Thor's Day

[shadesong]

Administration
Happy belated birthday to saraphina_marie (have you pre-ordered her book yet?)!

Hello to new readers mssrcrankypants and popelizbet!

Medical
I took one of my hoarded Celebrex yesterday, so I was just fine for the concert. I wish feste_sylvain was a dancer! Today... fairly okay. Had a tense morning, which reflects in my shoulders and upper back. Plus...

I am knitting.
...which has popped up after... ten rows, I think? in wrist/hand twinginess. I need to treat it like physical therapy/weight training - keep track of how much I'm doing and go up steadily.

I have an embryonic scarf. I had a scarf zygote, but I think there's been enough cell division. It will be a bluegreenpurple heathery squooshy wool scarf when it grows up. Eventually, when I know what I'm doing, it will be trimmed in my birthday yarn. Mangrove mermaid scarf.

Day So Far
Has been spent, in large part, dealing with interpersonal argh and learning to knit. Both of those things have come to a rest for the nonce, and I have some breathing room before my parents invade.

Addressing One Thing
...that may be the perception of one person or more than one, I don't know, but something I've heard recently is the perception that I'm supported by my partners.

Which is giggleworthy if you know my partners, but I realize that some of you *don't*. So. Meet my partners!

* Adam is my husband. And yes, he supports me. My various types of gimpiness keep me from working a traditional day job. My writing is bringing in some money, but not a whole lot; Adam's the primary breadwinner by a lot. I do work as hard as I can, but he'll always be bringing in more money than me. So it is fair to say that he supports me, sure.
* feste_sylvain is my boyfriend. He has a wife and two kids and a mortgage. So, well, he only pays for dinner half the time. :) He's certainly not doing anything that could be construed as supporting me. And we're fine with that. He has a family to support, y'know?
* elionwyr is my girlfriend, and she is, how you say, underemployed. I'm not getting girlfriend-welfare checks from her. :)

So that's how that goes.

I'd encourage any and all of you to ask questions if there's anything that's getting your goat or getting up your nose about me. Because 90% of the time, whatever it is that's making you all grr is a misperception, and it's great if we can fix that early on. I've yet to encounter the question I won't answer. Hell, I'm a rape crisis counselor who gives survivor speeches to high schools with a Q & A period of half an hour to an hour. There's nothing you can ask me that will shock me at this point.

So hey, let's open this up in comments. Got a question for me? Ask away!

Link Soup
* Worst sex scene evar.
* Another excellent post from asim!
* More flash fiction from upstart_crow!

Daily Science
Do weather changes trigger headaches? Um, yeah. *wince*

Comments

[lawbabeak.livejournal.com]

I was worried knitting would present the same problems for your hands as typing does. Circular needles are a little easier than straight, as the weight is born more by the needle and less by your elbow.

You can find stretching exercises online to help prevent/ease knitting cramps, strain, etc.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yep, I'm using circular needles.

Will look up the exercises. Thanks!

[e-scapism101.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm laughing a little. I'm honestly trying to figure out where anyone got the idea that you're some kind of courtesan and now I've got this mental picture of you on a chaise longue with a glass of wine and cabana boys fanning you with palm fronds.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I for serious need cabana boys.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

re: supported by your partners

Um.
Emotionally? Absolutely.

Financially?
Would that I could! *laugh* I am at this point years away from being able to financially support anyone other than Lurk and me.

..Really. For example, I would love to have an aquarium of fish, but I'm reluctant to even take on THAT much more financial responsibility.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Oh, *emotionally*, totally! But yeah.

Move here. Have fish. *nod*

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Re: the headache article

I saw that yesterday and kinda laughed. Because dude, we kinda already *knew* that! But thank you, Science, for adding to the general body of knowledge by trying to prove it so that maybe someone else can figure out what to *do* about it.

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was thinking, "No shit! We knew that."

Although this one was just about temperature.

[ckd]

There's a spurious " in the link to asim's post.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Foo. Thanks!

[cos]

That book was a whisper in my ear. It was a gasp in the dark. It was ...

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

I don't have any questions, but I want to say I like reading your journal, and thank you for sharing it with everyone.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[satyrblade.livejournal.com]

I have now officially laughed myself sick.

Beware the blazing hot-iron elf cock!

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

I want that on a bumper sticker.

[pkthunder.livejournal.com]

What is your favorite season?

I've been thinking about seasons a lot lately because it's changing right now. As in, here in Colorado, it's changing from Spring (all of February) to Winter.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Autumn! Love autumn. Crisp air and crisp leaves, smoke and Halloween....

You?

[crazybone.livejournal.com]

Worst sex scene evar.

Yeah, I had stop at the beginning of the second paragraph when prose shifted so far beyond the purple side of the spectrum my monitor actually started emitting x-rays at me.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Oh, it gets much worse than that... =)

[ron_newman]

Do you ever worry about risks and side-effects of Celebrex? I recall that it nearly got banned along with Vioxx. And it's in the news again today.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I saw that... I don't need anesthesia for the foreseeable future, though!

I don't really worry about the risks... all of my meds are risky in one way or another, pretty much.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

No questions, really, just an observation that it sounds like you've found a family like that works for you and yours, and I'm happy for that.

[blitheandbonny.livejournal.com]

Do you knit continental or English style? (Continental is holding the yarn in your left hand and English is holding the yarn in your right).

I ask because everyone tells me that continental is supposed to be easier on the wrists, but I find it excruciating, whereas English is somewhat less uncomfortable. But really, ten rows is about my upper limit (on a good day) and I've been knitting for years now.

Also, my new band name is "Her Thighs are Geese, and Her Tongue is a Ferret".

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

English... Kyth may teach me Continental.

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Hi, honey! I'm home! The Science Fair showed off my girls' strengths, and the company 'do was pretty much what you'd expect a company 'do to be.

Should we start telling "yer mom" jokes now?

Inquiring minds want to know... Q&A

[lunalovegoddess.livejournal.com]

How Many Licks Does It Take to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop?

No thanks to that animated owl and his woeful lack of willpower, this question has plagued the American public ever since the commercial first aired in 1970. Fortunately, there have been plenty of noble efforts to get to the bottom (or center, as the case may be) of it all.

But the answer depends on who you ask. A group of students at Swarthmore Junior High conducted an extensive study on the subject and concluded that getting to the center of a Tootsie Pop took a statistical average of 144 licks.

However, the more ambitious and distrusting engineering students at Purdue University chose instead to rely on a "licking machine" modeled after the human tongue for their results, and found that it took an average of 364 licks. Other studies have been done, and all results vary, so only one thing is certain: The world may never know.

[kythryne.livejournal.com]

Knitting stuff that may be useful to you:

Make sure you aren't holding your arms up in the air. If resting them in your lap isn't comfortable, try putting a pillow in your lap. I found that I had a tendency to pick up my knitting to squint at it, and then forget to put my arms back down, and then my shoulders would start saying rude things.

Also, make sure you don't have a death grip on the needles and yarn. It's normal, when you're learning to do something with your hands, to hold onto the relevant object(s) with way, way, WAY more force than you actually need, and that leads to painful hands very quickly. My music students used to apply a pound or two of pressure when only an ounce or so was actually needed to fret the string. You just need enough of a grip to keep the needles from falling, which they will inevitably do anyway at some point.

[azhure.livejournal.com]

Why do people care if your partners *do* support you? *scratches head* I suspect there may be some jealousy at work there...

That said, I'm so glad that you found the family of your heart :)

[wednesday]

...and never mind; I just realized there was more. Wednesday: no brain since two thousand and no more Lyrica.

[alumiere.livejournal.com]

just wanted to send a big thank you - i haven't had much chance to browse back, and it's nice to find another person who's poly and doing well at it

i'm glad things are good today pain wise too; wish i could say the same - but tomorrow will be better (i'm going dancing, no matter what - fortunately i do have a d.d. this week)

if you have a minute can you check this out? http://alumiere.livejournal.com/311115.html

you seem to have a large following of alterna-types, and we're trying to spread the word as far and wide as possible

[natf.livejournal.com]

Do weather changes trigger headaches? Um, yeah. *wince*

Seconded. Yes.