esorlehcar's Friends
 
[Most Recent Entries] [Calendar View] [Friends View]

Below are the most recent 25 friends' journal entries.

    [ << Previous 25 ]
    Thursday, December 10th, 2009
    sorchar
    10:45p
    Today's Twittiness

    • 23:14 @oshunanat Well, it's not like the information is top secret. I know it, and I'm not even a cook! #

    Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
    telesilla
    10:28p
    Review: BPAL's Sol Invictus
    Just one tonight:

    From the 2009 Yule LE Line:

    Sol Invictus -- "A radiant blend of solar oils: golden amber, saffron, heliotrope, hibiscus, citron, frangipani, frankincense, tangerine, mock orange, and orange blossom."

    It's a somewhat heavy floral with just a touch of ambery spice under it. Mostly what I'm getting is the frangipani and the orange blossom grounded by the amber. I'd say this is an almost tropical floral for people who don't like florals. In other words, me. :)
    telesilla
    9:54p
    If you ever get the brilliant idea to...
    ...replace the milk the cheese sauce for baked macaroni and cheese with mostly heavy cream (I thinned it with a little milk)?

    Don't.

    God, I think I'm gonna die.

    Thing is, other than that the fact that it was insanely rich, it was incredibly good. Half sharp cheddar, a quarter jack and a quarter blue cheese made for a nice mix of cheesy taste and melty goodness.

    Oh also? It had bacon in it.

    Die, I tell you. I'm gonna die.
    morgandawn
    5:01p
    This made my day
    Working with websites stored on the Internet Archives is a lot like how the Internet used to be before Google and search engines. The only way you found another website was to click on a link..and then another...and then another. You wandered the deserts being guided by wisps of clouds and the angle of the sun. And if you ever looked back....you'd see no trace of how you got there.

    Which is why finding this and then being able to create the Fanlore entry here made my day.

    [A Dreamwidth post with comment count unavailable comments | Post a Dreamwidth comment| How to use OpenID]

    Current Mood: calm
    telesilla
    3:38p
    *dies dies dies*

    I'm pickin' up good vibrations,
    she's giving me telesilla.

    Which song was this lyric from?

    Get your own lyrics:
    musesfool
    3:58p
    she's just someone's favorite daughter
    Thank you to [livejournal.com profile] pinkfinity and [livejournal.com profile] regala_electra for the lovely v-gifts.



    *

    \o/

    Three sets of minutes done! Well, not done-done, because they still have to be reviewed/revised etc. but the hardest part is done and the first drafts are now in the hands of the appropriate staff members for editing. Woo!

    *

    Apparently I'm now famous in [livejournal.com profile] fleurdeleo's office because I gave her half the baked goods I made last weekend and she brought them into work and they were a big hit.

    I brought in the cheesecake to my office today for the potluck luncheon (which is in lieu of a holiday party? I don't even know), and the funny thing is, yesterday, a number of people asked me if I were bringing something in today - I guess the blueberry cake and the banana cake made an impression. Heh. Winning the world over with baked goods - a sound strategy.

    The people I sat with during the luncheon liked the cake, so that was a winner. Someone actually asked me if I ever made grain pie, and I was able to say I have, and then someone else recommended Veniero's grain pie, which recommendation I totally seconded.

    I'm full of a lot of food - there was pulled pork and brisket and ribs and pierogies and chicken with string beans (too spicy!) and mac and cheese and a dozen other things I didn't even get to because I was so full with what was on my plate. Boss 2 made pineapple rum punch and I had a half a glass of that as well. And for dessert, a piece of cheesecake (I made it! I had to taste it!*), a chocolate mini-cupcake, a bite of apple crisp, and a half slice of flan. Everything was very good, but I totally want to curl up and go to sleep now.

    FOOOOOOD COMAAAAAAAA.

    So I mentioned that I decided I would bake for Christmas gifts for the adults in the family - there are four couples I usually buy for, and this seems like a cheaper, more personal gift (and also easier than trying to figure out what to get them either as individuals or couples). Of course, I had to listen to a harangue from my dad about it, as he mansplained why he thought I shouldn't do it, and just buy gift cards instead (is there a special subcategory for dadsplaining? because I think he does it to my brother, too). I was like, I'm not twelve years old and I have thought it through and it's totally workable, especially if I do most of the baking in their somewhat larger and more counter-space-having kitchen (plus! an industrial size KitchenAid stand mixer! Woo! *is mad jealous of that*). So we had one of those "I'm at work and can't yell at you like I'd like to so I'll speak in furious hushed tones on the phone" arguments the other day and the upshot is that I am baking for Christmas, but I am also taking an extra day off to do so (my boss was all, "that's fine - nothing is going on 12/23 anyway").

    I won't even go into the way my mother makes me crazy sometimes, and specifically how she did so yesterday, because arrgh!

    *deep calming breaths*

    I love my parents, but dear god, the can be infuriating sometimes.

    ANYWAY. I ordered a springform pan to be sent to their house since they don't have one and I don't want to lug mine from home, and I also ordered these star-shaped bake and give paper pans from King Arthur Flour. Anyone ever use them? It seems like a great idea, but do they really hold up in the oven? I guess I will find out. I don't think they're good for cheesecake though, hence the springform.

    I also took care of my nieces' gifts yesterday - the boys just get Best Buy gift certificates these days - so I feel much more on top of things than I did earlier. Heh. I love Christmas shopping and I'm good at picking out gifts for people, but the past few years have been harder - I don't seem to get much in the way of Christmas spirit until it's much later than is wise to start shopping. Doing a lot online helps, and walking past the trees being sold on the sidewalk always perks me up, but still, I miss being more excited about the holidays.

    So I was thinking of redoing my delicious tags regarding food - right now that's the only tag I use for anything food-related. When I started, I didn't think there would be much - the online menus of a couple of restaurants I order from, some food-related gift ideas, and that's it - but clearly there is more than that. I bookmark more recipes these days than stories (which is a whole other rant I won't subject you to), so I am thinking I should maybe differentiate a little to make things easier to find. Maybe food: recipes: [type of recipe, i.e., meat, pasta, dessert, etc.], food: information, food: menus? Hmmm...

    I wrote most of this post earlier, before the luncheon and now I am too brain dead to remember if there was anything else I wanted to say, so I'll just hit post.

    --
    *I don't taste the things I don't like to eat, even when I've cooked them myself - I am a very finicky, unadventurous eater. When I used to cook regularly for the family I often made things I don't eat, but I wouldn't have brought something like that in for strangers, anyway.

    ***

    This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/105072.html. comment count unavailable people have commented there.

    Current Mood: full
    Current Music: Chinese Burn - Curve
    zillah975
    9:33a
    Pictures to words
    This is an interesting idea... Pictures2Words, a new big bang where the artists sign up to create art and the writers sign up to write stories based on the art. They're limiting it to Supernatural, Leverage, and RPS of those shows (and crossovers among those three categories), but anyway, it really makes me wish I were one of those writers who could always manage to write. The ones who do writing roundups every month of like twenty fics they've posted and are still all "woe, such writers block omg! I've hardly written ANYthing!" But I can't sign up, I know I wouldn't finish (or probably), but still! What a cool idea.

    Mirrored from this post at Dreamwidth, which currently has comment count unavailable comments.

    Read comments | Reply
    kyuuketsukirui
    1:24a
    Manga: Kindaichi & Ai no Shintairiku
    Title: Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo: Kenmochi Keibu no Satsujin
    Author: Satou Fumiya & Amagi Seimaru
    My Rating: 5/5

    Three years after the torture, rape, and murder of a high school girl, her attackers are free. But now someone is killing them and Inspector Kenmochi is the prime suspect.. As the evidence mounts against him, will Kindaichi and Akechi be able to clear his name in time? (Answer: Yes. Duh.)

    Well, I haven't met a Kindaichi case I didn't at least like if not love, so unsurprisingly, I really liked this one. Even though I guessed the real murderer before Kindaichi did for once (though I was still surprised by his motive and the obligatory sob story (Kindaichi murders are always tragic revenge stories and no matter how brutal the murders, no one is really a coldhearted killer (except perhaps the people who got killed))).

    Title: Ai no Shintairiku
    Author: Yamada Nari
    My Rating: 4.5/5

    When Nikotama Souhei transfers to a new school, it's the perfect opportunity to start living as Sara, the girl she's always known she was. Although the school allows her to wear a girls' uniform, she's still down as Souhei on their records, so she's outed the moment she introduces herself to her new class as Sara. Though she faces harrassment from classmates and opposition from her parents and teachers, she soldiers on, determined to be herself, and eventually she makes friends and even gets the guy.

    The events are very typical school shoujo. There's a Mean Girl who bullies Sara, and a timid girl who becomes Sara's first friend. There's a wacky teacher and a day at the beach and love at first sight (with a boy on the train who of course turns out to be in her class). It's actually really pretty generic other than the fact that the heroine is trans.

    But...I still love it. Because the heroine is trans. It's not unproblematic (I could have lived without the joke of Sara's last name, which sounds like "two balls", or the ugly, jealous feminists who protest a swimsuit contest as being sexist), but I liked Sara a lot. It's no Hourou Musuko, but I love that it exists.

    Scanlations are available and the translation is not too bad, but the translator made the horrible decision to have Sara and another girl refer to themselves in third person. This sounds totally natural in Japanese. It's cutesy and childish/girlish, but not uncommon. In English it just sounds bizarre, especially since English uses subjects way more often than Japanese does, and when forced to add the subject in English when it wasn't there in Japanese, the translator just used regular first-person pronouns, so it sounds like sometimes Sara is speaking of herself as a separate person. Just doesn't work at all.

    Also warning: DO NOT READ COMMENTS ON THAT SITE. There's one topic all about how much the manga sucks and how it's stupid for having a boy dressed as a girl (three pages of people agreeing with this). Then there's more topics about how this story is actually yaoi, and people saying they liked the part where Sara was a boy best and wished it had stayed that way (especially disgusting considering how blatantly unhappy she was then and she was only dressing as boy to try and please her mom). And then there's the people who use quotes when calling Sara by female pronouns (is that better than the many other commenters who just used male pronouns?). Ugh.
    Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
    sorchar
    10:45p
    Today's Twittiness
    • 21:35 Western Culinary Inst. being sued by grads who are pissed off that they still have to start as line cooks out in the real world. Douchebags. #
    • 21:57 @mamadeb1963 yes! You have to do it to learn. #
    Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter
    musesfool
    11:13p
    you might find you get what you need
    My hair is thick and knots if you look at it funny, so for years I've used a detangler or leave-in conditioner - usually Infusium 23. I ran out and they didn't have any in the CVS in my neighborhood, so I bought this L'Oreal leave-in conditioner gel, and it says on the bottle that it smells like rosemary and mint.

    Maybe in BIZARRO WORLD.

    It smells more like the backseat of a Cutlass owned by a guy named Joey Bones in 1986. After it's been locked up tight on a 90° day. Ugh. Works really well, but makes my hands stink of nothing that resembles rosemary, mint or any combination of the two. Sigh.

    I'll use it, I suppose, but I am going back to Infusium after this. It doesn't have a horrible smell.

    *

    So my LJ comments have started slowly trickling in. Yay? I'm glad I didn't post any fic during this time of no notifications.

    I made a cheesecake tonight to take to work tomorrow. Hopefully it came out as good as the one I made Saturday. It looks good and smells good. Sadly, my oven was not big enough for me to put the cake pan in a hot water bath, so the top cracked. (The largest pan my oven fits is a 9x13", but a 9" springform does not fit in that.)

    Then I watched Criminal Minds. spoilers )

    Then I watched Glee. I tried to dl some of the songs from tonight, but iTunes tells me something is being modified and therefore I cannot. But I really liked song spoilers )

    *

    I'm done with two sets of minutes and 3/4 of the way through the last set, and then hopefully I can actually do some work on my yuletide story at work. That would be good. I still have the same 73 words I had on Saturday. Sigh. I used to be good at this writing thing. What the hell happened? Possibly baking is my new fandom? I was an enthusiastic baker when I was younger and I've enjoyed rediscovering it, and I am more squeeful about it than I am about fandom these days. Hmm...

    Speaking of which, I need to go unfrock my cheesecake, and then I am going to bed.

    *

    This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/104750.html. comment count unavailable people have commented there.

    Current Mood: accomplished
    Current Music: People Got a Lotta Nerve - Neko Case
    mirabile_dictu
    7:18p
    A bad decade
    xposted to IJ and LJ

    Why am I not getting my IJ and LJ notices? Do both services have it out for me? Dang. Still not going to DW, though. There has to be a third way.

    Casa McShep is open! Yay!

    Some big photos back here )
    telesilla
    7:02p
    Wheeee!
    *dances* SGA Santa is done and off to the beta!! Only chibi!John can express my glee!
    telesilla
    10:57a
    meme!
    Seen all over my flist...

    If I came with a warning label, what would it say?
    musesfool
    10:44a
    and this emptiness in my heart
    Still no comment notifications (even recent comments is running slow), but I am neck deep in minutes, and need some entertainment, so, a meme, gacked from [personal profile] cereta:

    If I came with a warning label, what would it say?

    ***

    This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/104462.html. comment count unavailable people have commented there.

    Current Mood: busy
    Current Music: but whichever way i go i come back to the place you are
    kyuuketsukirui
    1:35a
    Daily Happiness
    1. We ran a bunch of errands today using my grandparents' car. We weren't able to get started until around three because Carla had class, but traffic wasn't nearly as bad as I'd feared, so it wasn't too bad.

    2. We stopped at Book Off while we were out and amazingly they had a manga I'd been looking for! I really had not expected to find this one, as it was six-year-old one-shot by a not-that-big-name author. I'd looked for it before and not found it, but today it was there!

    3. Aside from the fact that there's a pile of stuff for charity and a large rocking chair in our hallway, I'm really, really pleased with the house right now. I just need to finish decorating the tree, then I'll take pictures of the newly-rearranged rooms.

    4. I think tomorrow for sure I will be ready to start on my [livejournal.com profile] yuletide fic! Yesterday and today I spent reviewing the source, but I think I'm done with that now.
    Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
    telesilla
    10:50p
    OMG dinner!!!
    So dinner tonight was all kinds of win.

    I made the Bacon Potato Leek Soup with a few changes* and it was utterly fantastic. I just served it with some nice sourdough rolls, but it'd be good with a salad or as the soup course in a larger meal.

    It was insanely easy except for the part where the only potatoes I had were baby gold and let me tell you, peeling enough baby potatoes to make four cups of diced potatoes is a big pain in the ass.

    And! I got to play with my stick blender! Wheeeee! I think it's my new favorite kitchen toy in terms of sheer fun. In terms of practicality, the chopper still wins.

    Also, I meant to say that you don't really need a stick blender or any kind of blender. It would have been good if I'd mashed with my trusty potato masher.

    *I forgot to get fresh thyme at the store and for some unknown reason I don't have any dried. Also, we have no cognac and I didn't really want to spend the money for some just to cook with.
    mirabile_dictu
    9:21p
    Teyla is beautiful
    xposted to IJ and LJ

    Oh my fucking god, but it's cold:



    Just look at that. Already almost freezing and it isn't even 9:30.

    My holiday shopping is nearly done except for my sister. What to get her? I renewed her wine club subscription -- she says she likes the wine, so I keep extending the subscription, but what if she's just saying that? How does one know? I'd like to give her something else, but what? ACK.

    Please see my new icon made by Monanotlisa. I call it "Teyla is beautiful." It has inspired me to get back to work on my Teyla story.

    I bet I'm not the only person who comes to associate a specific song with a story I'm writing. Am I? REM's "Nightswimming" is a perennial favorite of mine; it informs both Endings Unexpectedly Happy (I forgot my shirt at the water's edge / The moon is low tonight) and I Am Your Image Dressed as the World (The photograph on the dashboard, taken years ago / Turned around backwards so the windshield shows / Every streetlight reveals the picture in reverse). And now with Teyla's story, too:

    You, I thought I knew you.
    You I cannot judge.
    You, I thought you knew me,
    this one laughing quietly underneath my breath.
    Nightswimming.


    Here's an mp3 of Nightswimming. Isn't it lovely?

    Oh my god, did I mention it's cold?
    telesilla
    6:44p
    Dear SGA Santa Fic
    Write your damn self, plz.

    No Love,

    Me
    telesilla
    2:58p
    Tuesday = Box Day
    Leeks, a cabbage, baby bok choy, kale (or some other kind of green), a head of broccoli, yellow and red onions, tangerines, and some pears.

    I have potatoes already, so I'mm stop at the store on the way home and pick up some cream and some bacon so I can make Bacon Potato Leek Soup although I won't be buying cognac.
    musesfool
    10:22a
    my cup's already overfilled
    Big Bang Theory

    Sheldon! ♥

    spoilers )

    *

    Castle

    spoilers )

    *

    Hopefully today will be less fraught and crazy-making than yesterday was, and I will be able to get some work done on my yuletide story. I am worried I won't live up to the source, but then I think, in some ways, who could? Which will make more sense once I can talk about it.

    *

    LJ, please to be fixing comment notifications ASAP. It is really freaking irritating that I'm still not getting any.

    *

    Lastly, thank you again for all the lovely snowflakes. I wasn't able to get to everyone before they shut it down, but if I could have, I would have. *heart*

    *

    This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/104195.html. comment count unavailable people have commented there.

    Current Mood: awake
    Current Music: Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
    Monday, December 7th, 2009
    musesfool
    11:18a
    the solemnity of things left to themselves
    Thank you so much to [livejournal.com profile] ingridmatthews, [livejournal.com profile] spectralbovine, [livejournal.com profile] tygress [livejournal.com profile] girlmostlikely, [livejournal.com profile] tartanshell, [livejournal.com profile] midnitemaraud_r, [livejournal.com profile] devildoll, and also to the anonymice for the snowflake cookies! ♥♥♥♥♥ *twirls you all*

    [eta] Thanks also to the folks at [livejournal.com profile] crack_impala for the snowflake they sent to [livejournal.com profile] unfitforsociety. *g* [/eta]

    I have been very meh recently and now I feel all warm and loved.

    I've fallen behind completely on answering comments, so I am declaring today comment amnesty day, and getting rid of all the unanswered comments (on anything but fic - those I will try to answer) from before today.

    I have three sets of minutes to write now, plus yuletide and broken toys. Yay?

    Have a poem:

    Rhymes and Songs

    It's late now, December, a few trees
    continue translating.
    A menorah
    holds up its little buckets of light.
    An old woman with hands to her ears,
    two homeless men discussing the nature of evil.
    It's a clear morning.
    Everyone's carrying luggage. There're gaps
    between passersby, larger than usual.
    The sun sets silver shields
    in a row of window frames, all but one,
    where a girl in a fur hat looks out.
    Dawn riddled with memories
    fading and dispersing among the trees,
    fever subsiding —
    you think, at last I can do what I want,
    but mostly
    you're building on the silence,
    the solemnity of things left to themselves.
    White limousine at the corner: an
    intricate, depressed millionaire
    trolling for a girl so beautiful
    & frightened she might be enticed.
    And a new life, arduous
    and dire, commences. Years
    on a backcountry farm near one of the Great Lakes,
    a bent for poetry, little rhymes
    & songs
    to soothe yourself
    and children you've come to know.

    ~Charlie Smith

    ~*~

    This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/104108.html. comment count unavailable people have commented there.

    Current Mood: loved
    Current Music: 32 Flavors - Ani DiFranco
    kyuuketsukirui
    5:25a
    Daily Happiness
    1. The big happiness of the day was the new sofa and loveseat, and all the decluttering and furniture rearranging, which I already wrote about. :D Still excited about that!

    2. Finally got the lights on the tree (still no decorations, but soon!), and as it turns out, I'm really glad I didn't decorate earlier, because the guys totally mashed up the tree when bringing the sofa in... (It's a fake tree, so it was easily unmashed, but I'm not sure our ornaments would have escaped unscathed.) The new sofa is currently in the dining room, right in front of the tree, since we figured better to leave the old sofa in the living room so it's easier to get out when the truck comes. Anyway, so we just sat on the sofa for a bit last night and admired the lights. :)

    3. It's raining! It has been really overcast the past couple days and just really feeling wintery. Yay!

    4. On Thanksgiving, my grandparents told us that if we ever need a car to run errands, we can borrow theirs, since they don't use it much anymore! So we took them up on the offer for the first time today and will be borrowing it on Tuesday to do exciting things like return something to Fry's. :p (Though we plan to stop at BookOff while we're there, too!) I hope it's not raining on Tuesday...

    5. Thank you to [livejournal.com profile] janissa11, [livejournal.com profile] eruthros, [livejournal.com profile] telesilla, and [livejournal.com profile] busaikko (who sent one for [livejournal.com profile] verycarla, too!) for sending more LJ virtual gifts! They brightened up my day. :D
    Sunday, December 6th, 2009
    kyuuketsukirui
    11:53p
    Decluttering: the closet
    This may be our last decluttering of the year, but we're going out with a bang! Our new sofa and loveseat were delivered today, and a truck is coming tomorrow to take the old sofa. We're going to see if they'll take some other stuff as well... XD

    Our closet is fairly large, but there's no place to stand where you can get a good picture of the whole thing, so I had to take six shots to get all of it! (That's six before and six after...)

    It was actually not that cluttered compared to how it was in years past. A lot of stuff has been got rid of already. But there was (and is) still a ton of junk.

    Today we took out a bunch of stuff, got rid of a lot, and then got very, very tired and couldn't tackle the whole thing, so just put everything we knew we wanted to keep back in no particular order. (Because of how everything was jumbled up, it really wasn't possible to do the "one shelf at a time" thing I've done with other areas.)

    So eventually (possibly we might do some more in the next couple weeks, but I am not going to stress if we don't) we'll have to come back and go through the rest of the stuff, then organise it all nicely, but for now, we've at least got a ton of stuff out of there.

    Flickr is not wanting to show these in the right order, so actually the after pics are showing up first, then the befores (I only say that because they are both messy so it may be hard to tell in some cases!). But the tag for the closet is here and the whole set with everything we've decluttered this year is here (that one is organised in order, since it does let you rearrange sets).

    Lists of stuff thrown away and given to charity )


    So, changing the subject slightly. The furniture. I will have pictures once everything is properly moved around. Currently the living room and dining room are a huge mess because there are two sofas and a loveseat in them! Also a very large desk.

    You see, when we were thinking of how to rearrange the new sofa stuff, we began pondering what to do with the desk in the bedroom. That desk was bought a few years ago because Carla wanted a desk in the living room to set up another computer. That never took off too much, but then she did use it for doing homework for a while. But when we rearranged the living room, we put it in the bedroom and now it never gets used. It seems silly to have it sitting in there taking up space if it's not getting used, but we don't actually need three desks.

    It's also a little nicer than I'd just want to give away, yet I don't know that I want to go to the trouble of selling it. And I do like the looks of it a lot. So what we decided to do is give away my old desk, which I do love dearly, but which is huge and I don't actually need all that space. I'd rather have floor/wall space than desktop space these days. So we'll get rid of the old desk (hopefully the guys will take it tomorrow) and I've moved the newer desk into the computer room and set up shop at it. I am liking it quite a bit, though it will take a while to get used to!

    The only thing I didn't like about this new (to me!) desk was the horrible CD rack on the side. Why did I even install it!? We don't actually have CDs to put on it, and it doesn't hold them well unless you fill the whole thing up. Either way it's just a dust-catcher. So I unscrewed some bits that were holding the top of the desk on, pushed up, and tried to pull it out. As luck would have it, it was exceedingly flimsy, so I was able to just bend it out, then screw everything back in. Take a look at the remains. :D

    The printer stand needs to go between the desks now, which means there's no place for my little rolly cart. I will miss it, but at the same time, it's not got all that much stuff in it anymore, so I can put that stuff in the drawers of the printer stand (and move some of it elsewhere). All of this will really free up a lot of space in the computer room.

    So now we have a ton of free space in the bedroom, too, and we hit upon the brilliant idea of putting the exercise bike in there. OMG IT WILL FINALLY NOT BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LIVING ROOM! This is a dream come true, really. There has never been room to have it elsewhere. I am super excited about this part.
    morgandawn
    11:14p
    Well hello there stranger!

    1. I am still here. It took us around a week but we were finally able to find a stove that I can operate. In the end, we had to go to 4 different stores and test multiple models to find one that will not  cause me more injury.  So yeah!  New stove in a few weeks.

    2. Which leaves me...ready to launch into the next big task. My long term disability company sends a raft  of forms around Turkey Day with instructions to send them back by Dec. 13th. I'll be meeting with my doctor tomorrow to fill out the paper work.

    3. Which leads me...to one of the worse bouts of gastroparesis I've had in years. if it had kept ratcheting up, I've needed to have gone to the ER. Basically, my digestive system slows down so all food processing in the stomach stops. I feel like I've finished a Turkey dinner -  24x7 - and even drinking water leaves me nauseas and in stomach pain.  And yet because my body is not getting nutrients, I start to feel faint and weak.  We think we've turned the corner but the cure is just as bad and leads to more stomach unrest and cramping 

    And this is why I refuse to take pain meds whenever possible. My EDS seems to exaggerate this 'slowing' on non-medication days -- adding pain meds slows it even further. If I took pain meds more often, I'd be living this life all the time. Trading one set of pain for another. And somehow eating and drinking is at the top of my list of life 'must haves.' So I am having to bully and coax EDS into balancing pain and eating/drinking. And on some weeks the EDS just grabs the keys and takes me out for a wild and crazy joyride. And then leaves me stranded without any gasoline and full of trash. EDS .. my own juvenile deliquent.

    4., On a cheerier note I had friends come over and we watched "Dr Horrible' for the first time. It was wonderful. I adored the fan submiited videos on the DVD etxras.

    5. As a final note: in addition to my computer hardware woes I am having problems with Firefox - it crashes every hour.  Did the standard tests (disable plugins/addons, upgraded flash and java etc) and it still crashes.  This means  that a lot of the plugins I rely on for newsletters and writing posts and making website edits aren't available to me. I also haven't read much in terms of friendslists.

    But I know you're out there...so waves!


    [A Dreamwidth post with comment count unavailable comments | Post a Dreamwidth comment| How to use OpenID]

    Current Mood: calm
    telesilla
    10:18p
    Dear SGA Fandom....
    Okay what the hell is wrong with you people?! There isn't a tag on AO3 for "puddlejumper sex"?

    Or at least there wasn't....
    [ << Previous 25 ]
esorlehcar   About InsaneJournal