Better Day Than It Oughta Be

Welcome to a day that’s way better than it was supposed to be.  It’s pouring rain and I’ve had to change my plans about loading stuff into the pod.  I was awake at 2 a.m. with pain from stomatitis (irritated mouth lining from my methotrexate).  Those two things led me to expect a crappy day, [...]

Finished Crocheted Turtles, Fancy Knit Mitts

I’m excited to write today.  So much is happening that I’m spending more time doing and less time reporting and reflecting.  To compensate, I’ve turned off the television for most of every day so that I can think and plan while my hands are busy.  Ongoing concerns:
1.  House clean out.  Gonna purchase heavy brown wrapping [...]

Turtles and Green Tee

Watching Things We Lost in the Fire, Halle Berry trying not to scream at the end of her marriage, husband sudddenly murdered, everything in her life different. 
 
Today I was thinking about all the “different” I’m looking at right now.  For months my financial relationships have been screwy.  Banks that I’ve known for fifteen years are [...]

Family Illness, Personal Angst

It is Wednesday already.  Time slipped past me as I was getting over my Cymbalta withdrawal (completely gone!!), worrying about my ill daughter, and now caring for my daughter here at home.  My daughter had the foresight to be with her father when she got sick.  After a very rough night, he took her  to the [...]

Use Your Words Debuts with Bizarre Sh*t

Want to know how I feel this morning?  It’s all right here:  http://essiewb.wordpress.com/?s=med+withdrawal%2C+part+II.  Been there, done that, wrote about it in my blog. 
 
I am, once again, suffering through the awful withdrawal of discontinuing Cymbalta.  It’s just as bad.  Maybe worse, because I know that I can’t go back this time.  A $118 per month medicine [...]

Yes, I’m really writing about steel cut oats.

Post Number 427 in the “cheap date” and “easily amused” categories.  I know.  But for the first time, I cooked steel cut oats at home, and I have to give them a couple of rhapsodizing paragraphs.  You people with real lives can move on to the CNN website. 
 
I am a big fan of hot cereal.  [...]

Funny Little Knitted Things in My Head

Yesterday was Monday, and in my life that now means Weight Watchers night.  I missed two meetings – the first when I visited my daughter, the second for the icy weather last week.  (Were we really worrying about icy roads one week ago, and it’s 72 degrees today?)  The crowds from the first of the year [...]

Sunday Morning Routine

I think I’ve found my Sunday morning routine.  For years I have struggled with the Sunday morning dilemma.  You’re awake (well, I’m awake, anyway) with no set agenda.  You don’t want to jump into action and start working on your latest project, because it’s Sunday.  You should be relaxing, not bending your fingers into pretzels [...]

The Eyes (Don’t) Have It!!

This will be brief because I’m typing with one eye dilated and I might be missing errors that will land me in jail for slander or salaciousness or worse.  However, I could not wait to tell my news!  My eyes are fine!!!  No bleed, no retinal tear, just normal vitreous jellly breaking loose and making [...]

I Ain’t No Eyepochondriac!

Please bear with me today.  I am afraid, and I have discovered that writing out my fear works well for me.  Since I’ve sworn to chronicle this journey (do I sound like Frodo?), I’m writing it here. 
 
Two weeks ago, I was driving down the highway when my vision was flooded with teeny bubbles.  I recognized [...]