Yesterday at La Cheim, I decided to work on a really big, persistent negative thought in the CBT group: my guilt over how I behaved with my dad in the final days of his life ( Read more... )

I've been executing a project the past couple days, because I decided to take advantage of iTunes's Smartlist capability & make myself some decade lists-60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's-but discovered that many (perhaps even a majority) of my songs didn't have years attached (or had incorrect years, referring to compilation albums or movie soundtracks ( Read more... )

Coughing
I saw the pulmonologist today and was quite disappointed, as she didn't have a lot of useful stuff to offer. Her main advice was this: "Keep doing what you're doing, and eventually the coughing will stop, though it may take months." Yay? She also urged me to continue to minimize my physical activity, because anything that makes me breathe ( Read more... )

LJ Entry

I haven’t written much the past month! Mostly I’ve just been sick & stuck at home, resting, because I’m slowly getting over the bronchitis.

On the Cough
I started the harsh coughing on April 7th & it only subsided in the past week or so. I still tire very easily & start coughing again if I overexert myself. It’s annoying ( Read more... )

Here's what I wrote in Writing Group today. The prompt was "finding something in a closet, something you could use as a weapon"My dad was a difficult kid. He was arrested for the first time when he was 13, because he'd stolen a car ( Read more... )

What I wrote in writing group today, all about my dad, his death, his cat, and his wanting things from me.

( On his deathbed, my dad asked me if I would take his cat. )

Since I took so many books of the bookcase in my office while organizing my art supplies and making them more accessible, we had a sudden bookshelf shortage, so yesterday Shannon and I spent what felt like hours, going through every single book on every single shelf of 13 large bookcases … holy mackerel! But we needed to make some room by getting ( Read more... )

Well, at least my recent questions are answered: I am definitely bipolar. Lately I'd been wondering (and so had Shannon) whether I might be hypomanic, because it seemed like some of the symptoms might be present, but we weren't sure. I worried that I was prejudiced against identifying it, since I've been questioning the Bipolar II diagnosis for the ( Read more... )

Written today in our writing group. The prompt was: Write about a time you forgave someone for something you never thought you could forgive ( Read more... )

Recent thoughts:

1. The Mr. Clean Magic Eraser is an amazing amazing thing. Seriously. The amount of scrubbing that has been removed from my life is a source of great happiness.

2. Lucy's theme song is officially "Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba. The chorus describes her quite well:

I get knocked down ( Read more... )