New Year, Quarterly update!
Oh boy! Another year, another quarterly update~
To be honest, I started typing this up some time in december, but kept starting over and dalling over it. Eh. I'm no blogger. Some times I want to. I want to capsule memories, but eh...
This past year has been alright. Certainly went by fast even tho it didn't always feel like it.
Since the last time I updated we got a new cat. Little Mina. The WHS had free cat day- ironically during Jared's 12 day trip. She was going to be a companion for him, but during the week and a bit til he came home, she bonded to me (and later Tenma- tch! Bitch). Oh Mina! This cat is so weird! SO WEIRD! Unfortunately, like me, she takes awful photos- even tho she's such a pretty puss (not as pretty as Petrie). Like awful. Demon eyes aside, she just looks like a drowned rat whenever I try and take a pic of her.
The girls are doing fine. I did the maths a few days ago- found out Petrie and Tenma are almost SIX years old! Holy crap! Feels like only yesterday we got them. They were just 1-2 years when we took them home. Now- full grown adult puss! Time flies by. I think we got them in 2010-11? Shit....
Ok! Since summer recap;
The rest of the summer was quite fun. At Least. I remember a lot of fun moments (I can't for the life of me remember anything from 2012). The summer was late and way too short, of course ending in a very sick heat wave (that made a hangover last a week)! But lots of fun.
The lonely bit was... bearable? There were times when it didn't bug me, and times (similar to what I'm- and prolly 90% of this city is going through right now because of the cold snap) where I just. I had nothing. Boredom and loneliness. It's actually kinda funny. We don't have TV (re; cable, digital- turn the TV on and its nothing). The TV is for games and making Jared's computer 52 inches wide. I don't even watch TV. I have books and comics and outside. But than that loneliness and boredom. Doesn't help that people are busy and cats (books and comics, too) don't talk. As a form of comfort I've been watching Half in the Bag and Best of the Worse for company. Yes, the people of redlettermedia.com (the starwars reviews) became my friends when I couldn't stand to be alone. Aw. Even now, after I finish this post I'll head over to RLM and rewatch some old videos before I go to bed (Jared's closing, Wednesdays are the worse- I don't see him at all). <- that's funny, since I handled the train; the week of loneliness but now he'll have one or two closing shifts a week and I loose it! This also makes me wonder how this VIA season will turn out? I'm used to weeks alone PLUS I get to ride the train now? Hmmm...
Back to summer... It was full of biking and walking and hanging out at waiting pools and splash pads (thanks to Stella). Barely any swimming, only went to the beach thrice? BUT had a great time when we did go. One time involved heading to my aunt and uncle's new cabin right after Jared came back from the trains. What I thought was a hangover (because for some reason I though to drink all my drinks instead of bringing some home with me) turned out to be the flu! Flu during the summer! So weird to me, but I caught it again black friday. Ugh, what an awful (but very enjoyable and memorable time as well). Another beach fun time was when I lost the first two layers of skin off my ass to a swing. I wasn't thinking when I jumped off- or when I thought swinging in your bathing suit on a hot seat was smart.
Tale end of summer I had an MRI done of my shoulder. I got made fun of for wearing a child's dress gown by the nurses/techs (it had lions and tigers on it! Plus the normal ones don't fit me). You go in wearing ear plugs and they'll cover your eyes so you don't freak out in the machine (gotta be super still). I don't know how long your in there for, 20-40 minutes? It's very disorienting. A female and male tech put me in, when I got pulled out it was two different male techs. I was so confused, had trouble walking (they also made fun of the child's gown), plus Jared fell asleep and had no sense of time either. It also down poured while I was in there, so the outside world was soaking wet! So so confusing!
I also got over my Hotline Miami addiction. I was a poor man's Jacket for halloween, yeah.
I think it was around that time I started having health problems. Could've been sooner... hard to say. Early last year I started eating less (as in smaller portioned meals, nixed anything that isn't water, no more second+ helpings, one piece of pizza is more than enough...) I lost lots of weight but also gained quite a bit of muscle, I was feeling great! Than something happened and the rest of the year (peppered with lots of good times- even when I was sick, hell. Some of the times I was super sick were lots of fun!) I was, and I think? Still am sick.
actually, tomorrow I'll know for sure since I'll be able to see my current blood works and the result of the ultrasounds and CT scans. Than I can say for sure (maybe???) what the fucks going on.
... well, I have iron deficiency anemia. I DO know I'm not as sickly as I was during fall/winter. Don't wheeze and lose my breath as I did. I also don't get headaches anymore. Still get restless legs and blurred/fuzzy/blackout visions, but that could just be life for me now. Christmas week was ugh. Saw my doctor practically DAILY! Had so many iron injections that my ass is STILL bruised. Best of all, being sick during the holidays means NO ONE IS WORKING. I need to see a hematologist, but holidays~
Because of so I had to wait this long for all of the above test results (which... will happen tomorrow). That's a month more of mom freaking out (but anemia aside, I am showing some serious stuff related symptoms) at everyone (specially Jared. I'm not going to die, he won't leave me if I have cancer etc). I stopped giving a shit a month ago. Yes. I shoveled and rode the bus and walked and did heavy lifting while my WBCs were none existing. I'm still alive. I haven't gotten sick (like flu sick, mind you) since black friday. Currently I've stopped taking my iron pills (ok- just once a day instead of half a pack) because my skin color is back? Whites of my eyes aren't blue any more? Not out of breath anymore... yes? At least not when I'm walking and more importantly while shoveling. Odd moment after working out (duh?) and laundry. Lots of ???? because I can't tell myself. I didn't think I looked like a living corpse but apparently I did.
Point is- my HGB count since I last saw my doctor (dec 31st) was 76. Nov 28th (first OFFICIAL warning) it was 70. Dec 21st it was 69, dec 27th it was 68... so you can see improvement. BTW normal count is 120. I'm going to assume its high 90s or even 100s since at 70s I was getting the headaches and what nots. Actually feeling ill. Perhaps I'll update again tomorrow?
Yeah. That shit aside, next month is our sixth? anniversary!! To think I've known Jared since 2003! Holy cow! Dating since 08, and living together with our beautiful girls since 10. Oh boy! I'm trying to plan some fun things, but its so hard with this awful weather. We'll be traveling in the later summer months, but my sister is due for baby #2 around her birthday week (which just so happened to be the time period Jared thought to take vacation time). So. We gotta wait and plan once the bids for VIA begin, than wait and plan some more while the seasons change. Til than I got feb 22nd to look forwards to. I guess Valentine's day will be fun too, but fuck that day! All we ever do is have pizza, drink, movie and video games. I also make jello.
All in all- I really wonder what's in store for us in 2014. Things are going down! I wanna paint the house (or real real this time), we need a new couch, microwave and TV (can't read subtitles anymore, let alone RPGs with there menus and ugh Jared and his TV). My mac is also starting to go. I've had it longer than we've been dating! Ha Ha Ha! I got it in 07 and it's still kicking. Macs mother fuckers!
Oh man. I think that's it. I can't think and I'll have lots of talk about in the coming days. I miss people. I SHOULD chat and catch up with old friends, but I got the spaghetti as the internet calls it. I'm rather poorly social. The other downside of being on my own quite often, and also IDA- but I can talk more or less normally without everything being jumbled together. I'm also used to the new meds I got earlier last year. I don't space out as much.... fingers crossed.
Theres facebook and tumblr and dare I say PHONE?
EDIT: BFhjwejghrejkgnrkntb fucking how do I LJ again. Jeez....