News For Today

Well, the fundraiser's started to really take off in earnest. One of my tasks for tomorrow (formerly a task for yesterday) is to re-write the fundraiser post so that it's more concise and bullet-pointy. I'll make a blog post that explains things in greater detail.

The Gift of the Bad Guy has officially broken even. The money I sunk ( Read more... )

(At least since I started tracking my mental and physical condition from day to day ( Read more... )

News For Today:After increasing disenchantment with the Palm Pre, I'm taking advantage of the chance to get a free Android phone from my carrier. It's not a huge upgrade in terms of physical specs, but the Pre's kind of flimsy and has never had very good software support. I clung to it out of fangirl loyalty based on how much I'd liked my Treos, ( Read more... )

I'm back from a shoe-shopping expedition with my mother, and I've got my feet up, and I'm feeling better. Not only did my mother fix me up with some balance-correcting shoes that have worked well for managing "the family knees", but she's given me some advice on how to handle the whole situation. Cold weather is not good for joint pain (or, from ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling pretty good, but round 'bout the time I started thinking that I might just be able to handle some pancakes I got a stabby pain in the gums around the tooth in question and the start of another icepick headache directly above it. I suppose it doesn't want me to forget who's in charge on what is hopefully the last full ( Read more... )

So, I spent yesterday (from the dentist appointment onward) and this morning needing the trauma doll about as often as the instructions permitted, but from the very early afternoon (at which point I absentmindedly tried to open my mouth wide enough to chug the last little bit of root beer) onward today I haven't really needed it. For lunch and ( Read more... )

Since I seem to be mostly pretty okay right now, I tried a little bit of writing... did a thousand word sprint in Write or Die. When I read back through it, I discovered I'd written three different paragraphs throughout it describing the same set of actions with only very slight differences. I think that, coupled with the fact that tramadol ( Read more... )

So, it appears that while tramadol knocks me out pretty well when I'm tired, when I'm more or less caught up on sleep it doesn't have all that much effect on me. Good to know. However, I'm aware that in the past I've had a small tendency to ignore/push past my physical limitations and fuck myself or my stuff up as a result, so I'm not making any ( Read more... )

So here I am awake at 5:30 in the morning. I slept through quite a bit of yesterday afternoon and evening, though, so that's not terribly surprising. Time will tell how functional I'm going to be today. I don't yet know how the tramadol is going to effect me when I'm better rested and nourished, or if I'll need to take it at the minimum intervals. ( Read more... )

Two and a half hours of falling asleep for twenty minutes at a time and then jerking awake when the slightest movement makes my jaw twinge has left me feeling more refreshed than I would have thought possible, considering that I was up until past 6 unable to rest or find any succor. I woke up to find messages of support and well-wishes on my ( Read more... )