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!