Entries from May 2009

May 30, 2009

Bite your tongue, young man!

Another nice side effect of being on meds and in counseling is that I don’t feel so compelled to “pick a fight.” Of course, I don’t mean a fist fight, for I learned long ago that a guy of my size should avoid physical confrontation whenever possible. Getting tossed through a plate-glass window will do [...]

May 23, 2009

I want you to write…a theme…

Post title is a quote from a movie. Guess it and win a prize!
I’m trying out a new theme. What do you think?

May 22, 2009

Every day in every way….

… I’m feeling better and better.
I know that sounds a corny, a line usually uttered dripping with irony. But it is true for me right now.
I credit the meds, which I’ve been on for about 4 weeks now. My understanding is that they take approx. 3 to 6 weeks to kick in fully. And I [...]

May 9, 2009

The shape of (one of) our weekends

I was going to title this post “A Typical Weekend” but we haven’t seemed to settle into anything that seems typical.  So just to give you an idea of how we’re shaping our weekends, I thought I detail this weekend.
So technically this weekend is C’s weekend, because it’s Mother’s Day weekend, and it made sense [...]

May 6, 2009

Better Living Via Modern Chemistry

So I’m seeing a counselor, of course. Because this is the sort of thing one does under these cirucumstances. I suppose I could just get really drunk and punch the wall or something, but I’ve never really been that kind of guy. In fact, those kind of guys scare me. At parties, they always seemed [...]

May 2, 2009

too much coffee

Just got back from dinner and drink and coffee (twice) with an old college friend. Been walking around downtown Royal Oak and talking, about everything but personal stuff for the most part, which a great relief. Anyhoo…I’m not even sure what I’m writing about here. I’m just so wired on coffee that I know I’m [...]