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hi im pumpkin. she/her. 🧠🌢️. Asexual. Anti-racist. I like gardens and colors. ME/CFS, hEDS, MCAS, POTS, Fibro. bed tethered. i love people and also people scare me. πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

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oh interesting! i liked young sheldon more than BBT haha i can’t stand BBT as a show tho some clips are fun

george and mandies first marriage is a very low budget sitcom type show, very different than the others

i doubt you’d like it then haha

12.03.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

waking up has been really hard and it’s taking me hours to stabilize myself.

and it stresses me out when my sleep schedule does not align with when i need to be at work

so it’s been a lot lately. yeah.

but i look thematically cute again so there’s that haha

12.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i need to do a lot of chores

when i get paid i need to buy some things

and i need to finish my taxes now that i know my stuff

yeah

11.03.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

instead that took me however long october to now is. because i needed to bring other empty boxes to bed, clear some stuff away, and then finally i could get a box cut in half to store my meds

they could have helped me with that too haha.

soon!

11.03.2026 23:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

i feel awful and need food and want stuff from the fridge.

when @ommerdraven.unitedsyncretic.org gets here they can help me and bring me food from the kitchen since i am basically bedridden and have limited function to get up or move at all

they could have helped cut a box in half for me too!

11.03.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the chocolate chips in the halotop cherry chocolate flavor do NOT taste like chocolate and i can’t stand them

11.03.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

weather changes hit me so hard

they’re painful. my brain swells. and i get all emotional about everything.

#NEISvoid

11.03.2026 23:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ok enough crying my MCAS is going to wreck me if i don’t stop lol

distract and focus on other things now

i do feel a bit better. i did a bandage change and wound care, and changed into a white shirt and green basketball shorts

and my green ribbon tying my central line for security!

11.03.2026 23:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it’s like, at least having bestie as a partner was a direction, y’know?

and maybe i’ll feel better when @ommerdraven.unitedsyncretic.org gets here, because i will have some help and we can help each other, and hopefully grow to help other people too.

that’s a direction.

11.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i miss him

and on these days when i feel all nostalgic and so overwhelmed by life and just so incredibly emotional with the fucked up weather, i wish i could cry to him about it

without him i start missing more things
like fostering
and cats
and being an auntie to my friends kids

11.03.2026 23:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i don’t often feel this sadness when bestie and i feel connected.

having a platonic partner like him was very nice, in many ways

i can’t call it a queer relationship because he’s straight. he also wants to take hormones
and i am queer. so maybe that alone makes us queer i don’t even know.

11.03.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

some days i want to text my neighbor and ask if they have a secret cat, and if i can pet it

but what i really want is a cat to cuddle in bed with and purr as i pet them
like i used to have

or some human companion, instead of a weighted blanket

and i’m too sick for any of that

11.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i can’t even have a cat haha

which i deeply want and also planned for.

after meeting my old roommate’s cats and falling in love, i planned to get stable enough to have a cat of my own. or two, a bonded pair.

but i got worse sick and that never happened.

11.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

sometimes i feel the baby fever

and sometimes i feel nostalgic for the life i had growing up

it was more than half my life i spent around kids and babies and families, because of my mom

though, it sounds difficult to raise kids now. or be away from them at work.

11.03.2026 23:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i grew up in a family house daycare. so i saw tons of kids until after college when i moved out. tons of family life and growing up.

i never wanted that, until i was old enough to find myself and know my AuDHD self, and by then i knew i likely wouldn’t find a man to share all that with.

11.03.2026 23:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

and some days like today it feels cruel.

it saved me to have roommates and people staying

and it’s helped lots of people

but it never got to house bestie. even tho he did try to come here.

and it’s so weird, to live so differently

11.03.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i’ve never met my friends’ kids

i didn’t get promoted on a path to do more and earn more

i didn’t get to morph into the women i looked up to when i was younger
or even celebrate my 30th birthday
or my 35th

i do have the apartment i planned to have when i fostered.

but. that’s it haha

11.03.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

sometimes life feels so big and i feel so overwhelmed by all of the things i won’t be experiencing

and sometimes i feel so ok and satisfied with where i’m at

i felt this way before. it’s not something that happened after i got worse sick. but, it feels worse now because i can’t choose what i do.

11.03.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

in my previous life plan before i got sick

i would have been going to get my baby foster care license some time around now

i never got married or found a man to start a family with. so, i decided to become a foster parent.

except i got MECFS and a traumatic brain injury instead lol

11.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

there’s a lot of anime about outcast kids who find new friend families and turn out ok

sometimes they’re formulaic and badly written
and sometimes they show me some reflection of my own life that makes me think

β€œthe weakest tamer began a journey to pick up trash” is really amazing

11.03.2026 22:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

life is going pretty well

but chronic illness is doing its own thing and some days it’s just hard. even if i’m generally doing ok. and some days i get so over it.

or overwhelmed and everything feels worse and all emotional

11.03.2026 22:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i’m
having a hard time lately and idk why it feels so hard

i miss my friend which is always a sign i’m not doing great

i’m going to change into my green basketball shorts and a new white shirt

not new new just like clean and it’s white

and hope i feel better from that and the holiday colors

11.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Daily pill dispenser! #3dprinting #3dprinted #3dprint #anycubic #anycubics1maxcombo
Daily pill dispenser! #3dprinting #3dprinted #3dprint #anycubic #anycubics1maxcombo YouTube video by AF Inventions

someone made a thing similar to an idea i had

a 3D printed pill dispenser

my idea would let you pre load the whole bottle and dispense one pill at a time tho, like a gum ball machine

this is cool tho

youtube.com/shorts/5AHz8...

11.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so nice

11.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

and i can slide it to me and slide it back

and it’s so nice

i found all my meds so easily
no hunt

and my lip gloss bc i waking up dehydrated not IV and so i wanted some hydrated lips and bam there it is!

hehe i put a TP roll cut up on the box for to hold the lips things!!

eee so nice

11.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œwhy didn’t i do this earlier?”
bc my brain is damaged lol i couldn’t

but i’m so satisfied now with this bit of help

it’s half a cromolyn box i cut open and tape the parts together

and it’s so nice some organized

11.03.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

today is kinda hard and my sleep schedule is SO OFF right now which is bad

but omg i love my medicine box so much
and the other half is self care items and i love that too

it’s so nice some organized

so nice ☺️

and right now the star sun beams are nice

11.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lizard!! so many animals how nice!

11.03.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’›πŸ’›πŸ’› i really hope you get some relief and rest soon

11.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wtf that’s so awful

oh my gods oh jeez

11.03.2026 19:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0