Hey, Miss J!

It’s been a long day. I believe within the span of less than 4 hours, I visited 6 different locations and completed at least 3 errands.

I’m hopeful that my new office items will help me tidy up my home office further. Right now, it’s quite a mess.

For clarity, my bedroom doubles as my office as well. It doesn’t sound bad until you calculate in that I need shelving and other stuff to store my machines, excess supplies and spare notebooks.

What do I do in this office? I use it to help me properly file and secure paperwork. I also use it to keep my mailing and ink supplies current. If I need to fix something when one of my computers or any of my devices start to spazz, the hope is that I’ll be able to find what I need in here.

Though my primary expertise is with laptops. Desktops are kinda… ehh…

Though because I write as a hobby, I end up using my office primarily to store my notebooks. I have quite a few of them. I went overboard at Staples when they had the Back to School sales and loaded up on a bunch of notebooks that I knew I’d never be able to use up within a year.

Since I experience excruciating pain when I try to write by hand, my dreams of one day using one of those “authentically old” looking books went the way of the dodo. The notebooks are used to store small snippets of a thought. The only time I run into an issue is if I’m thinking up a bunch of ideas suddenly all at once.

I hate when that happens.

If I’m unable to verbalize my thoughts into my phone recorder, I’ll grab one of the notebooks and try to jot down as much as I can manage.

Two years ago, I tossed my mom’s old shorthand textbook. Now I wish that I’d kept that book. It would have helped me a lot.

Of course, only those who still use shorthand would have been able to read any of it, but feh.

Whatever.

Anyways, I’m updating this as my record of the continuing strive with my medication. What’s absolutely awful about all this is that I need to take my new mood stabilizer starting tomorrow.

I’m concerned because it mentions double vision, dizziness and drowsiness as potential side effects. Along with a lot of other things that could potentially be very bad. My doctor told me to let her know if I develop a rash.

So now I’ll be inspecting my body for random blemishes. This is so irritating. I can’t verbalize how I’m feeling about it really.

I know the new meds were prescribed with the intention of containing my mood swings. When I have them, they can be quite intense. I’m also more prone to make very impulsive decisions.

I managed to refuse to buy a yodeling pickle today. It was the only one left.

It was only like $1.25 … but I’d already spent nearly all my money on gas. Need to stretch that last $2 a bit more.

… I really wanted that pickle though… I could see myself hitting the “play” button over and over and over again.

And laughing because I’m into cheesy things like that. I think it’s a family trait – since my dad likes the singing fish thing. Or maybe it was grandpop.

Oh well.

Hopefully, I do not dream of singing pickles in my sleep.

And if you’re wondering, it’s a Dill pickle and about the size of my hand.

On another note, my friend’s new music player is so small that it fits right in the middle of the palm of my hand. It’s adorable!

That’s it for now.

Toodles!

~J. Lyst