What skill would you like to learn?
Legit, I want to learn how to juggle. I don’t know why, but it seems fascinating to me.
Category: Hobbies
Prompt Answer: Life Details
What details of your life could you pay more attention to?
My dudes.
Guys, gals, and outside the binary pals.
Y’all.
I have one of the worst cases of ADHD and I am on the autism spectrum. Fucking most of my life is spent grasping at mental straw while powering through in a meatsuit that was designed with Sysyphus in mind.
I am incessantly in pain. And trying to focus through brain fog and fatigue. And have the attention span of gnat on cocaine at the best of non-hyper focused times.
Genuinely, I try so hard not to be bitter. I strive to be happy, be kind, be loving, be patient. But fuck if I can all the time.
What could I pay more attention to? The insides of my eyelids. I need more rest.
That’s what I’m off to do.
Take your meds, folks.
Of Headaches and Hurting
13,974 Days Alive
2.5 Hours and Counting Sitting in Uncomfortable Emergency Room Waiting Room Chairs
1 Diet Mountain Dew
Ugh. Tonight did not go to plan. I’m helping a roommate out, giving him a lift to the ER of the hospital I work at.
Continue reading “Of Headaches and Hurting”Prompt Answer: Priority for Tomorrow
What’s your #1 priority tomorrow?
Honestly, my priority is to get rest after work.
Of Seasons and Spock Snuggles
13,974 Days Alive
13 Rows into the Main Body of J’s Wrap
1 Snuggly Kitty Baby Boy
Today is a high pain day. Like a solid seven and a half out of ten. My hips are screaming, my knees hurt, my hands hurt too much to crochet. I can knit, as it takes different hand positions and is less painful, but man does it suck to be me today.
Continue reading “Of Seasons and Spock Snuggles”Of Knees and Knitting
13,973 Days Alive
522 Rows to go in J’s Wrap
1 Haircut
My knees are absolutely screaming today, or at least my right one. I don’t know what I did, but I feel like I need to get a knee brace. It feels like the kneecap itself is trying to escape.
Continue reading “Of Knees and Knitting”Prompt Answer: Heritage
What aspects of your cultural heritage are you most proud of or interested in?
Most of my heritage is generally Jewish. Or a blackjack dealer. At least on my mom’s side of the equation.
The paternal unit has the communication skills the gods gave a block of Parmesan cheese. So I have no clue about his heritage. Other than he lives in Pennsylvania.
Prompt Answer: Best Advice
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received?
Strive to be happy.
See Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann
Prompt Answer: Energy
What gives me energy? The laughter of friends. Or, I’ll be honest, a caffeine pill or two. Or, a good, sugar- free Coke Zero with a splash of sugar-free vanilla syrup.
Sometimes, it’s spite. I get up and do things despite how I may be feeling.
Of Coraline and Caron Cakes
13,966 Days Alive
38 Days Till Halloween
1 Unfortunately Restarted Project
Happiest of holidays to all! Joyous Mabon, happy Autumnal Equinox, and if naught else, happy Saturday!
Continue reading “Of Coraline and Caron Cakes”Prompt Answer: More Informed
Which topics would you like to be more informed about?
Honestly? My own diagnoses, that’s what I’d like to be more informed about.
I don’t know much about diabetes other than “sugar/carbs BAD”. I know Metformin helps my blood sugar, so does my basaglar. But I don’t know more than that. And every time I ask, I get referred to an endocrinologist that turns out to be some sort of shitheel.
I don’t know that much about fibromyalgia except that pregabalin helps me function at a three to five, usually, on the pain scale rather than a seven to nine. I know I still hurt.
I know I’m likely going to need new knees at some point, for they’ve been bad since I was a teenager.
I want to know more about Autism Spectrum Disorder, beyond people trying to fix me.
And don’t get me started on my bipolar. No one, none of my providers, have done anything but throw medication at the problem (read: me), and suggest therapy. Except I can’t find an affordable, in-network therapist that is queer/asexually friendly.
My most recent attempt at therapy cost me $65 for half an hour, and I was told to medicate to fix my “low libido issue”. Fuck off with that.
Ugh. I guess I’ll be googling stuff in the near future.
Prompt Answer: Life Without Music
What would your life be like without music?
As someone who is hard of hearing, I think it’s a little odd that I am so fond of music.
Life without music, it sounds awful. Pun not intended… but seriously, other than a Rick Roll, I love most music.
Prompt Answer: Celebrating Holidays
How do you celebrate holidays?
Well, my mother was Jewish. My not-biological-father was lapsed Roman Catholic. I’m pagan.
So the secular holidays are meh. I don’t celebrate them much, beyond getting together with friends for a homemade meal.
Now the witchy holidays I try to keep, do a little something for each. Like, tomorrow is the first day of Fall and I plan to try and make some quick bread when I get home from work, spoons depending.
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