Merry Christmas!
Good afternoon all. Almost 4pm at christmas day here, home from work. Slept 1 hour (i was so tired) and now 30 minutes of nothing then to my parents for christmas dinner.
hahaha lol! Hope you had fun doing it!
Well, my medication has given me the side effect of bad joint pain. It wasn't too bad yesterday, but now it's spread to the other side of my body and gotten worse, so that's fun. Probably gonna be spending all day in bed today taking advil like candy. At least it waited until after christmas to get real bad? xD
How's everyone else doing? What'd ya'll get for Christmas?

OH. MY. WORD. I DID NOT REALIZE HOW MANY TREES I STUFFED UNTIL I CAME BACK TODAY TO A BILLION THANK-YOU'S... YES, AN EXAGERATION BUT NOT BY MUCH. AND THE FUNNY THING IS I HAVE A BUNCH OF GIFT CENTER PRESENTS TO OPEN AND I HAVEN'T EVEN OPENED MY TREE YET.
YESTERDAY WAS FUN. WE GOT UP LATE, OPENED PRESENTS, AND THEN HAD A CHRISTMAS MOVIE MARATHON. SINCE ALL MY KIDS ARE GROWN THERE WAS NO PRE-DAWN PRESENT GRAB OR FRENZIED TEARING AT GIFT WRAP.WE HAD HAM, CANDIED YAMS, GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE, AND APPLE PIE (TIRED OF PUMPKIN) FOR DINNER. THE HAM WAS FORK TENDER AND HAD AN AWESOME CINNAMON, HONEY, AND CLOVE GLAZE. WHY AM I TELLING YOU ALL ABOUT THIS? BECAUSE I'M PROCRASTINATING... THAT PILE OF PRESENTS AND THANK-YOUS ARE DAUNTING.
- I'M HAPPY YOU HAD A NICE CHRISTMAS. I HAD FUN POSTING YOUR TREE EVERYWHERE. WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW?
- IT SOUNDS INTERESTING. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO... ADD IT TO MY LIST. SEEMS NETFLIX IS OPTIONING EVERYTHING THESE DAYS. WATCHED A MOVIE LAST NIGHT CALLED JOHN CARTER. IT WAS BASED ON AN EDGARRICE BOROUGHS, THE AUTHOR OF TARZAN. IT IS SCI-FI AND YOU MAY ENJOY IT. HOW'S JORA DOING?
- I HOPE YOU FEEL BETTER SOON. :)
Well christmas is over and work is done for 3 whole days, doing nothing much. However i do have a nasty alergic reaction on my legs due of one of my rituals advent calender items. A body foam i used gave me a nasty rash and it itches like mad. Luckly the phamrmacy was open and got some ointment. Not using the product again. I did message them but as it's sunday no reaction. I do hope they give an reaction.
oh wow you are such an artist!
i am glad you had a nice christmas! Eurm no clue now trees are open what you can do.... And thank you, you spoiled me big time ❤
John Carter had an interesting production history. Plus it wasn't clearly advertised as a sci-fi movie.
I haven't read the books yet but know that the books have things that are now considered staples of sci-fi.
Jorah seems to want to share his eggs with Navi. But I can't allow that in case it makes both birds lay eggs. Navi went into his cage while he was out and was trying to put one of the eggs underneath her. It was adorable.
Went out with the in-laws for Christmas Eve. Went to his parents' for breakfast and then went to his aunt and uncle's for dinner. I'll need a few days to recover. Not sleeping well (due to bad cpap machine) plus was a busy day these past two days.
- IT STINKS THAT YOU GOT A RASH FROM ONE OF YOUR ADVENT CALENDAR GIFTS. I HOPE THEY RESPOND TO YOUR EMAIL. 3 DAYS OFF? WHATEVER WILL YOU DO? I HAD A BALL STUFFING TREES. NOW THAT THEY'RE GONE I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET PEOPLE TO RANDOMLY SPAM YOU WITH GIFTS. LOL WHY SHOULD THE FUN STOP JUST BECAUSE THE TREES OPENED? ;)
- WHEN THE MOVIE (JON CARTER) STARTED I HAD A WEIRD SENSE OF DEJA VU. AS THE MOVIE PROGRESSED I REALIZED THAT I'D READ IT BEFORE WHICH WAS WEIRD BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANY OF EDGAR RICE BOROUGHS WORK IN PRINT OR DIGITAL FORMATS. TURNS OUT THAT IT WAS FAMILIAR BECAUSE ROBERT HEINLINE SNATCHED THE BEGINNING OF JOHN CARTER AND INSERTED HIS OWN CHARACTERS INTO THE ACTION AS PART OF HIS LAZARUS LONG/METHUSELA'S CHILDREN SERIES. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAD A GREAT HOLIDAY. YOU SHOULD CALL YOUR THERAPIST ABOUT THE CPAP. GET A WORKING MACHINE SO YOU CAN SLEEPWITHOUT ASPHYXIATING. THAT IS SO CUTE THAT NAVI WOULD DO THAT. ALTHOUGH YOU'RE RIGHT TO KEEP AN EYE ON THEM BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT WOULD HATCH FROM A BOILED EGG. WHEN CAN YOU START REMOVING THE EGGS?
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THLIMIT IS FOR UNIQUE ITEMS IN YOUR INVENTORY? I'VE GOT A LOT OF GIFTS TO SORT THROUGH AND AM WONDERING IF I CAN STILL QUEST IF THERE'S NO UNIQUE SLOTS FOR THE QUEST ITEMS TO USE.
I don't think you know this but you seem to have turned on caps lock by accident.
I called the person about the machine. So should be getting the necessary parts to make sure I don't die. Though I think asleep me has gotten that taken care of. I woke up again with the mask off which means I took it off in my sleep.
The eggs can't hatch as they're not fertilized. I'm just worried that it'll get Navi the idea to lay her own eggs. Because males aren't needed to trigger females to lay egg. And one female laying eggs can trigger another female to start laying eggs.
- roflmao!!! what??? you don't want me yelling at everyone? omg, i posted a bunch of thank-yous with caps lock on. those poor people must think i'm terribly enthusiastic. hahahaha! yeah, i know they can't actually hatch but was thinking if it were a bird monster movie... i didn't know that one female could trigger the reaction in another. it can trigger even between two different species? i think you may be taking the mask off while asleep because the machine is broken and you couldn't breathe with it on. glad you're getting it fixed. :)
and i found out the answer regarding inventory limit. i had to dump everything in a gallery because my inventory was overfull and i couldn't get the melody gifts today.
It could be you were happy. It could be you left caps lock on. It could be a new phase you're going through. I just wanted to make sure XD
It Came from a Hard Boiled Egg! It would need to be done in the style of old black and white sci-fi movies =D
I hope it doesn't trigger egg laying across species. All my birds are females and I don't need four idiots laying eggs at once all because of one bird XD
It may be asleep me is just looking after awake me's butt XD
my poor legs looks like i have the chicken pox or something like it. Going down and it hardly itches anymore... Oh an ich! Still no reply from the company, probally because of the last week of the year and being busy.
Lol now you don't have a tree to stuff not sure what you can do.
- oh yes, that's it. i was going thorugh a phase. yeah, it totally was not me hitting the wrong key and not realizing that i'd turned it on... XD oh, the trials and tribulations of the blind...rofl... that would do good for a film noir. especially if it had a lovecraftian tone. i completely understand you not wanting to deal with them all suddenly laying eggs. too bad there isn't a bird birth control that would stop it. good thing your asleep self wants you to live. death by malfunctioning cpap would make an interesting murder/crime novel. ;)
- i think it's a good things the trees are gone.it provides me with a challenge. did you take pictures of the rash to show the offending business? you may not get a response until after the new year. the rash, hopefully will be gone by then but they'll want proof. did you try benadryl (diphenhydromine) on it?
Ooooh...I love Cosmic Horror =D
Lovecraft started the genre :)
There is bird birth control but it involves injections so is a last resort. There's even a way to basically neuter a bird but that involves surgery which can be deadly to birds so is also a last resort.
It would be an interesting murder mystery. Plus, as I'm married, the husband could be the red herring.
I hope you get a response soon :(
So got Forget Thyself up on Amazon. The book is the first book in Ravenhart's series. Though, as the book is released now and so I'm no longer keeping it a secret, she goes by Kafka throughout the majority of the series. I chose Ravenhart as my username as it sounded better as a username. The only ones that call her Ravenhart are her captors.
lol you can do that challenge.
& Duckie I did take pictures and send them to them via email & messenger. I tried to call yesterday but they are so busy i could not get trough. So guessing they will get back to me somewhere in january.
- congrats on publishing a new book! your productivity puts mine to shame. ever think of writing a lovecraftian horror? the lovely thing about lovecraft is that you can fit cthulu into just about every setting... like cpap murders or hard boiled egg monsters. oh, and the hubby will seem like a red herring until it's discovered that he's a devotee of cthulu and he killed in homage to his evil overlord. (i've read all of lovecraft - my favorites were the stories that involved innsmouth.) :Di'll keep my fingers crossed that no more eggs show up regardless of who produces them.
- i'm glad you took those measures. once you're able to contact them it'll lend credence to your claim. i hope it's getting better? stinks to have to deal with that on your 3 days off.
I had an awful day and could use some help. If you don’t want to read as it could be an anger or depression trigger.
bad day
I feel awful. I had a bad meeting with my psychiatric councilor where I felt he was downplaying or even denying I was sick and so I dwelled on it and got depressed. I looked into his online notes that are freely available to me and the last two or three meetings he has decided I am “malingering” and am using a pretense of illness for financial and emotional gain over my mom and the us government. I mean what the hell? Right there in the notes. I cried and got seriously depressed and questioned reality. I mean, am I even sick? I don’t know, I really don’t. My mom talked me down and had me call the psychiatrist office. The lady there is after hours care listened as I freaked out and asked what to do and contacted patient and family services where I left a message. Still shaking. Still questioning my will to live. Still terrified of the repercussions.
I know you have had to deal with crap like this. Any ideas?
Thanks :)
Cthulhu is honestly one of the lesser creatures in the Cthulhu mythos. Plus a Lovecraftian/Cosmic Horror doesn't need to involve Cthulhu or one of the other 'monsters'. The Endless (2017) and The Void (2016) are great cosmic horror movies.
I do like the sub-genre so I'm not ruling anything out for future projects.
I'm honestly not that productive. The books I've published are all less than 100 pages. Usually I'm working on so many things that I seem productive XD
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That psychiatrist is an asshole.
If you can, I would suggest finding a different psychiatric counselor. If the current one is not believing you, then that isn't healthy. Though I know that is easier said than done.
Myself I can't get mental health care right now due to my shitty insurance. I tend to use my work to get away from my feelings and feel better about myself, which probably isn't healthy.
In the meantime just know you would be greatly missed if you left us. You can get through this.
no word yet, i did get an email telling me that they where very busy and they will come back to me. Bettering next year lol
I had a lovely relaxing 3 days off. Today a shift from 2pm till 10:30pm. But leavinng at 9:45am to go and get my booster shot at 10pm. I asked my co-workers if i could go and they said yes.
oh sweetie what a horrible counsler. If i was you i would confront him about this and tell him you are not pleased with this. And if you don't feel good anymore there maybe switch? -hugs-
-waves hi-
I hope everyone had nice holidays! I'm finally back online after some days with my family and a wedding yesterday.
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I'm so sorry you had this experience with your counselor. It sounds like any trust that may have been there is now gone and he's not taking you seriously. Is it possible to find another counselor?
You know yourself best, so if you feel sick that's valid, whatever your counselor says. I hope 2022 will be better for you. Sending virtual hugs.
I'm getting my booster shot on January 5th. I have to go to Amsterdam for it and take my son with me to the appointment so it's not ideal, but the other options were all two weeks later.