You are as ill as you would be if you had a bad stomach bug or crippling migraines. You have nothing to be guilty about. You are being responsible.
Funnily enough, I am also on lamictal for bipolar II. It has been magic for me.
Today, I am absolutely overwhelmed with some of the decisions I’ve made and I am worried that I made wrong ones and I don’t know how to deal. I dragged my heels but that didn’t ultimately work. I don’t know what else to do. Actually, I do know. But it requires acknowledging that I made a wrong choice and that feels really hard. I should just do it though.
ETA: I did the hard thing. I already feel a bit better.
I was re-watching some of the ‘Bond’ movies that I usually skip ( bottom 3 ) and I noticed something interesting. The movie was ‘A View To A Kill’, and the bad guy was called “Zorin” and was played by Christopher Walken in a huge bad blonde wig. He is considered to be a genetic freak and a psychopath with financial ties to Russia.
At the beginning of the movie there was a large disclaimer that neither “Zorin” nor “Zorin Enterprises” were depictions of anyone, living or dead, or any company in existence.
I already know that in “Back To The Future”, the character “Biff” was based Trump.
Could “Zorin” also be based on early 80s Donald Trump to the point where his lawyers demanded the disclaimer?
I dunno, David Bowie was offered the role but turned it down before it went to Walken. If you were basing a character off of Donald Trump, wig or not I don’t think David Bowie would be the actor you’d pick for that role. (Nor would Sting or Mick Jagger, others offered the role.)
You could be right although Bowie could easily play ( if he chose to ) creepy and weird. The Max Zorin character is so creepy and weird that it would take a very unique actor to pull it off.
The creepy ‘high hair’, the suit and tie, the demanding CEO-type who gives orders like a child and laughs as he kills people… this is all very unique. The financial ties with Russia seems too ‘on the nose’ to me also.
Rump would have been well known at the time, crashing celebrity parties and such to be seen ( and to be abrasive). Even his personal assistant and side kick, Omarosa Manigault, seems to match Zorin’s side kick “May Day” played by Grace Jones.
( If it matters, this movie is on Amazon Prime. I was hoping that BBC America would play it on ‘President’s Day’ but no luck there… )
With all this administration and emotional bullshit I’ve fallen behind on work. Today, I said to myself, today I will get some work done.
And my body said … Why not stomach flu?
I am seriously ill! I can’t even sleep!
I’m so damned tired of being sick.
Please feel better…?
My mom got a pacemaker a week ago. She said the next day she felt a lot better, had more energy and could breathe better.
My mother-in-law tried that, when the air conditioner in their (our, really) condo died about 2 months after they moved in. Didn’t want us to spend 3 grand on a new unit.
Yeah, we’re gonna leave a couple of 80 year olds in the Florida heat in July. One of whom just had a hip replacement, and the other had just had cardiac surgery.
My husband was actually there at the time, ignored their protests, and ordered the new system.
Hah - that’s about the only reason we still have a land line - we don’t even have a working phone plugged into it. Any genuine callers will leave a voicemail, and we get email notifications of those.
72 hours here and the service is STILL OUT with no ETA to fix - someone told me last night that it should be done by 1:30 AM. Yeah, right. They said a major cable got cut and they were fixing it to “continue excellent customer service”. 
I looked closely at the outage map and it crosses one major road; it takes out about half of the 55+ community the in-laws live in, and much of another one on the other side of that road. I wonder if anyone’s died as a result yet. My in-laws actually DID have a medical emergency, and FIL spent last night in the hospital for observation; I don’t know if they called 911 or got over to the hospital some other way. Thank heaven they still have their cell phone - and THAT’s working (it is also AT&T).
One thing has improved: on the outage webpage, it lists nearby AT&T stores that offer wi-fi hotspots.
The ones shown are in Indiana.
Which is an improvement over… California.
Thanks, I have to call her and see what the doctor decided.
Have you checked your local medical supply store for CPAP supplies?
A rant from yesterday, in which I sent 5+ hours sitting in a dental waiting room while my husband had major work done:
Dear entitled idiots in waiting rooms: If you must watch videos on your phone, USE HEADPHONES!! I know you think you have it on very quietly, but I’m sitting a good 8-10 ft away, * I * have headphones on, and I can STILL hear your noise 
Intellectually I know that, but my “suck it up and make the best up it” upbringing can be a hard thing to shake off. I did exactly nothing yesterday and I’m feeling…somewhat better. I’m going to ask my doctor about upping my antidepressants. I took an extra half a pill yesterday and it seems to have helped.
Our local medical supply store would likely be the most expensive option. So, no, I haven’t checked with them.
Actually, I’ve checked my stash and I think I have enough to get by. I have a tendency to use my supplies a little longer than I probably should so I have a bit of a stockpile saved up.
Omarosa would have been around 11 when “A View to a Kill” came out in 1985. Trump’s hair wasn’t yet blond and silly, and while his prominence in the public eye was just getting started, he certainly didn’t need to crash parties.
Trump-hating is my favorite sport, but I think you are grasping at straws. A better fit for the time might be Armand Hammer. Armand Hammer - Wikipedia
Actually, it was in 1985. Reporters would call me a ‘primary source’. As for crashing parties ( or being an unwelcome plus one ) again: a primary source present at said party.
As for Omarosa’s age, well I’ve never met her and can’t vouch.
As for straws, try McDonalds. Something about the red that just sucks.
Sure.
I just spent more time looking at pictures of Donald Trump in the 80s than I cared to, just to refresh my memory. They all look pretty much like this, a photo from the 1985 Met Gala. President Donald Trump's life and legacy Photos | Image #71 - ABC News His hair is certainly not blond, and while not exactly attractive, not yet preposterous either. But I suppose both those things are in the eye of the beholder. Some idiot once called my red-headed mother a blonde.
Maybe he did need to crash parties then. But that just makes the point that he wasn’t important enough to need an elaborate disclaimer in the credits of a Bond film.
Hey, I only know what he looked like when he was 2 feet in front of me. Maybe his stylist made his shade lighter that week.
I’m so tempted to post this prominently in every “nice and quiet” coffee shop.
Sure, there are some “hoppin’ joints” that are full of conversations, where you could maybe get away with a video playing.
But I live in a college town, where there are a LOT of places full of students studying. Silently. Which suits me just fine; I’m there to get away from distractions and read and draw in peace.
But there’s always someone…
Just yesterday, a young woman in her 20s walked in, holding her laptop screen open in front of her face and taking part in a Zoom meeting. Every head in the place swiveled. She managed to order some half-caf soy crapuccino while keeping the laptop in front of her face, between her and the counter people.
She proceeded to stand, blocking the counter and discussing next quarter’s social media marketing priorities… until she suddenly realized that people were glaring at her (well, ok, it was mostly me, but my glare was more a raised eyebrow: “Are you seriously doing this?”).
To her credit, she sheepishly slunk away toward the restrooms… I did see her later when I had to pee, and she was Zooming from a chair in the back hallway. No one could hear her from there, so I gave her a thumbs up.
I did ask the baristas if that drives them crazy (“Hell, yeah”), and proposed a “No Electronic Devices Without Headphones” sign.
They said “Well, we can’t put that up, but we wouldn’t touch it if someone else did…”
And I’m sure the people in the Zoom meeting loved it too.