In which there’s a rant about the joyous experience of aging-while-female. This piece about perimenopause made me laugh. Especially the line, “Last week, I cried because I saw a high school marching band coming down the street playing Stevie Wonder.” (I sobbed during the end of White Christmas last night, and I’ve seen the damn […]
In which there’s good news. We flew to DC last Thursday so I could see Amma. We had a very short layover in Milwaukee, then got to Reagan, walked to the hotel shuttle stand, and waited for the bus. Got to the hotel, went out to eat on a cute little street a few blocks […]
In which I’m feeling annoyed and paranoid about big tobacco and pharma lobbies. So the doctor-medical nerds in the U.K. were recently all, like, “So vaping, in our opinion, is less dangerous than smoking, and we see no evidence that the candy flavors are causing teens to try vaping or that vaping is a gateway […]
In which I’ve quit smoking! I started smoking at 16. I’m 47 now. That’s 31 years. I was down to smoking less than a pack a day, usually less than half a pack, but my lungs felt dry and tight. I was having difficulty breathing. Every morning, I decided not to smoke. Every evening I […]
In which I went on a half-assed diet the Monday after Thanksgiving because I was fucking miserable in my own body. On Thanksgiving day I did not measure my waist, but I’d measured it awhile before so I knew it was 40 inches. 40 inches! My waist! That’s fucking insane! I’m 5’4″; not even my […]
In which I freak out. Seriously. Not even kidding. I haven’t spent much time in chans or forums because they’re stupid, but even so I’ve seen countless nerds type “kill yourself” at each other, and sometimes it’s hilarious. In IRC it’s practically a tradition to tell chatters to go commit suicide — preferably immediately, by […]
In which there are instructions! Step 1: Don’t have mint tea for, like, a few years. Not because you’re against it or anything, but just because you don’t happen to. Step 2: Move to Minnesota and catch a cold. Step 3: Wait a week and buy a box of mint tea. Stick it in the […]
In which there are germs and self-pity. Last night around eight I started to feel really icky. By ten I was passed out under three blankets on the bed. By twelve-thirty my beloved was force-feeding me Alka Seltzer cold formula. (Orange flavored and nasty. Like angry Gatorade.) This morning I felt awful and called in […]
In which it’s the time of year known as ‘omfg i HATE the dread!!!’. About once a year or so, usually around this time, give or take a few weeks, my panic and anxiety gets really rough and I get so incredibly miserable I finally consider going into the family clinic and begging for enough […]
In which there’s a little sculpture of a tooth! I had my crown installed today. It was a short and pleasant appointment. It’s just like a tooth, except it’s not a tooth. (The crown, not the appointment.) This is a picture of my temporary crown, which spent two weeks in my mouf. I made them […]
