Days 2 & 3

Ok, I suck at life and missed day 2 of this thing, so I'm combining them into one entry.

Day Two: I am thankful for medical science. Had I lived 500 years ago, I'd have probably been burned as a witch or subjected to very unpleasant exorcisms. Had I lived 100 years ago--or before the 1950s, really--I'd have probably been locked away in an institution my whole life. Had I been born 30 years earlier and medicated at the same age, my only options would've been lithium, lithium, one of the typical anti-psychotics, or lithium. Well, depending on exactly when they started treating me, Tegretol could've been an option, too.

But even 20 or 30 years ago, we didn't have nearly the options for treating the batshit that we do now. By that time, de-institutionalization had become the norm, so I wouldn't have been locked away, but I also wouldn't be able to have drugs that are (mostly) side effect-free. So I am very grateful for all the advances in medical science to allow me to live a semi-normal life, at least in comparison to what *could* have happened to me, had I lived in any other time period in the past.



Day Three: I am thankful for my family--strictly defined by my own parameters. As anyone who knows me can attest, there is no love lost between my extended family and me. I'm grateful for the best father ever, for my awesome granny (who passed away in 2003), and even for my insane mother, though I doubt I'd be able to say that if we lived in the same county. I suppose I'm grateful for some of my other family members as well, but not most of them, and I'm too lazy to go through and name the ones I give a shit about. So I'll just say "family" as my obligatory response and be done with it.



Ok, I think that wraps it up for today. I didn't sleep at all yesterday--i.e., Thursday night/Friday morning--because one of my stupid SEO clients decided at 4:30 am that he wanted to have a "Skype meeting" at 1 pm. I hadn't been to bed yet at that time, so I just stayed up. I ended lying down around 4:30 pm, and I slept til about 2 am, which is when I woke up hungry and thirsty. I've finished eating now, so I'm going to bathe and go back to bed, I think. I have to go to my parents' house tomorrow because I'm helping with the Christmas open house at my great-aunt's flower shop again this year on Sunday, so I'm gonna need as much sleep as I can get before I go. God help me.