Pls don't leave me, shpadoinkle?
Still not coming back to the 'my body feels like a lead weight' feelings of last year, but the brain fog may be returning. However, I also haven't been sleeping on time for the last couple of nights, so it may not be as bad as I think. Some'un gimme a lantern?
Stopped worrying so much about the L1D about mid last week, and slowly all my stomach problems started going away. Maybe my stomach just hates quinoa after having to eat it every day for six weeks? I'm still OK having amaranth for breakfast, and brown rice pasta seems to be OK.
Did not get a chance to test too many foods on myself this weekend, b/c I went to Recess, an rpg mini-con put on seasonally by NerdNYC. And I didn't want to have to suddenly ditch games due to tummy aches, so I just ate lots and lots of refined wheaty carbs. And was OK. Followed by a late dinner at Veselka where neither potato or cheese pierogies messed up mah tummy, tho I did stick to the vegetarian platter. Also, their borcht is so much better than mine, zomg.
I did start to get tired by evening, and after dinner I crashed out on the trains, and didn't leave the house all of Sunday. But OMG WORTH IT. I really missed having this rampant geekiness in my life. I didn't end up making many new friends, but I gamed with old friends and new people, and will try to attend more of this organization's events in the future. Saw more of my old friends, who are also quite intrigued by my podcasting plans.
Monday was therapy, followed by hanging out with friends at someone else's apartment, and in between I picked up much needed supplies and groceries. Including supplies from the jewelry-district. I had a list and everything and ... barely ... deviated from it.
I used my evening off to boil a chicken and break out all of the polymer clay supplies I had left. My bottles of glaze had dried out, the liquid sculpey was no longer a liquid, and I only used the clay I picked up a few weeks ago, but everything else seemed to be in order. Clay is still somewhat therapeutic, tho I'm very grateful for my 'pasta' machine.
Finally tried out hand-me-down toaster oven to bake clay pieces and it went OK. Its not big enough for the large tiles I used to use for this, so I had to use the smaller tiles, but that also meant less smelliness. However, it's hard to maintain a constant temperature with the dial. The two small batches I tested it with seem OK enough for the $5 trinkets bin.
Tuesday I went to Blick to find more glaze, but they didn't have the Sculpey specific brands. Picked up a 'sealer' by Amaco to try out. This morning the few pieces I tested it on looked nice but were a bit tacky, but it says the stuff needs 24 hours to cure fully. After the badness that followed after using Modpodge on those really fine Aubrey illustration pendants, I am being more careful with new stuff. May stop by Pearl after work today or tomorrow, depending on whether I'm going out tonight or not.
Would like to make some Halloweenie pieces out of polymer clay, for the Trinkets-bin and larger ensembles, but later I'd like to try bigger, more sculptural pieces. Like the Steampunk Scarab I made a few years ago for the LSC show. Or try the Victorian ink-drawing pendants again, albeit a bit smaller this time.
Also, after finishing my bookkeeping for 2011 sometime last week, I open up FB to find a friend has contacted me about buying her stash. After taking a few days to price check the items she showed me... I did. It was a good deal, but I really need to stop buying jewelry supplies nao. Luckily I have wholesale/catalog info for all the vendors I like at NYWBS, so I don't feel compelled to attend that in March.
Yesterday was fairly normal back-to-job day, except now its too cold in the library. Effectively they shut off the heaters when they were pouring out too much heat, last week when it was in the 50s. Its not in the 50s anymore, guys. *grumbles*
Last night I decided to try my old cheese-grits-and-bacon dinner to see if it messed me up. I think my stomach is fine with dairy, so long as I have the pills. It was a little taken aback at the bacon. And the grits put me in a coma, again. Or maybe it was the cheese and the grits? Was going to do more clay stuff, ended up watching Farscape and spacing out on the couch.
Thus far I have felt very little temptation to attend improv shows. Reserved some tix in case I felt up to it, but its not a priority. Kinda wish I could extract my improv-buddies from the scene to hang out with them elsewhere, away from the drunk d-bags who don't consider me to be female due to my two digit dress size. Tho that is part of why I'm writing a radio show. Hopefully my friends will still be there when I can stop worrying about jewelry stock and shaman scripts.
Since I stopped feeling tired *all* the time, my skin's started breaking out like it normally does. It was suprisingly clear while I was on the mono-rail. I've heard that acne can get worse while suffering from mono. Even my autonomic body systems have to do things their own way.
Am drawing a bit of a blank on this week's writing prompts from the blogs I follow.
BatFit's latest challange is replace a bad habit with a good one. Still too tired for exercise, and for some reason this week I'm having all the food cravings I skipped for the weeks spend on the elimination diet, so I'm really just fighting to maintain my good habits. It was easier to be on the diet all the time than have it go weekdays-on, weekends-off. Still too tired for exercising, maybe due to frosty sleep dep.
Tho on the upside, I was able to satisfy today's chocolate craving with half of my pre-L1D dose. And according to another friend's no-sugar focused diet plan, 3g of sugar at a meal is OK, and I had about 6.
Maybe I'll try a non-fitness goal? Replace buying shiny things with making them? Lol.
NYNY/CharmedI'mSure is to return to a place of 'sacred' relevance to me. Um... dunno. The Met? The Cloisters? The Ruben (free Friday nite)? Chinatown for the NY fest? When? By myself? The Enchantments of my youth is gone (replaced by a mediocre copy), as is the Washington Square I used to love a bit more. I'm going to try to attend KGB Fantastic Fiction tonight, which is certainly a special place to me that I haven't been to in a cat's age. Not sure that the 'jewelry-district' counts in this context ;-). I'll think of something.
I also haven't felt much up to writing this week so far. Moar sleep dep? Should I skip KGB for writing and shiny-making tonight? I am feeling a bit writer-ish right now, but I can't focus due to grogginess. I don't know either of tonight's authors personally, and I'm not sure how my tummy will do at dinner afterwards.
Or I could just chill out and take it easy tonight, b/c I'm still coming off six months of mono and I'm freezing to death at work.
<3 Chrysilla
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, http://chrysilla.dreamwidth.org/
Stopped worrying so much about the L1D about mid last week, and slowly all my stomach problems started going away. Maybe my stomach just hates quinoa after having to eat it every day for six weeks? I'm still OK having amaranth for breakfast, and brown rice pasta seems to be OK.
Did not get a chance to test too many foods on myself this weekend, b/c I went to Recess, an rpg mini-con put on seasonally by NerdNYC. And I didn't want to have to suddenly ditch games due to tummy aches, so I just ate lots and lots of refined wheaty carbs. And was OK. Followed by a late dinner at Veselka where neither potato or cheese pierogies messed up mah tummy, tho I did stick to the vegetarian platter. Also, their borcht is so much better than mine, zomg.
I did start to get tired by evening, and after dinner I crashed out on the trains, and didn't leave the house all of Sunday. But OMG WORTH IT. I really missed having this rampant geekiness in my life. I didn't end up making many new friends, but I gamed with old friends and new people, and will try to attend more of this organization's events in the future. Saw more of my old friends, who are also quite intrigued by my podcasting plans.
Monday was therapy, followed by hanging out with friends at someone else's apartment, and in between I picked up much needed supplies and groceries. Including supplies from the jewelry-district. I had a list and everything and ... barely ... deviated from it.
I used my evening off to boil a chicken and break out all of the polymer clay supplies I had left. My bottles of glaze had dried out, the liquid sculpey was no longer a liquid, and I only used the clay I picked up a few weeks ago, but everything else seemed to be in order. Clay is still somewhat therapeutic, tho I'm very grateful for my 'pasta' machine.
Finally tried out hand-me-down toaster oven to bake clay pieces and it went OK. Its not big enough for the large tiles I used to use for this, so I had to use the smaller tiles, but that also meant less smelliness. However, it's hard to maintain a constant temperature with the dial. The two small batches I tested it with seem OK enough for the $5 trinkets bin.
Tuesday I went to Blick to find more glaze, but they didn't have the Sculpey specific brands. Picked up a 'sealer' by Amaco to try out. This morning the few pieces I tested it on looked nice but were a bit tacky, but it says the stuff needs 24 hours to cure fully. After the badness that followed after using Modpodge on those really fine Aubrey illustration pendants, I am being more careful with new stuff. May stop by Pearl after work today or tomorrow, depending on whether I'm going out tonight or not.
Would like to make some Halloweenie pieces out of polymer clay, for the Trinkets-bin and larger ensembles, but later I'd like to try bigger, more sculptural pieces. Like the Steampunk Scarab I made a few years ago for the LSC show. Or try the Victorian ink-drawing pendants again, albeit a bit smaller this time.
Also, after finishing my bookkeeping for 2011 sometime last week, I open up FB to find a friend has contacted me about buying her stash. After taking a few days to price check the items she showed me... I did. It was a good deal, but I really need to stop buying jewelry supplies nao. Luckily I have wholesale/catalog info for all the vendors I like at NYWBS, so I don't feel compelled to attend that in March.
Yesterday was fairly normal back-to-job day, except now its too cold in the library. Effectively they shut off the heaters when they were pouring out too much heat, last week when it was in the 50s. Its not in the 50s anymore, guys. *grumbles*
Last night I decided to try my old cheese-grits-and-bacon dinner to see if it messed me up. I think my stomach is fine with dairy, so long as I have the pills. It was a little taken aback at the bacon. And the grits put me in a coma, again. Or maybe it was the cheese and the grits? Was going to do more clay stuff, ended up watching Farscape and spacing out on the couch.
Thus far I have felt very little temptation to attend improv shows. Reserved some tix in case I felt up to it, but its not a priority. Kinda wish I could extract my improv-buddies from the scene to hang out with them elsewhere, away from the drunk d-bags who don't consider me to be female due to my two digit dress size. Tho that is part of why I'm writing a radio show. Hopefully my friends will still be there when I can stop worrying about jewelry stock and shaman scripts.
Since I stopped feeling tired *all* the time, my skin's started breaking out like it normally does. It was suprisingly clear while I was on the mono-rail. I've heard that acne can get worse while suffering from mono. Even my autonomic body systems have to do things their own way.
Am drawing a bit of a blank on this week's writing prompts from the blogs I follow.
BatFit's latest challange is replace a bad habit with a good one. Still too tired for exercise, and for some reason this week I'm having all the food cravings I skipped for the weeks spend on the elimination diet, so I'm really just fighting to maintain my good habits. It was easier to be on the diet all the time than have it go weekdays-on, weekends-off. Still too tired for exercising, maybe due to frosty sleep dep.
Tho on the upside, I was able to satisfy today's chocolate craving with half of my pre-L1D dose. And according to another friend's no-sugar focused diet plan, 3g of sugar at a meal is OK, and I had about 6.
Maybe I'll try a non-fitness goal? Replace buying shiny things with making them? Lol.
NYNY/CharmedI'mSure is to return to a place of 'sacred' relevance to me. Um... dunno. The Met? The Cloisters? The Ruben (free Friday nite)? Chinatown for the NY fest? When? By myself? The Enchantments of my youth is gone (replaced by a mediocre copy), as is the Washington Square I used to love a bit more. I'm going to try to attend KGB Fantastic Fiction tonight, which is certainly a special place to me that I haven't been to in a cat's age. Not sure that the 'jewelry-district' counts in this context ;-). I'll think of something.
I also haven't felt much up to writing this week so far. Moar sleep dep? Should I skip KGB for writing and shiny-making tonight? I am feeling a bit writer-ish right now, but I can't focus due to grogginess. I don't know either of tonight's authors personally, and I'm not sure how my tummy will do at dinner afterwards.
Or I could just chill out and take it easy tonight, b/c I'm still coming off six months of mono and I'm freezing to death at work.
<3 Chrysilla
Crossposted from Dreamwidth, http://chrysilla.dreamwidth.org/