► What a week. My vertigo has been in full force the past couple of days, and yesterday morning I had a surprise when I awoke to discover my neck and shoulder in excruciating pain. Seems I aggravated my old grade 8 high jump injury, the one that snapped my neck pinching a nerve in my shoulder and partially paralyzing my left arm. My arm was ( Read more... )

► Wizard World Ohio is over and John's back home. He sent me a scan of my Josie (from Josie and the PussycatsDan Parent. I think it's swell!


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► No doubt it was because I was so worried about going to the electric company and the disability pension office today, but I had a horrible time trying to sleep last night. It wasn't until after 3:00am that I finally fell asleep only to toss and turn and finally wake up around 5:30am. I spent the rest of the morning feeling exhausted yet wire, ( Read more... )

► That's a bit of a relief. My aunt and maternal grandmother stopped by yesterday afternoon. They couldn't stay long, and my grandmother couldn't manage the steep staircase to get to my apartment so it wasn't a long visit. My grandmother gave me envelops, one for myself and one for my sister. She's apparently giving each grandchild a few hundred ( Read more... )

► According the the Weather Network website, the heat and humidity were worse yesterday than today. So why is sweat pouring down my face now, when it wasn't yesterday ( Read more... )

► Happy Halloween everyone!

► The social worker I talked to last week called me back today. Seems she got my case file and had read through it. It turns out that the outpatient mental health program I've been sent to actually specifically deals with therapy for people with immediate mental distress, and in more of a triage style of severity of ( Read more... )

► Based solely on the law of averages, I suppose it was bound to happen eventually. Earlier today I won my very first Superman art auction on Ebay (drawn by one Ediano Silva). I'm pretty pleased with the drawing because while Superman looks intimidating and forceful in the image, he doesn't look like the raving raging lunatic as depicted in most ( Read more... )

► Almost every day I briefly think about my mother, and her death in 2002. Yesterday I was thinking about her and the loss, but it didn't occur to me that it was actually the anniversary of the day she died, October 28th, 2002. What makes that weird is that I've been aware of the date coming and had even thought about it frequently in the past ( Read more... )

► Called it! Dean's still feeling spacey from all the meds from the weekend, so she's going to wait and go in to work next Tuesday. Supposedly ( Read more... )

► Just a couple of days later and Dean's already falling back into the regular routine. She actually did go into work this morning but was still feeling dizzy from the medication she overdosed on this past Friday, so she had to leave after an hour. She's now saying she'll take the next two days to recover and go in on Thursday. Honestly, I ( Read more... )