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How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

I started the day by somehow hurting my foot stepping out of bed wrong, and so I'm hopping around the house trying to get things done.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[philstar22]

Saw my gynecologist who was willing to actually diagnose me, unlike my primary care, even though it isn't a gynecological issue. He confirmed my suspicions on what it was. I now have meds that will hopefully help, though if they don't work more serious treatment may be necessary.

Led my Toastmaster meeting today.

Now I'm eating dinner and then I'm going to crash. I slept about 3 hours last night, if that. I'm still in a lot of pain. I'm waiting to take a pain pill until I've finished what I need to and I've eaten. I know once I take it I'll be out quickly.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[tabaqui]

I'm glad you got a diagnosis! Good luck.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the anon who posted some days ago about being super stressed about issues with my vision. I got scheduled for an earlier appointment with another eye clinic and got to go in for that today, and have... mixed feelings? The good news is that the doctor told me that my eyeball muscles and lenses (hopefully I used the right words or close enough) are in the right places and that my eyes are okay physically, and she gave me eyedrops that might help with my double vision, so I'm going to try using them and hope for the best. The bad news is that I'm trying not to stress about whether something neurological is the cause of my vision problems, and that I still don't know what the deal is, other than knowing it's not like, that my eyeballs themselves are fucked up.

I'm trying to be calm and focus on trying the eyedrops, and on getting in touch with a neurologist ASAP (I need to talk to a neurologist about various other stuff anyway, and have already been wondering how much my vision problems are related to neurological problems) but it's still scary, and going to medical appointments always stresses me out a lot. Plus, I do not really enjoy it when they put stuff in my eyes or touched my eyes with anything. I know they have to and I asked them to do it for the exams, but I can't say I liked any of that. Oh well. I guess I'll see how things go.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

Eye exams always suck. Hopefully you will be able to visit the neurologist soon, and they will have good news for you.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I'm in that phase of depression where I'm always tired and my body is heavier than it should be and I can't get shit done
I really want to go out and do stuff and pretty obviously I can't
on the up side restrictions are being eased where I live (no new cases in almost a week, yay) so I will be able to go out some time soon

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[kaijinscendre]

Working on the duck for my brother-in-law birthday. He isn't looking too terrible. Still need to do wings, tail, feet, and clothes.

https://i.imgur.com/sKd7Bkt.jpg?1

Got my meds for lupus that will hopefully help my face. It is looking so bad.

TW: suicidal thoughts

[(Anonymous)]

I fucking screwed up at work today and let down my dept manager whose done so much for me and I just wanna curl up and die

I hate myself so much and every hour that passes before I can make this right feels like a day. I honestly don't know how I will face tomorrow.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

Better than yesterday. IDK. I'm tired but the weather is really nice and I'm having pizza for dinner so, could be worse.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

I did something similar a few days ago, I was laying in bed, got up and suddenly my hip/leg/ankle/foot were all hurting when I put weight on that leg so I was limping around, and then out of nowhere it went away later that day and hasn't been back since. So weird.

Today I slept way later than I should've and spent the day basically doing nothing.

I really need to clean, and I might make cookies tonight if I can get the kitchen in decent shape since I haven't had anything dessert-y in awhile.

And I want to buy this grater/slicer thing because I've been doing a lot more cooking lately and it would be useful, but I got something similar for Christmas a couple years ago, and I'm not sure if I still have it. At the time I didn't cook much and didn't see the point in having it, and I can't remember if I actually returned it or just thought about it, so I need to see if it's around somewhere before I buy one.

Also need to try to figure out meals for the next couple weeks so I can have my list ready and organized before I go grocery shopping in the next couple days.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

Not bad. Went for a run this morning and I'm having a shrimp Louis salad for dinner tonight. It's cloudy and cool outside here and it's nice to have the windows open. No idea what I'll do tonight, probably read or watch TV.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

I took my sick hen to the vet this morning and then came home and put her in the dog crate and went to work. She’d managed to knock over her water and food by the time I got home, but she’d also eaten and pooped, so I put her with the flock because she was flipping out a bit.

I’m starting to think she poisoned herself when I let the flock out to eat yard weeds, because I found a volunteer black nightshade in the side yard. It’s not as poisonous as deadly nightshade and the ripe berries are used for jam and eaten and spread by birds, but if she ate leaves or unripe berries it might explain why she was so lethargic and uncoordinated and uninterested in food for a couple days. And her crap still looks weird so the vet’s gonna test for parasites.

I’m gonna make muffins or something tonight, idk. I want to just go to bed, but it’s not even dark out.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[tabaqui]

These allergies are making me feel like I have an endless, never-going-away cold, which is really fucking uncomfortable.

Also, it got really cold (frost warnings) and rainy here, which is fine, but it makes me want to do nothing but curl up in bed.

Ah well.

On the plus side - my county is offering free coronavirus tests to anyone as of Saturday. I dunno if i'll go or not.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[greghousesgf]

Netflix cut me off because their DVDs have been stolen out of my mailbox too often. I was upset about this at first but I've calmed down and I'm just going to go to the libraries to get DVDs as soon as this quarantine business is over and they open up again. (Still have streaming)

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[caecilia]

Better than most days I guess. My 3yo niece wanted to video chat with us so she could show us her new kitten. There was a power outage but it got resolved. My apartment is still a mess but I did some tidying and found my lost wallet.

On a larger scale I'm worried that people in my region have normalized the pandemic. Few people wearing masks now. Crowded stores. I miss museums and bookstores and coffee shops too but I just don't feel as enthusiastic about "opening up" as...certain people think I should be.

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

Spiders spiders spiders!! Spiders EVERYWHERE! UGH I HATE SPIDERS!! FUCK! SHIT!

Re: How Are We Doing Today?

[(Anonymous)]

I had a close friend commit suicide about a month ago, so today, like most days, is pretty tough. I've been suicidal at different times in my life, so when I found out he had died, I felt so guilty. Like if I was less worried about my own stupid life, I would have noticed that he needed some immediate help. God, I miss him. But his death has helped me realize what I do have to help me hold on. I just wish I would have said something to him or called him or at least said goodbye.
(I read the secrets and replies here on most days, but I don't post much. But thank you guys for being here. This is a good safe space for me).

Can someone explain the logic of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels to me?

[(Anonymous)]

I've seen the trailer a couple of times now and it makes very little sense to me in the context of the original show.

I never did watch the original, but saw some clips and heard about it. And it seemed to revolve around what I thought it revolved around (The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century British and Irish Gothic fiction - from Wikipedia).

So, why make it a spin-off if you're going to set it in America, in 1938, with Mexican-American folklore at its center? I know name recognition can be important, but when it has as little to do with the original as this, I have to wonder why they didn't call it something else, say something not so related to British fiction. Dime Novels and Pulp Magazines were both American and had lurid and sensational tales (which seems to be the only connection between the two shows). Is there something I'm missing?

Re: Can someone explain the logic of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels to me?

[philstar22]

It is a spin-off only in the loosest of senses.

The basic idea is that a demon (played by Natalie Dormer) believes that humans will always choose the selfish choice if given the option and sets about proving it in 1938 LA during a time when race issues were at the forefront and something she uses to her advantage to prove her point.

Re: Can someone explain the logic of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels to me?

[(Anonymous)]

It's like the Fraiser spinoff to Cheers? But they kept the name since it was popular and they wanted people to watch it.

Re: Can someone explain the logic of Penny Dreadful: City of Angels to me?

[(Anonymous)]

Dime Novels and Pulp Magazines were both American and had lurid and sensational tales (which seems to be the only connection between the two shows). Is there something I'm missing?

I think it's exactly this. If you were a fan of the previous series (which I was) you may want to watch this, as it follows the same theme -- taking certain recognizable "public domain" characters (albeit from a different tradition and a different setting) and setting them in within a particular context and giving them life.

They really could have called it something else, but honestly, the name rec is important and Pennydreadful conjures more gothic (and thus supernatural) imagery (at least for me) over the Dime Novels & Pulp Magazines (I automatically think overly dramatic and lacking depth stylized a la Casablanca or Maltese Falcon -- "manly/rebel detective, damsel in distress, and science fiction"). It also sounds catchier.

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