Posts made by Auspice

@Gingerlily said in RL Anger:

@Auspice said in RL Anger:

A side-effect of the migraines is I keep losing words. It's worse if I talk out loud, but it def. happens in text, too.

I pretty much constantly am in a state of 'it's on the tip of my tongue.' As a writer, it fucking blows.

I'm a migraineur too and this totally happens to me. I wasn't sure if it was the medication or the prodrome/postdrome themselves doing it. If it's the headaches themselves I think I feel better about it.

I was introducing the school psychologist in a meeting and I forgot the word psychologist it was the worst.

I think it's the migraines themselves. Because often when it happens, I'm either in pain or dealing with the other aura (light sensitivity, vertigo, etc.). It does suck! But it's also helped my doctors understand how much it's affecting me, since they see it happening. It's been almost constant, sadly. I hate talking in person unless I've taken the imitrex (which, since I go out so rarely, I've been able to save pretty much just for 'have to leave house and interact with people').

Happens online, too,but at least then I can take my time until I find the word or an alternate one.

@Catsmeow said in RL things I love:

@Auspice

Another reason I love you (um in a friendly way or something). I use to throw these dinner parties with themes and I loved decorating the table and making stuff from scratch. Life just sort of blah'ed. I've been binge watching a cooking show and I'm like. Damnit. I'm going to start doing that.

I did that for a handful of months at one time! Once a month, dinner party, some sort of theme for the drinks. The boozy hot chocolate bar was the biggest hit.

Before my divorce in '14, I used to bake. A lot. Pretty much weekly and often new things. Spent a while perfecting a few bread recipes, trying all kinds of cup/cakes.

But after the divorce, things ended up in upheaval for a while (as they do) and I just lost the spirit. However, in binging the episodes that Netflix has of The Great British Bake-Off, I've found myself a bit renewed.

Today was something simple: peanut butter cookies.
Tomorrow I think I might put together a soda bread with cranberries.
Later in the week, I'm thinking of trying my hand at arlettes (though I will likely cheat and buy my puff pastry because making it is tedious).

In my TT days, it was always the ST who bailed. Without warning.

One week, we all gathered, spent over an hour trying to get in touch, only for him to finally call one of us back and go 'Oh, yeah, I'm out of town. I knew I was forgetting something...'

So it's sad that the players did in this case.

• One sunny Sunday afternoon, the caterpillar was hatched out of a tiny egg. He was very hungry. And then the murders began.

• Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house of logs. And then the murders began.

• Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main
  road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with
  alders and ladies’ eardrops and traversed by a brook that
  had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert
  place; it was reputed to be an intricate, headlong brook in
  its earlier course through those woods, with dark secrets of
  pool and cascade; but by the time it reached Lynde’s Hollow
  it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream, for not even a
  brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynde’s door without due
  regard for decency and decorum; it probably was conscious
  that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window, keeping a sharp
  eye on everything that passed, from brooks and children
  up, and that if she noticed anything odd or out of place she
  would never rest until she had ferreted out the whys and
  wherefores thereof. And then the murders began.

It was a nice day. And then the murders began...

(Thank you, Good Omens.)

I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up. And then the murders began.

• I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. And then the murders began.

• "I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and tell you he's the one." And then the murders began.

• A small lizard perched on a brown stone. And then the murders began.

• The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow
  with a pond of clear water in it. And then the murders began.

This is my absolute favorite yet:

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. And then the murders began.

"We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them. And then the murders began...

• The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed subcategory. And then the murders began.

• Coraline discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house. And then the murders began.

• It was starting to end, after what seemed most of eternity to me. And then the murders began.

@Seraphim73 said in Forum Game Thread:

I'm going to cheat a little on this one:
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning. And then the murders began.

The person I first shared this with was like '...you can't quite do it with Wheel of Time,' so this tickled me.

• Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. And then the murders began.

• The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. And then the murders began.

• In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And then the murders began.

Migraine got so bad this afternoon that I had to leave my out-of-town guest to his own devices (and reschedule some of my work) for a couple of hours while I laid down.

I hate how much it's begun to affect my daily life. I have some days where getting through work is the best I can do.

I just want it to stop.

Got a good laugh out of an email ticket from a user who is very upset that my company's website requires symbols in the password.

It ended with this gem:
It should ultimately be my choice, I'm not living in a communist country I should not be forced to do anything even if you think it's for my own good.

Just a sort of update here, since I'd posted elsewhere (Anger thread) about the migraines.

They're still happening. I've gotten to the point where I just sort of soldier on through the pain. It's the other stuff that gets me (nausea, vertigo, etc.).

Got the MRI report back. Nothing glaring on it, thankfully! But they still want me to see the neurologist because some of the flares of the migraine have put me in a state of feeling like I'm about to pass out (I feel 'disconnected' and heady, suddenly lose what I was saying/doing, can't focus my eyes)...

I'm seeing a chiropractor as I can afford / make time. Don't know if it's the cause of or result of, but my spine is pretty out of whack, so it's a mix of adjustments, massage, and home stretches and such.

Appreciate the folks that have touched base. My big worry right now is how I'll handle the flights for a trip I'm taking (attending a wedding) at the end of the month. Earliest neuro visit I've been able to nab is April 10th.

Anyone else suffered migraines and flown? If so... how was it? No worse? Def. worse? Any tips?

@Tinuviel said in Looking for a Pennmush coder:

Then that's somehow even creepier.

P. sure it's a fake photo since her 'bio' on the website says she won't give a real one.

Kinda skeevy to cop someone's photo to use for your internet persona.

@WTFE

The grammatical and spelling errors also hurt.

@Admiral said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:

Never go to a psychiatrist. Go to a psychologist. Let a psychologist refer you to a psychiatrist if you need one.

Oh, I know. I need a psychiatrist, however, as I'm at the point of 'need meds for anxiety'

@Monogram said in Generic sci fi game.:

@Auspice said in Generic sci fi game.:

@Monogram said in Generic sci fi game.:

@Auspice Isn't that just replaying the story of Aliens at that point?

Not that I'm COMPLAINING. I'm not, seriously, I'm not.

You know you would love the fuck out of a game inspired by the Alien franchise, but tweaked to be more compat long-term (I mean, the movies kind of make a thing of 'one or two of us were lucky to get out alive').

Yes, I love it so vigorous and hard, like a one night stand. Considering the events I like to run(and I point to the few horror ones I ran on 5W that I still look fondly on), that'd be right up my alley dark sci fi Lovecraftian horror stuff.

Oh, sci-fi horror is my favorite of favorite sub-genres. I am so excited for Life later this month. It looks like a retelling of The Thing in space...

...and I ain't mad about that at all.

Also, @Miss-Demeanor - The comics / concept were good. The movie execution just... not so much.