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I have $150 of my own spending money and am trying to decide which of these things at the top of my personal wants list are most worthy of it:

*a new microphone perfect for podcasting

*hiring a guy to make a logo for WebWhoreBucks.com so I can give the whole thing a facelift and a proud capitalist woman vibe

*use it all on massage and maybe exercise classes

I’m leaning towards massage (and maybe mental health care) because even though I *yearn* for those other things, taking care of my body fulfills my basic needs (and IS mental health care) better than those other things do which require follow-up effort to be truly useful. Buying massage is one of the few things I can do for myself that is really good for me, requires no effort on my part, and on top of all that is PLEASURABLE.

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Mildly put, I’m having a really difficult time today. A lot of it is hormonal/PMS, a lot of it is just the normal difficulty I have as an ADD person in prioritizing overwhelming sets of to-do’s, but some of it is specific stress over a few different circumstances that I overall feel hopeful about, but have been emotionally exhausting. My emotional resources are tapped out and my brain’s really loud and jumbly.

To make part of a long story short, Delia’s going Alcoholics Anonymous meetings now and I’m going to Alanon. It’s a huge relief to me and I feel really positive about it. I feel like a lot of weight and isolation is being lifted from me. Still, there are residual effects of the stress I’ve/we’ve accumulated getting to this point and being in a number of transitions; I’ve cried a lot more than usual in the past week, which is awesome in some ways but just really fucking exhausting.

On top of that, we continue to be plagued by problems with our neighbors. Fortunately, the guy got thrown back into jail yesterday so we’ll have a bit of a break from him, but the woman is probably more of a menace to us than he is. And the daughter? I just feel so fucking bad for her that she’s one of the pains that I cried over recently.

Our main ISP where we have a business account tightened its spam filters and pretty much blocked us from sending any email from or referencing our porn domains through their outgoing mail servers; they were very helpful, professional, and non-accusatory, but ultimately I had to spend a lot of time on the phone for a couple of days to find a solution and get it working again. That time-suck piled on top of others makes me feel totally burned-out, like I can’t get ahead. I know that’s not true, I’m just feeling that way this week. It hasn’t all been bad, and most of the time I feel happy, but my mood swings are extreme and the lows are really pathetic. I tried to get ahold of my psychiatrist that I haven’t seen in five years or so, but he hasn’t returned my messages. It would be a big help to get back on Ritalin so I could at least concentrate and get some work done without being totally scatterbrained, distracted, and wanting to rip out my overactive, inefficient brain. Just being able to sit down and work without little sounds like frogs croaking (which should be PLEASANT!) driving me to insanity would be a really huge help.

I can’t stand hearing people go on and on all the time about all their problems that they always seem to be having, so I just hope that if you’re reading this that you have enough context for my complaining to know I’m not defeated or just a pitiful slug of depression with no hope for the future, I’m just in a bumpy spot. I know it’s nowhere near what other people have to deal with, and I wouldn’t trade in my problems for other people’s, but that doesn’t mean I can pretend everything’s totally smooth sailing for me right now. It’s not the big things that are bothering me today — I feel pretty excited (in good ways) about the big things — it’s the little things that are wearing me down. Like my mom calling to say that even though Grandma appreciates my letters, she’d rather I called. And that making me feel like I was smothering in a lead blanket of guilt that I will never have enough energy, time or detachment to throw off (it’s impossible to talk to my grandma without the first thing out of her mouth being a passive-aggressive guilt trip; I thought I was fulfilling more than I’m capable of just to talk to my MOM on the phone four times in two days but I’m supposed to interrupt work to do more? YES!!!).

Then there’s the world-is-out-to-get-me crap where you think everything is being aligned to stymie your efforts, like the library being closed for staff training the one day of the month you go out of your way to visit it, or water aerobics being canceled this week (JUST *this* week, they say!) when you made what felt like a herculean effort to go to the pool for the first time in fifteen years specifically for that because you really fucking need the exercise. And you know the whole modern cult-of-magnetization thinks you brought this shit on yourself . . . there ARE no coincidences and the world isn’t out to sabotage you, YOU ARE DOING IT YOURSELF, but I have to calm down and remember that’s both notions are a total fucking crock of shit and I just have to keep trying in spite of being annoyed that both facilities’ online schedules were totally misleading!

I made the best of both situations. I’m a fucking winner. And I know it will get better. Probably when my period starts. And my girlfriend is making me eggs and bacon right now to remind me that my life is charmed, sweet, and I’m not in this all by myself. I get taken care of.