I have spent the last year and a half of my life un-damaging my goods. I have started eating properly, I have started swimming and yoga and pilates, I have started taking medication, I have seen better doctors (or "doctor") who are able to help me. I have been taking care of my Self. And now I am pissed off because all my hard work and attention ( Read more... )

I realize I haven't updated much lately. This seems to be the theme-song to many a blogger; facebook is winning the new monopoly ( Read more... )

I went to florida with noah and we lay in the sun for 8 days and swam in the ocean and saw movies with seniors and went to a giant flea market with the biggest stars and stripes flags i've ever seen and got to wear a tank top to the St Paddy's day celebration, something i've never done before, and now I've come back to bitter cold and a terrible ( Read more... )

For the first time ever, I saw a fibromyalgia doctor who didn't suck, didn't hit me all over, and actually had real suggestions for me. This might have been because in the initial conversation I emphasised how utterly useless it was for doctors to hit me all over and then tell me that I was feeling pain, so she was very careful about that. I'm ( Read more... )

So this facebook thing is getting out of hand. In the past three hours, more people than I care to remember have suddenly added me to their Friends lists, and I just don't know about it. It seems to be bringing us closer to people we spent years distancing ourselves from. (Oh, sorry, I guess I should speak for myself.) It's not that I never ( Read more... )

I keep making the near-fatal mistake of assuming certain items of knowledge on the part of my students, which lead to two lessons on Hitler this week. They didn't know who he was or what he did, and when I asked what group he was part of, I had to give them a hint and say it started with 'n'. It was like playing Hangman, with many random ( Read more... )

Have you ever almost passed out in front of 15 15-year-olds? Or 14 14-year-olds? I did, today, second period. I tried to fake it like I was just bored of them pestering me and I would answer there questions from behind my desk, but then the blood drained from my face and I had to put my head down. They were generally really sweet, and yelled ( Read more... )

I got followed home by a crazy hobo the other night. Luckily it was from the rec centre where I swim, which is, in Dana's words, so close I can spit on it, so he didn't follow me far. He first asked me what time it was, and when I told him it was 7:00 and he asked if that was at Dundas and Parliament (unfortunately the intersection where we're ( Read more... )

I haven't updated in awhile; Noah got really sick with viral bronchitis and then I got a migraine because I got mad at my students for being the ignorant teenagers they are (they made fun of the autistic students in front of them while they were visiting our class) and then I had a busy weekend of playing poker and walking into strangers' ( Read more... )

We cleaned up Sunday night, emptied out cupboards and drawers in the kitchen and bathroom. Still saw two roaches Monday morning even though the kitchen was empty. I squashed 'em good, though. We stayed with Robert and Marion for three nights, each night saying, "This will probably be our last," but then driving over once we realized the air was ( Read more... )