10
May

The Wrath of Mom

My mother just woke up. Apparently, we’re fighting. She’s mad because I opened a box of Ritz crackers (hers) and ate a sleeve. I know that it was rude of me to open her food, but the only thing I have in the entire kitchen that I could’ve eaten that belongs to me specifically is popcorn and rice. (We still haven’t been able to replace any of the food that was in the refrigerator and the freezers when the power went out.)  Sometimes a person needs a little more substance than popcorn and rice isn’t exactly something that I want to eat for every meal.

It’s ridiculous that she’s mad at me for eating the one sleeve of crackers. She’s eaten my food before. She eats my food a lot of the time. In fact, part of the reason that I have no food is that she ate about half of the Jello snack things that I assumed were for me alone. I didn’t complain. I just assumed that maybe I misinterpreted things.

I told her yesterday morning that I needed to go get some food to make it until Wednesday (tomorrow), when she and my dad will go get food. I didn’t realize when we went to Walmart last week that I was getting enough food to make it until then. I thought we were just getting things for a couple of days. I guess that I should’ve known better or should’ve asked.

Half the time when I’m talking lately, I’ll be mid-sentence and she’ll look at Willow and start showering her with attention. She won’t remember anything I’ll have said. She won’t realize that I was telling her something important or something she should know. Then, when I bring it up later, she’ll say that I never told her. When I try to defend myself, I will be accused of lying.

Aside from the mom issue, things have been a little better in part of my life. My laptop came back from Dell yesterday. It needed a new motherboard, touchpad, AC/DC adapter, and some other things. It had quit working the night before the big storms, so part of the time that it wasn’t working, it didn’t really matter that it wasn’t working because I couldn’t have been using it.

I still have a sinus infection and my ears are still leaking gross stuff (including blood) fairly regularly. I never finished the doxycycline, which was dumb on my part, I guess. I couldn’t get myself to finish it since it worsened my (already really bad) stomach issues. Of course, when I told my mom that I hadn’t finished the antibiotic, she seemed to think that this was one of the worst choices I could ever make. I know that it’ll just let the infection grow stronger, but I’m kind of between a rock and a hard place. Do I continue letting the infection incubate or do I take the drugs and deal with worsening dehydration & other issues related to being in the bathroom every 5-10 minutes? It seems like no matter what I choose, I’ll be sick.

I finally made some new icons and posted them yesterday. I’ve gotten a few compliments on them, but (unfortunately) I don’t remember how I got them to look the way that they do. In other LJ-related news, I posted a new challenge and voting for an old challenge at my location-related icon contest. Entries are still needed for challenges 62 and 63 at the Alexander Skarsgård icon contest that I run. The icon contests that I started for Chace Crawford and Anna Paquin are about 3-4 members away from being able to start.

Sometime this week, I need to post a few book reviews that I wrote up while I was sans laptop.  Eventually, I’m going to get around to doing new themes for the boards.  I’m also going to get around to re-opening them.

 

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24
January

Schizophrenic Monday

My therapy appointment was today. I was kind of surprised that I scheduled an “early morning” (10 AM) appointment, but I apparently had. When we got to the MHC, there was this man who was walking to his car. He looked like he was talking on a Bluetooth thing, except there was no Bluetooth. Then I remembered that we were at the nuttiest place in Huntsville on its nuttiest day. (Mondays are when the most severe cases tend to be there en masse.)

Therapy went fairly normal. Debbie wants me to be more social and to exercise. She also wants me to get a pill sorter so that I’ll remember to take all of my vitamins every time that I’m supposed to take them. I guess those are valid ideas, in theory. I think of myself as being quite social, since I tend to talk to lots of people on the internet. I know that she doesn’t view this as socialization, but I think that it is more social for me to tweet, tumble, etc. than it is for me to go to places and keep quiet. At least on the internet I’m able to speak my mind with a bit more ease, even to people I know from the offline world. And exercise is definitely a good idea, but I don’t see it being something that I can just start doing. Lately, my muscles have gotten fatigued even easier, so I don’t know what’s going on.

Debbie said that the psychiatrist appointment that I missed wasn’t even in my chart. I didn’t imagine it. The medical folks had apparently decided that the easiest way to deal with the snow-related closing & subsequent missed appointments was to pretend that they didn’t exist. Debbie had gone through and marked hers as being “center-closed, reschedule” for her missed appointments. Ah, but the medical folks are too busy to do that kind of thing.

I’m not being ridiculous with regards to being annoyed at their “too busy” attitude. I walked past one receptionist, while I’m trying to get my psychiatrist appointment rescheduled, and she was playing a game. This receptionist is the main switchboard person for the center, so she gets plenty of calls and should have enough work to keep her busy without having to resort (on a Monday morning) to playing a computer game. The receptionist for Debbie’s part of the clinic mentioned something about going to YouTube while at work. So, these people who are always too busy to schedule appointments or answer questions are actually being busy being slackers. That’s nice to know, huh?

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7
December

Protected: The Antitrust Case

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3
December

Need Some Input

Okay, anyone out there who reads this, I need some input.

Would you join a message board?  If you would, would you rather it have an age limit (i.e. no younger than a certain age) or no age limit?  What kinds of things would you want to discuss on the board? What would you want it to look like? What would keep you from joining a board?

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17
September

We Got The Beat

First off, I wanted to say congratulations to Jennifer on the birth of Audrey Lynn.  I happened to stumble onto her blog this afternoon and saw the precious photo of her.  She’s just too cute.

Okay, so, yesterday was my dad’s moody day, which actually makes sense.  As a kid/teenager, I hated Thursdays.  Thursdays were always the days that he would act like a toddler who had had all of his toys taken away and then smashed.  So, him reverting into that attitude actually seemed rather normal for him.

Now that I’m back on the interwebz and all, I thought I would once again promote Urban Sunrise, the 18+ forum that I run with Haley, Kara, Ashley, Angela, Jef, Natasha, Bren, Kate, etc.  With my absence and everyone else having real life obligations, the boards kind of slowed down.  So, if you’re over 18 (or a really mature 17), then please go join.  If you’re not into boards, but know someone who is, then please spread the word.  I would really like to have them be a lot more active.  Plus, we don’t bite.  Or, I know I don’t.  I can’t guarantee that the rest of the staff doesn’t.

I forgot to eat yesterday almost all day.  I woke up yesterday at around 9.  I didn’t eat until 5 in the afternoon, which was about 20 hours since the last meal I had had.  Needless to say, I was about to fall over from weakness, tremors, etc. because my hypoglycemia was not very happy with me.

I’m glad that my computer is back, but it still seems to be different.  Maybe once I find a decent wallpaper to use, it will feel more like home.  I had been using the ones that Melody had made for my TFL Secret Santa–one with Alexander Skarsgård in black & white (for my artsy account) & the other with Eric & Sookie from S2 (on my main account).  I know that I could’ve backed some stuff, but I honestly didn’t think it would ever get lost.  I’m also going to have to find a whole new set of fonts & brushes, since those are all gone.

I hope that Kate doesn’t get offended, but this morning I changed up my livejournal look.  It had been up since February, and, though I loved it, I kind of wanted a new look.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to come up with something better than the look it has right at this moment, but I think it looks fairly nice.

I got a little annoyed today at Technorati.  I had requested that this site be put back on their index.  Apparently, when they reviewed it, they determined that it didn’t meet their guidelines.  I sent them an email back asking why my site didn’t meet their guidelines, yet so many others (that have similar content, use similar scripts, and even go a little more commercial) are okay’d.  It seemed a little fishy.  I don’t even know why this site was taken off their index to begin with.  I know that not being included in Technorati is not the end of the world, but it would be nice if they would at least explain better what was “wrong” with this site.

I’m really thirsty today, which I think may have something to do with weather…or maybe I’m not drinking enough. I don’t really keep track of it as well as I used to.  I think I’ve begun slacking on my Sjögren’s issues.  The sicca symptoms have been pretty bad lately.  I have to be careful in the fall, because it starts getting drier and slightly cooler and I forget that I still need to keep myself just as hydrated.  One day I will remember how to do all these things.

I’ve begun obsessing a little about what to do in February of next year, when the site turns 10.  I want to celebrate, but I just haven’t decided how to do that.  Any suggestions would be great.

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29
August

Don’t Ever Look Back

Has anyone else noticed that their WP blogs are inundated with massive amounts of spam lately. I had to delete 15 yesterday and got another 16 today. That’s not good. The last time I had so much spam in a day was back in 2007 before the 60,000 spam comments were lobbed at the site and way before they were deleted.

My eyes are really burning this morning. It may be for lack of sleep. I’m hoping to stay up to watch the Emmy’s, but I may have to take a nap. I hate that True Blood is up against the Emmy’s this year. I didn’t think anyone ever put anything major up against them. Maybe they’re just not as important as they used to be.

So other than being annoyed at Alan Ball/the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/HBO, having burning/dry eyes, lacking sleep (of course I had about 15 hours yesterday, so it’s cool), cleaning up spam, doing some family history stuff, and posting on my board, I haven’t really done much this weekend. That’s okay though.

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28
August

Just Like a Circus

Mom looked over at me a few minutes ago and said, “I guess there’s nothing wrong with your heart since they haven’t called back yet.” Though, I guess it would be reasonable to assume that a heart doctor would call back asap with the results, it is also reasonable to think that it might take more than 2 days to get back to a person with the results. (I took the holter monitor back on Wednesday afternoon.) I hope that there is nothing wrong, but I don’t really want to worry about the results or start thinking that they’re either one thing or another until I find out for sure. If I start thinking that, “Ooh, everything is okay”, and they’re not, it’ll hit me like a ton of bricks. If I start thinking, “Ooh, maybe there’s something wrong”, and there isn’t, then I’ll drive myself crazy. So, basically, I’m trying to not think about it.

Yesterday, I felt like I was glued to the board. It seemed like there were bunches of posts on there, which was quite nice. :) I like it when there are a lot of posts. It causes an insane amount of geek-related glee.

Right now, I am really hungry and (though I slept for pretty much the whole day) really tired.

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