Coming back from the other side of my Bipolar Wonderland through medication, creativity, and moxie.
15,070 Days Alive
1,155 Miles Flown, Approximately, Yesterday
2 More Days Until My Graduation Ceremony!
1 Meal Shared With An Old Friend
I got to see Lex today, which was amazing! We went to Fiesta Cancun Mexican Restaurant. Honestly, it was very much like being back in Cancun! The decor was stunning, if visually overwhelming. But the food was amazing and the company even better.
Continue reading “Of Chuckling and Chile Relleno”
14,785 Days Alive
2,221 Days Straight on Duolingo
4 Hours Spent at the Big Gay Holiday Market
1 Hug from a Stranger
Trigger warning: discussion of parental demise.
I actually fought with myself on whether or not to post this one. I’ve decided to post it, but heavily trimmed of most of the anger I originally had spewing in this.
Continue reading “Of Holiday Markets and Hugs”
14,782 Days Alive
30+ Random Ideas for Hypothetical Intentional Extinction of Select Individuals While At Dinner
3 New Family Members to Hug
1 Singing Voicemail Left for Grandma Gator
Son of a freakin’,three-headed progeny of a seven-legged Plutonian politician!!! I fell asleep. Again. I’ve been trying to go to bed early, but it hasn’t been working well, and then I get side tracked to the eighth power of AuDHD and whoops, there’s another gorram blog post sitting, confused, in my Drafts Box.
Continue reading “Of Brothers and Birthdays”
Here we go, folks!
Quick recap: for me, May of 2020 is all about self-love. I’m really capable of getting down on myself, so I’m trying to be kinder and embrace a more self-focused positive attitude. It’s pretty hard when you’re battling Bipolar 1’s super depressive swings. Each day, I’ll be working from one of the prompts from Tia Harding’s 32 Self-Love Journal Prompts or from The Petite Planner’s 30 Days of Self-Love.
Here’s today’s prompt: “Five things that make me really happy are…“
Continue reading “Self-Love Journal Prompt: Day 1”
12,658 Days Alive
4,869 Steps Taken
2 Museums Seen
1 Bowl of Ramen Eaten
Today was a most excellent adventure with Reffie! We met up quite early in the morning, just before nine. And then, our amazing adventure out began!
Image heavy post here, just as an FYI.
Continue reading “Reffie, Ramen, and a Resounding Adventure”
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.
12,268 Days Alive
6,393 Books to Read
7 Marshmallow Eaten
2 Slice of Banana Eaten
1 Moscow Mule Tried and Enjoyed
1 Really Awesome Night with Stephanie and Tink
We went to the Melting Pot for an early Imbolc celebration tonight!
Just Tink, Stephanie, and I.
We had fun!
12,344 Days Alive
5,568 Books To Read
10 Chicken Nuggets Eaten
2 Hour Lunch Break Accidentally Taken
Question of the Day: How do you best express your frustration when things go wrong?
Oh boy. Okay. So, today has been a very mixed bag of good and bad.
Days Alive: 12,221
Rooms Cleared: 1
Old Belongings Found: a bunch
Days Left in Austin: 2.5
Nails Chipped: 7 lol
Streak on Duolingo: 23 days
Loads of Laundry Done: 2
My body is currently in protest for all the damn things Tink and I accomplished today. And I nearly broke down crying in the bookstore because that was the first time I have gone to a Half Priced Books store without my father or without calling him to check for which books he was hunting for.
