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shadowkatCalled in sick on Friday - and for the most part stayed off the computer, and just watched television and dozed. Sleep deprivation and an increasing loss of balance culminated on Thursday with a Vertigo attack accompanied by a dull sinus headache from hell that didn't fully dissipate until Saturday. This has been accompanied by hot flashes, sweating, and general malaise or just wanting to do nothing. I get up at night and it's like walking across the deck of a ship.
Although equilibrium has been off most of the weekend, the vertigo has thankfully not returned. It's threatened to a few times, but it hasn't. I've not felt like doing much of anything outside of sleeping and watching television, mindless television at that. Here's hoping it's all gone by Monday morning - so I don't have issues getting to work. Have tried pretty much everything to dispel it. Benedryl. Xyfal. Caffeine. Chocolate. Decogestants. Aleve. Tynenol. Neti Pot. (Not all at once).
So far Benedryl worked the best. Along with the chocolate and caffeinated tea of all things. Maybe my body is addicted to caffeine and can't go off it? Possible? I've been having matcha latte's - sometimes twice a day, daily since approximately March, then kind of stopped this week. And scaled back on the caffeine intake, thinking it was interfering with my sleep cycle. So it could be a combination of an allergic reaction to something in the air, possibly too much dust, and caffeine withdrawl.
I did sleep better the last two nights. Got six hours on Friday and almost 9 hours last night. After averaging little more than five hours for five days straight. Also been staying clear of the computer for the past two days for the most part. Opened a few windows today, dusted, and robot vacuumed. Hopefully it helped.
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Question a Day Memage - September continued:
[As an aside - there's an interesting spelling difference between British English and American English. In British English they use "u" in words ending with or. Examples include favourite vs. favorite, colour vs. color, or colouring vs. coloring, flavour vs. flavor. I pick up on it partly because spellcheck on my computer is US, and the meme is British spelling.
I remember when I sent the book I published to an editor - he told that I was using a lot of British spellings for things, which I didn't catch because I was busy interacting online with a people who lived in the UK and were utilizing those spellings. I wonder about that difference. And others. And what is the origin of the difference - when did the American version split off? And why? I'm not a linguist so I wouldn't know.]
18. Did you have colouring books as a child? Have you tried any adult colouring books?
Yes. I didn't like them and drew, doodled, and colored outside the lines.
19. Are you adventurous with your menus, or do you stick to tried and tested ideas for meals?
I play around. I also get into routines. I am not good with a lot of left-overs. I can't prepare food for a week and eat it. My stomach is picky and I have scant storage space. (Small one bedroom apartment, with a refrigerator and small freezer). But I'd say I'm adventurous and I like to experiment - to the degree in which my body can handle it? Which unfortunately is insanely limited. Celiac tends to branch into other food sensitivities, if caught later in life.
20. Do you have a favourite quiz show that you regularly watch on TV?
I'll watch Jeopardy every once and a while.
21. How is Autumn treating you? What’s the weather like?
The weather is beautiful and mild. Feels like early spring, actually. 60s and 70s, occasional 80 degree day, sometimes 59 degrees.
Sunny. Not a lot of rain. Still see flowers, and all the trees are green and fully leaved.
I've been having issues with allergies, sleeplessness, back/leg pain, depression, and digestive issues - so I have been ill. And trying to figure it out.
Feeling a little better right now. Hence this post. Best I've felt in the last four days at least. Not stellar but better.
Although equilibrium has been off most of the weekend, the vertigo has thankfully not returned. It's threatened to a few times, but it hasn't. I've not felt like doing much of anything outside of sleeping and watching television, mindless television at that. Here's hoping it's all gone by Monday morning - so I don't have issues getting to work. Have tried pretty much everything to dispel it. Benedryl. Xyfal. Caffeine. Chocolate. Decogestants. Aleve. Tynenol. Neti Pot. (Not all at once).
So far Benedryl worked the best. Along with the chocolate and caffeinated tea of all things. Maybe my body is addicted to caffeine and can't go off it? Possible? I've been having matcha latte's - sometimes twice a day, daily since approximately March, then kind of stopped this week. And scaled back on the caffeine intake, thinking it was interfering with my sleep cycle. So it could be a combination of an allergic reaction to something in the air, possibly too much dust, and caffeine withdrawl.
I did sleep better the last two nights. Got six hours on Friday and almost 9 hours last night. After averaging little more than five hours for five days straight. Also been staying clear of the computer for the past two days for the most part. Opened a few windows today, dusted, and robot vacuumed. Hopefully it helped.
***
Question a Day Memage - September continued:
[As an aside - there's an interesting spelling difference between British English and American English. In British English they use "u" in words ending with or. Examples include favourite vs. favorite, colour vs. color, or colouring vs. coloring, flavour vs. flavor. I pick up on it partly because spellcheck on my computer is US, and the meme is British spelling.
I remember when I sent the book I published to an editor - he told that I was using a lot of British spellings for things, which I didn't catch because I was busy interacting online with a people who lived in the UK and were utilizing those spellings. I wonder about that difference. And others. And what is the origin of the difference - when did the American version split off? And why? I'm not a linguist so I wouldn't know.]
18. Did you have colouring books as a child? Have you tried any adult colouring books?
Yes. I didn't like them and drew, doodled, and colored outside the lines.
19. Are you adventurous with your menus, or do you stick to tried and tested ideas for meals?
I play around. I also get into routines. I am not good with a lot of left-overs. I can't prepare food for a week and eat it. My stomach is picky and I have scant storage space. (Small one bedroom apartment, with a refrigerator and small freezer). But I'd say I'm adventurous and I like to experiment - to the degree in which my body can handle it? Which unfortunately is insanely limited. Celiac tends to branch into other food sensitivities, if caught later in life.
20. Do you have a favourite quiz show that you regularly watch on TV?
I'll watch Jeopardy every once and a while.
21. How is Autumn treating you? What’s the weather like?
The weather is beautiful and mild. Feels like early spring, actually. 60s and 70s, occasional 80 degree day, sometimes 59 degrees.
Sunny. Not a lot of rain. Still see flowers, and all the trees are green and fully leaved.
I've been having issues with allergies, sleeplessness, back/leg pain, depression, and digestive issues - so I have been ill. And trying to figure it out.
Feeling a little better right now. Hence this post. Best I've felt in the last four days at least. Not stellar but better.
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Date: 2025-09-22 01:04 am (UTC)I've been taught that it was Noah Webster who is responsible for the majority of spelling differences. Certainly strongly influenced it. How did he do it? He wrote the blue-back spellers for grade school kids. Thousands and thousands of kids whose parents were illiterate learned to read and write from him. By 1806 his own dictionary was published using his ideas of spelling. And since mom and dad couldn't read, they didn't throw a fit that he wasn't teaching King George's or later, Queen Victoria's English. Publishers liked his spelling since it saved time typesetting. If there were negative voices, by the time of the great immigrations of Germans fleeing the 1848 revolutions, and of Irish fleeing or being kicked out during the potato famine) Webster's spelling was firmly entrenched. (My immigrant Irish great-great grandfather was illiterate, his kids learned how to read in American schools.)
18 I had a coloring book or two when I was little. I wasn't good at coloring but I enjoyed doing it once in awhile. One of our ATPo friends gave me a Buffy coloring book in my 50s. No, I didn't mess it up by coloring in it!
19 I'll try new things to eat, but I don't experiment constantly.
20 I watched Jeopardy for a while before the news. But the stations schedule changed and I didn't try looking for it. I watched more game shows when I was a kid. I liked guessing the answers. Of course, I remember the big scandal with cheating in the evening quiz shows, which ended the big money quiz shows and sent the rest of the game shows to mostly daytime.
21 Autumn? Not yet, here!
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Date: 2025-09-22 07:28 am (UTC)