My colleague and I are MSc researchers at the University of Exeter, studying psychedelic use in relation to peri- and postmenopause: well-being, stress, menopausal symptoms, brain fog, memory, and concentration.

We’re looking for peri-/postmenopausal women who have used psychedelics to help with mental well-being during this period of their lives.

If you are peri-/postmenopausal or know someone who is, I would love it if you could pass this survey on. It’s also open to women who don’t use psychedelics, as we need to compare the two groups, but we really need to find psychedelics users.

You can find the survey here:

https://exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3fwELWhKlduYffE

I got the vape today, I thought I'd give it a little try this evening. For what it's worth, I'm a fat old lady 30 days out from my 60th birthday. Very well versed in classic psychedelics plus salvia and as far as the new things go, I quite enjoy metocin. For 40+ years I've been a daily cannabis user and I live in a state where it is legal so I'm a heavy user.

OK so I had a light lunch, I decided to try the new vape. I took a small toke, just to get the taste out of the way (tastes like burned fart, not delightful). Besides the taste, I didn't notice anything but this had been a very small toke, I hardly even inhaled.

Then I took another, longer toke but still not a full, deep toke. I did notice a mild effect, I decided then to take one long, deep toke that I did not hold in. It was really deep, I blew out a thick cloud. I immediately felt effects. I closed my eyes and both saw oily dark soap bubbles but also felt like I was also dark soap bubbles. I opened my eyes, everything looked a little wavy but it was very subtle. I did not feel nauseous. My heart rate did not change, my body temperature stayed steady. The high kept building and I just had to lay back and close my eyes.

As the experience built, it felt like the soles of my feet were glowing. Not hot, not itchy, glowing. I felt my anus relax so much I worried I might have an oopsie. [Even now an hour later my bowels feel like they're going to have a lot to say any moment now.] Soon enough though, I lost contact and went into dreamland. My dog sneezed, I heard that and was present for that moment but then gone again this time really gone. Just out of it entirely. A beam in the ceiling creaked and I was back, present and accounted for.

This was such a strange experience. I take psychedelics for the beautiful visions mainly. Exposing myself to ineffable beauty is healing to me, it lifts my spirit it reconnects me to my own artistry. I take psychedelics for the euphoria because I am a hedonist and that is a valid philosophical stance. This first time with this substance has left me confused really.I didn't expect it to knock me out but that's really what happened. I did expect it to give me more to look at, maybe on 2 deep draws it will but that will have to wait for another day. At my age these things take a while to get out of my system. Aint nobody taking care of this old lady but this old lady.

If you happen to be another oldster like me and you're wondering about this stuff, it does not seem to have a bad impact on your heart rate or temperature regulation but you might have a deleterious gut reaction, probably fleeting. Full return to baseline seems to take longer than an hour however one could probably drive sooner than an hour in an emergency on this substance. Great caution would be advised though.

So my 60th birthday is later this fall, I want to go to a fancy restaurant (without driving 6+ hours to San Fransisco), I wanted to go to Larrupin, I've heard it's amazing. I asked my wife to make a reservation but when she went to the website, she saw they have live jazz sometimes. She fucking hates jazz (I love it) so if we go and there's jazz, she will sit there seething and being an absolute shit head about it and fuck, I am already upset even thinking about it. ANYWAY, does this place have ANYWHERE as good as (or better than) Larrupin?

without fucking up the plaster? Is there a picture framing shop somewhere local? Thanks!

You guys remember I have bricks, bricks, BRICKS bricks for days bricks for you, your mama, your granny, your new baby I got BRICKS! A few less than the day before but still, like 1200 bricks for YOU!!!!

The small red cube is bricks gone to a better home.

Like, a WHOLE bunch of nice bricks? The piles as well as those still in/on the ground. You can have the hose as well, even that tarp if you want it. I just need all this stuff gone, I thought I was going to use it all in a project but things went a different direction and now I just need it all gone asap.

https://preview.redd.it/ei34f4qo53dh1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7df7ee741e23ede2da667a7c28aeb2e1471d92fd

https://preview.redd.it/aclk0y4q53dh1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2cf6c76290e913c2f5e6100e7fa7c63758a53e0

Not some whimpy thing either, I want a LARGE catio, one that encloses my entire backyard! Patially covered, fully enclosed, is there anyone (who works in Eureka) willing and able to build such a thing? There has to be, right?

It's very soft, the details are all printed on, I thought it would have more stitching but I love it anyway.

https://preview.redd.it/tq99zkuzga6h1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1be136ba58eccfe82ebeb4ba30e4dda052ed4741

Look, I have a tattoo artist I've visited three times now, she's great and I may visit her again but I want to try someone new this time. So, who do you all reckon could do me a forearm in a style like this?

https://preview.redd.it/a9j7n9xh2uyg1.jpg?width=622&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52df2bc54a11ea6fda39ade88f2c49576ae45002

https://preview.redd.it/ryu52plj2uyg1.jpg?width=457&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b856f80bd8b627d1fb3b7d3a3640ba0fdedf29d

https://preview.redd.it/kx8bgeik2uyg1.jpg?width=295&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ffbc1a794ad733295e29270455219cbdf47dc7b7

You all get the drift?