Archive for May, 2009

…and the ebullient mood continues!! Yay!

If I’m sending you a mix CD, e-mail your address to trancejen@gmail.com!

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Happy Friday!

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So I started the Atkins diet again, hoping to hell that a lack of carbs would shrink me, and lo and behold I have lost nine pounds in five days.

I’ve been eating like a pig and there has been no purging.

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I fucking LOVE this.

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It was extremely, extremely difficult to start eating massive quantities of meat and cheese and butter without freaking out, but I managed, and now I don’t even have a jumpy stomach after eating BACON.

You know, pure fat? I might as well just down a can of lard, but IT’S WORKING.

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I could not be more thrilled. I actually could not be more thrilled with life right now.

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I’m going to try to post a link to a song again, and while I’m talking music, the first ten commenters get a mix CD. You can choose between Love, Lust, Manic, Mellow, Dance, and Dark, which is sort of industrial/electronica.

GO.

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Oh, and happy Thursday.

I want to see whether I can add audio files to this page for your listening pleasure. If this works, right-click to save the file and enjoy. I’ll be posting mixes like a madwoman.

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Well, so far it’s sticking.

Yesterday I had the worst headache of my life and I was scared to death, but the vision seems to be sticking around. Personally I think the headache is due to my optic nerves saying, “Wait, WHAT?”

My father recommended that I patch my formerly “good” eye (Holy shit, I now have two “good” eyes!!) in order to force the other one to work, so shortly I’m going to go out and procure an eye patch.

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Arrrrrrr, mateys, I be patchin’ my eyeball like a pirate.

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I hope to God this lasts, because if it doesn’t, the letdown is going to be astronomical. Still, I can’t give up hope.

In other news, the J-Man went to school and told tales of my miraculous recovery, and now the children all think he is “totally crazy”. Heh.

buy First Men in the Moon It IS crazy. It’s craziness on a massive scale.

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I could easily get used to craziness.

Today I am taking the J-Man to the eye doctor to see if he can be fitted for contacts. I’m a little nervous about this, as I feel he is too young, but I have given the “You will LOSE your eyeballs if you’re not clean” lecture so many times that it has to have sunk in.

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I’m going to get the doctor’s opinion, for sure, but other kids in his class have contacts and don’t seem to be contracting eyeball-threatening infections, so maybe it will be OK.

I’m in a fine mood. I start working again this week. Life is good.

Happy Wednesday.

I don’t even know what to say right now, because my mind is sufficiently blown.

Today, I had a migraine, one of the worst ever.

I lay down with a pillow over my face, praying for death as always, when I noticed that something looked off.

free redacted movie download I put the pillow over my left eye, and I could see out of my RIGHT EYE.

I have been blind in my right eye since birth.

I looked up, and the world was in widescreen.

This happened once before, for about two weeks. I was being treated at Rush for non-existent multiple sclerosis with high doses of steroids, and Boom, just like that, vision in my right eye came to pass for about two weeks.

I don’t know whether this will last, but I’m praying to God that it does. I can’t believe how everything looks, so wide and clear and intense.

I can even READ out of my right eye, which is something I never would have even imagined in my fondest fantasies.

I don’t know why this is happening. I don’t know if maybe the new meds I’m on (one of which is a seizure med) shook something loose or fixed something unfixable. I don’t know how long this will last, but if it DOES, I could drive. I could work again.

I could get on with living my life.

I’m trying so hard not to hope too much in case I’m let down later on, but God, right now I feel fucking fantastic. I feel invincible.

I’m going to try to get into the eye doctor tomorrow to get things checked out, and I’m sure his mind will be sufficiently blown as well.

Right now I’m just on top of the world, hoping to God that I don’t fall.

So yes, it’s been a very good weekend. It’s been the best weekend ever.

Happy Memorial Day.

The shrink totally changed up all of my medicine and truthfully, I don’t know whether to shit or go sailing. I’m feeling less anxious, for sure, but I am tired like a mofo.

I’m hosting a cookout today, so that’s something fun. My girlfriend and her kids are coming, and my sister may make an appearance with her little ones.

Hopefully I’ll be able to stay awake/coherent for all of it.

I guess I’m doing better re: the bulimia. I actually ate pizza last night and had no urge to purge, so that’s a good thing.

I’m working on it.

In other news, happy Memorial Day.

I’m feeling much better, partially because I got the copywriting job back!

This is great news that comes at a great time. I was feeling pretty shitty and despondent and woe-is-me, and now it seems that I won’t be quite so prone to stew in my own juices.

We’re hosting a cookout on Sunday, too, and I’m looking forward to that. I find that grilling meat with good friends always improves my mood exponentially.

So, I’m hanging in there. More news tomorrow.

Happy Monday.

I think that Bullshit and I broke up.

I don’t know.

I really don’t even know what to say. I don’t even know what to think.

I’m just tired. I’m tired, I’m confused, and the word for the day is “despondent”.

I’m OK, though.

More news soon.

Happy Monday.

First, gratuitous photos of my sister and her new baby. Feel free to ooh and aah.

The lovely Annie.

And now, the autism walk.

We had a perfect, lovely, GORGEOUS spring day without a drop of rain.

Weather: Score!

We got up early…

Early-morning lack of enthusiasm.

But we had a fabulous group of kids who rallied and rocked it out.

What gorgeous children!

Morgan was thrilled to be out on “her” walk, and enthusiastically played patty-cake with all and sundry.

Morgan and her aunt 'La.

There was quite a crowd at Soldier Field, and we collaboratively raised 975,000.00!

My friend Val, proud mother.

Kids, chilled.

J-Man and friend.

Kids, bouncing.

Morgan, chilling.

All in all, a wonderful day. I am tired as hell and actually sore (I am sofuckingoutofshape), but it was really worth it.

Happy Weekend, all. And thank you for donating to a great cause.

It needs to stop raining tout de suite, because the Chicago Autism Walk is tomorrow and I really don’t feel like walking in the rain with a wet, crabby child.

With any luck he will be neither wet nor crabby.

Thanks again to all those of you who have generously donated. You are wonderful. And if you haven’t donated and would like to, there’s still time! Go to this link and get your philanthropy on.

I’m excited. My girlfriends and I are bringing our kids (collectively, a large group), and there are going to be fun activities and I believe a few bands, post-walk.

It should be a good time.

In other news, I am keeping some food down and feeling a lot less dizzy and shitty, thankfully.

I can’t tell you how much it means to know that I have your support. In the eight years or so that I’ve been blogging, you folks have consistently amazed me. I thank you again, and always.

More news to follow tomorrow after the walk.

Happy Weekend.