Mental Jukebox: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

So I'm going to try something new here and see how it works... I may have mentioned before here that I pretty much always have a song stuck in my head... or maybe I just mentioned it in a comment I left on Laina's post about the phenomena on The Silent Wave a few weeks...

Peeping beetle

"Hey! Let me in!" this beetle seems to be saying, drawn by the kitchen light. Eater-of-Things and the cats are in favor of this idea, for reasons not conducive to the health of the beetle. I, on the other hand, am not in favor, because I don't want to watch a half dozen cats and...

Invasion Part Four – the actual invasion

This will be the final installment in the saga of the unexpected visit from my father this past week. It probably seems weird to have stretched this into four posts, and then really it's just this last one that talks about it, but I didn't feel I could really convey the situation without giving the...

Fruitsplosion

This morning I destroyed the kitchen. Even though I didn't sleep too terribly badly last night, I still woke up feeling fatigued, and I was just sort of plodding through my morning tasks in a fog. I got the dogs fed, poured the coffee, and then moved on to the prep for my morning smoothie....

No spoons.

My father is back across the border; it was weird and awkward and frustrating... and I am so drained that I almost didn't make it through the day at work today. I've got my 'Part Four' post mostly done but it needs some editing for coherency - once I'm actually, you know, coherent.  So for...

Invasion, Part Three – the more recent past

Until I wrote Part 2 (which ended up running a lot longer than I meant it to!) I don't think I really realized how much of this I had bottled up. I'm not sure that this is of any interest to anyone other than myself,  but writing it out has helped me put it into...

Invasion, Part Two – the distant past

So for Part One, I covered what has been going on in recent days, just to provide a framework for how my stress and energy levels are more negatively impacted than usual to begin with. To set the stage for Part 2, I need to go a lot further back in time...  I'm not sure...

Invasion, Part One – the setting

I've been wanting to post about this for days, but it's hard to know how much backstory is needed for it to make sense and I've been pretty low on spoons with everything that is going on. Anyway hopefully this will give enough context... First, a bit of current event info: every two years or...

POTS electrolyte drink recipe ‘aspi-fied’

So I've been managing the tachycardia a bit better, insofar as I've not had it go over about 145 or so and I've not had any more fainting episodes, but it's still not great. I'm including a few highlights from the last week or two at the bottom of this post, for anyone who isn't...