So what do I make of this?

Today my mood has been weird.  I used to describe these moods as a "rubber ball" mood -- it bounces up, quite high, and goes down as low as it possibly can.  I mean, I guess the real word to use there is "unstable," but that doesn't sound as nice, does it?

Like earlier... I was pretty low.  Some weird sad/mad combo that I couldn't quite describe.  Then I got a little better (and I wrote!  I was so pleased!  I still am pleased about that, tbh).  But right now I'm pretty low again.  Maybe not as bad as I was earlier... but noticeably low.  I don't know.

I just kinda want my birthday to be over.  And by "kinda," I mean I wish it wasn't happening now or ever, but since we can't make it skip from the 14th to the 16th, I'll just be glad when it's done and I don't have to think about how a) no one cares (to the point that even I don't care) and b) I won't get what I want or to do what I want.

But hell.  I shouldn't focus on that.  A good thing happened.  I wrote for the first time in like two weeks... and I'm pretty sure it's not even terrible.  So huzzah!

*inhuman noises*

And not the happy kind.

I don't know.  There's just a lot of thoughts swirling around in my head and I can't follow any of them through to their logical completion.  I'm upset about  a lot of things.  I haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy.  No one cares about my birthday.  It feels like no one cares about me.  I'm lonely.  I'm sad and tired.  I can't write.  I'm broke.  Robin Williams is dead.

I don't remember what it was like to get anything but disappointment.

And I... I think I just realized I won't even have cake on my birthday.  I'm not going to have the one present I wanted, I'm not doing anything special, and I won't get cake.  Can't imagine I'll even get alcohol or a meal that is in any way special.

For several days straight I've felt like I was about to cry.  You know that awful feeling, right before the tears fall?  That moment when you feel so weak and vulnerable, but you know it's coming and you can't stop it?  Yeah, for days... three or four.  I don't know... they blend together at this point.  I've teared up a little, but the actual crying hasn't happened but I kinda wish it would?  I just want to get the emotion thing over with.  I feel like someone should just punch me in the face or something... that oughta get the tears flowing.

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I don't know where I am right now.  Like, not physically obviously... I mean I don't know where I am emotionally or how I got here.  Because believe it or not, there was a point there when I was doing better... but I'm getting bad again, going downhill so quickly.  Like I'm on a fucking slippery slope and there's no way to stop, not even if I drag my feet.

Everything makes me sad.  Everything makes me mad.  I don't even have the energy to carry on acting like I'm okay.  I feel so fucking alone, and I know I have people, but I feel like I've drained them of all their compassion already and if I try to go back for more, there's not going to be anything there.  And that's not even a reflection of them in most cases.  It's me, it's always me, and my inability to fucking socialize or do anything but worry about my own pissant little fucking problems.

How did I get here?  And more importantly, where are the directions out of here?

-.-

When my mom starts talking to me about finances and our many, many financial problems, I tend to reach a certain point where I can't handle it anymore and I mentally check out.  This doesn't solve the problems at all... but it makes it easier for me to keep from getting any more anxious and stressed out than I already am.  But sometimes I check too far out... and I end up losing details from my memory.  I think I've said before that when I'm at my lowest, I sometimes lose whole chunks of memory... like, for example, I don't remember much of April.  I remember the 23rd and the 27th for various reasons.  But whatever.

It's probably not healthy to check out that way.  And maybe it isn't even depression that makes me forget things... maybe I've got a brain tumor or some illness or something.  That would be just my luck.

But that whole checking out thing... that's why I suck at being an adult.  That's why I'm not a real adult.  That's why I should age backwards on my birthday.

What if I just used this blog as my diary?

I might do that.

So lately I've been feeling like a bad person.  Like okay, yeah... I always feel like a bad person, but lately, I don't know.  I just feel like I'm being a bitch all the time, and yet I can't stop myself from having every word come out like I'm Miranda Priestly telling you your use of florals in the spring line is groundbreaking.

Okay, maybe I'm not that bad.  But I keep feeling like I'm not being as warm as I should be.  Maybe it's because I'm fast approaching my 63rd birthday and I'm acting like a crotchedy old woman.

And I also really hate looking back at this blog, at my old posts.  You can tell when I started to become... whatever the fuck I am now... the quality of writing drops and the voice changes drastically.  You can barely say that I even have a voice at certain points.  It's like a lively young person began this blog and then handed it over to a metaphorical zombie.  Looking back just reminds me of everything I've lost... and back then I didn't even feel like I had anything special.  And maybe I didn't... but it's still more than now.

Sometimes I get mad at myself for feeling like how I feel.  Like I should just be able to will myself out of it.  Seriously, if anyone gives you that crap about making yourself feel happy or deciding to be happy, you should just roll your eyes or shove them or something.  And if anyone is reading this and you happen to be the mythical creature that can make him or herself just be happy, I both envy and fear you.

What a rambling blog post about nothing.  This is what my diaries were like when I kept them.

Losing Time and Stuff

So I said I would do this once a week.  That was over a week ago and I haven't been back.  But here I am now.

Over the past week, I have done some things.  I don't remember most of it... which I'm not happy about.  I've noticed that when I'm in a not-good place (depression wise) that I lose chunks of memory.  I don't know if that's normal or if it's just me.

But I do know I went to brunch with my mom on sunday and I got carded when I ordered a mimosa.  The waitress thought I looked young... not sure if it was the grey hair or what.  On monday I went the friend people to dinner at KC's Steakhouse and had the delicious pork chop and a couple of cocktails.  I also got caught up on some animes I've been watching.  Although since I got caught up on all of them, one of them released a new episode.

I think I may have still been doing NaNo when I last posted?  I don't remember.  Well, either way... I finished that.  But as usual lately, I kinda cheated... not a novel, but a collection of terrible short stories/vignettes/whatever you want to call them.  They're all about gay superheroes... like I care.

I feel like something else happened this week?

Oh!  I got to spend time with my little niece.  She's cool.

And in like a week and a half, I have a birthday.  I'm turning 40.  Actually, I'm turning 26, but I feel 40.  And if I start accepting how empty and blandyougurt my life is at 26 and just admit to the fact that I'm middle aged, it might be easier when I'm actually 40 and have accomplished nothing and have nothing.  Yay...

Haze

It was never my intention to neglect this blog, but seeing as how I haven't updated it literally in years, I guess that's exactly what I did.  I started this blog to have a reason to write and to have a place to vent my feelings.  I have both of those things in different outlets now... but that doesn't mean I don't miss this blog.

And now I want to try and get back to updating this blog regularly.

Maybe I'll post once a week or so, a catch all "here's what happened to me" kind of thing.  That sounds reasonable.

So in the last couple of years, what's happened to me?  Well, if you know me at all, you probably know all of this, so I'll stick to the Reader's Digest version of all these stories.

• I've struggled with depression and anxiety.  There was a period just a few months ago when these things were worse (and I thought I was losing my mind... that was an interesting time).  I guess the depression is the main reason I stopped writing on this blog and kind of... pulled away from a lot of different things.  I don't know if I'm getting any better.  I hope I am... or at the very least I will.
• I've thrown myself pretty seriously into superheroes and comic books.  That was always something I loved, but I've dedicated much more time to it over the last year or two.
• I've also started writing fan fiction more than anything else.  Through this, I've met some really lovely people and I've also got an audience.  This has made a big difference to me.
• Two of my aunts died.  I don't want to talk any more about it.
• My niece was born and pretty soon I'm going to have a nephew as well.
• I lost my best friend.  Not to death but... you know.  I'm not over it.
• I flew on an airplane by myself for the first time.
• I got Netflix.  That's pretty cool.
• I started playing and watching Pokemon again.
• ETA I got a dog.  He's two now.  I don't think I had him when I stopped posting to this blog.