Stress-recovery Spider Sunday

I survived the big upgrade last week... Barely. Two ten-plus hour days with no breaks, plus going in on what I had scheduled as a day off to recover on Friday left me completely and utterly worn out. Actually, I was pretty much done after the first day, where the stress of having to try...

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Thankful!

Today I am doing a huge software upgrade at work. I've been anxious about this for months, as it is the first time I have had to coordinate something like this myself rather than just follow instructions for a project someone else managed. It involves four servers being updated and then over a hundred computers...

That was probably a waste of time… Yet again.

Once a doctor uses the 'D' word (depression) you know that your long list of strange symptoms has been filed in the 'it's all in her head' bin and they probably aren't going to try and dig any deeper.  At least he didn't try and shove antidepressants at me. That will probably come at the...

Spider Sunday

Today while working in the yard I found all sorts of neat creatures, including this little crab spider (not sure of exact species) who I managed to coerce into holding still long enough for a photo. Featured Image: Crab spider sitting on top of my hand. 

Leggy den lurker

So we were sitting down with our plates of food in the den earlier, when I noticed a large blob (I'm nearsighted but don't usually wear my glasses unless I'm driving)  on the wall near the ceiling.  I pointed. "what is that?"  My partner, who is not nearsighted, looked where I was pointing. "uuhhh..." she...

The less shiny side of my Asperger’s

The word shiny is being used, in this instance, in the Firefly sense, by the way. I have some Aspie qualities I would not trade for anything, but others that can be quite disabling. Today I am feeling especially hampered by one of them, my arch-nemesis social anxiety in the form of a complete aversion...

Embers

I took up acrylic painting about five years ago, back when we lived at the last house; I'm not especially good at it, but I enjoy it very much. Or at least, I did before I got so sick. At my best, I was doing one or two paintings a week, but as my energy...

Don’t point that thing at me

A few weeks ago, right after the fiasco that was my father's visit, I went on a ghost tour with my partner and some of her family. We live in a historic old town and this was a walking tour with stories about the history of the town and some of its spookier legends. I'd...

Busted Thermostat

I have had a couple of "good weeks" where my various odd symptoms were much improved; things seem to wax and wane, but I suspect that all the antihistamines I am taking for the poison ivy played a part, which maybe points in the direction of at least part of my issue being maybe something...