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As promised, here be some music.
All I Need - Mat Kearney
LOVE. Around 3:00, I have to pump it up and just deal with the crazy goosebumps that I get. That piano. Guh.
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
The aforementioned CRACKTASTIC song. I'm open to getting other stuff pimped to me. *g*
Unlike Me - Kate Havnevik
Okay, this chick? Might be my new favorite. Reminds me a lot of Imogen Heap, so if you enjoyed her when I was pimping her - check this out. Gorgeous.
(And a bonus from Kate - a web sample of a song that she hasn't released yet. Fucking love it and badly want the whole entire song. So:Lo)
The City Lights - The Umbrellas
Beautiful beautiful song. From Grey's. Makes me cry.
Breathe Me - Sia
I didn't watch Six Feet Under, but this is the song that played over the montage at the end of the finale - an emotional moment, from what I've gathered. Either way, it's a completely phenomenal song.
I Hear The Bells - Mike Doughtry
This has been on both Grey's and VMars and is SO much fun. And really really sing-along-able. It's been known to get stuck in my head for days at a time, though, so beware. (DUMMM dum dum dum dum dum dummmmm)
Family Affair - Abra Moore
This song played on an episode of Standoff a while back - it's freaking beautiful. Piano, some quiet strings, voice. If you don't know who Abra Moore is, you really really should.
Also, since kellyrose82 and I have this Circle of Pimp thing going on with music, I shall pimp to you someone she pimped to me. Plumb is someone who I feel like I should have heard about before now - she seems to have been around a while. "Cut" is the first song that plays when you go to her website and...holy shit. Amy Lee, from Evanescene, names Plumb as one of her influences, and you can hear it. She also reminds me a bit of Tara MacLean, with a bit of Tori Amos and Suzanne Vega - gorgeous piano stuff. Also listen to "Better" while you're there.
(And speaking of kellyrose82 - anyone picked up the new Kasey Chambers yet?)
As for my health...blah. I'm back to being hypertensive, and my doctor is back to being frustrated. When I was in the hospital, they tested for pretty much everything they could come up with that could be making me hypertensive, most of which had to do with my kidneys. Everything they tested for in the hospital came up clean, but they have decided to test me for one more thing - something something stenosis. (I'm pretty sure it's not Renal Artery Stenosis, because that was one of the first things they brought up in the hospital.) Now they're looking for something that produces too much adrenalin(e?), which would explain the high blood pressure and my always-high heart rate.
Hence the peeing in the jar. I had to do a 24-hour urine collection (wooooo sexy) - which they also did in the hospital back in March/April, so. We'll see.
Dr. Young, though, is pretty sure it's related to my IUD. Which SUCKS. I made the choice to get the Mirena, even though it has a tiny bit of hormones, because there are some really positive aspects to it that the other IUD (the copper one, Paraguard, which has no hormones) doesn't have. I was hoping really hard that the tiny hormones JUST in my uterus wouldn't have the same effect on my body that the Pill did, but...it's sort of looking like it is. Dr. Young wants me to schedule an IUD removal, which makes me really really sad. When I talk to her today or tomorrow, I'm going to ask if we can put it off for a while, even just a couple of weeks. She's had me start taking blood pressure medication as of today, and I want to see if it helps. If it does, I'd really really like to keep my IUD. I'm not in a big hurry to get it taken out and another one put right back in, because - OW. And it had just gotten all settled and my cycle had finally evened out and the cramping had pretty much gone away (and OMG seriously I have, like, no period, it's fantastic) and I really don't want to start alllll over again. Plus...I just want to make sure that I really really for sure can't use it. I don't know. The copper IUD is the last reasonable (to me) resort of BC (and there are even a lot of things about it that I'm not necessarily gung-ho about), and after that it's condoms or a diaphragm and just....blah. There are a lot of reasons that irritates me, most of which are TMI.
But then...most of this is probably TMI. Hee.
So anyway. There's my health. I'm really very very tired of worrying about my health. I know things could be a lot worse - and they have been a lot worse - but still. I'm fucking TIRED of it, yo.
All I Need - Mat Kearney
LOVE. Around 3:00, I have to pump it up and just deal with the crazy goosebumps that I get. That piano. Guh.
Mr. Brightside - The Killers
The aforementioned CRACKTASTIC song. I'm open to getting other stuff pimped to me. *g*
Unlike Me - Kate Havnevik
Okay, this chick? Might be my new favorite. Reminds me a lot of Imogen Heap, so if you enjoyed her when I was pimping her - check this out. Gorgeous.
(And a bonus from Kate - a web sample of a song that she hasn't released yet. Fucking love it and badly want the whole entire song. So:Lo)
The City Lights - The Umbrellas
Beautiful beautiful song. From Grey's. Makes me cry.
Breathe Me - Sia
I didn't watch Six Feet Under, but this is the song that played over the montage at the end of the finale - an emotional moment, from what I've gathered. Either way, it's a completely phenomenal song.
I Hear The Bells - Mike Doughtry
This has been on both Grey's and VMars and is SO much fun. And really really sing-along-able. It's been known to get stuck in my head for days at a time, though, so beware. (DUMMM dum dum dum dum dum dummmmm)
Family Affair - Abra Moore
This song played on an episode of Standoff a while back - it's freaking beautiful. Piano, some quiet strings, voice. If you don't know who Abra Moore is, you really really should.
Also, since kellyrose82 and I have this Circle of Pimp thing going on with music, I shall pimp to you someone she pimped to me. Plumb is someone who I feel like I should have heard about before now - she seems to have been around a while. "Cut" is the first song that plays when you go to her website and...holy shit. Amy Lee, from Evanescene, names Plumb as one of her influences, and you can hear it. She also reminds me a bit of Tara MacLean, with a bit of Tori Amos and Suzanne Vega - gorgeous piano stuff. Also listen to "Better" while you're there.
(And speaking of kellyrose82 - anyone picked up the new Kasey Chambers yet?)
As for my health...blah. I'm back to being hypertensive, and my doctor is back to being frustrated. When I was in the hospital, they tested for pretty much everything they could come up with that could be making me hypertensive, most of which had to do with my kidneys. Everything they tested for in the hospital came up clean, but they have decided to test me for one more thing - something something stenosis. (I'm pretty sure it's not Renal Artery Stenosis, because that was one of the first things they brought up in the hospital.) Now they're looking for something that produces too much adrenalin(e?), which would explain the high blood pressure and my always-high heart rate.
Hence the peeing in the jar. I had to do a 24-hour urine collection (wooooo sexy) - which they also did in the hospital back in March/April, so. We'll see.
Dr. Young, though, is pretty sure it's related to my IUD. Which SUCKS. I made the choice to get the Mirena, even though it has a tiny bit of hormones, because there are some really positive aspects to it that the other IUD (the copper one, Paraguard, which has no hormones) doesn't have. I was hoping really hard that the tiny hormones JUST in my uterus wouldn't have the same effect on my body that the Pill did, but...it's sort of looking like it is. Dr. Young wants me to schedule an IUD removal, which makes me really really sad. When I talk to her today or tomorrow, I'm going to ask if we can put it off for a while, even just a couple of weeks. She's had me start taking blood pressure medication as of today, and I want to see if it helps. If it does, I'd really really like to keep my IUD. I'm not in a big hurry to get it taken out and another one put right back in, because - OW. And it had just gotten all settled and my cycle had finally evened out and the cramping had pretty much gone away (and OMG seriously I have, like, no period, it's fantastic) and I really don't want to start alllll over again. Plus...I just want to make sure that I really really for sure can't use it. I don't know. The copper IUD is the last reasonable (to me) resort of BC (and there are even a lot of things about it that I'm not necessarily gung-ho about), and after that it's condoms or a diaphragm and just....blah. There are a lot of reasons that irritates me, most of which are TMI.
But then...most of this is probably TMI. Hee.
So anyway. There's my health. I'm really very very tired of worrying about my health. I know things could be a lot worse - and they have been a lot worse - but still. I'm fucking TIRED of it, yo.