a few musings on my general health and you know, other stuff

[kjpepper]

Bullet points FTW.

• Met with Ann this morning. INR is holding steady at 2.5. I've now been knocked back to a weekly INR check and I go back next Thursday. Meantime all the little pin dots in my hands are disappearing. So. This is normalcy. Woot. I also can yawn again. Finally. It's a little weird... I still freak out beneath the surface over every single twinge of weird i feel in my body... but truth be told, that's nothing new, I'd been doing that for months before the embolism.
  
  
• I'm now going on a week of drinking coffee without additional sugar. I say additional because the creamer I use does actually have some in it, and on the occasions when I run to State Street to buy some (which I'm kinda toying with doing now) I add a pack of cocoa mix. Yeah, I was dumping in a crapton of sugar on top of that, people. But I've been cutting that out, as well as diluting the drano like concentrations of the lemonade we buy... so far so good. Don't miss it at all. I forgot and had a Pepsi yesterday, but pretty much I'm off the soda as well. We'll see if I keep this up... but since I can already tell that I'm feeling better without it I think I will.
  
  
• speaking of feeling better. It's spring, it's warm, and i'm feeling the need to move. I'm gonna try to force myself out more and take walks. Probably with camera in tow, as I need to take pictures too. At some point, and with Ann's okay of course, I'm going to start the process of obtaining one of the Smith gym memberships too. I love their facility, and even though I'm still grumpy about alumnae now having to pay to use it, it's a good sight cheaper than any of the local places and the equipment is better too. I've pretty much decided that I want my muscle back, damn it.
  
  
• I went to see lostcircuit and morlock's acapella group perform at the Basement Open Mic last night. I'd never actually seen morlock sing for real before, and he was doing the solo for Great Big Sea's "When I am King." Pretty cool stuff. The rest of the open mike could pretty much be summed up as seriously messed up potheads with guitars (the one guy singing about depressed monkeys throwing feces and shampoo was especially notable), though I did like the Salvation Army String Band. Two guys, one playing a banjo, one playing... basically a stick, a string and a washtub.
  
  
• I've laid the foundation for a major change to my schedule this summer, provided all goes according to plan regarding my meds, INR checks, and the Quest for the Catbus (ugh, that's right, I have a driving lesson at eleven and I haven't managed to drive at all since the last one, whine.) The general plan is taking one week out of every month and spending it in New York at The House, working remotely from there. There are a few large reasons for this being a feasable arrangement, including in no particular order, seeing Dad and tacitly allowing him to keep an eye on my state of being while I'm on the warfarin, finally tackling at least some of the major project of cleaning the crap out of The House no one uses/needs anymore, getting to actually see my NYC people a little more, hanging out with bluewindkitsune at points that aren't weekends, and... *sigh* some regular time away from the stalemate limbo angst merry-go-round that is my relationship with morlock right now is probably not the worst idea ever. It really is no fun breaking up with someone you live with.
  
  
• Still feeling antsy and all over the place. I'm going to spend today organizing both Life and Work tasks into to-do list format and try to get some things executed in the next few days. I'm jonesing for accomplishment and focus.
  
  
• speaking of jonesing, we are apparently being invaded by Joneses this weekend. Excellent. I've been craving a cute baby to eat ...photograph? :D Not to mention between them, me and morlock, it's totally going to be House of Warcraft, heh heh heh.

I think that's it...

Comments

[bellarisa.livejournal.com]

It really is no fun breaking up with someone you live with.>>>

I did that once, and it was absolute HELL.

But then he came to his senses and then he proposed, and 16 yrs later we make pretty babies and amuse LJ folks with our shenanigans...

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

Girl, I'm still laughing about the fabric softener sheets.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

That's awesome that your INR is stable. Mine has been pretty volatile. It seems like, even if I have something with a little bit of Vitamin K, my INR goes wacky and falls below 2.0. So...this means that I can't have anything green and leafy at all and I even have to be careful with things like vegetable oils and mayo. My doctor also doesn't want to put me on a higher dose of Warfarin because I'm already taking 8mg, and that makes her uncomfortable.

This whole thing is frustrating. I never thought I would hear myself say this, but I'm craving a nice salad with Thousand Island dressing.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

yeah... I miss spinach and broccoli. Ann says it should be okay for me to have little bits, but I'm still at the paranoid stage and opting to skip them. Luckily I don't like salads all that much. :) Veggies. Yeesh.

[athene.livejournal.com]

remember the milk is a good web site for all your to do listing needs.

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

the what now?

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

You couldn't yawn? D: That must have been exceedingly... weird.

So, glad you're feeling better!

[kjpepper.livejournal.com]

no, no I couldn't - it hurt like a bitch. I had to learn how to yawn without breathing, which was pretty weird.

[bellarisa.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I used to get severe ear infections and not be able to yawn without spanish inquisition type agony, you have my sympathies :(

[grinninfoole.livejournal.com]

coincidentally, I had a drink and snack at the Sierra Grill last night with another fellow from that group, as well as some of the Iron Horse crew. My friend Suave, who manages the Horse, suggested that the music of Billy Squier represented an untouched trove of acapella goodness. I thought the Scorpions would be better--just imagine Rock Me Like A Hurricane in five part harmony, perhaps even as a round!