Tag: Christmas 2025

Nothing special for hallowe’en this year, only saw like three kids out trick or treating after dark. For shame! 😬 I did have a wicked headache when I went to bed at around 8 that morning (told you my sleep schedule is backwards!) so I popped two Aleve and laid there, unable to find any position that would help the pain. I swear it felt like my eyeballs were gonna launch from their sockets. Everything else hurt too, including my neck, but goddam. I couldn’t go five seconds without repositioning my stupid head. I have no clue how I got to sleep even though it took forever. I woke up at 3-ish and it was even worse. Mom got here and I got up and “dressed” (zombie shirt, South Park pajama pants, lilo & stitch slip ons 😂 fucking visualise that.) and decided we’d just pick up food and eat at her house, because I was not fit to go to a restaurant, obviously. I realised a bit later that my headache was gone. When I went to bed at 6 this morning, after feeding and medicating the beast, I felt it starting to come back behind my eyes. I hollered “OH GOD PLEASE NO” which I’m pretty sure my neighbour heard. Laid down, because what else am I gonna do, I have to sleep. It didn’t come back, the eye pain faded away and I was able to sleep. I’m almost certain that was some kind of migraine considering how long it lasted and the intensity of the pain. My face and scalp were so tender! When I have headaches, I usually rub my temples and other spots on my face & head, but oh boy did it hurt this time.🥺 Odd, because I don’t remember the last time I had a migraine. I started having them when I was 12 I think, but it stopped being bad after a few years. I then only had them sporadically for many years after that, then they sort of petered out. This also felt like there was a lot of pressure involved. Pressure headaches suck! It had to have been a migraine, though, because it was so persistent and the fact that my go-to pain pills did nothing.

I wrote entirely too much about that, it’s like I have to over explain everything lol. Boring read, I know.

Yesterday did not feel like Hallowe’en to me. That was disappointing. It’s always disappointing. I used to feel it in the air around me. I haven’t felt that feeling in quite a while, I really miss it. Things felt different, but in a good way. I look back on that and wonder wtf happened and why can’t I feel the difference in the air anymore.

I almost sent mom’s shirt back, but she saw it and wouldn’t let me. I was so torn up about not being able to find what I wanted in long sleeves, even though I think Woot! Offered long sleeves for that shirt but it wouldn’t be in the woman’s fit, so I didn’t know what the fuck to do?! I kept tearing up about it the whole night. But she likes it. I just hope that wasn’t performative, to save my feelings or whatever. I don’t know if I’ll get her anything else. That stressed me out way too much. Mom is so goddam hard to shop for. Dad is super easy. I know what kind of shirts he likes for the most part. I was surprised he liked my “I have rabies” shirt as much as he did, he’s got very few “text” shirts. I always get him band shirts. I knew he’d think it was funny, but I didn’t know he’d want one for himself 😂  He doesn’t know I’m getting it, but mom told me he definitely wanted that shirt. I’m always happy to accept someone into the rabid raccoon club…*foams at the mouth*

It’s so nice to not have a lot of debt anymore. I consolidated into $100 a month payments to mom, which she passed on to my uncle who loaned her the money. I feel like I can breathe again. I have one affirm plan left and I’ll have another because of Christmas gifts but that’s fine. I have paid off the majority of that credit card. I’m not doing it totally at once. That would have been like throwing $100 into the freaking void! It’s physically painful to pay into a card knowing I can’t use the money and it’s gone forever. I’ll probably have it paid off next month or in January. Depends on how I feel.

Id better hurry and order some shirts. I got one at the beginning of last month that still hasn’t gotten here. About 25 days after I ordered, they shipped it! It’s coming from Spain, but I’ve gotten a number of things from Spain and they have never taken that long. I’m scared my gifts will come after Christmas as they have a couple of times before.

Well, I have to feed and shot the beast in…five minutes. Later, internet!




Oh god I’m so relieved!! I thought I accidentally overdrew my account last night while paying off Affirm and Klarna bills. I really thought I was gonna wind up  $100-200 in the red! I went to the bank and they are so helpful. That’s why I love Telco. They do not get annoyed with me even though I misunderstand stuff and ask for help sometimes. The lady that helped me explained some things about the app that I just couldn’t understand for whatever dumb reason and assured me I wasn’t overdrawn. I have $143 left, actually and just used $100 of it to pay off half my credit card.

I’m using $20 to get a friggin buzz when Lauren comes to get me. My hair is driving me bonkers, it’s doing the thing where it forms a literal POINT on top of my head and it looks so stupid. I don’t know why that’s the default state of my hair once it grows out too much, and there’s no way to comb it down either. Can’t wait to be rid of that 😅

The vet assistant actually did have an emergency yesterday and that’s why she didn’t come pick up Oscar. I hope no animals were harmed. She’s supposed to be here to get him any time now. I just wanna put my jammies on and eat dinner but I’m having to wait. I need to be cozy in my jammies and eat my delicious chick-fil-a which is still in the bag.

Ah, she just came and took him. Shouldn’t take long, it’s just a sugar check. That reminds me I still need to get a sugar kit on Amazon. They’re made specifically for cats.

Im still pissed about the Albanese Joy Division shirt kerfluffle 😂 I wanna tell them how dumb they are (Sky News Australia I mean as well as commenters who bought the bullshit) but I hate hate HATE arguing on the internet. So, so much. I hate drama and never start it myself, ever.

Anyhoo

Mom was driving me home Sunday night, and one of my favourite songs came on. “Richard Hung Himself” by D.I., a punk band. The song is from 1983 and played a big part in the soundtrack to the movie Suburbia. She said “Richard hung himself?! I thought I was hearing it wrong until I saw the title!” It was funny, guess you had to be there 😅 I explained the song and she wasn’t offended or anything lol. My mom is 75 and we listen to my music together almost every day. I swear this woman has been exposed to far more music than most 75 year old moms. She says she likes the majority of what I play, mostly the goth stuff. That’s pretty cool. She’s 75, but she’s what I would call a rocker, even though she looks nothing like that. I’m really hoping she’ll wear the super cool T-shirts I’m getting her for Christmas, even though they have short sleeves. I got her a very subtle Wednesday Addams shirt that says “I don’t evolve, I cocoon.” She likes the Addams Family, but I really got it because of the cocoon reference. Every day when she drives me home, I say “Go home and cocoon.” 😬 That’s what we call putting on a blanket and curling up on the couch, which is her favourite part of the day lol. I still haven’t entirely decided on dads shirts. Mom is getting that one, The Beatles, and Queen. Dad is getting “I have rabies” and…lmao I forgot which ones I had in mind besides that. I get stupider by the day, I swear. Maybe I should get him a Queen shirt as well, all three of us are Queen fans so I know he’d like it. Hmmm

So Friday is Hallowe’en/Samhain. We go out to eat on Friday nights, but I don’t know if we’ll go anyplace special. I’m really hoping I see kids trick or treating on the streets rather than those stupid “Trunk or Treats” they have at Churches,  because I feel like churches killed Halloween at least around here! I feel resentment for that. Even if they’re just trick or treating at the stores in downtown, at least they’re out. Nobody goes house to house anymore, which I find depressing. It also makes me feel so thankful that I did most of my growing up in the 90s when trick or treating was normal. I usually had a friend with me and even though we were young, my parents gave us space and lagged quite a distance behind, while still keeping their eyes on us. It was a wonderful experience as a kid and was SO different than it is now. Kids go out only in the daylight now, and sometimes not even on Hallowe’en, which is just lame. The city council determines when the stores hand out candy 🙄 No such thing when I was a kid, and we always went out ON Hallowe’en, didn’t matter if we had school the next day. We also went out towards dusk and stayed out probably until 9 or 10pm. People seem to be allergic to that kind of fun now. It’s more fun in the dark 😸 I’m so glad I had a normal, non-sterilised experience. I did wind up in a church one Hallowe’en though, which was a godawful experience 😂 I wrote about that at some point. They also didn’t give us candy. Today, that experience would probably count as some kind of child abuse 🤣 haha

Oscar just got back and I have to reduce his insulin to 1.5 units, which can’t be done with a lantus pen. I am not yet comfortable with syringes. I’m scared I’d accidentally give him too much and kill my own cat. The vet assistant told me which kind to buy at Walmart and said she’d stop by tomorrow and show me exactly how to use it. It sucks to not use the lantus pen anymore because it was so simple. I’m afraid I’ll have to buy insulin as well, because it’s about $100 for one bottle even though it lasts for months. That means I’ll have to make more claims on his insurance. I haven’t even made the first claim yet because I have to make a video and I’m scared I’ll say something wrong and they’ll deny me. I’m asking Lauren to help me do that tomorrow. She’s very proactive and structured and I love that about her. Makes my life so much easier, and even better, more productive. Doing things I’ve been meaning to do for a while but procrastinated on. Anyhow when I got his insurance I had no clue that making a claim would require a video and various other things, which is something that should have been disclosed! Ahhh I don’t wanna. But I must.

Well, I’m finally in my jammies and under a blanket and my delicious magic chicken sandwiches await me. Have a good one, internet.




Mom told me to get an “I have rabies” shirt for dads Christmas 😆 It really left an impression I guess lol. My dad is weird (and probably on the spectrum, as I also suspect grandpa was) and obviously passed down the “weird and autistic” gene to me 😭 We’re a lot alike, have a lot of the same tendencies, and like a lot of the same stuff. So of course he’d want one of my weird, off putting shirts. I’m going to order the parents Christmas presents next month, when my money is hopefully freed up by that loan. For the past two Christmases, dad’s gift came after the 25th. My mistake for not ordering soon enough. I’m getting mom shirts this year because she needs some different shit in her wardrobe! She never wears T-shirts anymore because I gave her a “makeover” 20 years ago because I thought she looked dorky, which is something, in hindsight of course, I should have embraced about her. 😕 She stuck to that makeover like superglue, unfortunately. Now I find her a bit stuffy. Maybe if she’ll wear a band tee, it’ll loosen her up a little lol. Is it even possible to be stuffy in a Queen or Beatles shirt?? I’m also trying to help her to be able to show her upper arms. She always wears 3/4 length sleeves in the boiling Carolina summer heat. I know that can’t be comfortable! She’s afraid to be judged because of the “wings” of loose skin as well as crepey skin. Mom, you’re 75. You look like you’re in your 50s!! Good grief, I’m 40 and have arm wings as well as crepey skin in some places. I want her to feel better about herself, and more fearless. I swear to god, every one of my peer supports and others as well have said “Your mom is so pretty!” Then I psych them out by informing them of her age and they don’t believe me 😆 I tell mom how everyone says how pretty she is. I’m not sure she believes me either 😕 I hate that she feels so mediocre about herself because she really is pretty and really does look about 20 years younger than she is. I don’t know, I’m just..trying to help her gain confidence. I want to help. Maybe I’m not helping right. I know how it feels to be insecure and I don’t want her to feel that way. This shit didn’t start until she hit her late 60s. Anyways, it’s up to her if she wears what I get her. I asked if she’d wear a tee and she gave me an annoyingly ambiguous answer. I don’t know whether to get her a female fit or unisex. We definitely aren’t similar when it comes to clothing.

Well, that turned into a big ramble. I write where my mind leads me lol. Which is usually a tangent 😅

So I’m getting dad the rabies shirt as well as a couple band shirts I haven’t decided on yet. I’m trying to find some of the bands he likes that he doesn’t already have a shirt of. The man definitely has more than enough AC/DC shirts. He has Pink Floyd and Lynyrd Skynyrd. He loves ABBA so I was hoping to find a good one on Etsy but they all said “dancing queen”. Dad’s not a dancing queen. 😬 Geez, men like them too, not just women! Make one that just says the name of the band ffs. I’m brainstorming over here. I don’t think I have enough brain to be successful though 😓

I must take a moment to say that iPhone keyboards SUCK especially in conjunction with WordPress. It’s a new level of craptastic. Autocorrect is recommending words and when I tap them, it will either use half the word or merge two words together (?!?) and I have to go back and fix a ton of crap when I post. Yeah. Sometimes I have to say it or I’ll defenestrate my phone. Right out the window lol.

I also wanted an excuse to say “defenestrate”. 😬 More people should punish their enemies by tossing them out of windows, truly.