bit of a life update...
Oct. 20th, 2025 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omaewokorosu17 October
We went upstate to visit family and celebrate Serena's birthday with them... We left here in the afternoon and drove the almost two hours (it's like an hour and 45 minutes or something like that), where we discovered that the bit of 17 before it turns into the 390 had zig-zagging lane dividing lines because for whatever reason they didn't just...paint over the old lines if it was something like them changing the width of the lanes (since 17 is becoming an interstate). We ended up going out for dinner at a diner in Batavia and the food was really good actually. I had a BLT sandwich wrap with the best fries I've ever had. After we went to Walmart because my in-laws needed to do some shopping at Walmart and we purchased a big black cat Squishmallow named Cleo. She reminded us of Bean and I couldn't resist.
18 October
Christina and Fernando were hosting a birthday dinner and some desserts for Serena's birthday. It was really exhausting because of two young kids, you know, being kids, so between them running around screaming and jumping and the one dog barking for no reason and just. socializing in general. Dinner was pizza from a local place where the crust was pretty fucking thick and doughy. It was tasty but my jaw ended up hurting... There ended up being political talk...which neither Serena nor myself appreciated because this side of the family isn't like, sipping that MAGA Kool aid, but they still think Trump is going to save the country and that he's going to help out Not Rich People, even though you and I both know he couldn't give a single fuck about people who don't have money.
19 October
My wife's actual birthday. We wanted to visit Grandma Mona but unfortunately life never works out how you want it to, so she just called instead. We'll be up for Thanksgiving for a (slightly) longer period of time, so we can pick a weekend day or something. We did visit the cemetery and it was a really nice day out so it was an enjoyable walk. My MIL's grave is literally in the woods (the "natural section" of the cemetery is basically woods so it's a nature walk). It was bittersweet. My wife shouldn't have to visit her mother in a cemetery on her birthday... We'd stopped at Timmy's before heading over to the cemetery and then we drove home to our girls and to our comfy bed, because the one we'd been sleeping on was too soft for my broken body lmao
20 October (today)
Had a doctor's appointment today. I really like our doctor because she actually listens to us. She's not telling my wife all of her health problems are because she's overweight and she should go on Ozempic or that other weight loss drug. Our doctor understands that because of my wife's thyroid not being able to thyroid, her metabolism is fucked and it's hard for her to lose weight. She asks how our antidepressants are working and if they're no longer doing what they should be, she gives a bunch of suggestions as to where we can go next: "Should we up the dose? Should we switch to a different medication? You want to switch to another medication? Okay, here's the first line of antidepressants, which would you like to try? I typically prescribe Prozac or Lexapro, and for your kind of symptoms Lexapro would be more effective. You want to try that one? Okay, I'll take you off the bupropion and put you on Lexapro."
we got flu vaxx
we got COVID booster
we got pap smear scheduled and I think at that appointment I'm going to ask about the Gardasil vaccine because Egg never had me get it and by the time I was old enough to make that choice myself, I never had money to go to a doctor of any kind to get it done, and then I'd aged out of being able to get it. But the good news is, you can now get it up to age 45. and I want to get it. It's a series of three shots. It was brand new when I was in high school but Egg didn't let me get it because it was brand new and "you don't know what kind of side effects or problems it causes, they don't know" and it's like. the FDA doesn't just randomly approve vaccines unless there's an emergency reason (like COVID), there were clinical tests and everything done before they approved the HPV vaccine. And she was like "well when you're 18 you can get it yourself." And by the time I had a chance to get it, I was too old.
So I wanna do that.
We went upstate to visit family and celebrate Serena's birthday with them... We left here in the afternoon and drove the almost two hours (it's like an hour and 45 minutes or something like that), where we discovered that the bit of 17 before it turns into the 390 had zig-zagging lane dividing lines because for whatever reason they didn't just...paint over the old lines if it was something like them changing the width of the lanes (since 17 is becoming an interstate). We ended up going out for dinner at a diner in Batavia and the food was really good actually. I had a BLT sandwich wrap with the best fries I've ever had. After we went to Walmart because my in-laws needed to do some shopping at Walmart and we purchased a big black cat Squishmallow named Cleo. She reminded us of Bean and I couldn't resist.
18 October
Christina and Fernando were hosting a birthday dinner and some desserts for Serena's birthday. It was really exhausting because of two young kids, you know, being kids, so between them running around screaming and jumping and the one dog barking for no reason and just. socializing in general. Dinner was pizza from a local place where the crust was pretty fucking thick and doughy. It was tasty but my jaw ended up hurting... There ended up being political talk...which neither Serena nor myself appreciated because this side of the family isn't like, sipping that MAGA Kool aid, but they still think Trump is going to save the country and that he's going to help out Not Rich People, even though you and I both know he couldn't give a single fuck about people who don't have money.
19 October
My wife's actual birthday. We wanted to visit Grandma Mona but unfortunately life never works out how you want it to, so she just called instead. We'll be up for Thanksgiving for a (slightly) longer period of time, so we can pick a weekend day or something. We did visit the cemetery and it was a really nice day out so it was an enjoyable walk. My MIL's grave is literally in the woods (the "natural section" of the cemetery is basically woods so it's a nature walk). It was bittersweet. My wife shouldn't have to visit her mother in a cemetery on her birthday... We'd stopped at Timmy's before heading over to the cemetery and then we drove home to our girls and to our comfy bed, because the one we'd been sleeping on was too soft for my broken body lmao
20 October (today)
Had a doctor's appointment today. I really like our doctor because she actually listens to us. She's not telling my wife all of her health problems are because she's overweight and she should go on Ozempic or that other weight loss drug. Our doctor understands that because of my wife's thyroid not being able to thyroid, her metabolism is fucked and it's hard for her to lose weight. She asks how our antidepressants are working and if they're no longer doing what they should be, she gives a bunch of suggestions as to where we can go next: "Should we up the dose? Should we switch to a different medication? You want to switch to another medication? Okay, here's the first line of antidepressants, which would you like to try? I typically prescribe Prozac or Lexapro, and for your kind of symptoms Lexapro would be more effective. You want to try that one? Okay, I'll take you off the bupropion and put you on Lexapro."
we got flu vaxx
we got COVID booster
we got pap smear scheduled and I think at that appointment I'm going to ask about the Gardasil vaccine because Egg never had me get it and by the time I was old enough to make that choice myself, I never had money to go to a doctor of any kind to get it done, and then I'd aged out of being able to get it. But the good news is, you can now get it up to age 45. and I want to get it. It's a series of three shots. It was brand new when I was in high school but Egg didn't let me get it because it was brand new and "you don't know what kind of side effects or problems it causes, they don't know" and it's like. the FDA doesn't just randomly approve vaccines unless there's an emergency reason (like COVID), there were clinical tests and everything done before they approved the HPV vaccine. And she was like "well when you're 18 you can get it yourself." And by the time I had a chance to get it, I was too old.
So I wanna do that.
