How do I turn off my emotions?

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The Voice in the Night

(Part 1)

This 'impossible' crane shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA (1964) ...

Like I don’t eat blueberry bagels with cream cheese every day but I do sometimes. Sure I could spend 4 bucks on a really good package of bagels and another 4 bucks on a package of cream cheese I won’t finish or I could drive over to Uncle Harry’s and get one bagel with cream cheese for 2 bucks.

First...where the heck are you buying your cream cheese?? An eight ounce block of cream cheese should cost less than two dollars. Maybe even only a dollar, if you buy at a discount store or on sale.

Second, bagels and cream cheese can both be frozen. Divide into individual servings and freeze for whenever you want one. Freezing will solve most, if not all, of the situations you're describing.

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One time she was chasing me it and I asked her very nicely to stop, and she did not which left me no choice but to grab a knife and repeat my request.

I know this may sound like an extreme reaction. But there really was no other rational choice. What was I supposed to do, ask nicely a second time? Like a goddamn hippy? No. Knife time.

Unfortunately I was bluffing and Liz called my bluff by grabbing a knife of her own. Which meant I was then getting chased with a shark AND a large steak knife. I started off continuing to be more scared of the shark than the knife, but that was a mistake because Liz actually made a lunge for me with the knife (I think she mixed up her shark hand/knife hand?) and managed to lightly stab our new couch. Which Liz then had to explain to our mom. I think the conversation was something like "Mom, the good news is that I missed, and the bad news is that I tried, and the worst news is that I got the couch instead.”

My mom handled it very well. My survival to adulthood hinged entirely on this weird one weird exploit in human psychology where confusing someone enough temporarily turns off their ability to be angry.

Incredibly that wasn't even our worst dumb sibling chase incident. The worst happened when I was chasing her through the house, and she ducked into our freshly mopped kitchen. She managed to cool girl skate over the puddles and make it to the other side of the room, which led to me trying to cool boy skate in her footsteps. This failed horribly, and instead resulted in me sailing headfirst into the dishwasher.

The good news was that I was able to absorb the entire blow with my left eyebrow, which I wasn't using very much anyway. The bad news was that I actually cut most that eyebrow off as a sort of fuzzy flap, which was disgusting, not to mention painful. Fortunately, with my dad being a doctor, he was able to glue most of it back on, albeit slightly crooked, such that I spent the next two years with a Resting Confused Face. Like so.

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