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Friday, August 29, 2003 Okay, so it's been FOREVER since I've updated. I'm sorry. Since my last post, I've gone on a short-term disability leave from work (I'm still on it), downed my dose of Trileptal, gone to Chicago, gone to the psychiatrist, quit the Trileptal, been in a wedding, and started on Keppra (another bipolar med). Yeah, that's a lot going on. And the Keppra is making me REALLY tired again. :( On a positive note, I am currently uploading a MASSIVE update to the picture area - there are pics of the Chicago trip (Jen's bachelorette party), Jen's wedding, and even me in a dress at the wedding. I only posted that last one because so many people give me crap about having pictures of me on my site and pictures of me in a dress. You can't complain any more!! Anyhow, other than all that, I am finally starting to relax. Hopefully this medicine will work out, although I won't know for probably another week yet. [grr] In the meantime, I'm sleeping all the time, playing Star Wars Galaxies when I am awake, and trying to find excuses to sit at home and do nothing. Oh, and I should mention the Wednesday From Hell. That would be last week Wednesday when I went to the psychiatrist. First, I left 2 hours early for my appointment (it's a 1 hour drive, so I should have gotten there an hour early). I left early because I knew there was construction (this is Michigan - it's safe to assume there's construction even if you don't know it for sure). However, I wasn't planning on the Semi accident. I ended up walking into the appointment at EXACTLY THE MINUTE it was supposed to start. Yes, that means I sat in traffic for 2 hours. Meanwhile, the clock and radio in my car had simply stopped working and my car was acting funny. The doc talked to me for about 5 minutes, told me to quit my meds cold turkey, wait a few days and start another one that was just like the old stuff. This didn't put me in a good mood. I left, drove about a block, and the car died. I pulled into a gas station and decided to change the battery (luckily, I'd purchased one the day before, since I'd suspected it was dying). I proceeded to spend the next hour and half struggling to get the old battery out of my car. I almost needed the Jaws of Life. On top of the massive amount of energy it took to accomplish this, it was blazing hot out, so I was a sweaty wreck by the time I was done. The car started up after this, but the clock and radio still didn't work, so I don't know how useful it really was. I was exhausted by this point, but I needed to pick up the dress for Jen's wedding, so I drove to the cleaners and got it. The lady almost wouldn't give it to me without trying it on, but I managed to glower at her darkly enough that she gave up. She also gave me crap about not having shoes yet, to which I answered, "Hey, lady, I didn't have the dress until two days before I brought it in here. I wasn't supposed to be a bridesmaid. Of course I don't have shoes yet!" Either my tone or my look got her to shut up. Then I went to my mom's, where I promptly accidentally fell asleep without setting an alarm and only woke up JUST in time for my psychologist appointment by luck. The appointment drained the last of my emotional strength from me and I sat in the parking lot contemplating ... well, a lot of morbid things before I finally called my mom. The upshot of all this is that my mom took my car in to the shop for me and let me use hers for a couple days. Not that that's a lot of an upshot by comparison. Anyhow. That's about everything interesting that's happened here, other than the interesting mold garden I started in a glass of white grape juice. If it starts moving, I'll have to kill it, but, in the meantime, it's the closest thing I've got to a living plant in my apartment. |
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Saturday, August 2, 2003 If it weren't for daily server upgrades at SWG, I would never web-log. :) Well, I'm beginning to adjust to the meds, finally! I don't get *quite* as tired every day, and the pharmicist said that side-effect should wear off. I plan to hold him to it. Not much happening in the rest of my life. I told everyone (or mostly everyone) about my bipolar-ism. People took it pretty well, except there's a few that still try to make me "feel better", despite the fact that I told them it was impossible to do so. Other than that, I've been sleeping and doing little chores around the house and playing Star Wars. I don't have energy for much more than that just yet. Hopefully things will get better in that department... |
