So we leave for California in 5 days. I've never been before. I've always wanted to drive up the Pacific Coast highway though. We've decided to start in San Diego, rent a car, and drive north as far as San Francisco before flying home again. Going to the San Diego Zoo, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Santa Cruz Pier and various other fun stops along the way. I'm even lucky enough to be invited over to spend time with a very old friend on Thursday evening. She was my biology partner and good friend in Grade 10 and I haven't seen her since about 1986! I'm looking so forward to reconnecting. I'm a tad afraid it will be awkward, but I'm sure we'll get past it. I guess after all these years you're back to being strangers again, aren't you? (oh God, that reminds me of that Commodores song "Just Once"...now it will be stuck in my head!)
In other news, we check out the Doors Open in Waterloo Region today. We went to the Waterloo Masonic Temple, the new school of Pharmacology downtown Kitchener (the one with all the medicinal plants decorating the sides of the building) and last but not least the original Kitchener Gaol and Governor's mansion. Very interesting, although perhaps not quite as interesting as you'd think it might be. If that makes any sense.
I'm so far feeling much better today. Hope it lasts! :)
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
first post
Blogging...something I've thought about for many years now and just never got around to doing it.
But I often have something that I want to rant about, share or that's simply weighing on my mind, so why not have a place to put it down?
Frankly it could be more private than a journal, which someone could, in theory, find and read, if I chose not to let people know I have this. I'm not sure I get why anyone else in the world would care to read what I have to put out there anyway, most days.
Every since my ex read my diary while I was at work one day and confronted me on it (which made me wonder how long he'd been reading it), I haven't trusted putting personal thoughts down on paper where anyone could potentially find them. Mostly I keep them to myself.
Which just bottles and increases internal pressure.
There are many choices of what to start with here.
Mostly this afternoon has been a bad afternoon for the past hour or so, just like every afternoon for the past 3 weeks have been. Around the beginning of September I finished the final stage of "phasing down" off my meds and have been drug free completely. So far my brain has not been adapting to this very well. Every day there has been a period of badness. Usually around mid to late afternoon, although not always. For the first time this Autumn, there were actually tears about 30 min ago. Even on the lowest dose of meds and only taking every 2nd day and then every 3rd day, I did not have this. But no drugs at all has been a big adjustment. I'll give it a few more weeks, then consider whether I need to go back on, at the lowest dose.
Then I got the inspiration to finally start that long thought-about blog.
I still don't know what I'll do with this space right now.
But this is a start.
But I often have something that I want to rant about, share or that's simply weighing on my mind, so why not have a place to put it down?
Frankly it could be more private than a journal, which someone could, in theory, find and read, if I chose not to let people know I have this. I'm not sure I get why anyone else in the world would care to read what I have to put out there anyway, most days.
Every since my ex read my diary while I was at work one day and confronted me on it (which made me wonder how long he'd been reading it), I haven't trusted putting personal thoughts down on paper where anyone could potentially find them. Mostly I keep them to myself.
Which just bottles and increases internal pressure.
There are many choices of what to start with here.
Mostly this afternoon has been a bad afternoon for the past hour or so, just like every afternoon for the past 3 weeks have been. Around the beginning of September I finished the final stage of "phasing down" off my meds and have been drug free completely. So far my brain has not been adapting to this very well. Every day there has been a period of badness. Usually around mid to late afternoon, although not always. For the first time this Autumn, there were actually tears about 30 min ago. Even on the lowest dose of meds and only taking every 2nd day and then every 3rd day, I did not have this. But no drugs at all has been a big adjustment. I'll give it a few more weeks, then consider whether I need to go back on, at the lowest dose.
Then I got the inspiration to finally start that long thought-about blog.
I still don't know what I'll do with this space right now.
But this is a start.
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