Coming back from the other side of my Bipolar Wonderland through medication, creativity, and moxie.
15,098 Days Alive
44 Pages of Every Heart a Doorway Read This Evening
7 Finished Jars of Apple Pie Filling
4 Weeks Or So Until AO3 Is Back Up
1 Bottle of Deep Auburn Hair Dye
Seanan McGuire is one of my favorite authors. I just started reading Every Heart a Doorway and it is delightfully strange with plenty of queer characters.
Continue reading “Of Hearts and Hair Color”
15,097 Days Alive
7 Quarts of Apple Pie Filling Canned
1 Crockpot Full of 5 Quarts of Chopped Apples to Make Apple Butter
1/2 A Bushel of Apples Blanched for Canning
Oh my goodness was the kitchen hot this evening! Owl and I canned about eight quarts of the apple slices into pie filling this evening. And another five to six went into the crock pot on low to stew down into apple butter. So good!
Continue reading “Of Apple Butter and A Crying Jag”
15,084 Days Alive
16 Days Until Halloween
15 Items of my To-Do List Completed
4 Days Since My Interview with the Law Office
0 Responses on Any of My Job Applications This Week
Today was fairly productive. I am exhausted but a little upset I didn’t get more done. But, all I can do is my best.
Continue reading “Of Pressure Systems and Productivity”
15,081 Days Alive
19 Minutes One Way to My Job Interview
3 Candles Lit in Prayer
My interview at a local law firm went excellent this morning. I should know by Wednesday if and where I would be working at this place. Everyone wish me luck!
Continue reading “Of Hair Color and Hopes Up”
15,077 Days Alive
>12 Hours Until My Interview
1 Very Bad Pain Day
I got up before seven this morning to make sure Owl was awake on time for a meeting she had at way too early in the morning. Then, I laid down to catch a little more sleep. And then a thunderclap headache ripped me from sleep.
Continue reading “Of Thunderclap Headaches and Thursdays”
15,046 Days Alive
47 Minutes Spent Cleaning Up My Room with Owl as my Body Double
22 Days to Finish the Surprise Daisy Cardigan for Grandma Gator
22 Days Until My Commencement Trip
11/38 Daisy Motifs Made
2 Packets of Garlic and Herb Tuna Eaten for Dinner that Benny the Cat Tried to Help Me Eat
Drove the 144 miles from Owl’s place in Illinois back to Madison today. Only a few more weeks and I’ll be living there full time. The same amount of time until my commencement trip.
Continue reading “Of Travel and Tuna Breath”
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”
14,684 Days Alive
8 Hours, 50 Minutes Working By Myself
7 More Jobs Applied For
My coworker Nina was out sick today. It was overwhelming.
Tomorrow will be better, right?
Take your meds, folks.
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”
13,436 Days Alive
950 Days Straight on Duolingo
145 Applications
48 Rejections
5 Interviews
I am tired. See above as to why. I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck physically and emotionally.
I’m going to bed.
Take your meds, folks.
