Month: July 2025

Prompt Answer: Future Travel Plans

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What are your future travel plans?

Well, they have changed since last I answered this question. Now that I’m living in Wisconsin, travelling to Illinois to see the mess of siblings and other assorted, vaguely related people that I hold dear is in the list.

Mitsuwa Market in Arlington Heights, Illinois and Chicago’s Chinatown are also on the travel list.

I’d love to finally be able to coordinate that trip with Reffie, maybe eventually visit Uncle Gator and family after they get settled in their new place. Oh! And go to Salem, Massachusetts! Not during October, because fuck that many people around. But maybe late fall/early spring?

I’d love to go to the ridiculous and apparently delicious all-you-can-eat themed dinner theater thing called Sneaky Pete’s Wild West Dinner Show. It has been added to the household bucket list.

I also would love to get out of the USA at some point soon. Probably not to leave-leave? Hit definitely get somewhere a little less hellscape.

Prompt Answer: Typical?

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Was today typical?

Was today typical? Decidedly not.

Our main printer broke and our secondary one kept jamming. It was a rough two and a half to three hours of stress and hurry up just to wait some more. I usually love my desk, because it’s a standing desk that I have a tall chair for in case I need to sit. But today I was up and down trying to help them get either printer working before the repair technician showed up.

I was already struggling with my pain levels before I did the deck chair Hokey Pokey. Now, my pain levels are through the fucking roof. I threw up both breakfast and lunch today. I legitimately thought I was going to pass out at one point, because I had to take a bunch of deep breaths. I just sat the fuck down in the middle of the hallway near the bathrooms because I was just… out of it. My ears were ringing, my vision went spotty, and I thought I was going to throw up again. It wasn’t a headaches my butt would have gone to the ER. But it was like my usual full ache was dialed up to eleven.

Between this fibromyalgia flare up, the left hip bursitis, my white blood cell count being up to 10.4 K/ul (down from 12.67 in February where fuck if anyone knew why it was that high), my PCOS giving me double trouble for the last three months in a row, and my anemia kicking my ass it’s a wonder I can get out of bed.

I’m so tired of being in pain. I’m so weary. Hopefully my new treatment team will be of better help to me than my previous one.

Goodness knows I have a better, if still small, support system right now.

Take your meds, folks.

Of Thigh Pain and Things to Put Away

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14,339 Days Alive

6 Oreos Eaten

1 Bowl of Tater To Nachos Eaten for Dinner

I hate not having bookshelves. Hate, hate, hate it. I’m still living out of boxes and bags and it is grating on my nerves.

I went to the doctor yesterday and got diagnosed with “pretty bad bursitis” of my left hip. Pain meds, ice, heat, and rest have all been recommended and done.

I just want to not hurt.

Lucian made totchos for dinner this evening. Tater tot nachos. They were ridiculously good.

I’m going to go pass out.

Take your meds, folks.

Of Instant Pots and Insulin

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14,337 Days Alive

26 Days Since the Move

1 Vexing Day

I taught Lucian how to use the Instant Pot this evening. They made an amazing coconut chicken and potato curry!

I have a doctor appointment in like, less than ten hours. Maybe it’ll be a good visit and some of my concerns will be addressed. Maybe the new doctor will be wonderful? Idk. I’m going to bed.

Take your meds, folks.

Prompt Answer: Bothersome and Why

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What bothers you and why?

I am bothered by the basic lack of compassion, kindness, and understanding in those that claim to be followers of Christ.

Why? Because they claim he died for their sins, but are unrepentant in acts of horrific cruelty to their fellow man.

Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” ~ Matthew 22:37-40

Both to yourself and to others: be kind, be patient, and have compassion for those who struggle.

Now, I may be a Jewish-born pagan, but Jesus was a Jew, too. I strive to live a good life, regardless of my pantheon. I wish to leave behind a legacy of kindness, compassion, and a little bit of laughter.

Of Arthritic Pain and Acclimatization

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14,632 Days Alive

3 Types of Cheese Purchased at The Cheese Chalet

1 Really Bad Pain Day

Lician, Brian, and I went to Ehelnbach’s Cheese Chalet today and it was amazing! I mean, I was absolutely not fond of the ‘cheese fudge’. Cheese and milk chocolate is not a flavor combination that I enjoy. But! We did get an amazing applewood smoked butterkase cheese, a habanero jack cheese, and another that I can’t remember right now.

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