Coming back from the other side of my Bipolar Wonderland through medication, creativity, and moxie.
12,616 Days Alive
105 Books to Read Still
2 Tacos Eaten
1 Page Completed
I’m in the process of turning a mass, 200 page, hard bound sketchbook into a hard copy of my Book of Shadows. I guess 2020 is the Year of the Witch for me.
Continue reading “Tacos, Tarot, and Terrible Musical”
12,584 Days Alive
I didn’t sleep well last night. Not a shocker since I kicked off my day with a psych doctor appointment. I never seem to sleep well before the appointments.
Continue reading “Worn Out Wednesday”
12,545 Days Alive
5,527 Words Total So Far
2nd Day of NaNoWriMo
1 Pathfinder Session Done
Today was a productive day for me. I’m hurting, but cheerful. Tired and in desperate need of sleep, too.
Continue reading “Pathfinder, Procrastination, and Perseverance”
12,538 Days Alive
$48 in Returned Craft Supplies
6 Halloween Cards Made
1 Birthday Present Given
We went to the Melting Pot tonight as an early birthday celebration for my Darling Wife. As always, we had fun.
Continue reading “Cheese, Chocolate, and Card-Based Creativity”
12,517 Days Alive
3 Rolls of Sushi Eaten
1 Birthday Celebrated
We had a birthday party for my mother in law today.
Continue reading “Painting and Parents (In Law)”
12,513 Days Alive
It’s the first of Spooktober! A time of year to be crafty, witchy, and get ready for the changing seasons… we’ll, so much as they change in Florida.
Continue reading “First of Spooktober 2019!”
12,431 Days Alive
Zero Spoons
Today is one of those days where I tried to shuffle the cards of my life and just ended up playing fifty one pickup and now I’m searching for the last metaphoric card.
12,353 Days Alive
7,364 Books to Read
16 Hours Awake and Counting
5 Sunflowers
1 Strange Accomplishment
Did y’all know I’m a recovered vegetarian? While I was homeless, or in a state of weird mental spiral, I exerted what control I could over my life, mainly, by not eating meat. And after the thing with the chickens, I couldn’t eat bone in without nausea and disgust.
This was supposed to be the 200th post, but I was punched in the face by a migraine that day and kind of just…didn’t happen.
I’m over fifty followers so I just wanted to do a quick shout out to everyone who reads Postmark Wonderland!
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The reason I started this blog, originally, was because I was mega-super pissed about being diagnosed with type 1 Bipolar Disorder. I mean, I was crying in the parking lot, losing sleep for weeks on end angry. So I started Postmark Wonderland on the 25 September, 2018 Since then, I’ve been blogging at least once a day since 1 October. As of today, that’s 202 days straight and 208 days since diagnosis. My medications have been adjusted three times since 25 September and I think we’re close to finally finding a good balance for at least the Bipolar Disorder.
With the newest adjustment, I’m not suicidal for the first time in over two years. I can’t express how remarkable that feels. I still need to get a therapist. I think I can finally make it a priority.
Since 208 days ago, this blog has also taken on a few other rolls. It’s a recipe sharing device, a reading challenge holder, a writing challenge dump spot, a craft progress tracker, and a book review blog. Since reading, writing, and crafting are three of my main coping mechanisms, they are still rather relevant to the overall core of Postmark Wonderland: helping me find my way to a new normal, a better normal with positive coping mechanisms and good mental health.
I’ll continue to blog for as long as I am able. I’ll continue to use PostmarkWonderland.blog as long as I can afford it. And I’m always happy to hear the stories of others. All we are, as people, are the stories we hold dear.
I’ve got the jabberwocky subdued for now. Now it’s time to head down the unmarked path and see what the new normal is going to be.
12,249 Days Alive
20 Sketches to Do
1 Coloring Page Finished and Another Started
Today has been a great day. I broke fast with Cousin Kay this morning. And since I was anxiety prompted to be an hour early so I wasn’t late, I finished the outline on a short story I had planned to start this evening. That didn’t quite work out as planned.
