Coming back from the other side of my Bipolar Wonderland through medication, creativity, and moxie.
14,770 Days Alive
2,208 Days Straight on Duolingo
3 Tires Pumped Full of Air
2 Slices of Supreme Deep Dish Pizza Eaten
Tonight is the final full moon of 2025. I have maybe three set goals for next year. It’s very hard for me to think forward what all I want to do is have everything stop.
Continue reading “Of Endings and Everything Else”
14,697 Days Alive
65 Minutes Spent on my Phone Interview
2 Day Headache
Apparently, The Rapture is happening tomorrow. I also have to get my flu shot before my insurance lapses at the end of the month, and I am on the hunt for another bookshelf for us to start putting together the family library in the living room.
Continue reading “Of Money and Mac & Cheese”
14,682 Days Alive
2,134 Days Straight on Duolingo
65+ Job Applications Out in Less than Five Weeks
3 Hours Spent Searching for a Template that No Longer Exists
1 Full Moon
Oh my goodness. I have been a busy, busy person today!
Continue reading “Of Applications and Aggravations”
14,681 Days Alive
15 Applications Put in Today
2 Discussion Board Posts
I am having a very bad pain day. I almost titled this “Frustration and Fuckery”, but went with something a little more PG.
Continue reading “Of Full Moons and Frustration”
14,680 Days Alive
5 Different Bottles of Herb-Infused Anointing Oil to Make Before the Full Moon on Sunday
4 Candle Sigils to Draft Before the Full Moon on Sunday
I feel very stretched thin. Relaxing feels pretty much absolutely impossible for me right now.
Continue reading “Of Workload and Wishes”
14,678 Days Alive
2,131 Days Straight on Duolingo
4 Days till the Full Moon
2 Discussion Board Posts
Tonight was a freezer meal night. Once I got home from work and settled in a bit, Imade cheese ravioli with Alfredo sauce and some garlic bread for dinner tonight. simple, filling, and cheap.
Continue reading “Of Ravioli and Ranting”
14,669 Days Alive
2,122 Days Straight on Duolingo
2 Small Bookshelves Assembled Today
1 Small Art Project Done
I did not one, not two, not even just three, but four things today after work! I left work early for a pre-planned appointment and got home maybe 45 minutes earlier than I usually do.
Continue reading “Of Bat Mirrors and Bookshelves”
14,668 Days Alive
2,121 Days Straight on Duolingo
Lucian and I spent a good two and a half hours this evening going through the massive amount of acrylic yarn that I have acquired over the years. I’m talking stuff from before my marriage to Stephanie in 2017.
Continue reading “Of Altars and A Lot of Yarn”
14,652 Days Alive
2.5 Pork Egg Rolls Eaten
1 Not-So-Fun Fact Learned Today
I want one of the blue raspberry ice cups we have in the freezer. But it’s not a good choice with it being minutes to midnight right now. So I shall refrain this time.
Continue reading “Of Italian Ice and Idiocy”
14,645 Days Alive
7 Tacos Purchased for Dinner
12 Hours Until I Go to Meet a New Friend
2 Bookcases Purchased
I have both therapy (8a.m) and a new friend meetup at a local coffee shop (noon) tomorrow! I am very excited about the latter and cautiously optimistic about the former.
Continue reading “Of Taco Meat and Tomorrow Morning”
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.
Continue reading “Of Arthritic Pain and Acclimatization”
14,564 Days Alive
2,021 Days Straight on Duolingo
9 Minutes 56 Second on Hold to Speak With My Academic Advisor
3rd Week of My Second Term
0 Cupcakes Eaten This Week
I’ve got overtime I have to do all this week. It is absolutely exhausting.
Continue reading “Of Candles and Cupcakes”
14,563 Days Alive
41 Items on Our Grocery Order
5.25 Hours Spent Studying and Completing Homework Assignments
2 Slices of Grocery Store Pizza Eaten
1 Mild Headache
I need to manage my time a little better with school this week. I don’t like spending most of Sunday afternoon stuck at my computer re-reading chapters and listening to lectures at double speed.
Continue reading “Of Brain Fog and Brown Bags”
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