oh sheryl that is a no good very bad day.

I got in to my Dr. today to look at the itchy welts. They remain a mystery, but she ruled out shingles and excema, and poison oak or ivy. Best guess is an allergic reaction to food or topical that I have not previously reacted to or previously had contact with - and/or stress.

I got a script for topical steroid and will stay on my regular allergy med as well as taking benedryl until it passes. If it is not getting better in 3-4 days I will get an oral steroid and if that does not work then I will go to an allergist for sticky sticky stabby tests.

I hope the immediate remedies work for you, msbelle, and make you less--or no!--itchy. Sheryl, that was a not-good day, and I hope things get better from here. (Para break) Spilled tea on laptop, some keys nonfunctional. Limping along, but a new machine is inevitable. I'm about to try copying links for my ohmygodlong open tabs, with luck the links and not just the urls will copy. Tomorrow I get to scramble in several cubbyholes all over the house to retrieve passwords for everydamnwhere so I can get back into my sites all over the 'net. (break. one of the keys is the enter key, no para breaks) Tea in my lap, on my pants on the chair cushion slipcover, the cushion, the inside chair arms, my socks, the floor. Alarm, calamity, woe, assess damage. Everything is/was in the wash, except the laptop. (break) New machine tomorrow, OH will clone this one and should be A-ok, except for tabs. I know I should shed some anyway, I keep reading through them, but also keep picking up new ones. And when I want something to read, it's never anything that's in my tabs. FML, right? So I'll be more scant than usual. No real alarm. Back soon. Oh, also? Using the enter key for the ten-key leaves a zero after the period, so that's fun. Heh.

Covid booster is definitely hitting me, sore arm of course but also am feeling leaden and exhausted and most weirdly, not hungry. I was thinking earlier I’d get some pho later, once I got hungry…but now it’s almost 730 and I’m still not hungry….

Oh my, it’s been quite the Monday, hads’t it.

Oh, Sheryl! What a crap day!

Hope the drugs do ya right, msbelle.

I know that teenage Laura went off on plenty of adventures that would've given me a heartattack

I was so bad that I no doubt deserve anything my offspring make me suffer. More than once kissed the parental units good night all sweetness and light, went upstairs to my bedroom, closed the door, and out the window to jump off the porch roof and go party with my friends. So bad. My parents didn't deserve me!!

it’s been quite the Monday

So yesterday evening my analyst fell asleep on me during our Zoom session, and this hasn’t been the first time that this has happened. I need to fire him today, which is something I probably should have done a long time ago. It will be a huge setback for my mental health in the short term, but necessary if I’m ever going to move forward. It’s probably one of the hardest things I’ll ever do in my lifetime.

Wow, Tom!! Yes, super challenging task to go forward, but clearly it is past time.

Also, I do hope you find that shaking things up and making that change will be the best thing you have ever done, along with being the hardest.

((((Tom))))

I'm so sorry for the short-term setback, but that's so disrespectful and purely shitty. You deserve infinitely better, and your analyst deserves to hear that he's been fired and hear why. Are analysts on Yelp? Because he's begging for electronic ruination.