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But i can't really tell, because the slashdot display is conveniently HIDING it for me. Good grief.

Well, we found another food i can't eat, the veggie burgers that are gluten free have a southwestern version. We accidentally tried them the other night and didn't read the labels carfully enough. One bite and my mouth is burning.

Me: this is spicy!

blinder: I have a cold, i can't taste it

me: My mouth burns! the burning, oh it burns!

blinder: seriously, i can't taste a thing!

me: it has to have something in it (grabs box and reads label, promptly spitting out the mouthful of food)

peppers!

blinder: i can't taste them

me: benadryl! (handing him the box)

blinder: OHHHHH. Now i get it. Are you all right?

me: my mouf hurts

blinder: :(

me: but... what am i gonna have for dinner?

Sure enough, there were both bell peppers AND jalapenos, and my lips were a little cracked (this was not last night but the night before) but i am fine.

So part of the burning was from spices and the rest was from allergy. I ended up having some baked french fries for dinner. It wasn't worth it to cook again.

We almost have a phone. Or rather, we have a phone, but the phone service OR the phone jacks don't work, we don't know because we have no control phone to work with and even if we did, i'm not replacing an in-wall phone jack just to test if we have a phone yet. Screw that, the building management can handle it.

Right now the big challenge is getting blinder to stop alternating between doing too much and collapsing from tired from doing too much. The apartment is in a shambles. Both apartments are. Did i mention we aren't done with the other apartment yet? Right. We aren't done with the other apartment yet. We need to get done, and fast, but we aren't there yet. He's been resorting to working on it without me there, because i just get in the way and get tired.

I am so tired.

I've been doing most of the grocery shopping and cooking and laundry. Yeah. Girl stuff. I hate it. I hate it i hate it i hate it. But somebody has to do it, and i can't do the harder stuff right now.

Neither of us has the energy to keep this up much longer, i'm almost at the point where i just chalk up everything in the old place to 'total loss' and have it put out on the street. I can't keep this up. Hence the slacking in my journals lately, i just haven't the energy. The stress is getting to us, i am trying to get him to journal about his inability to take a freaking break once in awhile.

Me, i've been gaining weight. Not much, but enough that i have to start losing it. (that's 'lose,' not, 'loose.') Which is not easy for me, because i would like nothing more than to start starving myself, but that way lieth madness. He got me a pedometer. I left it at home by accident. Between when it was given to me- 5 PM yesterday- and dinnertime, i'd logged 3500 steps. And that was with it turned off for two half-hour intervals. i don't think that's my problem, i think it's my absolute failure to eat right these past few weeks. Plus the inflammation and insane schedule that's been putting the brakes on my ability to do... well, anything.

So, back to the healthy eating time for me, no more ice cream or mochas except a little on weekends, and a lot more water-drinking and fresh fruit to cancel those eat-for-solace moments.

Hopefully, we will be able to calm down soon, because i'm wiped out. I just want a nice, quiet place to live, and we're working on it. But i'm really ready to trade anything i own for some calm and structure now, please.

I did write an episode last week. It never got posted. there's nothing i can do about it, and it may get posted this weekend. That's a separate subject. *sigh*

yay, adveture! Can i try the quiet mundane life adventure for a change?

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  • Brick blinder.

    No - I mean it. If he won't rest on his own, give him a brick or two to the noggin. I don't think that bricks contain animal products or alcohol, so it should not effect his ethos.

    Also - remind him of DAYQUIL. The liquid version has no animal products and no alcohol.

    Also - if you both don't start feeling better, I'm going to send up Chicken Soup and a funnel and FORCE it on you. I really love you guys, but if ya'll don't start getting better, I'm going to literally pack up the mommy gear,
    • Also - remind him of DAYQUIL. The liquid version has no animal products and no alcohol.

      WTF, why do you people even bother getting the plague if you can't get drunk on NyQuil and pass the hell out?

      That's the whole point of licking the rats in the first place! An excuse to get drunk and get pity.

      • WTF, why do you people even bother getting the plague if you can't get drunk on NyQuil and pass the hell out?

        I got plague (unrelated; I was sick from the Thursday before the last gathering, and therefore unable to attend), but I can't take NyQuil because it reacts Badly with the blood pressure medication I'm on. Sigh.

        I'm an odd duck to have that problem, since to me one pain reliever is as good as another. Yes, I am aware of the fact that they treat different symptoms in different ways. If I have a head
      • Yeah, seriously. NyQuil is the one thing I'd smuggle out of the states if I go there again. Loads of NyQuil. Containers full of the blue sick-nectar. This shit is so verboten in Sweden that I don't think I even could get a research permit to import the stuff to try on small pebbles, let alone guinea pigs or humans. The contents list reads like the inventory list from one of Saddam's pre-Gulf War I chemical weapons labs.
  • Ok. Here's the deal. Pick a day this weekend, and Trmj and I will show up in Malden (Hopefully with the van) and pack everything we can into it, move it, etc. Then pick a day next weekend, and we'll do the same thing. With 2 days and a van, there's no reason we can't get it knocked out and done with. Both you and Blinder will feel better with it done instead of hanging over your heads, and Trmj and I will feel better knowing you two feel better. I got the plague this week, and went to the doctor and got ant
  • Or do I have to fly up there again? :-)
    • Yes, you have to fly up here again. :)

      onemississippitwomississippithreemississippifourmi ssissippifivemississippisixmississippicanipleasepo stthisalreadymrslowdowncowboy?????
  • I've had the problem too. They are there, just hidden, so you could hit the 'tab' key a few times to get it in focus. but it could be hit and miss. third focus past the text area box.
    [ Text area ] -> [ Post type ] -> [ Preview ] -> [ Submit ]
    For some reason, I keep getting preview, which is not necessarily a bad thing.
  • I may need some sleep. I know what it is supposed to say, but for a split second I was sitting here going, why is she talking to the blender? Seriously....I only had one beer last night watching the football game. Go ahead, ask Bodak. He will confirm it.
  • I know for us, we had some stuff lying around that we were always wanting to either sell or do something with. Finally we realized that if we just donated the stuff we would A) get rid of it and B) get the tax right-off as a means of gaining value from it. I know there are some agencies (Salvation Army comes to mind) that will drive up the truck and take all your stuff. Then you write it off come April 14th and you're done with it.

    That sucks about the peppers. They are one of my favorite things, but a

    • A lot of it IS going to armee salvacion, just as soon as one of us is there for the truck to pick it up. (blinder, please get a receipt)

      and it's just there's so much to pack up and deal with.

      *sigh*

      darn it all. well, this is meeeeee
      slow down cowboy can't you see?
      i already posted once,
      so now i'd best slow down a bunch...
      slow down cowboy now go slow,
      watch the little breezes blow
      among the branches and the roses
      which we should stop and sniff with noses-
      'slow down,' i hate that message most!
      All i want to do is po
  • I'm going to get one for my next trip. It would be very interesting to find out how many steps I take, how many kilometers I actually walk, while exploring a new city and hiking its surrounding areas...
  • I've moved ... 8 times in the past 4 years. Usually how you two are doing it - just me and, if I had one at the time, my partner. I very quickly learned that all that crap I thought I wanted or needed, well, I actually don't. I'm much happier without 3 cordless phones, 4 tvs, 10,000 books, etc etc etc. There's a lot to be said for reducing the amount of "stuff" you have, and you might find that getting rid of the stuff you haven't looked at in the past 3 months will bring a large amount of freedom. :-)

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