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[Dec. 24th, 2009|10:07 am] |
Over the last few days I've been gradually feeling slightly sicker every day. It's slightly annoying, especially as I'm feelin' particularly RS today, and I'm going to be Santa-ing tonight and tomorrow.
Mind you... gunna love playing Father Christmas no matter how sick I feel. May even wander the neighbourhood in costume tonight after I get back, depending on how the heat has hit me.
Mind you, even though I feel blah, the video below is made of awesome and has cheered me right up. I think it's the joyous laughter at the end :)
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| Blah! |
[Dec. 15th, 2009|09:31 am] |
Today I feel like I expected to feel straight after getting my teeth out, or perhaps the next day. Migrainy, sensitive to light, sound, and touch (sheets hurt! Sharon's hair brushing against my arm hurts!). There was a touch of this yesterday, and today is notably worse.
And it's affecting my mood in surprising and unexpected ways. Not bad, as such, just odd enough where I'm going, "Huh? Why am I feeling like that?" and wanting to send lengthy emails to a couple of people talking about my mood, partially because I'm finding it curious.
Oh well, time for more painkillers and to go back to resting in the dark. |
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| Priorities... |
[Dec. 13th, 2009|12:45 pm] |
One of the things I've become conscious of in recent months is my priorities. They haven't changed, I'm just aware of them now.
While my health and fitness has improved slowly but steadily since the stroke, I still have a fairly limited amount of spoons, and even when I'm doing well, it doesn't take much to steal them all if I'm not careful. I've been tending to beat myself up a bit for not getting things done, but then recently I realised how it is I work my limited resources. ( Read more... ) |
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| Dashed off Dot Points |
[Dec. 11th, 2009|07:43 am] |
* Today I get three wisdom teeth out!
* My teeth tend to lock into my jaw with curved and hooked tooth... thingys. So for one, they actually have to saw away a small part of my jawbone!
* Weirdly, I'm not nervous at all. I honestly expected to be. ( Read more... ) |
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| Ow and okays |
[Oct. 15th, 2009|10:57 am] |
 The last couple of weeks I've been wiped and emotional, my cold has come back (it never fully went away), and today I've majorly barked the back of my right foot on the wire door, hurt the index finger of my left hand mending the gate, and hurt the thumb on my right hand fixing a tap.
On the bright side I spent chunks of yesterday watching Ghost Rider, which while Nicolas Cage was a bit crap in it, I still found to be an enjoyable film. And Christopher Young did the film's music, and I almost always enjoy his work.
And I finished The Kolchak Papers which was a good read despite the huge amount of spelling errors. |
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| FFS |
[Sep. 15th, 2009|09:29 am] |
So, yesterday for the first time in ages, I felt properly productive, in that I managed to get a few important jobs out the way that weren't just housework/Lex related. Not my tax, but hey, getting some of that other stuff off my to-do list was nice. As a bonus I even got to listen to the Feast of Steven episode of Daleks' Master Plan, which as a real hoot, while I ate. And I looked at LJ, and even commented on one or two!
( Whingeing under cut... ) |
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| So there |
[Aug. 26th, 2009|10:52 am] |
Well, after getting back from our less than relaxing trip to Melbourne, trying to recuperate from the 'flu while getting through the work that needed doing for our rent inspection yesterday, I can now relax and enjoy my brand new cold.
Yes I have a cold, which is not surprising as I was already wiped from 'flu, and then I've further run myself into the ground. Will face the world real soon now, really I will. I had decided to finally catch up on my emails the day after the rent inspection, now I'm going, 'I'm tired, sick, run down and reading is hard,' so they can wait a little longer.
In the meantime, the world can ring if it's urgent. |
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| Nice! |
[May. 25th, 2009|09:12 am] |
Because we don't often notice the absence of something, I'd just like to say that I am fully aware and appreciative of the fact that today I woke up without the merest hint of a headache, let alone screaming pain, for the first time in weeks.
Doubly impressive since Lex kept us both up into the wee hours. And at this point I think I've had about four hours sleep.
It may not last, but for the moment... *big happy sigh*
(EDIT) - Actually there was one other day where I woke without pain, but I still had a sensation of pressure. Today doesn't even have that! |
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| April Dot Points |
[May. 1st, 2009|04:47 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | conventions, dot points, health, interesting or important links, lex, my stuff, sharon, slice of life, swancon, things that delight me, unimportant but annoying, videos/dvds | ] |
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* April was a busy and tiring one, hence this being written on the 1st of May.
* This is a very Lex-heavy month. ( Read more... ) |
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| Random Dot Points |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|08:42 pm] |
- Lex is simply not bothered by the heat to any noticeable degree. We haven't got air-conditioning in the car or house, and he seems fairly unfussed. Which is good, because I think people rely on aircon too much, and then are unable to cope without it.
- Lex also seems totally unphased by the pair of teeth working their way up through his gum. He's marginally more needy in that he wants more hugs, but is often quite happy to be left while we get on with Stuff(TM).
- Still struggling like a big wuss. Haven't crashed in the same way I normally do, but it's still draining.
- Back to swimming lessons tonight. Was good, but exhausting.
- Have you ever considered the great debt we owe panelists who actually care enough to do research for their panels? In preparation for the Doctor Who panel at this year's Swancon, today I watched episode 3 of Time and the Rani... I would rather be at the dentist having my four wisdom teeth pulled out.
- I still have to organise going to the dentist to have my wisdom teeth removed.
- Sharon is still beautiful.
- I would really like to be in a condition to go to the Post Office Friday to mail off some things, since I will have the car then. Time will tell.
- Last night I felt like crap and really wanted to watch something, so I picked Escape from New York. It was the first time I had seen it in around twenty years, and is still an enjoyable watch. It's funny how absolutely everyone seems to know Snake Plissken. |
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| The Adventures of Strokeboy and Lex Pt. 1 |
[Nov. 2nd, 2008|10:52 am] |
So, Thursday and Friday were my first days home with Lex while Sharon went to work. Shaz has it arranged so that she has a couple of half-weeks to start, so she has time to ease back into work, and the extra days at home in case there are other issues we didn't expect.
Both days went well. ( Read more... ) |
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| *yawn* |
[Aug. 6th, 2008|02:11 pm] |
Verra tired. By now the subject of how swimming knocks me about is fairly well understood. I swim, and for that night and the next day I am way more useless than normal. Monday I rode the trike to Belco, spent an hour in the water trying to swim and breathe, ate a sandwich, and rode home. It's about a 10km round trip. But the swimming means it was way harder than my 'accidental' 25km ride the other day.( ramble about things wearing me down, nothing important... ) |
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| *kaf* *kaf* baby *kaf* |
[Jul. 18th, 2008|11:45 am] |
I have a cold. It's to be expected. I'm mixing with a lot of people with swimming and such, not to mention going from a heated pool to the Canberra cold. It's slowing down my progress on getting through things, but I'm not fussed.
I was actually feeling crap enough that I spent several hours lying in bed yesteday. At one point, as I was lying there, I thought "Ahhhh.... this is a luxury I won't have shortly." Once my Manitou demon-spawn comes bursting out Sharon's back (how many people get that reference?) being able to actually rest while sick will become a thing of the past. ( thought on uncoming parenty stuff below cut. ) |
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| Ow! |
[Jun. 30th, 2008|10:24 am] |
Migraine!
Ow! Bastard! Owowowow!
Well, that's likely to disrupt my plans for the day!
Worst thing? In amongst the nausea, pain, and leg weakness, my hormones are bubbling! Why?! I mean seriously, even if I had the opportunity, my skin hurts to the touch! Where would be the fun?! Stupid body!
Tell me of your good day, or weekend! Danny demands it! |
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| Where did they come from? |
[Jun. 12th, 2008|12:47 pm] |
So went to swimming last night. Was less about learning to swim, and more about redoing what we've been taught thus far, partially because our regular teacher Megan wasn't there. Gabriella's not bad, but I tend to think Megan's a better teacher.
So most of what we were doing last night was our basic kicking/sculling/floating. But it was constant. No real catch-your-breath and rest-your-limbs time once we started on the kicking and sculling. Which is fine if you're used to it. None of us are. And getting us to dog-paddle the width of the pool was a killer!
Normally after swimming is done for the night, I hang around for an extra half hour or so going over what we've learned. Last night I crawled straight to the spa and just sat for a quarter hour before crawling to get changed and driving home.
Today I have all these muscles I didn't know existed. I can't see any of them, but by jingo, I can feel 'em! Ow!
So who wants to come over and gently rub my aching limbs? |
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