Sometimes I'll think about cosplaying, or at least dressing up as a character I like. I don't have much practice with sewing or an eye for design, and I don't have a lot of money to burn, so I usually come up with something that would be more or less just a matter of finding the right clothes. But then I look at all those pictures of amazing ( Read more... )

Seasonal Affective Disorder can bite my shiny metal ass ( Read more... )

( Ugh, depression, I am so over you )

Anxiety Cat would like to tell you about me. OK, not all of them are me, but quite a few are.

So, cluegirl made this great post about depression about a week ago. I highly recommend reading it.

Running late in leaving for a friend's birthday party, because I'm nauseous and shaking like a leaf. Screw you, anxiety!

Today I saw a book about overcoming arachnophobia that had photos of spiders on the cover. I can't speak for other arachnophobes, but (a) I know what a fucking spider is, and (b) there are days when I would be unable to touch that book, for fear that I might touch one of the spiders. Whoever designed and approved that cover is almost certainly not

Aforementioned EPIC DEPRESSION is more like a LONGISH POEM DEPRESSION now, but it teamed up with my neck injury to create the most insanely painful headaches known to humankind. I'm on my fourth since last week. I have resisted the urge to beg my family for the kind of painkillers that alcoholics really shouldn't take. I don't need to be in pain, ( Read more... )

Yesterday I:
Put two boxes of stuff in the basement to make space in our very small bedroom room
Cleaned all the things
Walked ~a whole mile~ to Coolidge Corner where I got bread, picked up a month's worth of comic subs, and went to the motherf*cking bank like an adult (I had four weeks' worth of workers' comp checks to deposit. Someday, I'll miss ( Read more... )

So while we were in Maine, the upstairs neighbors were at the Cape, and so the house was uninhabited for a few days. And you know what happens when a house is uninhabited: the critters come out. The neighbors came home this evening, and I was sitting on their kitchen floor playing with their dog, when I glanced up at one of the lights and noticed a ( Read more... )