It’s been a long time since I posted. This past week I have been off from work and it’s been the best week in a long time. Bestie and I went on our annual birthday trip to Cleveland. She got a tattoo in the memory of her mother, we ate well, had appropriate amounts of drinks for ladies of a certain age who may have almost poisoned themselves a few months prior - and I got to be face to face with a whole room of Redon’s lithographs. I cannot explain how emotional it was. And i

January. Bitches. It's rough. I have some wonderful things to look forward to...but also...you know. It's a rough time to be living life as an empath. My anxiety is through the roof, depression folds over me frequently like a stratus cloud turned weighted blanket that smothers instead of comforts. I am on day 11 of 12 1/3. It's probably going to be my last really long streak of work because our trainees are due to be released in early spring. I have been trying so hard

HOLY SHIZBUCKETS IT'S HAPPENING!!! I am seeing more Redon work IN PERSON. In my face, my eyes, my symbolist loving SOUL. I asked a couple of times, and this time the museum responded and now I have a day set aside to go and meet with them in the study room and see my favorite artist's work that is normally not on display. I am gagged. I am giddy. I am overwhelmed with joy. The CMA already had enough of his work that I was almost crying when I left the museum back in 2023.

Happy Post-Holiday!! I am on doodle 100. We got a raise at work. I am off tomorrow - and the laundry is mostly done. All in all I am feeling OK. Yesterday I donned some fun socks and my bright red pants and felt very much in tune with my colorful sense of self. I am going to post some of the Color Cube doodles in the next few days and by the 1st I will have my 100 - and then on to the next. January is going to be busy with work. With the raise and the overtime, hopefull

I finally did it - I found a short chonky nutcracker to turn into a dispatcher. We have a cop one and a firefighter one and for the longest time I said that dispatch needs representation. I added a headset and some warrant folders and one of our newbies 3D printed a Stanley style cup to add to the realism. I am working on Color Cube number 99. The goal was 100 by new year and I have got it on lock. We are headed into another season of overtime at work. I did request my bi

They say bad decisions make good stories. Well, maybe in your 20's? Bestie and I went to Columbus on Thursday to see the Jinx and Dela holiday special. The show was great, the queens were funny. 100% would do again. The tiny woman behind the theatre bar made us our double drinks for the show and - what we got was 8 oz of gin and vodka with a spritz of tonic and cranberry juice respectively. After getting a bit buzzed at the show we walked back to the hotel bar and had a co

It's been a while. In an effort to battle depression I scheduled a few fun things. I took mom out at the end of October to see the Cincinnati Museum Center. It was fun but my face was swollen. Apparently I had cellulitis from a cyst or something in my cheek. The pain went all the way up into my damn eyeball. I had gone to urgent care that morning and started antibiotics, but the hard lump is still there and I might have to see a plastic surgeon. The bestie and I went to

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