Category: Real Life

Danni

Operation Payback

College, Computing, Danni, Physical Disability, Real Life, World of Warcraft

(Spot the WoW reference :P)

Yesterday I was really proud of how much I’d been able to do the last week- making microwave meals for both me and Johan, looking after Johan, keeping the kitchen clean (including washing dishes everyday). I even managed to do a past paper and some revision yesterday (which has shown me the areas I still need to revise).

Today: crash. My body is letting me know in every way it can that I’ve been pushing myself way too hard, and I have full blehness. I got up after 11 1/2 hours uninterrupted sleep (very unusual), sat at my computer, opened my post, and had to go straight back to bed. I alternated between reading and dozing in bed, before finally getting the energy to sit in my computer chair for a bit.

Luckily, I’m now feeling a bit better. At least I don’t feel like I’m going to faint every time I stand up, and can remain standing for more than a couple of seconds. I’m still feeling really weak and ill, more than normal, but I’m sure it will get better so long as I rest properly.

My exam is on Thursday. Not being able to get into college this week because of Johan’s flu means I’m feeling very unprepared. For various reasons revising at home is difficult, so most of my revision will have to take place at college. Does anyone know any online sites for revising for AS Computing, specifically the Comp 2 exam? My past paper shows that my main issue is wording- I know the material, I just don’t use the right words which would lose me marks. That’s something to be grateful for at least, as it means if I can get all the terminology into my head I should get a decent grade.

Danni

2010 in Review

Danni, Mental Health, Physical Disability, Real Life

Stolen from Useless CPN, Serial Insomniac and Not A Nursing Student Blog. (I read a lot of blogs who read each other… which is how I found most of them.)

Anyway, 2010 in 40 questions 🙂

1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?
Get married 😀

2. Did you keep your New Year’s Resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I may have set some, but I couldn’t find them so have no idea if I kept them. Probably not. I have made some new ones- they’re in a recent post 🙂

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Someone who I wasn’t exactly close to, but I liked and admired, did.

5. What countries did you visit?
Scotland.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
Energy, and the ability to walk relatively distances again.

7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
13th August. I got married 🙂

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Finally getting properly over the 12 years of depression.

9. What was your biggest failure?
Not keeping in contact with Sammie.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I already had M.E., but I was only diagnosed in October and it got a lot worse, and my part time wheelchair use became near full time wheelchair use.

11. What was the best thing someone bought you?
My wedding ring (Johan bought me it :))

12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Johan’s, for being being so patient and understanding through everything this year.

13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and/or depressed?
Dunno.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Living costs, wedding and holidays/honeymoon.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Getting married!

16. What songs will always remind of 2010?
Fireflies by Owl City, most of the Glee songs 🙂

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?
Happier.
b) fatter or skinnier?
I think I’m about the same, though I’ve lost and gained about a stone through the year (my weight, it be the fluctuating).
c) richer or poorer?
About the same.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Housework (even though it was being ill that stopped me).

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Overdoing it when I got that cold a couple of months ago, because it triggered a big relapse.

20. How do you plan to spend Christmas?
I spent it with Johan 🙂

21. Did you fall in love in 2010?
No, because I was already in love 😛

22. How many one night stands?
None 😛

23. What was your favourite TV programme?
Doctor Who!

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Nah. I don’t hate anyone. I strongly dislike some people (or their actions, to be more accurate) though.

25. What was the best book you read?
I can’t remember any of the books I’ve read in 2010 (that sucks).

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Brett Domino 🙂

27. What did you want and get?
Married 😀

28. What did you want and not get?
A new television 😛

29. What was your favourite film of this year?
Inception

30. What did you do on your birthday?
I feel terrible about this, but I can’t actually remember.

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Being able to enjoy being mentally much more healthy, instead of getting physically worse. Oh, and being able to remember things 🙂

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Erm… purple?

33. What kept you sane?
Quetiapine, trazodone and chocolate.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Summer Glau

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
The changes in the benefits system.

36. Who do you miss?
Quite a few people.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
There’s a few 🙂

38. What was the best thing you ate?
Eton Mess in a restaurant in the MetroCentre. It was amazing.

39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010?
Life is worth living, even if you can’t see it.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
This was a triumph. I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. 🙂

Danni

A Worgen Named Prudence

College, Danni, Gaming, Interface, Physical Disability, Real Life, World of Warcraft

So my near-daily blog posts haven’t happened. I’ve been too tired. I was off college for a week because of the snow, then struggled in for the next week, having to go backwards most of the time. The snow then cleared up, and I finished college for the term with the Interface Christmas party, which was way too noisy, but I enjoyed it by hiding and talking to friends.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm has been released, and my copy arrived very late from Amazon- 6 days late. Danní is currently level 83, and I have a Worgen named Prudence. She was named by asking a well-read friend of mine to give me lists of female names that would have been in use in Victorian Britain, and I kept trying them until I found one that wasn’t taken. Prudence was it 😛 The Worgen starting area is epic.

I also have a Goblin called Dannileia. The Goblin starting area is extremely funny. I loved it 🙂 I want the Hot Rod on Danní now, even though she’s Alliance and can’t get it.

I’ve not been playing as much World of Warcraft as I’d originally wanted because my M.E. is pretty bad, and I’ve been going out way more than I should have been. I’ve also had a rough couple of weeks due to being premenstrual for the first time in almost 2 years (yay coil!). As well as the Christmas party, I went to the MetroCentre to do Christmas shopping and the next day to a meal in Newcastle for my sister Meggy’s birthday. Both involved noise, crowds and socialisation (the second more than the first). It was hard. Luckily I’m pretty much finished with my Christmas shopping now, and just have to wrap everything.

Plan for tomorrow/later today: wrap presents, get someone to deliver them, tidy living room, sleep.