Thursday, December 20, 2007
 Another 100
I've been putting this post off a few days because it's my 200th and so I feel somewhat compelled to do another 100.
Unfortunately, I've been having trouble getting inspired but I feel like I need to just try, because otherwise it'll be way too long before I post again.  So here goes...
- I have had this blog for 17 months.
 - This is my 200th post.
 - That means I averaged out to post almost 12 times per month.
 - I wish I were more motivated to post more regularly.
 - I wish I were more motivated to do a lot of things.
 - Sometimes, I am very lazy and it annoys me.
 - Procrastinating is an art I excel at.
 - In 8th grade I made a giant paper mache pencil that won the blue ribbon at some art contest thing.
 - My mom is slowly purging crap stored up in her attic and recently pitched said pencil. It made me sad.
 - I have no desire to have that pencil here though.
 - I also recently received a big ol storage bin that had been up there full of random memories.
 - I laughed a LOT looking through it all.
 - Now I don't know what to do with any of it.
 - How can a person throw out a stuffed animal they had since they were 6 without guilt?
 - I still sleep with a teddy bear every night.
 - I've mentioned him before here, and his picture is posted with his friend, Eager Beaver.
 - My bear travels with me and likes to send his beaver friend postcards.
 - Eager also sends post cards to my bear.
 - I often wonder when I get these what the postal carrier thinks when they see something addressed to "Oatmeal" and signed by a Beaver.
 - I hope that they appreciate it.
 - I am most likely going to be traveling soon for work.
 - Oatster will come with me.
 - There is a scary possibility that I will be living in Montana for 13 weeks.
 - I have never been to Big Sky country before.
 - I'm not sure I want to live there through a winter.
 - I can't imagine anything worse than Vermont in the winter though.
 - Did I ever mention that I HATED living in Vermont? Yeah, I know I did, but it's worth repeating.
 - I currently have on that "Clash of the Choirs" pathetic excuse for reality tv.
 - I am hoping the writer's strike ends soon!
 - I don't think Patty LaBelle has that nice of a voice.
 - She butchered "Somewhere over the Rainbow" IMO.
 - Wizard of Oz is one of my all time favorite movies.
 - Because of this, everyone tends to give me WoO stuff.
 - I have enough WoO ornaments on my Christmas tree to do a theme tree.
 - I didn't do a theme tree though because I have guilt if I don't use all of my ornaments.
 - My mom and sis and I have been giving each other ornaments every year since we were kids.
 - I have more ornaments than my tree can hold, but they make me happy!
 - This year I decorated my tree with my neighbor.
 - And then the next weekend we decorated her tree.
 - I love that neighbor.
 - Often she and I have religious/spiritual discussions.
 - I love that I can do that with her without it turning ugly like it could with other people.
 - I was raised Catholic.
 - I don't go to church really anymore. 
 - I did go for Easter.
 - I'll probably go for Christmas.
 - I don't agree with a lot of the doctrine.
 - But I do have a personal relationship with God.
 - IMO, that's what's more important than religion.
 - I'm halfway done, which is good because I'm stuck right now.
 - I just reread my first 100 for inspiration.
 - It didn't really help much, but that might be because I am tired.
 - Speaking of tired, I have narcolepsy.
 - I was diagnosed 7 years ago, but I believe that the symptoms started when I was in High School.
 - I did my sleep study and MSLT at Johns Hopkin's.
 - I am glad that I was diagnosed there because it carries a lot of weight with new doctors.
 - I cheated during my MSLT and napped in between naps.
 - I wonder how the results would have been if they knew that!
 - Even without them knowing that, they still ended the test early because I was so screamingly obviously narcoleptic.
 - So maybe they knew...but I have a copy of the 4 page report and it's not mentioned.
 - I used to be almost embarrassed to admit that I am narcoleptic.
 - I got over that.
 - It's a neurological disorder, not a psychiatric one.
 - If I had epilepsy I wouldn't be embarrassed, so why should I be of this?
 - I love my neurologist that I found here in NC.
 - She lets me tell her what I need.
 - I guess if I was asking for something crazy she wouldn't give it to me though.
 - Before I started taking the meds I needed for this, I thought that they would affect me the way they would affect normal people.
 - They don't.
 - Rather than make me speed, they make me normal.
 - Oh well.
 - Narcolepsy is NOTHING like it is portrayed in Hollywood.
 - Cataplexy often occurs along side Narcolepsy and that is more like the Hollywood version, but not really.
 - Fortunately, I have very mild Cataplexy.
 - Only one person ever actually noticed me have an episode.
 - And it was on the phone...  very impressive.
 - If you want to know more about Narcolepsy or Cataplexy, please ask me. I like to educate.
 - But I don't like to teach people who don't want to know.
 - And I have no tolerance for stupid people.
 - I had my IQ tested in college.
 - It was high :) 
 - I can be a total ditz sometimes too though.
 - I like to pretend it's because my brain is so full there's no room for mundane.
 - I confess it's probably because I just don't pay attention enough.
 - I'm very amused because spell check said Narcolepsy was spelled wrong, so I checked to see what it suggested and it suggested Nympholepsy.
 - I'm not sure what Nympholepsy is, but it sounds like fun.
 - Now I'm thinking about what I could share about sex that isn't TMI.
 - Instead I'll say that I think I have been in love 4 times.
 - If you had asked before it happened if I believed in love at first sight, I would have said no.
 - But I experienced it. Alas, that love was not meant to be.
 - Well let me take that back... That love was meant to be friendship.
 - Yes, Andrew, I'm talking about you :)
 - I miss being in love.
 - The last time I was in love was too long ago.
 - Sometimes I think I will never find love again and that makes me depressed.
 - I've been a little depressed lately, but not about my lack of love-life.
 - I'm stressed over work and money stuff.
 - I haven't worked in a LONG time and I'm about to start again.
 - I guess I won't be watching as much daytime TV.
 - I'll miss watching Montel.
 
And there you go, another 100!!
YAY ME!!
And now I'm going to go read for a bit and then hit the hay... I have to be up early tomorrow. Rah.
  







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Hiya Mon!
Are you still maybe going to Montana??
I wanna hear about this!