Things are better.
Sorry for the forever between posts. After getting a working situation for Lestat set up last month, I pretty much collapsed into my own pile of health problems that I'd been kind of ignoring to take care of him for awhile. But he's starting to do better, and so am I. My poor snake's getting there, but it's a really slow road for him. Every time he sheds, it looks like he's probably going to lose some weight (apparently it's just that stressful on him- but it does look like it pulls on his wounded parts, etc, so I imagine it hurts). But this time around, he has more weight than last time, and it looks like the shedding's going to go quicker, so I'm really hoping for an easier one. He's also a lot more responsive now! And unfortunately that means he fights his medicine a lot more, but I've really got a handle on giving it to him...so it's just too bad.
He really likes his box with the moss, and that's been helping a lot with the humidity. I'm going to look into getting a humidifier/fogger, too, now that our budget's looking like it's not in the danger zone anymore. The humidity issue really did seem to be hurting him. I still soak him for an hour every day (longer now that he's getting ready to shed), but once he's doing better, it'd be nice to have a whole automatic system. I'm not sure my little misting spray bottle is going to cut it all the time...especially when I have to be away.
I had a doozy of a migraine after all that last month, but the little mouth appliance thing I got for the TMJ seems to be helping that a lot, too. So I've been trying to take my midodrine normally (which usually had caused MUCH worse migraines, but if I don't take it often enough it causes headaches too, and it's just a mess). It seems to go okay! But it's probably going to take me awhile to find my equilibrium with it. Every time I change treatments, I never know if I'm helping, hurting, or what for awhile, until I can look back and analyze afterward. However, my neurologist seemed pleased. Apparently, the appliance helps keep knots from forming in my neck and back, which is a big help. So I'll keep an eye on it. I've got another one now, so....we'll see how this goes.
Healthwise, though, after I took care of that? I've been doing much better. I've been increasing my exercise amounts, and that always seems to do wonders for my mood (as long as I don't push it up too fast). We've had a lot going on with my family and some things going on with friends, and I've been able to mostly keep up. This would not have happened a few months ago! So I think I'm finally getting out of my very long fibromyalgia downswing. Let's hope for a really long upswing now. :D
The past week or so, I've really spent a lot of time playing video games. I think maybe I kind of avoided the video games a little, because...well, you know, since I work at home (and especially on the same couch that I spend my leisure time on), I've been prone to feeling guilty when I decide to go do something that's purely for fun. I guess in my head, I can always think that I might switch over from Tumblr or Youtube or whatever random useless site I'm on and do some work, writing or accounting or whatever. But if I turn on the Xbox, I KNOW I'm not working. But I've been telling myself recently that it's okay, and that makes it easier to actually work on stuff, without being all tense about it. I don't know if that makes much sense, but it's working better for me, so far.
Anyway, the games I've been playing a bunch are Sims 3 and Silent Hill: Downpour. Sims 3 actually works really well in the Xbox console, although I don't think they allow for expansions, really. Which is too bad. But the main game has a ton of stuff to it! And just playing one person, I managed to find a whole bunch of stuff, and have a lot of fun. I think it's the first time I've played Sims that I haven't cheated immediately. XD
Downpour's been great. Really, I've been impressed, probably more so than most reviewers and fans. At the moment, I'm at one of the points in the game where you can just wander all over the town, and it's excellent. They have all these extra things, and a lot of it relates to the main character, but not all of it does. Some of it is just referencing the town in general, or previous games, and it's all cool. The music is wonderful. The story is good. They got the atmosphere right, and they put new elements into it. The gameplay....is not as bad as it could be? I mean, I've seen worse in Silent Hill games, srsly. I do imagine it's hard to find that balance of "aaa these monsters are going to kill me" and smooth combat. One thing that does really bug me is the 'autosave', which is usually a lie. I've lost progress, and it's made me sad. And besides that, it makes the loading really...not good. But other than that, I really like the game.
And...okay, if I can just go on about one thing- it has almost nothing to do with the plot. Not very spoilery at all, promise. I swear, there's this thing where you find certain books in a library-ish setting, and they all seem to relate to some quest or something, but they don't even have achievements or connections to anything. The books are just there. And they're driving me nuts! All the little sections have notes written on them, and I swear they represent numbers in the Dewey decimal system or something, but I can't remember enough about it...I'll eventually research it and probably post it up here. There's nothing but a mention about the books in the GameFAQ forums and that's it. ;___; Boooks. I should remember this stuff.
And okay, that's it for me right now. This is long enough, I think. XD Hopefully I'll be back in the land of the living and paying attention to stuff and everything once I buck this current migraine!
He really likes his box with the moss, and that's been helping a lot with the humidity. I'm going to look into getting a humidifier/fogger, too, now that our budget's looking like it's not in the danger zone anymore. The humidity issue really did seem to be hurting him. I still soak him for an hour every day (longer now that he's getting ready to shed), but once he's doing better, it'd be nice to have a whole automatic system. I'm not sure my little misting spray bottle is going to cut it all the time...especially when I have to be away.
I had a doozy of a migraine after all that last month, but the little mouth appliance thing I got for the TMJ seems to be helping that a lot, too. So I've been trying to take my midodrine normally (which usually had caused MUCH worse migraines, but if I don't take it often enough it causes headaches too, and it's just a mess). It seems to go okay! But it's probably going to take me awhile to find my equilibrium with it. Every time I change treatments, I never know if I'm helping, hurting, or what for awhile, until I can look back and analyze afterward. However, my neurologist seemed pleased. Apparently, the appliance helps keep knots from forming in my neck and back, which is a big help. So I'll keep an eye on it. I've got another one now, so....we'll see how this goes.
Healthwise, though, after I took care of that? I've been doing much better. I've been increasing my exercise amounts, and that always seems to do wonders for my mood (as long as I don't push it up too fast). We've had a lot going on with my family and some things going on with friends, and I've been able to mostly keep up. This would not have happened a few months ago! So I think I'm finally getting out of my very long fibromyalgia downswing. Let's hope for a really long upswing now. :D
The past week or so, I've really spent a lot of time playing video games. I think maybe I kind of avoided the video games a little, because...well, you know, since I work at home (and especially on the same couch that I spend my leisure time on), I've been prone to feeling guilty when I decide to go do something that's purely for fun. I guess in my head, I can always think that I might switch over from Tumblr or Youtube or whatever random useless site I'm on and do some work, writing or accounting or whatever. But if I turn on the Xbox, I KNOW I'm not working. But I've been telling myself recently that it's okay, and that makes it easier to actually work on stuff, without being all tense about it. I don't know if that makes much sense, but it's working better for me, so far.
Anyway, the games I've been playing a bunch are Sims 3 and Silent Hill: Downpour. Sims 3 actually works really well in the Xbox console, although I don't think they allow for expansions, really. Which is too bad. But the main game has a ton of stuff to it! And just playing one person, I managed to find a whole bunch of stuff, and have a lot of fun. I think it's the first time I've played Sims that I haven't cheated immediately. XD
Downpour's been great. Really, I've been impressed, probably more so than most reviewers and fans. At the moment, I'm at one of the points in the game where you can just wander all over the town, and it's excellent. They have all these extra things, and a lot of it relates to the main character, but not all of it does. Some of it is just referencing the town in general, or previous games, and it's all cool. The music is wonderful. The story is good. They got the atmosphere right, and they put new elements into it. The gameplay....is not as bad as it could be? I mean, I've seen worse in Silent Hill games, srsly. I do imagine it's hard to find that balance of "aaa these monsters are going to kill me" and smooth combat. One thing that does really bug me is the 'autosave', which is usually a lie. I've lost progress, and it's made me sad. And besides that, it makes the loading really...not good. But other than that, I really like the game.
And...okay, if I can just go on about one thing- it has almost nothing to do with the plot. Not very spoilery at all, promise. I swear, there's this thing where you find certain books in a library-ish setting, and they all seem to relate to some quest or something, but they don't even have achievements or connections to anything. The books are just there. And they're driving me nuts! All the little sections have notes written on them, and I swear they represent numbers in the Dewey decimal system or something, but I can't remember enough about it...I'll eventually research it and probably post it up here. There's nothing but a mention about the books in the GameFAQ forums and that's it. ;___; Boooks. I should remember this stuff.
And okay, that's it for me right now. This is long enough, I think. XD Hopefully I'll be back in the land of the living and paying attention to stuff and everything once I buck this current migraine!