Conquest of the Planet of the Bride of the Son of the Return of the Open Bar

[Salty]

So the first week of my marriage was really hard. Not sure why just yet, bad timing of the seasons perhaps.

We've had some troubles since, uh, Alty-Wife-Bot-9000, left her job. But we haven't come close to starving or being evicted so, you know, I'm cool.

But it may be for the best that this week has been pretty rough, marriage isn't about being easy, right? There will be the hard times, best not get caught up in that Honeymoon mentality.

SPEAKING OF WHICH:
This guy will be in the WA/OR area from about July 11-31st.

PPPPAAAARRRRRTTTYYYYYYYYYYYY!

If marriage was easy, nobody would ever get divorced.

Trick is, communicate...But remember that words that come OUT of your mouth can't go back IN, so it's really, really important to consider which words come flying out of your pie-hole.

That is good advice. I've been exerting much control.

It's funny how badly I want to hold a grudge now, way more than before. But I am letting go of that shit too. It will be interesting to see how my brain develops with this new kind of stimulus.

I find that the best possible thing I can do is, before my big fat mouth opens, to ask "Am I attempting to communicate, or am I attempting to score a point?"

If it's the former, go ahead.  If it's the latter, SHUT UP.  Because in a marriage, the points scored by both sides are actually tallied together, like so:

1.  Add spouses' scores together.  This goes in the "misery column".

2.  Compare misery column to win column, since nobody actually wins, the score looks like this:

Misery             X (X being the total of the two spouses' scores)
Happy people    0

It's a negative sum game.  Everyone loses when a win is attempted in this manner.

Possible (actual) wins:

1.  Weasel sex.
2.  Go take a walk together.
3.  Go, together, and fuck with someone who desperately needs it.

I shall tape this somewhere in my home and bear it in mind when the rages come and go.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So the first week of my marriage was really hard. Not sure why just yet, bad timing of the seasons perhaps.

We've had some troubles since, uh, Alty-Wife-Bot-9000, left her job. But we haven't come close to starving or being evicted so, you know, I'm cool.

But it may be for the best that this week has been pretty rough, marriage isn't about being easy, right? There will be the hard times, best not get caught up in that Honeymoon mentality.

SPEAKING OF WHICH:
This guy will be in the WA/OR area from about July 11-31st.

PPPPAAAARRRRRTTTYYYYYYYYYYYY!

WHOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[Salty]

So the first week of my marriage was really hard. Not sure why just yet, bad timing of the seasons perhaps.

We've had some troubles since, uh, Alty-Wife-Bot-9000, left her job. But we haven't come close to starving or being evicted so, you know, I'm cool.

But it may be for the best that this week has been pretty rough, marriage isn't about being easy, right? There will be the hard times, best not get caught up in that Honeymoon mentality.

SPEAKING OF WHICH:
This guy will be in the WA/OR area from about July 11-31st.

PPPPAAAARRRRRTTTYYYYYYYYYYYY!

WHOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

WHOOOHOOOOOOOO!!! indeed!

So far, we are planning to camp a lot in the general area, explore and such. My hope is to meander between that and hunting down random Pac. Nw dive bars. But stops in Seattle and Portland are definitely in store.

And now that my teeth have been fixed I will be able to get properly drunk, not just play around like the last time I was down there.

I intend to prepare my meager frame to deal with the onslaught that will undoubtedly be drinking with ECH.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I wonder if I can get EOT to road trip up to Seattle with me so we can all go out? Because that would be EPIC.

[Salty]

I wonder if I can get EOT to road trip up to Seattle with me so we can all go out? Because that would be EPIC.

YES.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Six chapters today.

Mostly to make up for the fact that I'll be lucky to finish even one tomorrow.

[Forsooth]

Never had dried cherries before today. My tastes buds jizzed themselves.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Well, I have to say, I had NO idea when I started LOBB that it would turn into such a monster.

I can't ever remember having this much fun writing.

[Juana]

I'm looking forward to catching up on that story. I just haven't had time, but I do now that I'm on spring break!


The next person I barely know who asks me invasive personal questions is gonna get it in the face. Seriously. Quasi-related by marriage does not give anyone the right to ask a person about aspects of their personal life. Sheesh.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm looking forward to catching up on that story. I just haven't had time, but I do now that I'm on spring break!

You're gonna LOVE Dog.  My favorite "character" so far.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Best character theoretically possible under current objective scientific models for quantifying such things?

[navkat]

I have a stupid neurologist. He took a look at me and after 10 minutes, concluded the following:
1. I have fibromyalgia
2. My ADD meds are bullshit.
3. My son's ADHD meds are bullshit.
4. e-cigarettes and my ADD meds are causing my symptoms.
5. It might be a neck injury

AFTER he said all this, he ordered an EMG, a cervical x-ray and a EEG.

He did NOT check my plantar reflexes.

He did not check MY GI function or order tests for pernicious anemia incl an occult sample (ew! but necessary to R/O anemia secondary to a GI bleed)

He basically spoke to me like I am the fucking idiot and did not want to hear my thoughts on the matter. At all. He scoffed when I used the correct medical terminology for certain things...like muscle fasiculation and said I have no Hx of cardiovascular disorder.

His nurse told me that when she was raised, parents weren't afraid to use discipline and that if she didn't do her schoolwork or fidgeted, she had to go bring her Mamma a switch but that these days, lazy parents just want to load themselves and their kids up on drugs.

*HATE*

And to add to the slapstick hilarity, I HAD TO EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ADDERALL AND DEXTROAMPHETAMINE TO HER. She kept INSISTING they were the same drug. She was not aware that ADDERALL is a combination of right-handed isomer (dextro) amphetamines and left-handed amphetamine salts while DEXTRO is just the right-handed isomer and is more immediately bioavailable as a dopamine and norepinephrine agonist.

(Remember your six "rights," bitch? Right drug, Right dose, Right, pt, Right time, Right route and RIGHT DOCUMENTATION). Cunt.

The fucked up thing is: I DIDN'T EVEN GO IN THERE FOR PAIN. Tremor. Memory loss, Fatigue. PSYCHOTICALLY EXTREME EPISODES OF INSOMNIA. Loss of motor control in one hand. Fasiculations bilaterally. Confusion. ALL STUFF CONGRUENT WITH PARKINSON'S, ANEMIA, MS OR AXONAL DEMYELINIZATION.

Fuck you, dumb nurse.
Fuck you, condescending neurologist.

Now, they're looking to "prove" fibromyalgia instead of FINDING OUT WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH ME. And I get to pay for it.

Quick, someone get me a bear head to kick down the street.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Navkat:

Chew on the doctor's head.
Kick the eggs out of the nurse.
Wear one of their faces as a hat.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Also, you are doing the 2nd year med student thing.  Diagnosing yourself with horrible illnesses.

Odds are, those issues are in fact stress related.  I am a pile of physiological stress symptoms.

Not saying that IS the case, just saying it's more likely than Parkinson's.  After all, you sort of have a stressful life.

[navkat]

If it hadn't been going on and getting progressively worse over the last 4 years, I'd continue to ignore it. Stress is exactly what it sounded like until I started mixing up words and getting confused about places and sequence of events.

Either way, Fibromyalgia is a catch-all diagnosis, usually reserved for a small percentage of genuinely sick patients who have exhausted everything else and an overwhelming percentage of patients who have exhausted every other excuse to get diluadid.

I want to EAT PEOPLE.