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LIFE: Saw my pain management/holistic doctor; she approved the way I'd tweaked my diet, and told me I should expect to be on it for several months yet. She also prescribed a course of Manual Lymphatic Discharge Therapy. Despite the gross name, it's basically a light massage of the legs; the theory is that it encourages lymph flow which results in more efficient removal of toxins (because more lymph mixes with blood in the same time period). Yet another one of those "scientific enough to sound plausible but kind of on the fringe" treatments I seem to be dealing with lately.
I've only had one appointment so far, and my next isn't for another couple weeks because the doctor doing the therapy is out of town. So it'll be a while before I know it's effective -- possibly a couple of months? I know at least one or two people reading this are/might be interested in whether this works, so I'll keep you all posted.
Since then I've been ... catching up on TV and making friendship bracelets, mostly. Why yes, I do turn twenty-six tomorrow; why do you ask? In all seriousness, lately I've been getting the itch to craft without any kind of inspiration, and it turns out friendship bracelets are exactly the kind of cheap, mostly mindless, semi-meditative activity that fits the bill. Funnily enough, I never really made them much as a kid -- I could do basic braids and twists, but never the flat, knotted ones that usually come to mind. I'm sure this particular crafting bug will die out eventually, if it hasn't already, but I'm going to try to do this one (in purple and yellow), this one, and maybe even this one first.
On another note, I really need to be more careful about managing my energy -- I've been too exhausted to do anything much productive tonight, and that could've been avoided if I'd come home from shopping half an hour earlier.
SIGNAL BOOST: Via settiai, bodlon is trying to raise money for top surgery. Check out his post, see if you can/want to contribute or spread the word.
MEME: Via fannish5, five favorite beta or ambiguously canon couples:
Horatio Hornblower/William Bush, Horatio Hornblower. Look, all I'm saying is that when a guy who's been married twice tells himself that having this other guy around is better than having a wife, and the other guy follows him around devotedly for half his life and once spends an entire paragraph expounding on how nice first guy's hands are ... yeah, something going on there.
Rikki Barnes/Anya Corazon, Young Allies. Aka the cutest, most subtexty relationship between teenage girls there ever was. Yes, more than Penny and Aggie. Yes, I am preemptively crying over Onslaught Unleashed #4 even though I haven't read it yet and don't know what happens (except that it's bad).
Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson-Parker, Spider-Girl. It's true, I am a cheating cheater who cheats. I do really like the way DeFalco writes their relationship as an older, more settled couple, though, with complete trust and a lot of give and take.
Faramir/Eowyn, The Lord of the Rings. Strangely enough I think this still counts as a beta couple even though the alpha couple only exists in the appendix and films! Ah, well. They are both boss and make a boss couple, the end. (I feel kind of guilty not including Legolas/Gimli -- a love so pure it transcends the divinely ordained species segregation of the afterlife! -- but someone had to go.)
Paco Tejas/Brenda Del Vecchio, Blue Beetle. Normally I tend to find "protagonist's male sidekick and female sidekick hook up" pairings kind of dull (sorry, Hermione/Ron), particularly when it falls into the "they bicker but they love each other" configuration. But these two are just precious.
I've only had one appointment so far, and my next isn't for another couple weeks because the doctor doing the therapy is out of town. So it'll be a while before I know it's effective -- possibly a couple of months? I know at least one or two people reading this are/might be interested in whether this works, so I'll keep you all posted.
Since then I've been ... catching up on TV and making friendship bracelets, mostly. Why yes, I do turn twenty-six tomorrow; why do you ask? In all seriousness, lately I've been getting the itch to craft without any kind of inspiration, and it turns out friendship bracelets are exactly the kind of cheap, mostly mindless, semi-meditative activity that fits the bill. Funnily enough, I never really made them much as a kid -- I could do basic braids and twists, but never the flat, knotted ones that usually come to mind. I'm sure this particular crafting bug will die out eventually, if it hasn't already, but I'm going to try to do this one (in purple and yellow), this one, and maybe even this one first.
On another note, I really need to be more careful about managing my energy -- I've been too exhausted to do anything much productive tonight, and that could've been avoided if I'd come home from shopping half an hour earlier.
SIGNAL BOOST: Via settiai, bodlon is trying to raise money for top surgery. Check out his post, see if you can/want to contribute or spread the word.
MEME: Via fannish5, five favorite beta or ambiguously canon couples:
Horatio Hornblower/William Bush, Horatio Hornblower. Look, all I'm saying is that when a guy who's been married twice tells himself that having this other guy around is better than having a wife, and the other guy follows him around devotedly for half his life and once spends an entire paragraph expounding on how nice first guy's hands are ... yeah, something going on there.
Rikki Barnes/Anya Corazon, Young Allies. Aka the cutest, most subtexty relationship between teenage girls there ever was. Yes, more than Penny and Aggie. Yes, I am preemptively crying over Onslaught Unleashed #4 even though I haven't read it yet and don't know what happens (except that it's bad).
Peter Parker/Mary Jane Watson-Parker, Spider-Girl. It's true, I am a cheating cheater who cheats. I do really like the way DeFalco writes their relationship as an older, more settled couple, though, with complete trust and a lot of give and take.
Faramir/Eowyn, The Lord of the Rings. Strangely enough I think this still counts as a beta couple even though the alpha couple only exists in the appendix and films! Ah, well. They are both boss and make a boss couple, the end. (I feel kind of guilty not including Legolas/Gimli -- a love so pure it transcends the divinely ordained species segregation of the afterlife! -- but someone had to go.)
Paco Tejas/Brenda Del Vecchio, Blue Beetle. Normally I tend to find "protagonist's male sidekick and female sidekick hook up" pairings kind of dull (sorry, Hermione/Ron), particularly when it falls into the "they bicker but they love each other" configuration. But these two are just precious.