Just checking in.

Thanks for the freedom from judgement, @CheerBear. I appreciate it a lot, as I'm judging myself a fair bit about it all. Lol to your quick turnaround from never wanting to have sex again ever. Good idea with the longer term contraception. If I'm guessing right, I have had similar devices in the past. Some side effects, but years of being worry free on that score.

I'm heading back to bed now. Thanks again for listening to me about my relationship and sexuality pickle. These issues have been on my mind for a long time. As with many situations like this, it's all pretty complicated. So nice to be able to get some of it out here and have such supportive response.

Hope your day is as good as yesterday, or even better.

Good morning, @CheerBear, @Teej and anyone else around. I've been up for a couple of hours, after a few hours sleep. Willreturn to bed pretty soon but first wanted to check in to see if anyone's awake. Hoping today is a good one for all.

@CheerBear, sorry for the delay. Not quite with it yet this morning. Got carried away looking for a gift on ebay for my close friend for xmas and forgot to look at email! I'm okay, aside from vague this morning. How are you?

Great to hear you had another good day, @CheerBear.

Online shopping is indeed the best! I have now bought online for mum, dear oldest friend down south, and close friend. The only gift I've bought in a shop is for C, which was a lucky find while I was at the mall to collect mail. Since my last post I've bought my close friend a beach towel with giant purple and red butterflies on a black background, cotton velour, giant sized, she'll like it. I was a bit stumped on her, glad to have it sorted now. That's about all the gifts I'll be buying, I think, though I may find something else for close friend, as the towel was cheaper than I intended to pay.

Good to hear you are back on the meds, as they seemed to help you, but ugh to getting used to them again. I'm still having weird dreams very often on my new meds mix, though not as intense and vivid as when I first started. I'm living with it okay and just not paying them too much attention. Probably will be an ongoing thing, so need to deal with it as best I can.

Yesterday was a tired, sleepy, do nothing day. I intended to watch more videos, but just didn't want to, felt so lazy, so I didn't! Highlight was probably watching 90 minutes of Frasier, lol. I did at one point put on a dress instead of my nightie. And at some point I gave my teeth a good going over. Otherwise indoors day and feral. Mood okay though, and C and I had a cruisy smiling time of it.

Your sparkly xmas gifts gave me a smile, @CheerBear.

My close friend won't use it at the beach because she never goes there these days, but she'll like it and use it for the shower, as it's just her kind of design and softness. Funny how many people live here and never go to the beach. I once chatted to a guy on night shift in the servo I used to go to for supplies sometimes. It was very late and we talked about being night owls. Where we were was about 100 metres from a pacific ocean beach. Nonetheless he told me hadn't been to the beach in two years! I think some us permanent residents get blase about it after living here for a while!

Meds side effects can be a bit touch and go tricky for me sometimes. The one I'm having the most trouble with at the moment is dry mouth, dry nose and dry eyes. In the past couple of days I've stopped the antihistamine I was taking for sleep and to deal with itching from one of the other ones. Sleep doesn't seem to be changing much from the lack of it. I don't think it was really working in that way. But I have some itching back, which is a drag. Still think it's worth it but not that easy in some ways. The other thing it gives me is myoclonic jerks of my arms, hands and feet, but only when I'm resting or going to sleep. I think I can live with that too, after checking on line that it's not that serious a thing unless happening too much and interfering with functioning, which it's not.

The sleepy day was okay, but I'll take the hugs anyway. Silly Season seems to throw everything up in the air, and I'm mostly just going with the flow with what's happening with me at the moment. It's probably best if I don't let it go too far though, as I can get stuck in ruts. Main thing today is visiting close friend, and maybe getting to the videos again.

What's on for you today?

By the way, I just went outside in between posts. Overcast so the sky is more a glow than looking light. Tiny spots of rain on my face and head, nice.

That's funny with the beach @Mazarita! I can't imagine living in the sunshine with a warm watered beach and not going for years!

Those side effects don't sound like fun and it's a shame we have to compromise with things like that sometimes with meds. It's like the contraceptive I have booked in. My GP and I are pretty sure it was adding to dark and twisted head, especially with PMS times. But the side effects of it and of other options are not as bad as not having it as I've just experienced. I'll just to have to find a way to manage it all.

Hope you get to visiting your friend today. That often feels good for you.

Today we're heading home as weve been with well and unwell one since yesterday morning. I have some housework to do as we have people staying a night this week and need to make room. One of those people is unwell one who'll need as few trip hazards and space as possible as they have a frame and stick now and trouble with mobility. That's about all for us today 🙂

Oh we had a similar sounding morning here too. It was wet but not raining so there was a thick mist lingering under the street lights ❤