Friday Afternoon Beach Party Super Relax Hour

Yes! Self-care threads are awesome! 😀
I practiced self-care by sitting under a tree in the park and reading my book for about 15 minutes. It was so nice.

As it happens I just came back from Bermuda! And what a difference. (Not in the heat, though – Boston is actually slightly more oppressively hot.)

I didn’t write my graduate’s thesis today… but I organized my desk and made lists of stuff to do – and accidentally managed to memorize stuff I was sure I could never memorize. And I didn’t suffer from anxiety (even though my herpes disagrees)!

One day without anxiety really felt like a holiday. Wow, I’m a sad person :’D

Move is completed, almost entirely unpacked and set up. Still getting used to a different neighborhood, hubby is not happy about it; his social anxiety is worse than mine and he had established relationships with all the nearby storeclerks etc, which aren’t nearby anymore. I don’t have many meatspace connections to anyone anymore, so it wasn’t as much of a wrench for me. on the upside, the apartment is nice and I live 2 blocks from work now.

Unfortunately as well, the fingers I injured in my last bike wreck don’t seem to be healing well, which impedes my typing, and means I should probably limit it more than I do.

Hi all!

So, I went and set up my computer on a little entertainment stand (since I don’t have a proper desk yet, but I’m going to thrift stores to see if I can find a cool one tomorrow), and alas! I am missing two important cords that I can’t seem to locate! One of them is the cord from the tower to the monitor, and the other is the cord from the tower to the wall plug. So, I’m on an old laptop my roommates had and don’t use for the moment. Once my money gets cleared in my new account, I should be able to locate spares online or at a local computer repair shop.

Other than that, unpacking is going great! I’m 7 out of 10 boxes done! One box is going to have to wait until I get a bookshelf, because it’s nothing but books…I didn’t realize I had so many books! I have no idea where all these books came from! I swear! I also need more clothes hangers. I have no idea where all these clothes came from either. Packing these boxes is a blur.

My roommates recommended to me a wonderful app called Wunderlist. With it, we make lists that we can share with one another on our phones, and it’s really handy for organizational purposes. (We all use it for groceries and bills and such.) I love that I can make a list item, and then go into the item and make a list inside of it. It’s awesome for project planning! 8D

My new apartment isn’t bad. The kids around here can get a little noisy when they play outside (and when they play in the hallway in front of our door), but they do it during the day at least, so I can’t get too mad. Kids gonna kid. I’m just happy that there’s central AC and it works.

The new roommates are awesome, as I knew they were. We’re all into toy collecting, so we’re working on ideas for that, and looking at different blindbags and such that we’d want to collect and open.

We’re pooling our game and movie collections together, which is awesome. We have duplicates between us of some stuff, but I think that’s a good thing.

My guy roommate loves to cook. He made curry a few days ago and it lasted for quite a while. (It was too spicy for me though. I’m painfully weak against spicy foods.)

I’ve also been shown three different malls, two different Asian markets (one of them is super small, but it’s right by the apartments), an awesome used book store, and a game store where one of my roommates is thinking about joining their Pathfinder game.

I also have a fuzzy roommate named Tabby, who is a lovely old lady cat when you’re not accidentally petting her belly and facing her wrath in the form of bites and angry swatting.

25 years. That’s how long I’ve been telling doctors there’s something wrong. They never listen. They don’t care. In 15 minutes today I got a diagnosis. I’m floored. I actually told a doctor I think that’s what I have before and she laughed. I had good, solid evidence for why I thought that, but she just laughed it off. This new doctor is seeing me for something unrelated, sees the same thing that concerned me in my chart, whips out his ultrasound, and gives me a diagnosis.

I’m so emotional over this I’m crying in the bathroom.

Oh kupo, I’m very happy for you. I know how tremendous it can be to finally have a doctor listen to you.

@kupo: that’s awesome. It’s great that you have a diagnosis that you can work on treating. I hope it goes well ?

Today I felt more like myself than I have in a couple weeks. I was able to hold conversations with my husband without slurring of speech or too much wordfinding difficulty.

Best of all, we went out to dinner and I didn’t feel like I embarrassed myself with the hot & sour soup.

I moved back to campus this week and got my first assignments! I’m very excited for this year. I have begun my senior thesis about lgbtqia in speculative fiction. ^_^ It’s a narrative portrait series of lgbtqia folks.

@kupo: I may also need to make time for an ultrasonography course. I learned techniques in residency, but there is so much information you can get with these little do dads.

Oh, I missed your post earlier, @Victorious Parasol. That’s great news!