He is STILL in the bathroom. I keep hearing the sink taps turn on briefly and off again, over and over. What in the actual fuck is happening. Like, if he doesn't want to go hiking [walking on a flat paved trail] he can just say so and I will go by myself because the weather is too nice to waste.

(It's *possible* that I'm cranky and stabby because I both got my period today and am fighting a migraine, but I was still planning on hiking despite those things because I hate to waste a sunny 61-degree day when it's November and we probably aren't going to get many more -- if any -- of these.)

Oh my god, we’re actually about to leave.

Friendship breakups are so damn hard. I have a couple people who used to be bestest friends and for a variety of reasons they’ve really been pulling away and it sucks a lot.

It truly does.

Plus another ex good friend who married the girlfriend I hated (after they broke up! But then they got back together) and now we don’t talk and it makes me sad.

See that one kinda feels like a betrayal. Your job after a break up is to validate your friend's negative feelings about their ex. So unfair of them to reunite and you get pushed aside!

I hope you had a good hike, Steph.

See that one kinda feels like a betrayal. Your job after a break up is to validate your friend's negative feelings about their ex.

Yeah the problem is that I believe her wife is a sociopath or something. There was a LOT of lying straight to peoples faces and then manipulating and it was really gross and I think she is just deluding herself if she thinks it won’t happen again. And I hate that for her. And she knows it and is uncomfortable (Also hard to hang out since they’re in another city and so it’s usually see both or see neither)

I hope you had a good hike, Steph.

We actually hiked while it was light out, so that was nice. Paved trail, mostly flat, winds near a big lake, so very pretty. Tim sets the timer on his phone for 15 minutes and we walk until the timer goes off and then turn around and go back -- it was about 1.5 miles total. He didn't use his cane -- he's pretty much done with it.

Since I'm the one who tells people to seek medical care when needed, I am confessing right here that I managed to bonk my head on the open car trunk when we were leaving. Obviously it hurt, but I didn't have any concerning symptoms (also, I had a pre-existing migraine, so "head pain" is hard to gauge). So we hiked, and I was fine, no dizziness, no trouble walking at normal speed. When we got home, Tim looked at my pupils and said one was larger than the other; I looked in the mirror, and it sure is.

That's my only concerning symptom, so rather than hit up the ER, I am in the queue for a telehealth appointment through a service our insurance has. I'm 99.9% sure my noggin is fine, but I just want to be sure. I definitely will go to the ER if the telehealth clinician thinks I need to go, but it's probably just a minor bonk on the ol' head.

The telehealth doctor said nothing I described is a red flag to her, but since she couldn't see me physically, she said going to Urgent Care is probably a good idea, and yeah, that's true. So I'm eating some leftover pizza and then Tim will drive me up there.

She did say that sometimes people can get different-sized pupils with a migraine, although my quick googling tells me that means it's a super bad migraine, and today's migraine doesn't fall in that category. It's interesting, though.

Yikes Teppy. Don’t secretly have a brain bleed please. Take care of yourself. Different sized pupils is a bit scary.

Clearly time to break out the bubble wrap.

Car trunks are dangerous! After I had my Moh's procedure I leaned into the back of the car and caught the door edge right into the wound. So painful!