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Sunday Confessions 3-20-16



The United States of Becky



I confess: I've been having a Nightmare on Elm Street marathon. And I still really like #6 - I know a lot of people hate it because it ramped up the camp factor and humor, but I enjoy it and it cracks me up every time.

I confess: I didn't vote in the Michigan primaries for various reasons which are all lame.

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I confess: I didn't enjoy the books Mr. Mercedes or Starship Troopers. Eh. I know a lot of people had a lot to love in King's non-supernatural, purely crime/detective fiction book, but it just didn't hold my interest. And I know Troopers is a classic, but I found the book uneven, slow at times, and even going into it knowing it was a propaganda/message about how society should be book, I STILL found it more than a little heavy-handed in that department. (There were, however, some excellent points in that heavy-handedness).

I confess: I am so completely over politics. This happens every election year, and I feel like it gets worse season. There is a part of me that doesn't even know why we're going through the motions this time around - everyone already knows who they are going to vote for. Just put the names on the ballot and lets be over with it. But alas - the democratic process and such.










Blogging Challenges I Face

Blogging Challenges I Face

On Posting:
Sometimes life gives you challenges.
And sometimes life is just...well, it's not that interesting. You just keep going and the days keep passing and you make food and take showers and collect the mail, but nothing particularly interesting happens and you just keep going.

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How hypnotic is this gif?

Sometimes things happen that I technically could blog about, but I don't want to, because while I aim to keep my blog honest and real, I very much don't want to sink into negative stuff too much.
Sometimes it's not even stuff that's necessarily bad, it's just I'm going through a depression sink or some such thing. But I really don't want reading my blog to turn into this:

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And while I do try very hard to keep this place honest and real with both ups and downs, there are some things that of course I'm just not going to share - and until those things are filtered out of my head, I'm like that rainbow on a treadmill, except it's my thoughts repeating themselves, rather than my days. 

And of course, there's always the good-'ole "does anyone actually care/is anyone actually entertained?" God, I hope so! 


On Connecting:
Oy. I freaking love blogging and I love my blogger friends. But sometimes locating other blogs that I'm interested in is just a pain in the ass. I tend to check out blogs that my favorite bloggers read, and I do make an effort to comment. And it's okay if a blogger doesn't want to check out my site or does and isn't interested. But if I'm taking the time to not only read, but to comment - courtesy dictates you reply. (Unless you are one of those blogs with thousands of followers and hundreds of comments a day. Dude, can you imagine responding to all those?)

Being non-niche is a difficult (but damn awesome!) place to be in blog-land. And there are many blogs or post types that I flat ignore. I will sometimes do a post about blog stuff I don't read. 

I guess I would honestly say the biggest blogging challenge for me, truly, is that sometimes my life isn't particularly exciting. That's why I sometimes (frequently) skip weekend snapshots - because they would all be the same, maybe? But with spring coming, I think things will lighten up. 


Internal Organs as Status Symbols, or, Where I've Been


Frequent UTI's have been an ongoing thing for me for a couple years now. So a couple weeks ago was my most recent trip to the doc for a super in-depth urinalysis for another UTI and a round of antibiotics.
Except...there is no bacteria in my urine, nothing to indicate infection. Yet I have all the symptoms, and my urine is definitely abnormal, there is a bunch of shit in there that shouldn't be, things that "only unhealthy kidneys would ever have this show up in a urinalysis."

So they come back with: let's run some more tests.
So they ran tests, looking for everything from the innocuous to the Scary.
And guess what answer they finally came up with?


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The whole thing has been like this:



And to answer the next question - yup, I'm still having symptoms and my urine is still abnormal but negative for infection. The only suggestion anyone can come up with is to "keep drinking a lot of water." Which has me like:

harry potter idk shrug confused dumbledore


So who knows? Guess I'll just keep on truckin' along, because it's not like having healthy kidneys is important or anything.

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