm constantly interrupting trying to tell him about someone who has been dismembered and eaten at like 1 AM and he just gives me this look like, *not again, bailey* lmao
you seem like my kinda person
thank you again for the add ♥
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we can be friends on here if you want.
if not, that's cool too.
either way, wishing you the best!
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We do have a few things in common: motherhood (my son turned 12 this summer), astrology (Cap sun, Virgo moon, Taurus rising, Aquarius in Mars and Mercury, Venus in Cap), history of mental illness (I've combated against anxiety and depression, my mom's also type 2 bipolar), cosmetology (I was in school for hair color specifically in 2019, had to leave due to familial reasons).
I do journal (almost) daily and speak about daily stuff. I do put things behind a cut in my journal that are either trigger warnings or things that not everyone on my list will be into (gaming/World of Warcraft - I've been playing since 2007, or my spiritual stuff - I'm a theistic Satanist/Luciferian witch) just because I do befriend people of all walks of life and connect differently with different folx.
I look forward to hearing from you :)
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i am always to thrilled to have other mother friends. i'm sure you remember what that feels like in early motherhood. it's so refreshing to have someone around who has experience in case i need advice!
i am always open to talking about and reading about mental health anything. along with literally living it myself, i am very very into psychology and why our minds are the way they are and why they do what they do.
i specialized in hair color and men's cuts! i hope you'll go back and finish if that's something you'd eventually like to do. i know what it's like to leave and take a hiatus for familial reasons: i was going to major in psychology and had to leave for the same. this was before i was licensed in cosmetology, i did that just because i needed to do SOMETHING i was good at/interested in and needed to do it quickly and know that i would always have a fall-back plan. i am looking into going back to finish the psychology thing -- i just am looking to see if it's possible to do online so i can remain a stay at home mom for the time being, as my little is still so little and i don't trust others with him.
oh my gosh, i was super into world of warcraft from like 2008-around 2013. so i don't mind that at all.
i definitely added you and look forward to being friends.
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I've noticed its rare these days to connect with other parents. I absolutely remember early motherhood, and the struggles I had with it. Please, feel free to ask questions! I can only speak on my own behalf, but I think I did okay considering my son made it to 12 this summer. XD
This is incredible and I wish more people felt comfortable speaking out about their experiences. There's still so much stigma connected to mental health in general.
Thats awesome! How long did you work as a hair stylist/colorist? And thats exactly why I did it too, I needed a skill. I'd like to finish schooling at some point but now still isn't the time. I wish you the best of luck with studying online! I hope that's an option for you. I don't blame you for not trusting others with your wee one. I was the same for a while myself.
Hell yes! What faction/race/class combo did you play?!
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I am going to add you.
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no, but really, like you said: you seem like someone i would be friends with in real life. so i am going to be friends with you on here, and maybe that can translate over... because i do consider the friendships i make on here to be in real life. they matter. so you seem like someone i'm going to gravitate towards a lot. ♥
our moms also sound like the same mom.
i haven't surfed in a while. :'(
we used to do a time share in sullivan's island with this older couple who spent summers on their house boat, so we would stay the entire summer there. i still have my board, and don't mind making the short drive to the coast to surf - it's just recent events that have kept me from doing so, ie: i am a new mom. i also have a longboard, but have never been as graceful on it as i am in the water for some reason. it's just sometimes that scratches a little bit of the itch, if you know what i mean. i am so so so glad you're able to surf as you want to, and would be lying if i said i wasn't jealous.
the only reason i classify myself as a vegetarian is because i eat eggs. except the eggs i eat 100% always come from my next door neighbor, so i don't support the animal eating industry in any way. it's just i consider myself pro-choice... and if i wanna eat a hen period, i'm gonna eat a hen period. i do consider myself other than that a very vegan-y vegetarian. so that's another almost common ground.
i'm so excited you commented and added me!
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We have common interests! You also seem lovely/the kind of human I like to keep around. :) Add?
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i saw you're a gemini. we are both geminis. i saw your b-day is june 2nd... mine is june 8th. as if that's not a selling point by itself, we have a scary amount of things in common. except while you're trying to keep your cactus alive, i've never been able to keep one alive. i have 98594578934 other houseplants though, and have had luck with all of them. my pride and joy is my fiddle leaf fig.
not to mention, we are a lot alike when it comes to our sexuality. i used to think i was bi, but then realized i might be pan? idk, you tell me. my theory on my sexuality is that i will fall in love with a person, not a gender. that's literally it. it could be anyone. i don't know what that makes me? feel free to chime in on this sometime if you want.
we also have a scary amount in common with mental health. i mean your story sounds a lot like my own. always here if you wanna talk about that sort of stuff, since i will definitely understand you.
i also talk about the sims way too much, and LOVE one tree hill. i've been recently thinking about re-watching it and making my fiance watch it too. haha, he would never watch that kind of thing on his own -- but any time i'm watching something, he just automatically gets sucked into it too, but since it's so far from his personality, it always makes me laugh so hard to hear him ranting about something like dawson's creek or pretty little liars. has me laughing til my sides are sore. he also doesn't play the sims, but gets heavily invested into my games/families/stories. hilarious.
i am also always wearing a worn-in oversized graphic tee or band tee AND I ALSO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING, EVER.
needless to say, i added you ♥
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Shared interests are appreciated but I feel like what I'm looking for in a friend is sincere connection and someone that is (or tries) to be a good human being to others.
Essentially, I am a 40-year-old cis woman that is incessantly curious about the world and the people and animals that inhabit it. I am child-free but like the idea of children in the sense that they have the kind of wonder and care-free attitude that unfortunately dissipates as one grows older and more jaded with oneself – a fate that I fear will affect me.
I live with Schizoaffective Disorder - Bipolar Type but I don't let that diagnosis define who I am. I was diagnosed last November when I had an extremely horrible manic episode. Prior to that, my diagnosis was Bipolar One, a diagnosis that I carried since I was 13. I only mention this because living with a mental illness colors my experiences and perspectives.
There's more I can write but this is probably enough as an introduction.
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i think you and i are going to get along well! it's lovely to meet you. i'm so happy you found me!
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