Grateful Little Victories

When every day is a struggle with illness, you learn to be grateful for the little victories.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

"Nice shot, Grady." "Thanks, Lord Perrin."

Picking up the final Wheel of Time book (again) after a too-long hiatus.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Of course, dinner happened as the sun came up...

Eating 3 home-cooked meals, 2 of them at the table like civilized folk.

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Monday, June 17, 2013

Soup, marinating meat, oatmeal, taco fixings

Cooking ALL the things in my fridge, and having neat shelves of easy-to-reheat meals.

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The Final Fantasy community continues to make me proud

A night of beta-ing it up in FFXIV, and being proud of my community.

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Sensual indulgence

Treating myself to an hour long massage.

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Friday, June 14, 2013

A triple victory day

Grocery shopping, a tasty dinner (eaten AT THE TABLE), and a beta invite for FFXIV, aw yeah.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013

Easiest assembly EVER

Putting together one of the easiest to assemble pieces of Ikea furniture EVER.

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Our Ikea is more of a maze than usual, thanks to remodeling

Ikea shopping trip with boxes-in-cars Tetris after.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Lifting, bending, and twisting

Finding ways to do housework with a body still sore from learning to use a wheelchair.

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Monday, June 10, 2013

They may never stop accruing, but...

Paying off 1 medical bill, and seeing that I'll pay off 2 more next month.

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Shayla Maas
Former English major, former psychiatric nurse, computer security specialist, and worked at a major hospital system in the patient transfer department. I'm a gamer, a writer, a singer, and an aspiring musician in a few other areas, as well.

I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome type III, along with several associated medical disabilities, which makes my day-to-day life an unexpected adventure from one day to the next (sometimes one hour to the next).
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  • ▼  2013 (115)
    • ▼  June (18)
      • "Nice shot, Grady." "Thanks, Lord Perrin."
      • Of course, dinner happened as the sun came up...
      • Soup, marinating meat, oatmeal, taco fixings
      • The Final Fantasy community continues to make me p...
      • Sensual indulgence
      • A triple victory day
      • Easiest assembly EVER
      • Our Ikea is more of a maze than usual, thanks to r...
      • Lifting, bending, and twisting
      • They may never stop accruing, but...
      • Flashy lights and big explosions
      • Anne Bishop's The Black Jewels
      • Martial arts to the rescue
      • I guess this means I have a Tumblr legacy?
      • Clean sheets, clean me
      • New wheels
      • I wasn't sure how it would turn out
      • No trips anywhere, but an online vacation
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    • ►  February (24)
    • ►  January (18)
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Relevant blogs - places you might find related topics

  • Benefits Scrounging Scum
  • ButYouDon'tLookSick.com
  • Deb's Fibromyalgia Blog
  • Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome - Deal With It
  • FIBROMYALGIA
  • Guidance, Healing, and Love by Sydney
  • Life and Fibromyalgia
  • Little Miss Dinky's E.D.S. Diary
  • Sally Rouge
  • The Bloggess
  • The Tensile Times

The Usual Suspects - some of my standard reading list

  • A Day in the (Fat) Life
  • Bardic Blog
  • From Rebecca's Window
  • Kottke.org
  • Leah Raeder
  • Life on the Fat Farm
  • Live.Like.A.Rockstar
  • Noël Lynne Figart
  • Whatever
  • WWdN: In Exile
  • Zen Habits

Time for a break - comics I read regularly

  • Ctrl+Alt+Del
  • Dork Tower
  • El Goonish Shive
  • Gods Playing Poker
  • Joy of Tech
  • Misfile
  • Penny Arcade
  • VG Cats
  • XKCD
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