I bought an exercise thingy for less than $100 through Sears (well, their website, but I was guided by an actual Sears salesperson who explained that very little of what appears on the website also appears on the floor of the store) and it FINALLY arrived today! And I used it! It's a mini elliptical you can use sitting down (or, if you have ( Read more... )

Ganked from kimberlogic with some editing ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to post something longer here about all the fuckin' work I've done in the past two months, and I keep not getting to it. (Work done DESPITE the fact that I had a four-week-long cold during and after the holidays, which was like trying to live with a big plastic bucket over your head; good gravy, the stupid and the snot that came out ( Read more... )

Fun Fact: According to my psychiatrist, selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors utilize B12 in their process, so if you're low in B12 or having difficulty absorbing it, being on SSRIs can decrease it further, increasing your feelings of fatigue and depression ( Read more... )

Fun Fact: Cereal, that which we have all long mocked as adjacent to this nutritious breakfast (even when fortified with vitamins and minerals), has the highest oral bioavailability of B12 next to beef liver (eauggh).

Saw the sleep doctor again today. ( More... )

CONFESSION: I haven't really been reading LJ since late November, 2008.

I'm sorry for all those life-changing events, both large and small, that I missed. I feel very disconnected from everyone. (More on that below.)

I just read everything that I posted in the last 2-3 months, looking to see if there are threads I left unknotted. It's ( Read more... )

I survived Arisia. ( All that and more... )

I'm completely healthy. I had a long list of things tested against samples of my blood and urine and all of my numbers are pretty much perfect ( Read more... )

I've been pouring what little brain power and coherency I have into my various jobs lately, so my apologies for not being clearer.

That list of diagnostic data wasn't gathered in one fell swoop. There are a lot of years' worth of test data there, and I only included stuff that's still relevant (i.e., the test were for things that don't change, or ( Read more... )