Today is Day 6 of my personal July 2025 TKA Challenge. I'm trying to write 25,000 words over the course of this month and hopefully finish up TKA in the process. So far I've written 7,432 words, which is okay but not great. I'm having trouble getting back into the TKA groove after so many months of not working on it. Blegh.

But even if I'm not getting as much written every day as I did during last year's NaNo, I'm still meeting my goals for each day so I'm on track to achieve the goal I set over on TrackBear. *shrug* (It doesn't help that Pluto has been in my lap 24/7 the last week, either, HE IS SO IN THE WAY.)

Canada Day was yesterday and like most years, Mom and I went down to the park to check out the festivities. We went in the morning, around 9:30am because it was already 19 degrees out and supposed to jump to 29 degrees in the afternoon, and we were hoping to avoid that. It was sunny and beautiful down by the waterfront... and sooooo hot omg, I was sweating so much! But I shockingly didn't get a sunburn despite the high UV of the day, so that was good!

The first booth I went to was a Christian Farmer's Association booth because they were giving away free walking sticks and stuff, but of course you had to listen to a little bible story, which wasn't a surprise. It was actually cute, though, the walking sticks had little bracelets with sets of colored beads on them and they just explained what each bead meant (God, man, Jesus, etc.) and the role that entity or entities played in the universe. It was nicely done. Anyway, I got my walking stick and ended up taking the bracelet off of it to send to Grandma next time Mom goes to visit, along with the pamphlet with the whole story. I think she'll get a kick out of it.

The only DOWNSIDE to the walking stick is that it has a bible quote branded into it, so I have to sand it out and paint something decorative over that spot and then seal it all up. Also, I want to replace the bracelet with one that's not as Jesus-y. (I have nothing against religion, and these people were very kind, but it's just not for me, thanks.) Anyway, free walking stick, yay!

The next booth I went to was one that was selling 3D printed critters, and I found a little, wiggly axolotl there that I could afford (for $5); he's pink with red gills and fins and doesn't have a name yet but I'll think of something cute at some point. They also had BIG axolotls for $20 but I didn't have that much money or that much space in my room lol. Mom had gone to that booth while I was at the walking stick booth and was like "oh, did I miss an axolotl?" and I just, "yes, Mom, you missed an axolotl. You ABSOLUTELY missed an axolotl."

After that we found someone who was selling the 2025 Orillia Canada Day buttons and each bought one, and they gave us each a little Canada Flag to go with them. The proceeds from the button sales go into NEXT year's Canada Day celebration, so Mom and I always buy one. I probably have two dozen from different years in my button collection bin lol.

The next thing we did was track down somewhere I could buy a bottle of water because I was stupid and didn't bring one from home, and Mom bugged the people doing the Pancake Breakfast to see if she could just get a coffee without paying the $10 for the pancakes that she didn't want, and they just said "help yourself!" so she was happy with her Timmies.

Next I found the Comfie Cat Shelter's booth and basically emptied my very heavy change purse there for donations. Kali came from the Comfie Cat Shelter, and they are entirely funded by donations, who whenever I spot them in the wild I basically fork over all the change in my wallet. It's not much (maybe $5 each time) but it helps, and I want them to be able to keep doing their good work with the kitties. Also in Kali's memory, you know? <3

And after that Mom found a booth selling fake crystal bird ornaments (they're resin but they look like crystal; I bought her a hummingbird a few years back from the same people) and this time they had CARDINALS and Mom LOVES CARDINALS WITH HER WHOLE LITTLE HEART, so she bought herself a cardinal, and hung it in the window IMMEDIATELY when we got home haha.

Also, there was a booth selling shirts that I really wanted a couple of, but they were like 2/$45 and I definitely didn't have that, so I had to walk away, which kind of sucked but *shrug* oh well. I'll live.

We weren't really there for the carnival part and it was too early for most of the food carts, so we headed out at that point, though on the way out of the park we stopped at French's, which WAS open, so that I could get a hotdog because I hadn't eaten anything for breakfast that morning and I was RAVENOUS. Pro tip: French's pavilion down by the park in Orillia has GREAT hotdogs. :D

Lee's been home from the hospital for a couple of days, now, and I have to admit that having him back hasn't been as terrible as I anticipated it being. Normally, when he's sick or after a surgery all he does is bitch and moan constantly, but this time he's being surprisingly chill and upbeat. It's much more tolerable than I thought it was going to be. I still didn't miss the TV always being on and at max volume, though. Or the sports on the television almost constantly.

Anyway.

I was supposed to be writing Going International this week, but when I really thought about it, as much as I liked the concept of Going International, I only shoehorned it in to explain the ending of Hunting Souls and I actually really dislike the ending of Hunting Souls ANYWAY. So, I'm just going to rework the Hunting Souls ending and that meant I could scrap Going International, but then I had an empty space. Thus, Burrowers!

I've been working on Burrowers the last few days and it's up to 16,499 words and nowhere near done. It's going to be a long one. But I have to have it finished by this Monday coming up because on TUESDAY I'm starting a month of working exclusively on TKA to try to finish it up (finally.) Just the writing part, not the editing part.

...I know I promised I wouldn't email/message Poe anymore, but I'm considering sending them one more email once TKA is finished and edited, telling them I finally finished it and asking if they want to read it, since they helped me out so much with character building and stuff over the time we were friends. But I don't know. Maybe I should just get it published (hopefully) and THEN contact them, ask if I can send them a copy? I'll figure it out when the time comes, I guess.

Maybe I should talk to Mom about it, she's good with the advice, a lot of the time.

Tomorrow I have an appointment with Dr. Cull, the respirologist that Dr. K referred me to a while back. They told her that she's seeing me for "asthma" and I'm like WHY does no one believe me that there is SOMETHING ELSE going on, here?? So, I'll have to explain everything to her and hope she believes me because all the tests keep coming back normal. Updates on this later, I guess.

EDIT: Also, today I messed around on VistaPrint and designed a couple of new mugs (because I'm all about the mugs), one is a NaNoWriMo 2024 Winner mug and one is an Esprit Studios mug and I want them both (and the Jaskier one I made forever ago) very badly but they are going to cost me like $60 (including shipping) and I don't have that monies. Boo.

Mom and I were talking today and she reminded me of something.

About seven or eight years ago I was hospitalized for being suicidal (if they only knew what I'd been through since then...) and spent a couple of days in lock-up where they took away most of my things, the things that helped me get through the day, and stuck me in a room with a woman who thought she needed to know ALL of my business when I just wanted to be left alone. Sufficed to say it was not a good time, and did not help my suicidal ideations, though I eventually told them I was feeling better just to get the fuck out of there. I've always been good at faking it.

And interesting thing that happened while I was there, though, was that they gave me a bunch of different personality tests, and they came back that I was ONE POINT OFF from having Borderline Personality Disorder. Which. I mean. Probably explains a few things. And apparently, BPD and Bi-Polar Disorder can be mistaken for each other, or you can have both, they often go hand-in-hand, so it's entirely possible that I actually have both, at least to some degree.

When I read about BPD I feel like I'm reading about myself, mostly, but it's the same with Bi-Polar Disorder. I think my brain is just so messed up there's no telling what my problems really are anymore. But it would explain a lot, like I said. My tendency to self-destruct friendships, the fact that I literally could give a lesser shit if Lee ever comes home from the hospital, that kind of stuff. I dunno. Just something to think about, I guess.

HORROR HIGH (complete, edited, posted, 10 chapters, 70,659 words)

POST-HORROR HIGH ONE-SHOTS:
1) Cheap Motel (complete, edited, posted) (14,984 words)
2) Snapshot (complete, edited, posted) (17,312 words)
3) Southern Hospitality (complete, edited, posted) (22,980 words)
4) Cornfields (complete, edited, posted) (17,862 words)
5) Comfort Food (complete, edited, posted) (17,247 words)
6) Something To Be Protected (complete, edited, posted) (18,295 words)
7) Counting Scars (complete, edited, posted) (12,080 words)
8) Breathe (complete, edited, posted) (18,627 words)
9) Cerulean Blue (complete, edited, posted) (16,134 words)
10) Everything I Do (complete, edited, posted) (13,851 words)
11) Puppy Love (complete, edited, posted) (19,943 words)
12) Summer Nights (complete, edited, posted) (19,534 words)
13) Absolute Devotion (complete, edited, posted) (21,068 words)
14) Solid Foundations (complete, edited, posted) (17,892 words)
15) Lifeline (complete, edited, posted) (20,484)
16) Afterglow (complete, edited, posted) (17,779 words)
17) Nightlight (complete, edited)
18) Say Something (complete, edited, posted) (17,372 words)
19) Put Your Hands On Me (incomplete)
20) Falling Stars (complete, edited, posted) (14,601 words)

STORM SEASON (complete, edited, posted, 10 chapters, 77,127 words)

POST-STORM SEASON ONE-SHOTS:
1) When Lightning Strikes (complete, edited, posted) (demons/elemental) (14,990 words)
2) Ghost In The Machine (complete, edited, posted) (poltergeist) (17,091 words)
3) Pinfeathers (complete, edited, posted) (just Destiel) (15,765 words)
4) Teeth (complete, edited, posted) (tooth fairy) (18,469 words)
5) Nightingale (complete, edited, posted) (succubus) (12,212 words)
6) Going International (incomplete) (baobhan sith/each-uisge)
7) Hunting Souls (complete, needs editing) (Crowley/hellhounds)
8) Echoes (complete, needs editing) (spell gone wrong)
9) Endling (complete, needs editing) (original monster)
10) Supply And Demand (incomplete) (black market monster trade)
11) Fetters (complete, needs editing) (nightmare/demons)
12) Temper Tantrums (incomplete) (poltergeist)
13) Baby (incomplete) (spell gone wrong... sort of)
14) What Angels Dream (incomplete) (djinn)
15) Grace (incomplete) (phoenix)
16) Hollow Things (incomplete) (rabid werewolves)
17) The Desert Tide (incomplete) (kelpies)
18) Coyote Country (incomplete) (wendigo)
19) Coulrophobia (incomplete) (demon clown)
20) Creepy Crawlies (incomplete) (okumade)
21) Run Hide Die (incomplete) (hydra)
22) The Wolf (incomplete) (charnel cow)
23) Crawlspace (incomplete) (ghost)
24) Mirrors (incomplete) (basilisk)
25) Sudden Cardiac Arrest (incomplete) (humans, man)
26) Day Drinking (incomplete) (ghouls)
27) Mockingbird (incomplete) (wolpertinger)
28) Dreamcatcher (incomplete) (demon)
29) Magpies (incomplete) (original monster)
30) Dogman (incomplete) (dogman)
31) Stalactites (incomplete) (wyvern)
32) Fairy Tales (incomplete) (unicorn... ish)
33) Eyes In The Dark (incomplete) (mothman)
34) The Thirteenth Child (incomplete) (Jersey devil)
35) Split (incomplete) (manananggal)
36) High Noon (incomplete) (chupacabras)
37) Animal (incomplete) (nandi bear)
38) Billabong (incomplete) (bunyip)
39) Tricks No Treats (incomplete) (coyote trickster)
40) Territoriality (incomplete) (Unhcegila/Sally)
41) Clash Of The Titans (incomplete) (Mishipeshu/Thunderbird)
42) Daylight (incomplete) (gargoyle)
43) Slither (incomplete) (titanoboa)
44) Burrunjor (incomplete) (burrunjor)
45) Leave No Traces (incomplete) (Keelut)
46) Runaway (incomplete) (amazons)
47) Bray Road (incomplete) (the beast of Bray Road)
48) Shearing Time (incomplete) (sheepsquatch)
49) Let Them In (incomplete) (BEK)
50) The Devil's Highway (incomplete) (Highway 666/elemental)
51) Crawlers (incomplete) (pale crawlers)
52) Clowder (incomplete) (original monster)
53) The Owl (incomplete) (la lechuza)
54) Dracula Drive (incomplete) (melonheads)
55) Papio Devilicus (incomplete) ("devil monkey")
56) Conspiracies (incomplete) (subterranean reptoids)
57) The Tall Ones (incomplete) (slenderman tulpa)
58) Accursed (incomplete) (dybbuk)
59) Stay (incomplete) (devil dogs)
60) Tiny Calamity (incomplete) (evil gnomes)
61) Bad Monkey (incomplete) (flying rebobs)
62) Foxfire (incomplete) (child fox familiar)
63) Controlled Descent (incomplete) (the angel Dima)
64) Midnight Spirits (incomplete) (midnight Spirit Mass)
65) Remembrance (incomplete) (malevolent spell)
66) Wind-Up (incomplete) (cursed object)
67) Cobweb (incomplete) (djieien)
68) Better Angels (incomplete) (angel hunter)
69) Enter The Sandman (incomplete) (original monster)
70) Bed Of Roses (incomplete) (poltergeist)
71) Murmur (incomplete) (humans, man/original "monster")
72) 2140 Degrees Fahrenheit (incomplete) (Kaupe)
73) Creeping Death (incomplete) (original monster)
74) Nightmare Fodder (incomplete) (spell gone awry)
75) Not Deer (incomplete) (Not-Deer)
76) Loveland (incomplete) (Loveland frogman)
77) For Honor (incomplete) (gryphon)
78) Wayward Daughters (complete, edited) (spell gone awry... sort of)
79) Halcyon Days (complete, edited) (just Destiel)
80) Serendipity (complete, edited) (just Destiel)

The last little while the axolotl tank has gotten a little smelly, and I can only attribute it to two possible things. 1) The water that's leaked out the cracks in the bottom and is sitting there getting mouldy while my ribs heal to the point I can actually tackle swapping the tank out for the new one or 2) The external filter needing desperately to be cleaned.

You typically don't use external filters with axolotl aquariums, just the internal ones, but the internal ones only filter chemicals, not particulates, so I have both going on. Anyway, so tonight I unplugged the external filter and took it to the basement and cleaned it thoroughly, and then when I brought it back up and put it back in place... it won't turn on. I THINK I accidentally got some water into the motor casing while I was cleaning it, so I'm leaving it to dry out overnight and tomorrow I'll give it a try again. If it still doesn't work I'll have to buy a new one, which I CAN NOT afford. =/

Other than that, a little over a week ago I bought two black sweet potato vines from the garden shop at Country Produce, and one of them (Castiel) I put in the aquarium and he is THRIVING HOLY SHIT. He sits right next to Dean, naturally, but Dean isn't doing well atm, most of his leaves have systematically fallen off, especially the last little while. I have a spare Dean downstairs, though, so I just have to do some pruning and fixing and current!Dean with spare!Dean and he should be fine. Sam is still doing really well, too, and though Jack is recovering from when Pluto... ate some of him, because he was living on my windowsill next to my bed. EVENTUALLY JACK WILL BE BIG ENOUGH TO JOIN HIS FAMILY.

I've had two orders of computer ink lately where one of the cartridges was defective and my printer couldn't read it. I just returned one like yesterday, and the replacement one that came in today needs to be replaced too. I'm really fucking annoyed, but at least Amazon has a good returns policy. *shrug*

Tomorrow is Thursday, which means it's Fic Update Day on my literally nonexistent update schedule lmao. I'll be posting Solid Foundations, and I already have Nightlight finished and edited for next week. I'm currently working on Put Your Hands On Me for the week after, and then that's the end of the post-HH fics, and I'll be working on post-SS fics instead, which are totally different stuff.

But before I start posting more post-SS fics, I'm taking a break (for real this time!) to finish up TKA, and maybe get a start on My Zombie or Freefall, Then I'll go back to writinf post-SS fics for a while, and then after a few of them I'll take another break to work on something else. Maybe Frailty or Tempest. I haven't quite decided yet, I just know I need to at least PERIODICALLY work on stuff that isn't related to Horror High et al, as much as I love it.

Which reminds me, I've gotten a couple of really nice reviews since I posted Absolute Devotion, ones that were really kind and made me feel really good about myself and my writing. But in the notes for Absolute Devotion I talked about how it was a good thing I didn't mind not getting any kudos/comments on my stuff because I get like less than 200 hits and maybe 7 kudos and no comments on most of my fics. I guess a few people read that and took it to heart. It was nice.

Today I finished editing Solid Foundations, and while it's not my FAVORITE of the post-HH one-shots, it's definitely solid. After all my edits it came out to 17,903 words, which is shorter than some of my recent one-shots but kind of in-between the really long ones and the shorter ones. I'm happy with it.

Now I'm working on Nightlight, and after Nightlight comes Put Your Hands On Me, and then that's the end of the post-HH one-shots and I'll be transitioning back into the post-SS ones instead. I already have four finished that just need editing, I think, but before I tackle THAT I need to write and edit Going International, since it got kind of shoehorned in at the last minute. =/ BUT SCOTTISH MONSTERS, THOUGH!

The last couple weeks I've had a huge patch of my inner right thigh that has been absolutely KILLING ME, even though there's been no bruising or swelling or even redness. I highly suspect that I have an abscess because of my Hidradenitis Suppurativa, but I've been avoiding going to the hospital because if I go to the ER and tell them "my leg hurts" I'm going to be the lowest on the list and I'll have to sit there for two fucking days until I eventually see a Doctor.

Anyway, the last couple of days the pain has been subsiding so I'm hoping whatever's going on is going away, finally. But in the meantime I've been limping HEAVILY, and that's fucked up the ankle/knee/hip on my OTHER leg so now I'm just in pain everywhere because my ribs and back are still being jerks, too. Blegh.

Yesterday I rearranged the shelves in the library/cat room. It took me all afternoon and I almost died (because of my ribs and back especially) but I got it done. The first thing I had to do was empty (almost) everything (books) off of the wooden shelves and get Mom to help me move them over about five inches. Then I had to empty the first set of black plastic shelves and unscrew them from the wall to move THEM over five inches. This is all to make room for the NEW set of black plastic shelves, which I then had to assemble and screw into place before I could put everything back on the shelves again.

I pinched my thumb putting together the new shelves and ended up with a big blood blister that I subsequently popped, so my thumb is sore now but that's a little thing. And now all of my binders fit on the shelves, and I even have spare room for FUTURE binders, too! Also, when I put all my books back on the first set of shelves I actually ORGANIZED them! So. Success! But then I died a little because EVERYTHING HURT. Everything STILL hurts.

At some point today I need to get the towels down on the floor under the rug that my computer table sits on, I'm just trying to keep the legs from making further furrows into the carpet, since I drag the table back and forth so much. I'll probably do that once I'm done posting this entry.

Also, my Internet just cut out. Goddammit.

So. I guess yesterday the NaNo website went dark. I was literally right in the middle of doing something in my account when it happened so it was a bit of a surprise, but when I looked it up I guess NaNo's shutdown has been coming for a while now. I somewhat regret squandering all the years that I didn't participate, or tried and failed spectacularly. But at least I managed to do it this past November, so I have that accomplishment to hang my hat on.

The first thing I did this morning was try to find another writing project tracker and ended up landing on TrackBear. It's alright and will do the job, but it's not as easy to navigate and they don't let you customize your profile page, which sucks, they just let you upload an avatar. I'll get used to it, though, and they DO at least allow you to upload cover images for your projects, which is very important to me.

I don't know, I'm just sad to see the NaNo go. I was looking forward to participating next November, though I don't know which project I would have worked on. Maybe I'll just do my own NaNo this year and challenge myself to write 1,667 words (or more) a day for the month. In tribute, or whatever, you know?

I should be working on Absolute Devotion, and I DID for a while this morning, until my hands started shaking and making typing very frustrating to say the least. I'm doing okay typing THIS because I'm going really, really slowly, but if I tried to work on Absolute Devotion at this pace I would drive myself batty. My creative brain works too fast for that. =/

So.

I guess what's happening is that Dad is just going to pay for a storage unit for me, but starting next spring just before my time limit runs out with Aunt Brenda and Uncle Alec because he doesn't see the point in PAYING for storage for almost a year when I could be getting it for free. (Also he just wants to dick around with Aunt Brenda and Uncle Alec because of how they've been treating me.)

Dad also says that hopefully I'll get a place through the subsidized housing people between now and then, and maybe the storage unit won't be necessary at all, but I'm not holding my breath on that one. I've been on the list for like 5 or 6 years now and when I emailed them a few months ago they wouldn't even tell me where I was on the list. So, yeah. Don't have real high hopes there. Which sucks because it means I'm fucking stuck here, but there's nothing I can do about it so I just have to suck it up.

Anyway.

Lois had her hip replacement surgery a couple of days ago and apparently everything is going really well so far. Dad took some time off work to take care of her/the house/the dogs but he says if it wasn't for the dogs he probably could have just kept going to work. As it is, Lois' grandson, Connor, is staying with them right now so he's supposed to be helping out as well, but apparently he's absolutely useless and all he does is eat things that aren't his to eat, get high, and bitch when they ask him to do something. I'm not surprised, though, his mother was always a useless twat too, so he probably gets it from her. The reason Connor is even staying with them right now is because this past winter his mother pissed away all her money and didn't bother paying the rent, so as soon as spring hit they were kicked out.

But they're doing alright, even dealing with Connor's bullshit, and Lois is healing up really well. I'm sure she'll be recovered in no time, and feeling better than she has in a LONG TIME. I think she still needs to have her other hip done as well, but I could be wrong? I should ask Dad about that next time I talk to him. I like to keep up-to-date on things like that, I love both him AND Lois will all my lil heart.

...

My feet/ankles/legs have been swelling up REALLY badly lately, particularly the right one. I've had to start wearing my compression socks again, but everything is so swollen the socks are actually causing BRUISING, at least to my right leg anyway. I wake up in the morning and everything feels okay, and I spend from 8am to around 11am or 11:30am sitting, working at my computer, mostly writing (except when I feed the cats at 9am) and things seem mostly fine, but as soon as I actually get UP, go and SHOWER and GET DRESSED? My legs start to swell. Some days are worse than others. Yesterday was a better one, the pain was less, but a couple of days ago I had a day where I could barely WALK. I need a Chi Energizer or a Dr. Ho's Circulation Booster or something like that, I think, but all those kinds of things cost HUNDREDS of dollars that I DO NOT HAVE. I'm going to talk to Dr. K about it at my upcoming appointment. She'll probably recommend exorcises I can't do because of my joints and supplements I can't afford because ODSP. Sigh.

In other news, my back is still fucked just because it's MY BACK, but my ribs are getting better bit-by-bit. They still hurt if I strain them or cough too hard, but it's a process. The other day, Mom mentioned wanting her cedar chest back, because right now the new tank for the axolotls is sitting on it (and has been for like over two months now) and told me I needed to work toward getting that done. And I'm kind of like. I have four broken bones in my chest PLUS whatever the fuck is going on with my legs, it's not as if I can just magically FIX those problems. I CAN'T lift and carry heavy things, so I CAN'T empty/bail the existing tank, I CAN'T swap the tanks out, and I CAN'T lift the buckets of water to FILL THE NEW TANK. I could do things like scrub the hides and swap out the filter cartridges and things like that, but water is SUPER HEAVY and so are the TANKS and I just... I don't know what she wants from me. I don't have Wolverine healing. Anyway, to placate her I said I'd at least get the support boards painted in the basement, but even that I can't do sitting on the floor and leaning over, so I'm going to have to cover the puzzle table with dropcloths and work from there, I guess. =/

The problem is... almost two years ago, Mom and I both got sick and then that illness (Covid) went to our lungs, causing pneumonia. While we both had pneumonia, Mom actually had it worse, and she broke 4 or 5 (I can't remember which) ribs, just coughing, the same as I just did last month. BUT. When SHE broke her ribs she didn't have any lingering PAIN from them. There was the pain of the initial break and then she was FUCKING FINE, with the exception that she couldn't sleep in certain positions. Dr. K told her at the time that this was REALLY UNUSUAL and that she was REALLY LUCKY. I was NOT that lucky. My ribs continue to ache and do the stabby pain thing when I twist wrong or bend over or try to lift things. But Mom doesn't have that kind of experience to compare it to, so she's getting impatient and I think she might think I'm faking it at this point, which sucks. And I just. I don't know what to do about the situation.

I guess I should just be happy that she's still helping me with the cat litters, at the very least.

The last time I saw Dr. K she got me to try a couple of new supplements, and one of them, Berberine, was to help with weight loss. Because it's an OTC supplement I don't expect results for a long time, but it's supposed to boost metabolism, I guess, and I HAVE noticed that I've been hungrier lately, which is... counter-productive to the weight loss goal. I've also been having trouble with my hands shaking like they are this morning, and I greatly fear that the Berberine is the cause, since I'm not on any other new drugs/supplements so it's really the only thing that could be causing it, either in itself or in a reaction with something else I'm currently on. So, I don't know. I'm going to give it a little longer and if my hands don't start evening out or start getting worse, I'm going to have to go off of it and see if THAT clears up the shaking. It's frustrating.

And there are like 5 other supplements that she wants me to be on as well, for my lungs mostly, that I'm just NOT ON because I priced them out and I CAN'T AFFORD THEM. They are all OTC stuff and ODSP doesn't COVER or ALLOW FOR OTC STUFF. I already spend probably $250/month on meds from Costco and the Walmart pharmacy just to keep me going, and that is a HUGE chunk out of my monthly allowance. The Berberine alone costs $30/bottle, so I'm like... fine. My weight is so out of control I don't even recognize myself anymore, so I'll eat the cost of the Berberine in the FAINT hope that it'll help. But I can't afford the rest. Sorry, Dr. K.

Other than that... I watched Final Destination: Bloodlines once on Saturday and then again yesterday (because I got distracted by other things during the last half hour of the movie on my first watch-through) and I actually really liked it. I think it fits in really well with the other FD movies and the kills were solid and creative. My only big complaint was how long the opening "premonition" was, it was MUCH longer than the premonitions in any of the other movies, or at least it seemed to be. I literally kept checking the clock on my computer when it dragged on because I was starting to lose patience. >>;;

ALSO NEW HTTYD MOVIE NEXT MONTH HELL YEAH!! <33

I... I did it again. .__.;;

48) Shearing Time (Sheepsquatch)
49) Let Them In (Black-Eyed Kids)
50) The Devil's Highway (Highway 666)
51) Through The Trees (Pale Crawlers)
52) Clowder (Cat Shapeshifters)

And then the three that tie up the series, which brings the tally up to 55 fics in the post-Storm Season series. :D;; Not gonna lie, I will probably add more, despite my best intentions, especially now that I'm watching Monsters And Mysteries In America.

I am Fated to write this series until the end of tiiiiiiiime. XD;;