Henry's Emporium of Wonders

Making the internet normal again, one post at a time.

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  • Dream inspired note

    Most people that are at the center of some sort of spiritual movement or religion (i.e Jesus Christ or the Bhuddha) teach the same lessons. Have compassion for one another. Treat others as one. But for some reason the powers that be (i.e. the government, media, influencers(which have increased the spread), the need to work to survive, etc. ) try to divide and distract us from those messages. If we all just treated each other as if we were all a family, there truly could be a heaven on earth.

    But there’s a lot of different forces that exist that distract the everyday conciousness from remembering these lessons. Like with our culture’s focus on future tech, having the latest and the greatest, doing everything on your own–it’s not by the way, having help is OKAY–and a weirdly absent interest in our own shared pasts. Like humanity has existed for thousands of years, isn’t anyone else interested in what those people had learned? yet things like this which would be considered as a humanity have been under attack for years, **think classroom curriculum, general cultural curiosity, it seems like American society has keep us limited to the most recent human events, where as in countries that have a more continuous shared cultural history , most of media that is created incorporate ideaologies/events that are a shared memory. To know your past is to learn the knowledge others had paved a way towards.

    That was the best thing about America. It used to take the best part or best idea from the different people that lived here (either born here or immigrated). There was a time we were on the right path to getting better (we weren’ perfect, but it was something to work with) but then something happened (REAGAN), and we began moving in the wrong direction. To more division among how different classes of people (i.e. male/female, rich, poor, immigrant, second generation, by race, by ability) are treated. If a person calls America home they should be treated with dignity and respect. We should act as a family and our quality of life would be so much better. I would just urge people to look at each other like we are all the same because we are. We are all just humans living on earth at the same time, in the same overall circumstances. Can’t we just agree to change it for the better on some basics like housing, food, healthcare, and a living wage? Is that such a bad idea? This is a radical idea? By the way, certain groups have weaponized the word radical, but all it means is  very different from the usual or traditional . But different doesn’t mean bad. It’s just different.

    It’s okay to be different. Or at least that was how I was raised. If you weren’t lucky enough to experience a family like that, just know you have a sister out there who is okay with you being different. 🙂

  • Had a crazy dream (TLDR:They are not in a better place, just on a better path).

    OMG, so I get really vivid dreams sometimes, where I feel like I am awake in the dream. Last time I had a dream like that was in 2022, about my mom and meeting her again but older and being told by some security type guard (wasn’t scary, just by the book) I wasn’t supposed to be there, and my mom told the him really proudly “that’s my daughter! She found me.”

    But in this dream I was just my presence if that makes sense and I was watching like an editing board of four scenes. In each screen I was watching my consciousness going through different scenarios, but it was okay if it made a mistake because it would just get another chance to have a better situation/station next time. Sometimes it would run into consciousness that it had met before and had run into, and they would help each other once they’ve both realized the situation. So it’s okay if you are still on the path you’ll meet them again, until it’s time both of you have left this path. And once you’ve realized the situation, it’s kind of like hacking your life.

    IDK it just left me really happy and relieved. I just had to write it down so I don’t forget. Because it’s easy to forget our dreams.

  • How to Opt out of Meta AI Generative training:

    OMG. Facebook/Meta is using anyone who has used a Meta Product’s information to train their generative AI models. Opt out here:https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/1266025207620918

    I made a step by step guide.

    Proof: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/genai

    Please take a small piece of your day out to opt out of this. This is an absolutely insane type of privacy violation. What if you had a stalker who was obsessed with you so you block him on everything? But he is able to use Meta’s AI to create images of you? and him?. This is so crazy!!.


    You have to start here.


    https://www.facebook.com/privacy/genai

    After clicking that link it brings you here. Click on the highlighted portion below:

    That will then take you to this page:

    Then, click the checkbox:


    I think it’s crazy that they want you support your case as to why they can’t use your info to train AI. LOL How do we get this to be a huge class action lawsuit?

    OMG. After you hit send, it has to send a code to your email!

    FINALLY!!!


  • Making time to be grateful

    With all the craziness in the modern world, it is hard to sit and just be grateful with what IS going great in life.

    I was dropping my son off at preschool today and as I was walking to my car I just had to stop and be grateful for everything that is in my life right now that is good.

    1. I have a flexible job that allows me to do drop off for my son.
    2. I have a handsome and healthy little boy.
    3. I love my current car and it has no issues. I am almost done paying it off.
    4. My husband is handsome.
    5. My dad is healthy and strong.

    Those are things to be grateful for at anytime, but especially now when the news is just filled with a horror show. Another school shooting, more trade wars, violations of human/civil rights. It’s a crazy time to be a first time adult.

    I need to be mindful of the things that are going right and just tweak my mindset. 🙂

  • My Therapist Claude

    I don’t know if I’m the only one to do this, but sometimes when I am anxious about something. I do a check with Claude to see if I am just being paranoid. I am wary about using AI too much, because I am concerned about the environmental cost–AI datacenters do so much damage to the area in which they are located, some residents have very poor water pressure or NO WATER at all, do to these resources being diverted to cool machines, please do some research into this–however, I am guilty of using AI for purely personal reasons. I don’t know if anyone else has been following the f*ckery going on in Texas. They are attempting to redraw district maps to oust democratically ELECTED representatives. It’s crazy. Look into. Anways, that along with everything else going on. I had a convo with Claude this morning, and basically yeah. Even AI can see what is going on.




    What can we do as the American People to get out of this Dystopian Timeline? I’m so sick of paying taxes on EVERYTHING–income tax, sales tax, property taxes, gift taxes, registration tax–and we get NOTHING IN RETURN. What is the point of functioning in a society if we get nothing? We just fund the government to create laws to control us and pay for enforcement agencies–ICE, the police, etc–to control and brutalize us? I’m sure this isn’t the America any of us want.

  • Finding out I was pregnant…

    I had never really thought about kids when I was younger. I was too busy just trying to survive my childhood. LOL. But I really didn’t care one way or the other. I never gave it too much thought or made it a priority. It was just a if it happens it happens. Obviously if it did happen I was planning on it being after I was financially stable and in a stable relationship.

    All that to say when I saw that positive dollar tree pregnancy test–after a weeklong bought with what I had thought was food poisoning–I was more in shock than anything else. I really shouldn’t have been that shocked. We were using pulling out as a contraceptive. STUPID! IDK why I didn’t think it was more stupid back then, but like we had been doing that for two years before and hadn’t gotten pregnant? Anyways at this point I’m like 31, pretty good financially, in a semi-healthy relationship–it’s more healthy now :)–so it’s not the worst thing in the world. I had already been thinking about marrying my husband anyways (more on that another day); so I told him and we made the decision together. We obvs decided to keep it, and now I have a tiny dictator in my home.

    It was just funny though because leading up to that, we had gone to this Pho restaurant with my husband’s family at a place our BiL and SiL were raving about. They had been going there for years and had a relationship with the owners. It was weird, they would go behind the counter for stuff?! Anyways, the food was good, but the next day I was throwing up. I asked my then BF at the time if he felt weird, and of course when I feel ill he feels deathly ill. LOL But the next day I was still throwing up and couldn’t keep anything down. This was serious enough for my now Husband to notice. I told him I was okay it was probably just that damn restaurant. So we were making fun of the restaurant the rest of the week. However, when I didn’t get my period that weekend, I was like OH NO.

    I used to keep a stack of pregnancy tests from the dollar tree at home just in case. I think everyone who is at risk of pregnancy should have a stash. The dollar tree ones are just as accurate as the more high end brands. IDK why they are allowed to do stuff like that. Make us pay more for things that do the same thing. Anyways, I digress, I took it and low and behold two lines appeared. I told Napoli (hubby), and he thought I was playing at first. But no, there it was. Clear as day. We had a choice to make. We discussed our current financial path, and what would change, were we ready? We made the decision that we were. So here we are now 3 years later, and I’m picking sh*t off the floor every other day because we are potty training. LOL I think we made a good choice. I’m just glad we had a chance to choose what was best for us in that moment. One of the perks of living in California.

  • Tuesday

    IDK why, but Tuesdays always go pretty fast for me. Probably because I have most of my meetings on Tuesdays. Tuesdays don’t really have anything going on other than Taco Tuesday I guess, but not everybody likes tacos?

    I have to remember to put my car in on Tuesdays because the street sweepers come by our street every other Wednesday. I never remember which Wednesday they are supposed to come so I just put my car in every Tuesday just to be sure. I could probably figure out what days the Street Sweeper will be by, but I’m too busy disassociating on Tuesdays. LOL

  • Collage Art

    When I was a kid, my mom used to make us make collages all the time. They were really fun to make so we usually just did it. As a mom, I see it was a good way to keep us occupado. lol.

    I still really like the idea of collages and the way they look. I don’t do alot of physical collage work–apart for the occasional vision board–but I do make a lot of digital collages. Mostly featuring my very best friend Henry. lol Now they also include Isaiah such as my holiday masterpiece.

    I think that’s one thing AI generated art can’t replicate is the crazy combinations humans are capable of producing. I think that kind of art is edgy and interesting. Really reminds me of the same vibe as Francesca Lia Block and her novels. Was anybody obsessed with the Weetzy Bat Series as well? No? Just me?

  • Hulk Hogan

    Hulk Hogan just passed away today at the age of 71. Stated cause of death is cardiac arrest.

    I guess my initial feelings were shock, and then sadly thinking “Good for him”. lol I can’t forget that he used his platform to help the current administration rise to power. It’s crazy.

    In the 90’s my dad was HUGE into WWE. It was always on the TV. Us kids didn’t really like it. We are more prone to peaceful interactions, but that doesn’t stop me from remembering all the colorful characters who graced the screen. Randy (BREAK INTO A SLIM JIM) Savage, the Undertaker, Andre the Giant, and of course Hulk Hogan. He always kind of creeped me out with the bleach blond hair and overly tan skin.

    He was once again thrust into the spotlight with his short lived reality show “Hogan Knows Best”, a play on the old phrase “Father Knows Best”. In this case it makes NO SENSE, in many regards. The title literally doesn’t make sense. Hogan is the family’s last name, so does that mean any “Hogan Knows Best”, it’s not necessarily limited just to Hulk Hogan. Wait, I just looked it up and apparently, that is not their real last name it is actually Bollea, but they ALL CALLED THEMSELVES HOGANS, so my first point still stands. The second point is Hulk clearly has brain trauma from his time in the ring? He also has massive behavioral issues. How was he leading his family let alone advising them? They were really weird about Brooke, considering she was only 16 at the time.

    Her song with Paul Wall was low-key a bop. I think it was called About Us. It just doesn’t have like powerhouse vocals or anything to really distinguish it. I don’t know how to explain it or maybe I’m just high.

    Crazy to think that there was a world where the headline HULK HOGAN DEAD would have made a huge story, but now it’s kind of a blip. Some people are actually kind of glad he’s gone. I guess I’ll go listen to About Us in remembrance.

  • Procrastination

    I’ve always been a procrastinator. I don’t know why I’m like this, but wish I wasn’t. It would have made life so much more easy, if I could just focus and concentrate on items. Alas, that was not to be my fate.

    I used to procrastinate in school, but find myself doing it at work now too. I actually talked to Claude (AI) about this and apparently it is normal. I procrastinate because I feel anxious about something, then to self soothe I start doing or looking at something that makes me feel better. Then I start feeling ashamed about not starting and the cycle just keeps going.

    I feel like I needed that break I took last week. Now I feel more like myself and am slowly chipping away at old sore spots. I’m going to do it. I’m going to finish the year strong. I’m getting back on track. Things are going to be fine.

    I didn’t think I would get to this point again, because the first part of this year has been so tough. It’s hard to concentrate when there are literal concentration camps being built and used across America. There’s a large federal enforcement force (ICE) racially profiling individuals–to include both CITIZENS and immigrants–and carting them off to detention centers. Often catching charges for resisting arrest. But should it be illegal to resist an unlawful arrest?

    Millions are getting kicked off Medicaid, the department of education is being dismantled, media corporations are bowing to the desires of a sitting president. It’s crazy how many people are just okay with the state of the world. Not even just okay, but actively cheering it on. It’s absolute madness.

    Not to mention all the atrocities getting covered up with the nonrelease of the Epstein files. I guess the only good thing this administration has done has been expose how corrupt the government and corporations can be. It’s just out there in the open now. We are in the age of Aquarius now.

    So I guess, I should cut myself some slack if I am a bit overwhelmed at work.