February 2010
38 posts
January 2010
41 posts
Inflation
This is what it means to be disabled: It used to be that the cost for going out for the night was simply clearing a couple of hours on my schedule.
Now it means clearing my schedule, making sure to rest beforehand, and spending my energy allotment for the next day as well.
Everything costs more energy than it used to, and I have to weigh the pros and cons much more carefully. It feels very much...
(s)tumbling to failure.
sbeattie:
So I don’t see the analogy to the closed nature of an iPad;
No analogy at all really. I just thought it was funny that I read an article called “I love walled gardens” right after reading your post about Tumblr being a walled garden.
sbeattie:
…So fine, that non-walled blogging platforms exist is great and all, but if you are in your garden, I have to join or...
Hot dogs?
peachcherub:
So, I wish I had a picture of the amazingness that was the grilled hot dogs that my boyfriend made once when I was down visiting…but I can paint one with words.
1 hot dog, filled with cheese, on a toasted bun with ketchup, mustard, mayo, red onion, and a slice of bacon.
Yeah, I like ketchup on hot dogs. I’m not ashamed to admit it!
Holy crap! Bacon and Hot dogs! This changes...
sbeattie:
Like most things in life, you’re probably just screwed.
HaHaHaHaSob.
sbeattie:
winkchin:
We don’t want our kids to be picky eaters…
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I find it amusing that you’re trying to prevent your kids from being picky eaters, given the certain particular eating quirks in your adult family members (artichoke hearts, turkey, something else I’ve forgotten that surprised me)….
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Heh. The irony of watching my wife enforce “picky...
(s)tumbling to failure.
sbeattie:
I’m pretty sure I don’t get this tumblr thing. But then, walled garden blog environments have always felt a little odd to me.
Well, one approach is this: http://www.rinich.com/post/358597818/i-love-walled-gardens
But what I’d really say is that Tumblr is no more a walled garden than Twitter. Indeed, I see Tumblr as multi-media long-form Twitter: reblogs = retweets; likes =...
We don’t want our kids to be picky eaters, so we have a rule: whatever you refuse to eat at dinner gets saved and reserved to you for breakfast. This worked beautifully on our 6yo: after the first re-serving, he has been fastidious about finishing his food every meal even if he doesn’t like it.
Our 4yo? Not so much.
She is in almost every way a compliant and obedient child, laid back...
The past few days have been miserable from a pain perspective, which is usually my body’s way of telling me that I’m doing Too Damn Much. So today I forced myself to do nothing. This partially worked for the morning, but the pain ramped up throughout the afternoon until I was just as miserable today as I was the previous few days. If not worse. Despite doing nothing.
Shit.
I will...
I¹ s¹u¹c³k⁵ a¹t¹ W⁴o¹r¹d²s¹ w⁴i¹t¹h⁴...
(via stevewhitaker)
That’s ‘cause you’re using Scrabble (TM) scoring! ;)
Happy Birthday @redcloud
I started a WwF game for you as your present.
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igotyourcrazy:
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I am so sick and tired of being sick and tired but I am more sick of the waiting. Waiting for someone else to determine whether or not I should get the care, the testing, the treatment that I need.
When it comes down to all of this, you are alone. You are the only one who is there to fight for you, and that fight is diminished when your ability...
I got about 12 hours of “sleep” last night, but no real rest. My muscles kept twitching painfully (side effect of my higher dose of meds? I hope?), waking me every few minutes. And, as noted before, waking and sleeping have started overlapping—and I’m guessing that this waking-sleep is doing much to refresh me.
Looking back at my timeline from last night and only remembering having written the last of those posts. Waking-sleep does weird stuff to your memory.
I’ve adjusted my meds. I was taking a tricyclic antidepressant to treat chronic pain. But now I’m getting depressed too, so we decided to bump up the dosage to theraputic levels.
Switching levels makes me sooo loooopy. Always hard to tell if I’m sleeping or waking because I’m clearly doing both at the same time.
The good news is that the transition is only temporary....
Feeling loopy since I took my multitudes of meds an hour ago. Dreams are filtering into my conscious waking mind. Weird stuff. Wish I could just fall asleep at night like other people.
So, I’m up and incoherent (I may well not remember this at all in the morning) and this explains why last semester was so difficult to get through, and why I need “time off” from school to see if...
There are days
dielaughing:
[SCREED]
Angry coder is angry. Really F-ing Angry. ANGRY, I SAID! DID YOU HEAR ME—ANGRY!!!
My Physical Therapist just gave up on the one treatment that I thought had promise. Disappointing. I’m able to do it by myself, so I’ll be able to keep doing it until I’m convinced that it isn’t helping, but my PT does it better than I do, so I wish that she’d keep going with it.
In the meanwhile, I need to stop using this treatment for a few days so we can see if it...
redcloud:
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I’ve been struggling for a while now. It’s so hard to keep up with a child and keeping a home going and finding the time and energy and focus and self-displine to make something I can sell. And also meet my own needs for friendship and connectedness and belonging. And my body’s needs for exercise and rest.
And I worry: if I can’t handle a “normal” job, and I’m failing at...
I'm not very social all of the time.
baileygenine:
… I’m saying that there is a difference between talking out loud and talking to someone. A reply takes effort and thought, but to simply talk just to talk is like listing off items in a room, it’s mindless…
I’m not social pretty much any of the time. Simply talking just to talk takes nearly as much effort and thought as a real reply. I know that’s not true...
My health sucks. And it’s getting worse. Nothing life threatening, nothing dangerous, just nerve pain. “Neuralgia”. Nerves that are (we think) caught up in scar tissue, bound to it, encased in it. And the scar tissue is over time getting firmer. Squeezing the nerves harder. Shifting the pain from merely terrible to debilitating.
The scars in question are from a hernia repair...
I had a blog for a few years and really enjoyed it. I got into the groove of writing short bits: 3-5 paragraphs, each one short. Using ideas in raw form, without the qualifications and nuance that I’d learned in school.
Ultimately, I had to stop. Blog style writing had become too natural to me; it was affecting how I was writing my class papers. I was using too many raw ideas, I...
I've played so many games of Words With Friends...
(via redcloud)
Bring a lot of Xu to the suq, ‘cause those qat don’t come cheap.
"Vegetarians?" "It's dead, we don't eat dead...
baileygenine:
Spider Baby, 1968.
My new reason for why I don’t eat meat.
So you only eat things while they’re alive? Yech!
Also, no dead plants? Do you subsist on chemicals or do you photosynthesize? ;)
Trying hard not to jinx myself.
“eutrophy — n. state of being well nourished; (of area of water) state of being...”
– Dictionary of Difficult Words
aka “Dictionary of Words I pulled out of my ass in a WordsWithFriends game (eutrophy) and then wondered what they meant.”
Sorry, whoever that was. I was serious about relentlessly trying seemingly random combinations. Every 1/100 is an actual word.
(via...
What's your Words with Friends username?
nickdouglas:
You know, the iPhone Scrabble game?
Mine’s winkchin. I thought I had kicked my online Scrabble addiction, but Words with Friends has brought it screaming back.
I'm catching up on about eight days of Tumblr...
shoesonwrong:
IfyouknowwhatImean.
I don’t know what I mean. I’m so tired.
Umm…go get some sleep. We’ll still be here tomorrow.
Nomenclature
100 years ago it was Nineteen-ten.
This year, it is Twenty-ten.
10 years ago, it was Y2K.
The past decade was the two-kays.
Easy, right?
New Year Resolution (singlular)
Don’t kill myself.
I have other things to worry about too, but I figure I should focus on this one.
