I haven’t gotten much work done today, but I did get a few things accomplished. Namely, applying for various types of public assistance. That’s something that I had hoped I would never have to do again, but the way things are going, it’s the only way I’m going to be able to keep my family [...]

Life has been really, really sucky (for lack of a better word) lately. Hubby has been very sick, and we’re not sure what the problem is. The doctor called it chronic diarrhea due to his lack of a gall bladder and muscle spasms in his back, but neither of us is convinced. He’s had to [...]

Hubby bought me a back massager for Christmas, and it does a pretty good job. I have a lot of back pain when I spend much time in front of the computer. It’s not so bad that I need to consider ankylosing spondylitis treatment or anything like that, but it does get pretty painful and [...]

Well, here I am, at the keyboard again. I’m not getting a whole lot done, but at least I’m present and accounted for. And that’s an improvement. I started writing this post three, count ‘em, three days ago. So you can see how much I’m accomplishing lately. I’m having a harder time than ever concentrating. Things [...]

It’s been another rough couple of weeks here. It’s all been a blur of unexpected expenses, houseguests, time without Internet access, and other unpleasant surprises. But most of all, it’s been a time filled with tears, angst and incoherence. Fortunately, it seems that I’m slowly getting back to normal (whatever that is). After I spent a [...]

I had a birthday recently, and my brother and sister both called to ask me if I felt any older. I told them I didn’t, and really, I don’t. I already felt old, but that specific day didn’t make me feel any more so than I already did. The only thing that does seem to make [...]

I’ve wanted to rearrange the living room for some time now. Hubby has said we would do it several times, but it never did happen. I thought it might actually get done this weekend, because he had some people here that could help. But I was wrong. We had it all planned out. We were going [...]

It seems like it has been years since I felt like a normal, content human being. But for the past few days, I’ve actually felt decent. Not exuberant or anything, mind you, but decent. And I guess that’s a good start. I’m hoping the Prozac that the doctor put me on is finally starting to work [...]

I loved Mountain Dew when I was a kid. Sometimes I would drink nearly a whole 2-liter in a day’s time. It was my favorite drink. But when I was 16, that changed. I had mono, and I started breaking out in hives. I had never really been allergic to anything (except a reaction I had [...]

I’m really beginning to hate water. It has caused my family an unreal amount of trouble lately. If you didn’t have to have it to live and shower and such, I think I would just swear it off for good. After we got our water running again, we ended up with a leak going to the [...]