I think it has been… ummmm, at least 2 full months without medications?? Maybe longer. So just a quick report to see where I am at:
Counting backwards? Check!
ABC’s backwards? Well…. Close but who can do that anyways!
Crying spells? VERY minimal and then only right about a week before my period (yes, I track them! I was curious to see if there is a pattern and there is. )
Fits of rage? 1 … only 1 and it was more like a “fly off the handle” episode; very different than what I used to experience. Before, I could feel the uncontrolled red hot pain knife through my entire body and I could not control it. Afterwards, there would always be a come-down, and then the depression would dig deeply at me for a few days or longer. It was truly like a carnival ride, huge peaks, and evenly bigger drops. This one was short lived… like a cake walk in comparison. I got mad, and I got over it. Done, end of story. So really, I feel like I’ve been doing EXTREMELY well considering everything, especially considering everything.
Let me fill you in on the latest episode of “As the Dirt Spins…” To bring you up to speed, I have been looking for a job. I applied for a few positions through a temp agency and even though I asked them to NOT contact my current employer… they did. So my boss asks me if there is something we should talk about and I tell her I’ve been searching for either another part time job for extra cash or if the right job comes along, something full time. Well… she spooked and hired someone to replace me the next day. YEAH FOR ME! So I’ve been training my replacement all this week… The kicker being that I never actually put in a notice… and never had any real offers for a position! So it’s been a teeny tiny itty bit uncomfortable around the office these few weeks. I have been interviewing and yesterday I received an offer for a full time position to start in July 20th, under the circumstances, of course I accepted but I really have my eye on a position that I do a second interview for tomorrow. It’s with a non-profit doing EXACTLY what I have been doing over the last 2 and half years. Say pay rate, more hours but still not a full 40 hours (which is fine really, I just want more hours than I have been getting, which is about 25 a week and some frigging paid holidays!) So anywho, I will try to wow um at the second interview tomorrow. EVERYONE, think good thoughts for me!
To add just a bit more madness to my world, my Husbands ex wife asked to move my step daughter to the West coast at the end of July. Joshua asked me what I thought and I told him he had to make that decision all alone, even though I wanted to jump up and down and scream “Are to fucking nuts??!?! It’s your daughter you ass, don’t let her go like that! Grow some balls and so NO!” But I digress, I didn’t rant or nag. I only smiled and shook my head saying, “You are her father, and you have to decide what’s right.” My daughters Mother called a few nights ago and asked him if he had made a decision and… He told her No.. No, he was not willing to let Syd go. He told her that he wanted desperately to be there for every part of Syd’s life and that if she moved, he would then become the “Holiday and Summer Dad” a role he was not willing to play. I could have almost kissed him! Almost… sigh. But I am very grateful that he chose to make Syd stay and that he wanted to be part of her life. So you see, it’s been a roller coaster.
The only thing that hasn’t been crazy is my sex life. But that’s material for another post sometime soon. PID







