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Just your average 48 year old tattooed woman

Nox Arcana Music Reviews.

I went looking for something appropriately sinister to shake off the last of shackles of summertime–the happy childhood screams of panicky joy, the endless eternal heat, the traffic jams, the sense of desperate fun.  It all just sucks the life right out of me.

It is now early September and with the first freshened and cool breeze at night my thoughts turn forward to my most favored season of all.

Halloween.

I found what I was looking for.  Chilly, dark music.  Something to make you forget how the hot vinyl of the seat stuck painfully to your legs every time you got into the car over the past month.  Nox Arcana.

Delicious.

Well it has been quite the interesting month, July has.

Started out with me taking a week’s vacation from verk, melding quickly into my husband making an appointment with our family practitioner to discuss his recent (two months back) diagnosis of low testosterone.  A week after that I was on my way to the doctor to see why I was so dizzy and nauseated.  A week later, the mister was back in with the flu.  A week later, he was at the Emergency Room coughing up blood.  Ten minutes after I arrived at the ER, we were driving to the Urgent Care near our home.  My husband is unfamiliar with the lovely new rules of our bargain basement health insurance that state if you are not specifically spurting from an artery, or dying from myocardial infarction you should go to the Urgent Care center and not the ER.  Well, we have yet to receive a bill from the 15 minutes or so he spent at the ER cooling his heels in the waiting room, so I think we are good. (more…)

Tomorrow is a special little day for me.  My own quiet, private, flamtastic day.  It is the day for celebrating my 48th summer on the planet.  I feel so much ‘meh’ about the whole damned thing.

The only thing I seem to want for my birthday is for everyone around me to leave me the hell alone and stop needing me so damn much for every little agonizing thing.  Yeah, go and try to get THAT written in frosting on a cake. (more…)

A week of eventfulness, right heah!

We started off the week by having a four-day weekend.  Always nice.  When I returned to work on Tuesday, May 26, I had a bit of a headache and the remains of a sore throat.  Meh.  I shrugged it off as being some leftovers from the flu bug of two weeks ago. (more…)