Throughout this migraine hell, one amazing piece of good news: After all my desperate attempts to ask Cat to please, please take her natural depression medication at an adequate dose-- she finally did. She doubled the dose of St. John's Wort starting a month ago, and she's been a very different person since ( Read more... )

Gods. I hate it that so many of these posts are about Cat. She's NOT that prominent a person, yet in my life she has outsized power for obvious reasons. I'm used to dancing a fine tune to my father and ex-husband to try to keep my life "okay"-- but Cat is such a weird mixture of selfish and childish, lacking social sophistication, that I'm not sure ( Read more... )

Okay! The last couple of weeks have been difficult-- I had a week of migraines, AGAIN. Gods! They suck! It started up again just a few days after the last round. I had a few days of normalcy, and then the pain and nausea returned at varying levels for the next 8 or 9 days. Yesterday, the pain train finally broke down and I came up for air and to ( Read more... )

My migraine ended after a record-breaking (for me) TEN days! My previous record was four days, and that was bad enough. Now I am able to look at light without wincing in pain, which is nice, not to mention the end of the nausea. That just... undid me for a week and a half ( Read more... )

 I think I proved my point to Cat that I could go out with her and we could get along just fine-- because we did!

Cat offered to take me to Poulsbo for a meal out and shopping (there's a store there that sells the coolest pagan jewelry for cheap!) by way of apology for leaving me out of things the weekend before, and that's just what we did ( Read more... )

At long last, after my roomie Mike's patient labor (of making a flat spot on the side of a hill and then tamping it down with a special device) I can move forward to complete the Fire Circle I have wanted for so long ( Read more... )

I'm so far behind in my own journal here, it's hard to imagine catching up ( Read more... )

She's at it again ( Read more... )

Sometimes Cat drives me insane, and I know I drive her just as insane. I made the mistake of laughing about one of those things and she went to bed all upset last night... [insert long sigh here ( Read more... )

I finally yelled at Cat.

She kept coming into my room to complain, and it was getting on my nerves. But... I let it go for the most part and tried to be pleasant. Eventually, she came in one too many times and went into her spiel about how she was no good for me, and I deserved better, and she should just live alone, yadda yadda yadda!

And I ( Read more... )