Went for a check-up on Monday and told my doctor a lot of what's going on with the boy, and how sometimes I just barely have the effort to get out of bed to begin with, and often return to it sometime during the day. He agreed that there might be some slight depression there and prescribed a mild medicine to see if it helps. Started taking it this ( Read more... )

I've done one show since November, 2019. I was supposed to start rehearsals for one the day the world shut down. I was notified three hours before our first rehearsal that they were pulling the plug for the foreseeable future. Now that theatre is gone. The one show that I've done was a year ago ( Read more... )

I don't know the clinical definition of Depression. I know it's a lot more than just Sadness. I feel like I may be teetering on the edge of it, though ( Read more... )

For a long time, I've wanted to retire to the Yorkshire dales, preferably in the 1930s, around the time of "All Creatures Great and Small." It just seems like a peaceful time to spend out my days, greeting the townsfolk, maybe working in a little shop, growing a few vegetables or flowers, and pitching in at the local community theatre. The 1930s ( Read more... )

I really think I've lost control of my son. Yesterday I got a text from my Chase VISA card asking if I had made a suspicious charge. I had not. I got online and checked my account. There were a number of charges I hadn't made - Grubhub, amazon, Apple, etsy, and a few more. I got a sick feeling in my stomach. Called Chase and they listed a few more ( Read more... )

I had my first theatre audition in over a year and a half last week. It was for a theatre I've worked at many times before, and for which I'd been and Artistic Associate until they decided to do away with the honorary. A new Artistic Director had taken over just as the pandemic hit and, aside from some Zoom offerings, hasn't really had the ( Read more... )

WillJ has turned into a complete shit. It's kinda hard to like him right now.

I'd say not a week goes by that my son doesn't have a violent screaming fit, threatening to harm himself or call DFCS or 911 if he doesn't get his way. It destroys me that he's got all this anxiety, and that I haven't been able to lessen it after 4 1/2 years. The traffic accident in December was the latest thing to happen to him, or maybe it was ( Read more... )

Just saying hi, if anyone is out there. So much to talk about. But it's late and I don't want to get started now.

It occurred to me that if any of my LiveJournal friends from its glory days in the first years of the new century happened by my page and read the last few entries, they might be puzzled ( Read more... )