12,995 Days Alive
2 Bowls of Spaghetti Eaten
Well, my headache has mostly abated. I remembered to take my caffeine pills this morning so that helped.
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Of Humdrum and Headaches
12,994 Days Alive
1 Massive Headache
I think I’m dealing with a caffeine withdrawal headache. I forgot to take caffeine pills with my morning meds and my head has been killing me all day. No amount of water has made it stop.
Continue reading “Of Humdrum and Headaches”Of New Things and Naps
12,993 Days Alive
$120.00 Spent on a New Tire
1 Accidental Nap
So, I got home from J and Bill6’s around noon today. I received an awesome early Valentine’s Day gift from Fen! It was a pillow shaped like a taco! And I love it!
Continue reading “Of New Things and Naps”Of Tires and Tea
12,992 Days Alive
1 Flat Tire
So today was an adventure. Hung out with Meg and J today for some belated holiday gift exchange. It was nice.
Continue reading “Of Tires and Tea”Of Sleep Deprivation and Salsa
12,991 Days Alive
1 Stressful Day
Work was hard. After work was less hard. I’m out of spoons and I’ve been awake since midnight last night. We had Tex-Mex for dinner, which was good.
I’m going to crochet and go to bed.
Take your meds, folks.
Of Challenges and Change
12,990 Days Alive
3 Hours of Sleep
1 Big Change at Work
I’ve got some work changes coming up next week. I’ll be transferred to a new team and try to hit the ground running there. I’m hoping to improve my work number on the new team.
Continue reading “Of Challenges and Change”Of Crocheting and Cartoons
12,989 Days Alive
1 Mild Headache
I have exactly zero brain left over from work today and I’m watching cartoons to try and relax.
Continue reading “Of Crocheting and Cartoons”Of Work and Writing
12,988 Days Alive
1,835 Words on ‘Prosperity in Pizza’ Short Story
50 Emails Handled Today at Work
I am officially writing again! I’m also really fighting what I think is the downturn of this most recent manic moment.
Continue reading “Of Work and Writing”Of Burgers and Building
12,987 Days Alive
It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day here in the US. And two days to the presidential inauguration. It feels like we’re just holding our collective breath, waiting for the other metaphoric shoe, or another goddamned homegrown terrorist attack, to drop.
It’s an exhausting and stressful situation.
Continue reading “Of Burgers and Building”Of Thumbelina and Tacos
12,986 Days Alive
508 Day Streak on Duolingo
2 Tacos Eaten
1 Don Bluth Film Watched
So, we watched the absolutely ridiculous film, Jupiter Rising, this evening; Fen, their girlfriend Kimmy, and I.
And then, to recover some brain power afterwards, we turned to an old classic, circa 1994, that Fen and I hadn’t seen in a while and that Kimmy had never seen.
It was tacos for dinner tonight. Low spoons means low effort meal. They put on the MST3K of Outlaw on after that, so I retired to my room. I’ve no desire to see anything based on The Books of Gor. Reading them was more than enough.
I just read a short story that was a little Purge-like called Little Monsters: A Halloween Story. It’s got an odd, emotionally detached narrator but it was engaging. Wouldn’t read it again, but it was enjoyable.
I’m going to meditate and then crash for the night.
Take your meds, folks.
Of Tenacity and Tarot
12,985 Days Alive
779 Words Written Today
Spent the day with darling Reffie today. Even got some writing done.
Continue reading “Of Tenacity and Tarot”Of Bulgogi and Books
12,984 Days Alive
So, Fen bought us Korean BBQ for dinner tonight. I tried kimchi. I wasn’t a fan. But I loved the bulgogi beef they had.
Continue reading “Of Bulgogi and Books”Review: The Mermaid’s Daughter
By: Ann Claycomb
Available on: Amazon, Audible, and Barnes and Noble.
Overview:
Blurb: Kathleen is a soprano singer. She’s also cursed with a strange affliction all the doctors in the world and quite figure out. It feels like every step she takes is on broken glass and sometimes, it feels like her tongue has been cut out. Kathleen and her girlfriend Harry, who is a mezzo, try to deal with the downward spiral of Kathleen’s affliction, with help from Kathleen’s father Robin, his wife Tae, and an honest to gods selkie.
Tags and Trigger Warnings:
Bastardization of Mythology, Blood, Death, Drug Use (Prescription), Drug Use (Illicit), Eating Disorder, Food, Ghosts, Gore, Homophobic Language, Horror, Infidelity, Magic, Magical Realism, Mental Illness, Mermaids, Miscarriage, Murder (Discussed), Mythology, Off Screen Infidelity, Off Screen Sex, On Screen Sex, Poor Coping Mechanisms, Pregnancy, Purple Prose, Romance, Self-Injury, Sexual Assault (mentioned), Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide, Supernatural Fiction, Violence, Violent Imagery, Witches, Women’s Fiction
Body Count: multiple across generations
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