It has cooled down and dried out. Opened the windows yesterday afternoon. Hooray.

Slept til 3 pm yesterday, so up all night again. Still with the pain, but not quite as bad. Did a system image of my pc, which took 9 hours and 11 disks. Holy shimoleon. Never doing that again. Meanwhile, I spent the no-pc time clearing off my desk, sorting papers, going through coupons, filing, all that fun organizing stuff.

I set aside the Torchwood radio plays to listen to somewhere down the line, since I can’t cope with them now. It’s only been two years. I’m sure I’ll be recovering sometime soon. But I will never forgive RTD for being such a despicable human being. So there! If you’re not a Torchwood fan, just ignore this paragraph. LOL

I managed to unload the bottom half of the dishwasher last evening. Just the top half to go. Who would think that would be even considered an achievement? So many things we take for granted when we’re healthy become near insurmountable tasks when we’re not. I’ve lost a lot of mobility, have a fraction of the energy I used to have, and have discarded so many things from my life that I just don’t have enough spoons to deal with anymore. You do know about spoons, don’t you? Have you heard about The Spoon Theory. Google it if you’re interested. It’s for anyone with a chronic, debilitating illness. Fun to say, not to have. Lately I’ve been having fewer and fewer spoons to start out with, so most anything I want/need to do is beyond me. Not looking for sympathy, I’m not comfortable getting sympathy, just stating a fact of my life.

Think I need a nap now. Later, dear readers.

In fact, as my friend Tess says, it’s Supersonic Yukky. Yesterday was just Super Yukky. Yes, we have classes of yukky, people. Today it was around 90 something, and the dewpoint was in the low 70’s Living in soup and breathing through a wet sponge. I love my a/c. Yes. Yes I do. I am ending my second day, going into my third night of pain having a party all over my body. Didn’t sleep the past two nights, had a four hour nap yesterday and that’s it. Feeling fine. Well, except for the pain party.

Tess drove me to Stop and Shop yesterday so I could get some groceries, since my homemaker is on vacation this week, and I didn’t want a replacement. You can get some real doozys, and I’d prefer not to, thank you very much. My god, the price of food is ridiculous, and it’s only going to get worse, I think.

I watched Warehouse 13 and Eureka on Hulu. Finally, something I’m interested in. I’m also watching a 20-part Korean period drama, “The Painter of the Wind’, which is beautiful. Costumes, scenery, very good actors, and English sub titles. Thank goodness.

Nothing exciting happening here. Just getting through the day til the pain party is over and I can actually get around without the constant owing I’m doing now. LOL Oh, I ate two mangoes today. I love mangoes. And avocados. And artichokes. And bananas. Aren’t you glad I shared that?

Yesterday a friend and I were discussing what has happened to this country. Well, actually we started out talking about the root beer float I was planning on having later, got into soda in general, which neither of us drink but rarely, moved on to diet soda and that horrible fake sugar they used to use in it. Cyclamate, I think it was. From there, we moved on to how it might effect the brain and why it was banned, when we had a revelation. We never drank diet soda, either of us, and that’s why we are two of the minority in this country who still have the ability to think.

Not only did those diet soda drinkers not lose weight, because diet soda causes weight gain, especially when you drink it with your mashed potatoes and gravy, but they also incurred enough brain damage to become utter morons. Did you watch the Miss America questions vid, and the math parody vid? Have you ever seen Jay Leno’s man on the street interviews? So here we are. A really neat vid. You have to pay attention to what the guy is saying. Then seriously, read the comments. People can’t discern snark from truth. People can’t discern. People still support the (insert extremely unflattering descriptive word here) Republicans, even though it is clear, and even reported on the actual news, that they are working against the best interests of those very voters/supporters, and are proud of it.

I have lost all hope. Srsly. Here’s the vid.

Seems the magic wine, extra strength excedrin combo really did work. Still better. Two good days in a row where I actually was functional and got things done. Things that involved more than clicking ‘enter’ on the keyboard. Actual, get up off the couch and move stuff.

Course then I couldn’t sleep last night and then slept from 7am to 2pm, and am now up with a headache and a desperate need to turn off the a/c and open the windows, if the temperature wasn’t 92.5 Fahrenheit with a dew point of 62. 60 is the line when it comes to the dew point. Below that is bearable, above that, just a lot of ick. I like summer, really I do. I liked it in Colorado, anyway. But here in New England, with heat AND humidity, not so much. I know I’ve said this before, but it really is the humidity that makes it miserable. Like trying to live in soup. I don’t even like soup all that much.

I’m really happy to be feeling better, I must say. Having a brain that works and a body that won’t cooperate is frustrating. It was easier to cope with the body not working when the brain was in such a fog that it didn’t matter anyway. Now, my brain can think ahead, and plan, and envision. Things I was not able to do for a very long time. So I want the body to be able to carry out all my plans and ideas. It’s a good thing when they both work at the same time. Yes. Yes it is.

Seems that’s all I’ve got now, except I got turkey hot dogs this week. 4.99 for a package of hot dogs. God, I do not read the grocery receipt often enough. It makes it less painful, but on the other hand, I still have 69 cents for hotdogs stuck in my brain. Sticker shock. Yes, it’s been a long time since I was able to do my own shopping people. LOL

Edited, due to my brain being missing.

My visitors came.  My friends Beth and John.  They put together my new flat-pack but real wood dresser, took away the old ponderous one and an extra mattress, then we went out for dinner at a fab, really fab, Mexican restaurant up Route One.  Had several glass of wine, along with my last antibiotic and two extra-strength excedrin (wave goodbye to my liver) and felt fine.  Really.  Tomorrow could be back to exhaustion and pain, but today was a good day.  Had so much fun.  Played the ‘Go The F— To Sleep’ and ‘Chef Tommy’ vids for them.  Hysterical.  John asked me to email them to him so he could show them to someone else.  It was such a fun day. I am happy.

Tim Guinee

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting a tomato in a fruit salad.”

Love Tim Guinee.

My visitors are coming today.  Took me an hour to get dressed.  Took last antibiotic today, so am hoping this CFS thing resolves itself into a functional me soon.  Hoping.

Have I mentioned that I’ve been feeling horrible for awhile now?  Maybe I should read my own blog.  Ha!  Anyway, There was a chance I’d be having visitors today, so I thought it would be a good idea to change out of the clothes I’d been wearing around the clock since Tuesday, and actually take a shower.  So I did.  By the time I got out of the shower, I was so exhausted that I felt nauseous.  Had I run a marathon?  No.  I’d taken a shower.  Good thing I don’t get sick very often, if it’s going to exacerbate the CFS and fibro this much.  Also, the visiting thing didn’t happen.  Which is good, because I am virtually immobile at this point.  Oh, well.

First you cry:

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Then you laugh:

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Long version of the first one:

Or, I can’t think of a good title.  I have been feeling really awful for awhile, so much so that I had a complete meltdown the other day.  Virtually non-functional.  Well.  I woke up Tuesday with face pain.  My teeth hurt.  The roof of my mouth hurt.  Aha.  I know what this is.  Sinus infection.  None of the usual symptoms up to that point.  Called doctor, convinced them that there was no way I was functional enough to come to the office (true.  very true.) so got an antibiotic prescribed.  My friend Tess picked it up for me Wednesday, and I am already better.  Amazing how something like that can throw the CFS into overdrive.  At this point, I am sleeping a few hours, being awake a few, sleeping again.

Last time this happened I had bursitis in my shoulder and for six weeks, I could only stay awake for about two hours at a time.  Non-functional R Us.  Interesting illness.  Sucky, but interesting.

I am trying this out.  It’s very different from Blogger, but I have had more than one issue over there.  I’ve played around with this all afternoon, and still haven’t got it just right, but in time.  I hope.

Everything from the old blog has been moved over here, but is still there on Blogger, at:

http://strangelypeculiar.blogspot.com\

In case you came here first.  I hope you like it, and that I will actually maybe get some comments now.  I like comments.

>Even though everything is set for comments, apparently there’s a glitch or something. I am seriously thinking of moving to WordPress. I’ll keep you posted.

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I changed the comment format in hopes that will fix the issue, which I only now became aware of. So if you’ve tried to comment before and couldn’t, please try again to see if this works. If it doesn’t, the help forum says to enable third party cookies and that might fix it. Let me know what works (if you can comment, that is. LOL) Thank you dear readers. I know you’re out there. 🙂

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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, regarding Marriage Equality:

“Government should not tell you what to do unless there’s a compelling public purpose.”

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I used to say, lo these many years ago, “That’s a lotta tea” run together. Thatsalada tea. Then Salada tea came out with a commercial using just that play on words. Hey, it was MY idea.

So now I’ve been saying for years that the Republicans philosophy is “I’ve got mine, so screw you.” Lo and behold, found this today:

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/06/24/ayn-rand-and-the-sociopathic-society-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-loving-my-neighbor-and-despise-them-instead/

Hey, I said it first. No one wrote an article about it then.

On another topic, some people have mentioned to me that they are not able to comment on this blog. If any one out there who can, knows why some can’t, please can you let me know what to do in the comments? Thank you.

>Why yes. I did change the look of my blog. Then I was going to post something, got side-tracked, and completely forgot. The new background is Van Gogh’s ‘The Almond Tree’. I love it.

Gray and rainy day. I love rain. Having a recovery day, since I went out Monday, then my homemaker came yesterday. I don’t seem to have anything to say anymore. Not sure why. I am much better on the new medicine, no brain fog, thinking ahead to things I want to do, something I haven’t done for quite a long time. I did not realize how lethargic and out-to-lunch I was, I just gradually became accustomed to it and stopped noticing. Miracle drug comes along (actually, it’s thyroid med), and my brain has gone into, “I WORK!! Woo Hoo!!!” mode. Unfortunately, my body hasn’t caught up, so I am doing more, but having a lot more pain as a consequence. Everything is a trade-off. I’m just so glad my brain is working again, and I’ve had a lot of pain since I got sick anyway. I can plan, and consider, and evaluate, and think ahead to consequences. You don’t know how much you’ve lost til you suddenly get it back, I guess.

I watched the uncut Jon Stewart on Fox interview, not the Fox cut, since even if I still had cable, I would never watch Fox on purpose. Anyway, here is Jon’s hilarious take on what they actually aired on Fox.

>Slept on my new mattress last night. For the first time since I can’t remember when, I did not wake up needing to move because of pain, I did not wake up in the morning in pain, and I’ve felt really good today. Just the usual illness stuff. It’s incredible. The mattress was made in the USA, too.

You Are a Magazine

You are flexible, laid back, and open to the world. You are a total novelty seeker, and you always appreciate new eye candy. You are a natural daydreamer. If you had your way, you would live several lives at once. You are very smart – but in more of a “street smart” than “book smart” sort of way. Your mind just operates on a totally different plane. You are able to take in a lot more information than most people.

>1. Read the comments, too:

http://front.moveon.org/jobless-in-the-usa-a-tale-of-two-presidents/

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https://lilfamilyblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/i-know-starbucks-is-not-an-anti-gay-homophobic-company-by-policy-but/

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It makes me happy.

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We had some last night, and more predicted for tonight. Severe thunderstorms. Makes me think ‘tornado’ now, where it never did before. Scary.

It’s been hot and sticky since Tuesday night. Supposed to reach 99 today. Ninety-nine. Degrees. Fahrenheit. This is the second Bad Air Warning day, too. Not that unusual, but 99 degrees is. Three cheers for whoever invented air-c0nditioning.

I’ve unplugged just about everything, not only to avoid lightning damage, but also in hopes of keeping the power going. I know most people just go ahead and run everything, even if it does strain the power grid, but with no a/c, it would be pretty miserable, so I’m doing my (miniscule) part.

Slept all day yesterday due to pain and being up most of the night before. Got up at 6pm, so have been up all night. I read, watched White Collar on Hulu, read some more, took a shower, got dressed, read some more. Yes, I like to read. It doesn’t hurt or exhaust me. It’s a good thing. I downloaded the free Amazon Kindle for PC. There are a lot of free books for it from Amazon and other places, so I have a bunch saved to read. To buy a book doesn’t cost nearly as much as an actual book, either, and no clutter.

Gertrude is hiding, as usual. She was out, but heard some thunder and under the bed she went. My essential calming oil hasn’t arrived yet, but I’m hoping it will help. I’m going to just let her sniff it at first, to see if she has any kind of bad reaction. Cats can be allergic to things, too, so best to be cautious. That’s it for now. BAck to your regular programming.