I found some pics of my Jamaican high school friends and took them to show to my Jamaican co-worker. As she flipped through (she found one intensely familiar), she pointed to a white friend and asked "Mother?"

Uh, that's a 14 year old white former classmate. I forget some people think I'm biracial, but Joanne Fletcher is NOT my mother. Heaven forfend!

It's still two paddles inserted into my spinal area, a remote control, a battery pack on my hip, and a foam collar for a week.

Oh yikes.

So there's a work thing that I've been hiding from for months and am finally trying to deal with and it's so hard, because I really did screw it up, and ugh.

I have run out of motivation. It's naptime now, right?

Yes.

Matt, much ~ma to you and your family.

ita-- Yikes-- that is a lot of equipment. But if it helps?

Matt, I'm so sorry.

I was a little bewildered when the alarm went off this morning.

I took today off (we traveled home yesterday from the NYE event, and I knew I'd need a day of decompression), which means going back to the office tomorrow is going to be WEIRD.

Oh, Matt, I'm so sorry for your family. Much strength to you all.

And I just realized I'm taking my mother to a dentist's appointment as well as a psych visit this afternoon. Joy.

But a friend has some open wine from New Year's to get rid of, so I might help her with that afterwards...

But if it helps?

See, it's not actually about my headaches. It's about my neck pain. Which I do intensely dislike. But it grinds me to a halt less than the headaches.

I'm looking at the Skillpath courses that my manager forwarded to me. I wonder if I get to take two? I am tempted to ask for the "how can I be nicer???" ones, but I'll just ask for project management like a good girl.

However, my Christmas vacation was a like...call me Scrooge, I guess, but I was only visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, and apparently I'm quite the bully. Which...cracks me up, but that's not fair to the people that think I strong-armed them into whatever conclusion I decided was right that day.

Oops.

See, it's not actually about my headaches. It's about my neck pain. Which I do intensely dislike.

Is the idea that they are actually the same thing? Because now that sounds like a big response to a secondary problem?

Is the idea that they are actually the same thing?

The neck pain makes the headaches worse. But I'm in the ER once a week with zero neck pain, so...it's just that this year he couldn't stop the neck pain any other way.

I know there are people are looking for this invasive procedure to have miracle migraine results, but neither of my specialists are predicting them, and I'm not expecting them.