2003-04-21 - 2:17 p.m. -



interesting weekend if nothing else.

started the wellbutrin on saturday & have been running the gauntlet of side effects all weekend. started with sleepiness & a headache, shifted into mood swings, toss in some queasiness & a touch of lightheadedness, then straight into the weird dreams. by last night most of the effects had gone, but i was sweating like a fiend & discovering that caffeine was affecting me a lot more than normal. talked to a few people who are on it & they said that the first week is like this. they all said that it gets better after a few days & today is a lot better than yesterday was. tomorrow is the day i double the dose, so lets see what the mid-week brings.

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the in-laws leave tomorrow morning. this has been a fairly pleasant visit with them. i think everyone is on their best behavior this week & that is helping to keep things calm. no big fights or outbursts from anyone & that makes me happy. if we can get through dinner tonight without any trauma life will be good.

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easter dinner was nuts yesterday. we were supposed to go to my parent�s house for the feast. (my mom cooks for an army at easter) the whole family & the in-laws were coming over. 11 of us all together. about an hour before dinner my dad calls. �your mom is sick as a dog & we can�t have the dinner here.� no trouble, we say, we�ll have dinner here. (at our 4-room apartment)

you have never seen two people clean that fast in your life.

ran to my parent�s house to pick-up the food. ran back home to set up while sou finished cooking, laid out everything, served dinner & desert, said goodbye to everyone, & cleaned up� all in under 3 hours. it was like a NASCAR pit crew meets Iron Chef. it was impressive. i also ate myself stupid, but that is a different story.

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my in-laws also bought one of my paintings yesterday. they went out to see my exhibit after dinner & bought a painting for their house. i have now sold five paintings from the exhibit. that is five more than i expected to sell. i love when things like that happen. the show closes next week, so i�m going to try to make it to Speak on wednesday to give a last walkthrough of the show. i�m happy with the way it came out. after 10+ years of not painting it is nice to get back in the groove.

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there is so much more i want to talk about today but i�m having a real hard time keeping my thoughts & myself focused in order. i think this has little to do with the meds & everything to do with being tired & not wanting to get out of bed this morning. oh well, that�s the way the ball bounces.

more later.
be well.

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& i thought it was going to be something to do with that girl in the fishnets. oh well, the end is the same i guess�

I'm going to Hell because I write slash fanfiction!
You write awful slash fanfiction and bring shame
upon your family. (Or you read it and
have thought about writing your own, and that's
bad enough.)

The shadow of your evil
will remain on this earth for as long as the
Web lasts.

You should be hanged in front
of angry villagers on Christmas Day, you sick
fiend!



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