Coming back from the other side of my Bipolar Wonderland through medication, creativity, and moxie.
13,282 Days Alive
13,118 Words Written for NaNoWriMo
798 Days Straight on Duolingo
1 New Coworker
I’m really hurting today. I’m stiff and sore and only wrung out about five hundred words before I gave up and just turned to yarn.
Continue reading “Of Employees and Elizabeth Barrett Browning”
13,275 Days Alive
3,236 Words Written
29 Days To Go in NaNoWriMo
1 Panic Attack
So, I had a panic attack at work today. Super sucked. Basically, there was a meeting of all the legal assistants in workers comp, my division, except for my coworker Nancy and I. I thought I had done something wrong and my brain promptly spiraled into an anxiety attack that I was going to get fired.
It took almost an hour for me to breathe normally again.
Continue reading “Of Words and Worries”
13,261 Days Alive
777 Days Straight on Duolingo
2 Days Till Daddy’s Birthday
I have some amazing friends: DW, Reffie, J, Bill6, and several others. But man am I an emotional wreck this week.
Continue reading “Of Dinner and Downhearted”
13,219 Days Alive
1 Pair of Snake Eyes Rolled
Today was a long day off. I woke up early to do laundry. Only to accidentally nap after noon-thirty because I was so tired.
Continue reading “Of Catastrophe and Crocheting”
13,212 Days Alive
729 Days Straight on Duolingo
7 Slices of Bacon Eaten
2.5 Grilled Cheeses Eaten
1 Departing Coworker
My friend Izzy is leaving. Or has left. The office gossip hasn’t decided. Nor has she, apparently, as she called out again today, the poor thing.
Continue reading “Of Grilled Cheese and Goodbyes”
13,198 Days Alive
715 Days Straight on Duolingo
3 Games Played
2.5 Weeks of Memos Caught Up
2 Servings of Chicken Nachos
1 Grocery Run
Holy hell was today productive at work. Between decent sleep, meds, and just a really good day I got a lot of things done.
Continue reading “Of Games and Goals”
14,021 Days Alive
3 Carne Asada Street Tacos Eaten
1 Happy I’m Home Spockers
So today was a paid holiday here in corporate America. I am grateful for the time I was allowed to spend with my family. But gods do people not know their own history.
Continue reading “Of Caprese and Cayenne”
13,015 Days Alive
1 Hour Without Power at Work
Today was fantastically frustrating. We lost power just after lunch today. Not for too long, but long enough to be annoying and to throw off my whole day.
Continue reading “Of Brownouts and Blankets”
12,980 Days Alive
27% Through The Mermaid’s Daughter
2 Servings of Vegetarian “Chikin” Curry
1 Interesting Monday
I worked more on Grandma Gator’s blanket today. Not much as I was and still am fried from work. I made dinner tonight, though. We had a curry made with vegetarian chicken from Morningstar Farms. It was good.
Continue reading “Of Curry and Crocheting”
12,973 Days Alive
4 Belated Yule Gifts from DW
2 Pancakes Eaten
1 Doctor Appointment and Panic Attack
1/2 Order of Nachos
Today has been A Day for me. I had a panic attack today. As well as I had my doctor’s appointment with Peter this morning; so I am absolutely fried.
Continue reading “Of Nachos and Necessities”
12,953 Days Alive
9 New Ebooks Purchased (For free!)
2 Christmas Cards Received
We had a jarred curry sauce over Morning Star Farms fake chicken tonight. Fen made it with some peas and carrots and served it over 90 second rice. It was really good. I added too much hot sauce and made my nose run though.
Speaking of hot sauce, I wore the first pair of Taco Bell socks today. They were great!
Work went…okay. There were two tubs of mail to process so it took me over two hours to scan everything in.
When I got home, though, I had a Christmas card waiting from both Papa Ben and Pop Tom as well as from my friend Savvy! She sent the cutest Grinch card and wrote a very sweet message inside.
I haven’t gotten any writing done, unfortunately. I was in too much pain after work to focus on writing. Or reading. Or crocheting for longer than ten minutes at a time. So it was a few episodes of Murder, She Wrote and a bowl of frosted mini wheats for dessert.
My brain is fried. I’m going to go read for a bit, if I can.
Take your meds, folks.
12,946 Days Alive
3 Hours of Sleep
1 Massive Headache
Man, I love playing with the Wild Unknown tarot that Reffie got me. It’s seriously an awesome gift. I’m nervous about drawing in the journal, but I’ll work up to it.
Continue reading “Of Gifts and Goals”
35,278 Words Out of 50,000 Accomplished
12,939 Days Alive
460 Day Streak on Duolingo
1 Cup of Hot Cocoa
Well, I didn’t make it to fifty thousand words this month. Just under 15,000 words short. I tried and I’m going to keep writing, and I believe that it what truly matters. I’ve gotten into the habit of writing daily and I really want to keep that momentum going.
Continue reading “Of Cocoa and Cold Fronts”
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