Coming back from the other side of my Bipolar Wonderland through medication, creativity, and moxie.
13,250 Days Alive
I’m feeling sad tonight. I don’t quite know why. I feel like some things have slipped through my fingers, lately.
Maybe I’m working too much overtime and I’m just burnt out?
Continue reading “Of Goals and Goodbyes”
13,248 Days Alive
12.5 Rows into Fen’s Rainbow Round Ripple Blanket
2 New To Me Lended Hot Glue Guns
I don’t know what kind of crafter I am that I am just now venturing into hot-glue territory. I’m making commissioned wreathes for the holiday season and I’ve not used a hot glue in in… recent memory.
Like maybe more than a decade?
Continue reading “Of Glue and Good Friends”
13,243 Days Alive
759 Days Straight on Duolingo
6 Rows into Fen’s Rainbow Star Blanket
2 Bowls of Cereal Eaten for Dinner
1 Episode of NCIS Watched
Today was a bad pain day. I’m talking, threw up my morning coffee from the pain kind of bad day.
Continue reading “Of Pain and Pushing Through”
13,242 Days Alive
1 Chimichanga Eaten
Let me start off with the positive: thanks to the kindness of certain people, I am able to buy cat food and groceries. And the date with Cleo went well, though I learned that Taco Bus’ chairs are fantastically uncomfortable.
Continue reading “Of Chimichangas and Change”
13,239 Days Alive
755 Days Straight on Duolingo
1 Everything Bagel Eaten
I got to see the Gator side of the family today! Aunt and Uncle Gator, Jay and Kay (my cousins), and Grandma Gator! Aunt Gator’s Mom, grandma Bee was also there. It was a great time.
Continue reading “Of Schmear and Stress”
13,235 Days Alive
I have a terrible headache and a cat that is snoring while asleep in the small of my back.
Better than last night’s frog fiasco, for sure.
Continue reading “Of Harridans and Headaches”
13,234 Days Alive
750 Days Straight on Duolingo
1.5 Days Requested off for the Thanksgiving Break
So my boss lady approved my time off a second time today. First was verbally, now I’ve got an email chain to back me up!
Continue reading “Of Frogs and Funny Noises”
13,233 Days Alive
1 Finished Buffalo Plaid Blanket!
Oh man, I finally finished Papa Tom’s Buffalo Plaid Blanket!
Now I have to make his hat.
Continue reading “Of Achievement and Aggravation”
13,232 Days Alive
2 Loads of Laundry Done
Oh man, today was a long day! I woke up at half past seven a.m. and spent most of the day working on the Buffalo Plaid Blanket for Papa Tom.
Continue reading “Of Cake and Cable Knitting”
13,231 Days Alive
4 Rolls of Sushi Eaten
1 Successful Date
So! I had a date today with a new friend from OKCupid. Let’s call them Rose. It went super well, I think?
Continue reading “Of Meetings and Measurements”
13,229 Days Alive
I’m tired and feel awful. That’s it.
That’s all I have to say today.
Take your meds, folks.
13,228 Days Alive
Look, I’m ready to burst into tears at the next slight inconvenience. I am not in a good headspace.
Continue reading “Of Finish Lines and Frustration”
13,226 Days Alive
I’m having a wretched brain day. Like, absolutely awful. I’ve tried locking the brain gremlins in the oubliette, but they pulled a Nothing, from Neverending Story and basically sucked all the color from my mental landscape.
Continue reading “Of Gremlins and Goals”
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