I'm officially Effexor free!  Have been for a week now.  The upside:  I sleep much better, no more all-nighters and I'm losing weight.  The downside:  the anxiety thing still comes into play.  I'm not quite certain yet if it's a withdrawal symptom or my natural condition.  Physically speaking, I feel much better but I have a lingering worry that my ( Read more... )

Holy posting Batman!  Here I am again.  I honestly didn't think I would ever make another entry to this journal.  In fact, I came close to deleting everything several times, but for some odd reason it keeps lingering.  Perhaps because most of what I wrote about took place at a very pivotal point in my life.  Any way, I digress.

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I don't have a major update. I know I said I'd post later with more details but I just haven't been in the mood.

Oh wait, here's something...My frikkin computer crashed a little over a week ago and in my attempt to save my data, I screwed it up even more. I had to do the dreaded reformat and reinstall Win XP. I lost everyfrikkinthing. I don' ( Read more... )

He literally is. He's holding one of his town meetings at my kid's high school which is within walking distance of my house. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get tickets so I'll just have to wait for the highlights on the local and national news. Ironic huh?

I just know this little visit of his will create a huge traffic cluster-fuck for the day ( Read more... )

Surprise! It's me! I can't believe it's been 27 weeks since I last posted ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukka, Happy Kwanza and Happy Festivus to all!

Here it is almost 4am and I can't frikkin sleep. With any luck, I should be able to sleep in so I have that to look forward to. What sucks the most is that I'm tired as hell ( Read more... )

Lisa, you're such a sweetie-pie. Thanks for that little nudge :)

I'm gonna try to put all of this in a nutshell so the post won't turn out to be an epic...

I'm doing much better. Within the last couple of weeks or so I hit some kind of turning point. I guess the meds finally took full effect and I've been feeling almost normal. I've been ( Read more... )