A Weekly Gaming Fandom Drabble Challenge

I was in the emergency room last night. I had terrible gas pain at the ballgame that immediately shifted to my lower right side when I got up to leave a few hours later. We went to the ER after I ate and it still didn’t feel any better. They didn’t find the reason for my pain but they did find a UTI and liver and lung scarring. 

I haven’t told Cal about either of the latter because I haven’t seen my specialists yet. I’m hoping it’s a nothingburger, and there’s no point to scaring him if it is. But I’m scared about it, very much. I wish I felt like I could tell him, but he’ll make himself sick with anxiety if I do. 

The ballgame itself sucked. We got slaughtered, 9-0. But the outing was fun regardless. 

Now I’m at work, exhausted because I had less than 6 hours of sleep. But I don’t have a full day of sick time, and I’m probably going to need to leave early anyway for the followups with my doctors. Primary care, gastroenterologist, pulmonologist. The only one I’m likely to get in to see right away is primary care, but I’m calling all three. 

I’m also locked out of my computer at work. My password wouldn’t work. I’ll get my coworker to send an email to IT to unlock it for me. 

I didn’t make my word count yesterday; I didn’t get home from the hospital until 10:30 PM, which was far too late to do any writing. I’m going to make an attempt to do so now, before work. I don’t see why I won’t accomplish it today, at the very least.

The psoriasis is coming back in my ear canal. I’m going to use the dermotic and see if that takes care of it, otherwise I’m going back to the dermatologist. I’m so tired of my ears itching. 

We went to Walmart today to shop, and I called in my Vyvanse prescription. It’s not ready yet; we were going to go to Acme while we were out there but Cal forgot that we were going to do that and I didn’t realize it until we were clearly on the road home. Hopefully it’ll be done by tomorrow morning, because if not I’m screwed for Monday. If that happens I may just call out. I only have half a day of sick time, but I do not want to deal with work when I don’t have my Vyvanse. It’s bad enough with it.

In other news, we’re going to a baseball game tomorrow. It’s an hour and a half away, I think. And I just checked, yeah, it’s about an hour and a half away. We filled Cal’s car with gas this morning, which ran us $50, but it should be enough to get us there and back and for the week. I hope. 

We didn’t shop at Lush last night. I should ask Cal if he wants to do that today. And I just did that. We’ll see. I’ll do some anyway, regardless of if he wants to or not, because I want Lord of Misrule and Snow Fairy. Snow Fairy will be around for a while but Lord of Misrule will not. 

Shit, we forgot to buy shampoo. Sigh…

Anyway, I’m going to write a bit more, and then I’m going to play some video games. I need to stop doomscrolling. I need to get off Facebook altogether, for that matter. It’s so bad for my mental health. 

I got my retro pay, finally! In a month and a half, I’ll have another raise. The retro is gone already, and I need to tell Cal that. But otherwise, I got all the bills paid this morning, and it felt good to not have to ration the money and decide who gets paid and who doesn’t. 

All except the Pennsylvania Hospital bill, that is. Their site won’t load. I’ll call them at lunch and pay by phone. I am not sending a check by mail. 

I took a shower this morning! Cal has been getting up early to shower and I decided that I would jump in after him. I think that might work to solve my hygiene problem; I hate being wet. It makes me feel slimy. Alas, I must get wet to get clean. It’s a burden to be sure. That’s half of why I miss working from home. No one cared if I took my time showering. 

Speaking of my work from home job, I’m claiming the work PC as abandoned. I’ve tried to get Orlando to respond to me, and he just flatly ignored my message asking to buy it off him. It’s been two years. I think it’s reasonable to believe that he’s abandoned it. I’m going to see if Dad can crack the windows password with linux so I can put things on it that I want. It’ll be nice. 

In terms of my current job, Ken is out today! It’s his birthday, and of course he doesn’t want to be here. I didn’t want to be here on my birthday, either. We had a party for him yesterday. The first thing he said when he walked into the department was “You people are insane” and everyone let out a cheer and started clapping. It was pretty funny. And pretty fun. I ate so much fruit. 

Useless, useless, useless.

Anyway, tomorrow is Ken’s birthday, and he’s going to be out of the office, so we’re throwing him a birthday party today. He’ll be 60 tomorrow, so it’s a big one. They’ve got decorations and everything. Donna covered my share because things are still so tight for us, which I am grateful for, but I feel really, really bad about. 

Speaking of money, I have learned that my new paypal card is indeed a Mastercard, which is. Bad. We’ll have to put that away and not max it. We need to ween off the credit cards. I thought it would be okay as a line of credit, because I can only use that online and only for places that take Paypal. But it’s a fucking credit card. 

Sigh.

Yesterday at work—Okay, okay, so, my clothes were in the dryer still, and I haven’t been wearing my khakis because the button was loose, and I was afraid it would pop. But I didn’t feel like going to the basement for clothes, so I threw on my khakis. It’s lasted that long, what are the chances that it would pop today?

Pretty fucking high, as it turned out. So I need a new pair of khakis now, and Cal needs new jeans. Thank goodness for the retro pay that I’m (supposed to be) getting this week. We need to make reservations to Hell’s Kitchen this week, too. 

In terms of hobbies, I once again did nothing last night. I didn’t quite get a thousand words written yesterday because my hotspot stopped working, as it does now. I thought that was fixed a few days ago, when I didn’t have a problem at lunch, but apparently not. To be fair, my phone was telling me I had no bars, so maybe that was it? Who knows. I do have two doctor appointments tonight, so I won’t be doing much tonight. 

But for now, I’m going to try to get my word count in.

So I forgot to throw my clothes into the dryer last night, so they were still damp this morning. It threw my whole morning off. I’m here at work, though, right on time, so it wasn’t that bad.

I have the hiccups. 

Last night was such a waste. I did absolutely nothing but sit on my ass and doomscroll. I had plans, man, but the impulse to doomscroll is strong in this political environment. Especially with people all in a tizzy about Kirk. I don’t care how bad of a person people think it makes me, I’m not going to mourn a white supremacist. The funny thing is, all people have to do right now is quote the man himself and you’ve got attempts to doxx you. And no, there is no “context” in which saying that it was a mistake to pass the Civil Rights Amendment and that trans people should be stoned to death is somehow “better.”

I wish people would stop pulling up the empathy quote, though. That one simply proves that the ass didn’t have as masterful a grasp of English as his sycophants want to think he did.

So, work. Yes. I’m not sure what I’m going to do today. My catch-up from being out on leave is finally done, and I have the bank recs to work on, but I really, truly do not want to do them. It’s going to be a massive pain in the ass to figure them out. I’ve got to, though. I’m going to start with Regional and just wipe the worksheet clean, start over from complete scratch. I don’t think it will help, but we will see. 

Man, I am hot. This sucks. I need to get on my own ass to exercise a little bit. Cal and I went through a bunch of boxes that were under the table and threw out a bunch of stuff, and found some other stuff. I found an R4 card that, sadly, doesn’t seem to work anymore. I wonder where my DSTwo card is, but I’ll find it eventually. In the meantime, I’m going to put more stuff on my hacked 3DS. I think there’s a lot more room on it, and I’ll need it for our trips in October and November. 

I applied for a Paypal credit card, lifting my credit freeze for 24 hours, and got enough to pay for the hotel rooms. Also bought some stuff I’ve been wanting for a while, none of which I need but none of which is a waste. I’m not buying any video games, that is. Although I really want to, now that I’m thinking about it. C’est la vie. 

Anyway, it’s time to write a little bit. Ciao.

I have a scratch on my nose that I obtained at some point last night. It was a rough night, and it’s been a rough morning. My head hurts, as I’ve already complained. I don’t feel well. I want to place a YamiBuy order but half of what I want isn’t in stock. Which is well enough, since I’m not sure we’re making all of the bills this month. We’ll have the money, just. Not in time. 

So I have a delivery coming. A drink maker I enjoy was offering free samples of their new line, so I jumped at it. The package was in Lawnside and out for delivery and they. Fucking. Sent it to Brooklyn. It’s back in Lawnside but because it’s the weekend, I’m not getting it until Monday now. I am irate. I was hoping to have them for Monday, but, eh. It is what it is. I’m getting my Kain keychain, at least. I can’t wait to show it off to my friends.

Cal is going to take me to get my little waters that I use for meds at night and first thing in the morning. Little 8 ounce bottles. Speaking of meds, I need to talk to my psychiatrist. The Latuda is working wonders for me, but I have to take it mid-evening and it’s knocking me clean out by 7:30 PM. That’s not a tenable situation. I need to be able to function until at least 8. I’m not sure what to do. Maybe I’ll wait and see if I acclimate to the sedating effects, since I just started it. Dr. Google says that it may ease in a few weeks. We’ll see. 

I’ve done grocery shopping and gotten lunch, and I’m feeling a bit better now. It’s almost 1 PM, so my morning is far gone and pretty much wasted. But that’s okay. As long as I start doing stuff now, it’s fine. And I just found out that Within Temptation released new music, too. It looks like their next major album might be another Hydra-type album, where many of the songs are duets. That’s fine with me. New music from Within Temptation is excellent no matter who it’s with. 

I’ve got Within Temptation playing on shuffle on Apple music, which I can do just as well with the songs on my ipad. But I’m hoping to play with it a bit more and figure out how to get it to play similar artists.

I think I’m going to do that right now. Ciao.