Feeling... happy I finally found new jeans to wear at home. Took ordering, returning, ordering another one, returning etc.
Too wide, too short, too thin, too whatever.
My old house jeans was beginning to fall apart so it was about time I succeeded!!

I get that, and I know plenty about the brain and neuroplasticity.
But you forget something: we never figured everything out by ourselves!! We've always talked to others, sometimes professionals, and asked their opinion/input/advice.
Did that make mankind into retards? No.
Talking to others -incl. doctors, therapists, but also friends- actually helps us sift & sort and organise our thoughts!!
One person cannot know everything, every person has their own filters & projections, and blind spots.

AI can certainly be of help to us in this provided -I repeat, provided- you don't depend 100% on it and not all the time. Like you wouldn't want to depend 100% on others people's opinions all the time.
If you give up on thinking for yourself you're in trouble. But few would I think. Like most don't do that with other people either.

What I heard from Vanessa van Edwards... communication & body language expert... she was telling that talking to AI a lot can have an impact on how people go about interacting.
She's noticed her husband telling AI stuff like, don't be so stupid, hurry up, get it right, and so on and so forth.
In other words: all quite rude and in a way we'd rarely speak to humans.
Another thing that is important... there is no human connection, no eye-contact, no intonation, no real-felt sympathy, and... no oxytocin production!
That sure as hell is an important thing to ponder as all those things are vitally important to our health & well-being and no way can you get that from an AI.
It had me change the way I talk to AI myself. It felt off and idiotic to address an AI with for instance "can YOU". It's an it, not a "you". It also annoyed me that AI refers to itself with "I" "me" "to my eye" etc. etc.
But having heard how people can get ruder in human communication because they gotten used to talking to a machine I decided to treat it as a human being.
Within reason of course. What I mean is, I'm not going to be rude, I do thank it when it has helped me etc.
Not because I'm beginning to think it's a human being but just to stop myself from becoming rude and making that my new normal.

I found it shocking as well to hear that many have an AI app they talk to???
Me, yes, I have started to use AI a few months back, mostly for help with my paintings (composition etc), but I'm not using AI all day long nor every day.
And if it wasn't for painting I'd likely barely use it at all.

As for my brain... I'm always learning and evolving. When I paint (as good as every day) I put on a vid on YouTube about dating, psychology, epigenetics and so on. Whatever piques my interest in the moment. I think my neuroplasticity is really good. Because I keep learning and have a constant interest and 'hunger' in learning new things.
Most things I'm busy with or talk about are not things I've learnt when I was young. Not at all. Most is what I've learnt over the last few years, last month, last week, yesterday or even today.
I seriously LOVE learning! Currently I'm busy with learning about fascia, I'm also a member of Health is Looks.
But I'm never hooked on 1 thing or not for long. I'm diverse, hihi. I could and would seriously want to live a couple more lifetimes because there are so many intriguing things to do and learn, haha. I'd have no trouble living a couple hundred years :D

On top of that I have my HRT & TRT (hormone replacement) which sure as hell helps to keep the brain healthy. The brain needs loads of oestrogen, also testosterone and progesterone to stay healthy and maintain its neuroplasticity. (that's why old people deteriorate in that area --> for the most part lack of hormones).
So I think I'm good :D

A number of sessions further.
I changed the sky today as I didn't like it.
Today I worked on the bear again. Not done with it yet but when the face/head is right I can finally start with the most exiting thing, hihi.

Oh, and the fish... I only wanted to block it in to help me do the grizz' muzzle, but shoot, I love it! It pops!
I will work on it a bit more, some fine-tuning, an eye etc. but I like it!!

Feeling... okay. Ready to get painting! Unfortunately there's no sun today, but it's bright enough.

I've been watching a lot of The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch of late.
I'd heard of it before but had no idea what it was so I decided to watch it to find out.
Reality - 2020 - present, 7 seasons so far.
IMDb rating 6,5
Mine is the same

At first it is okay but if you binge watch all seasons & episodes it starts to wear thin real fast.
Much of what they do is what they've already done a number of times before.

In the beginning much revolves around homestead 2 as that always had a lot of activity and other various strange things, for instance with cattle.
But later on everything seems to focus on the triangle with very strange stuff happening. Not just a few episodes, but everything then is about investigating that triangle.
And okay, they find peculiar things, but then it's all the same so it becomes boring real fast.

I'm quite certain they'll never find anything substantial. The previous owner worked together with government organisation on the property. Their findings are classified. Not even the senator of Utah or other high up people get clarity on it.
Who knows what they found there, or what they themselves did there?!
If those organisations knew it'd be possible for others to find out stuff they'd not have allowed the ranch to be sold off.
Meaning no one will ever find anything there bar for vague chit.

Feeling... good for now. Had a modest meal of 2 pancakes with banana & bacon & maple syrup.
I'll prolly get hungry later but I still have a couple sausage rolls to eat.
I wasn't in the mood to cook a full regular meal.

Feeling... good. Had my hair cut yesterday, not much as I want to grow it even more.
The hairdresser used hair-styling powder, I was curious about it. It worked a treat but now I do have to wash my hair again to get it out.

Thinking... that was the first really colder evening yesterday. I couldn't get warm.
Evening & night temps will drop further this week, brrr. I'm not ready for that yet.

There shouldn't be much difference if they had gender affirming surgeries.
Biggest difference would be how you think & feel about it all. Can you get over the fact they were born as a male and lived as such for a long time?
Men who had sex with a trans woman say they didn't notice a difference.
But I suspect many men have an ego problem with it.

Personally, me being a woman, I find it a bit weird in the sense of, what the hell do they know about being a woman? They never had a cycle, don't know what it is to have a period, grow breasts naturally as a teen, to be pregnant and feel your baby movie inside your womb. That beautiful sensation when you breastfeed and the milk moves, what it's like to become menopausal, and so on and so forth.
They've been made a woman by surgeons' hands but on various levels they have never experienced what it's like to actually be a woman.

Thank you so much!

And my reply has gone????????????
Tried to help the kid. Wonderful

Me too!
Okay, I'm also looking for this great guy who makes me sparkle even more, but not necessarily looking for him here. Not practical if someone would live in the US.
Me is too much of a touchy-feely person for a long distance relationship!

I finished the other one, started my 12th cowboy & horse painting two days ago :)

This time something else will be the main focal point, but there is going to be a cowboy on a horse for sure!

Your upbringing doesn't make you an introvert.
Introversion is what you are or aren't, has to do with the way your brain is wired etc.
Your environment doesn't make you an introvert.

What you can get by having a closed-off upbringing...
It can lead to social awkwardness or a lack of practice navigating large groups, which people often mislabel as introversion.

Research has also shown that hardly anyone is a true introvert or extrovert. Most people are ambiverts.

Thinking... this is proving to be the weirdest Mercury Retrograde ever!
Thank the Goddess none of the things that came up were real issues but they had to be dealt with nonetheless. As in double checking things by phoning organisations/companies, and finding out I was right.
Hopefully that was it for now. 4x is enough.
12 days to go and then Mercury will go direct again.

But you're typing? That means you're a keyboard

Sometimes you got to treat yourself :)
I did the same just now by enjoying a maple & pecan roll. I'm having a bit of a day, something yummie & sweet helps

Thank you, I like to be a lucky girl, hihi.
But in this case it's more a matter of installing an adblocker. Something I've done yonks ago. Helps a tremendous lot!

Yeah, they're busy with all kinds of silly chit to stop natural progress. Whoever "they" are. The ones who truly are in power in the world.
That kind of future is not for me.
I stick to natural.

If you spend 10 mins a day, preferably a few times during the day, in gratitude you already lengthen your telomeres. That means you are lengthening your life, adding years to your life. And health.
They done that research with a group and after 10 days their telomeres had gotten significantly longer, meaning they'd added -if memory serves- a year to their life.
It is that easy.
We don't need any artificial anything. Our bodies are so smart, so adaptable. Most people just lack the knowledge and we are inclined to be indifferent & lazy when it comes to our own health.

Going back to knowing what you need... for me a physical body :)