Miscellany and Musings

( Hmmm probably should cut this super gross likely TMI part )
Sorry, that was probably gross, but I wanted to get it off my chest. Couldn't go to work today because I was literally bleeding too much too quickly, and cramping like the devil.  In other news, I had a real bad bout of depression relapse over the course of a week when I kept forgetting to take my medicine. Big mistake. Was just as miserable mentally as I was physically with the cramping. Was telling lies all over the place, shoplifting like crazy, hallucinating, stressed to the max... Been taking my meds this week though, and I'm doing much better. 

Still can't seem to muster up any desire to write. I tried to write today but only added a little to a stoner series chapter I'm working on. Did post an update to my Desert Rose series. That's the part about depression I can't seem to conquer. I used to craft and paint and draw and write, and now I don't care. I have some scout things I need to finish and I just don't wanna do it. I get overwhelmed pretty easy it seems.

Got a new kitty! Her name is Lula, very sweet girl, just taking her time coming out of her shell. With all the attention I'm giving her, I think Gizmo now hates me. At least she and Flop have a common enemy now lol.

3 month surgiversary- I've lost 43 pounds since I had my sleeve procedure, it's going slow, but I can tell it's working. It was real for me when I realized my panties were too big lol. Was also able to squeeze into an XL size t-shirt for scouts!

Bad news first- Shark Week MONTH has returned. Aunt Flo came to vist on Labor Day and didn't leave until I was forced to get a week's worth of Provera and make it stop. As soon as I ran out of medicine, the bitch came back- with a vengeance. While I did have a very heavy flow and huge clots, I didn't have a single cramp. This time, I have an even heavier flow (where the hell is all this blood even coming from?!?) smaller clots and CRAMPPPS from hell. Can't get in to see my gynecologist until DECEMBER. Planned Parenthood is booked until 10/23, so I may have to go that route. My sister said to go to the hospital. I might if I keep soaking through these super plus tampons so quickly. Wish I could sneeze real hard and my uterus just fly across the room and splat into the garbage can.

Good news! My bariatric surgeon's office is going to send my paperwork to the insurance company to be approved next week!!! That means I'll get to meet with the doctor and get a surgery date!! AHHHH!!! I'm so excited! Hopefully I can get this period crap under control so I don't have to concern myself with that mess while I'm recovering from gastric bypass surgery. Then I'll finally be on my way to the losing side ♥

Bad news- a friend of mine I met through anime conventions got the news that his brain cancer returned for a 3rd time on his birthday. They caught it super early so hopefully they can knock it out quickly. My heart breaks for him because he's such a sweet person and doesn't deserve this.

Good news! After 13 years, I finally got my husband to haul that rusted piece of crap basketball goal of ours out to the street for junk pickup. AT LAST.

Bad news- FMA Big Bang posting began on the 3rd but my artist isn't finished with the artwork and asked for an extension, so I can't post my fic. And the fic I illustrated did not post the pictures in her story OR link back to my DA profile. 

Good news! I have my fic formatted and ready to go into a printed paperback version, just need to insert the art when I get it. The cover is ready to go too!

If I think of anything else to share, I will. Until then, smell ya later.

If you find a comment to a fic you posted to the fmagiftexchange back in oh... 2012 or so, that it recently may have gotten a comment. I have a simple explanation!

Work is sometimes really slow. I can't access too many websites (nothing that can be considered social networking or personal email, and nothign 'adult' in nature' but I can access LJ! well, at least most parts of it....) so today I was reading some fics that I had forgotten about (and in some cases forgot to read!) and I discovered ALL KINDS OF GREAT FIC TODAY!  So much good FMA stuff that I haven't read to death.  So if you find an oddball comment on somethign, that's just me perusing old ficage and enjoying the talented writers who contribute to that comm.  Yall are giving me some pretty good ideas too.  There was a team Mustang fic I read that had the most awesome Braeda in it- how did I miss that???  Some of these things are finding their way to my memories tab too, so don't be surprised.

In other news, I have already given up on the July meme (see, it's this lack of commitment as to why I'm still morbidly obese).  Also I had a panic attack that lasted just about all day on the 4th, called out of work and got my ass chewed for it today. Probably gonna get written up for it.  Also almost lost my cool on two customers who had to be the thickest skulled idiots. ugggh.

Tuesday I'm going with my mom, my sister's kids and Joey to Cincinnati.  We're gonig to the aquarium and the zoo and spending the night at the rotating hotel in Newport just across the river.  I'm really excited, it'll be Joey's first time staying overnight at a hotel.  And the kids get free admission to the aquarium if we go after 4. Double bonus.

binaryalchemist sent me some Shin Chan BUTT PUDDING!!!! and CANDY BEER!!! and it was amazing. Me and Joey had a blast trying it all out.

Anime recs- Ore Monogatari!! is a shojo series about a giant boy and a petite girl who fall in love with each other after the former rescues the latter from a pervy groper on the train. Really super cute series kinda like Tora Dora without all the Tsundere.  Also check out Gangsta- It just started! It's about a guy with 1 eye and a deaf soldier who are partners for hire who sort of help out/work with a crooked police chief in a dirty scummy city.  It's a lot like Black Lagoon if you've seen that.

Skip the Free dub it's a disaster.  I want to watch Arslan Senki but I'm waiting on the dub- which Funimation didn't seem to fuck up (unlike Free).

OH YEAH- Last week was pretty epic health wise. I started out on Sunday feeling achy and a little lightheaded. Monday I was dizzy and nauseated. By Tuesday the world was spinning so bad I called out of work, then Wednesday I broke down and went to the little clinic at Krogers. Ear infection.  Friday I noticed what I thoguht was a spider bite, Saturday morning it was all swollen and much redder, so I went to the immediate care center.  They give me a different antibiotic than the z pack, but I couldn't get the meds til the next day.  So Sunday while at breakfast with my mom Granny and sister, I notice the leg is twice its size and super red and hot to the touch, also mega tender, so after breakfast I went to the ER and they told me I had cellulitis and it was starting in the other leg.  Super antibiotics prescribed and I'm just now coming off all the medication.  I missed over a week of work.  Craziness!!!

I spent the morning updating my fic journal (including the collections in the pinned post).  If you'd like to have a look, HERE'S THE LINK!


Also, I have some great recs as well!  seta_suzume wrote this AWESOME AMAZING Scar/Rose fic for the Yule round of the fmagiftexchange.  Check out This Little Light of Mine!  And THEN she went above and beyond and did some drawbles for my birthday!!  I hope she loves what I did for HER birthday- I am so excited to post it!

cornerofmadness wrote me a wonderful little ficlet for my birthday, "Rough Ways" (it's the last one in a list of three, but read all three!)

I don't remember now which tumblr user I follow posted this, but here's a lovely Al/Mei piece called Confirmation Bias.  and here's another one (also from a tumblr user, also an Al/Mei) called Fundamentals, where Al is having trouble grasping the ability to read other people's energy signatures, so Mei decides to take them back to the basics. 2nd chapter is nsfw.