The second part of my holiday report was the most surprising and cool thing that happened, and it was at the very beginning ( Read more... )

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... )