( This is probably depressing. )

I was flipping around the TV today and landed on an episode of "The New Yankee Workshop." I used to watch that every Sunday morning with my dad before we went to church, but today, all I could think of was how much I wanted to do something, make something ( Read more... )

Recently (read: within the past three months), I was talking with several friends about my time in the hospital in Michigan and about some of my experiences there. One of the medicines that they tried to help with my headache was some kind of steroid that, apart from not doing anything to the headache at all, kicked in my fight-or-flight response ( Read more... )

I have left the house for an extended period of time. Yes, on purpose. No, not to go to another hospital. Yes, I wanted to. Shockingly, yes, I'm visiting friends ( Read more... )

Most of this week, I've felt rather rotten. Bad headache, very strong desire to sleep a lot to escape the pain, overall malaise, that kind of thing. And I've been fixating a little too much on how the migraines are taking my life out from under me. I feel like I'm tying my shoes in the middle of a marathon ( Read more... )

I've been tagged by fully half the people I know on Facebook and several people on LiveJournal, so I guess I might as well suck it up and follow the crowd. Here's 25 random things about me, which you may or may not have already known.

( Here's those 25 Things )

I'm almost done with my Halloween costume. And when I say "I," I mean "my mom and dad have done most of the work for me because I can't think clearly most of the time." I was sitting downstairs, just staring at some of the pieces I was going to make my brass goggles out of for at least five minutes. I didn't do anything because I was ( Read more... )

I was on my way back from getting some lunch just a bit ago when I, apropos of nothing, started thinking about how I'm gaining on 30 much faster than I'd like to and that the youth I was supposed to have wasted on having fun got wasted instead on being ill. That got me into a funk that lasted all of about fifteen seconds because America's "Lonely ( Read more... )

I'm in a bit of a funk today. Said funk could have one of many causes:

• The DSL continues to not work reliably, despite numerous calls to AT&T. If I felt better, we'd have switched to Time Warner for cable Internet long ago.
  
• The DSL guy was out here yesterday and this morning, the phones did not ring. We could make and receive calls fine, but ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I got a letter from the Social Security Disability people. Strike two ( Read more... )