Withdrawal

 August 27,
Fear not!  I did not die.  Instead I went camping for the weekend!!!!!  So glad to have made it out before summer is over.   Ah camping.  How I love thee.
Anyways, sorry for not being around.  I meant to post a will-be-away-thing but sadly it did not happen.
Withdrawal appears to be mostly over.  Which is super nice.  Losing weight, which is also super nice.  Take that ridiculous weight gain!!!!
More comics will be up soon.  I have a couple of finished rough drafts.  Now just need to get off my arse and whip out the inking pen.
Total sidenote, but I officially am starting to get a little taken aback by the mutant space crop that is zucchini.  But my plan is to take this as a challenge and produce lots of zucchini bread, muffins, zucchini pizza dough, stir fry and everything else I can possibly think of that can have zucchini.  Results will be blogged about.  Possibly comicked.


 August 22-23,
Apparently I missed a day.  Trying to remember why that is.  Eh.  Oh well.
Definitely more emotional and cranky today.  Definitely blaming that on the reduction of available serotonin and norepinephrin in my brain.
Saw a play at the fringe this afternoon.  Burnt at the Steak.  It had it's moments.  It had it's not moments.  I liked her fiesty-ness.
Pedalled my way home from the Fringe.  That was interesting.  Became a can-I-make-it-home-before-the-storm-starts bike.  Got in the house, got my bike up and BOOOMMM!!!  Aaaaannnnnddddd then the mass amounts of hail began to pelt down.  Called work and said that I'm not sure when I'll make it as I'm not leaving the house while large ice granules are screaming down.

  Now I'm pantsless so I'm doubting the going to work at all.  Don't take lessons from me kids.  I am a bad influence (the not going to work.  Pantsless is wonderful).




I figured a random picture from my day was appropriate.  This is my creeper shot.  Excuse the thumb.

August 21
Slept like the dead for twelve hours but I am unsure if that has anything to do with meds.  Could simply be the result of pleasant cuddles from Boyfriend and watching Avatar before bed.  Small Avatar gushing moment; they found a library partially buried in the sand with insane amounts of books in it.  The scholar who was traveling with the group chose to stay and learn, even at his own peril.  Honestly, I can kind of understand that feeling.  I'd go completely bananas if I found an archive like that.  Just think of all the reading, and the knowledge and the learning and and and...as I said to Boyfriend last night, I am a major dork.  When I found out I had access to scholarly, peer reviewed articles through my university's library I squeed.  (squeeing is the sound you make when you see stuff like this).

Returning to the original discussion of meds, the only other thing I noticed today was increased dizziness.  I was warned this might be an issue.

Oh, and my sex drive may have increased (Boyfriend grinned and said he's been looking forward to this).



 August 20
As of this morning I have begun to reduce my medication!  Exciting, I know!  I have been on Cymbalta, an antidepressant for just over a year and since February I have been taking 60 mg, once a day.  But as of today, down to 30 mg!!  I am excited for a number of reasons.  One, I want to see how I am doing sans medication.  Two, I'm hoping I will lose some weight (gained 5-10lbs in a week when it went up to 60 mg and IT HASN'T MOVED!!!).  And three, it'd be nice to be eventually not on anything and not have to remember to take stuff.  Anyways, I figured I'd make notes on here as to what happens in terms of withdrawal.  So far nothing, which is not that surprising.  I also did  bike for 50 minutes today which will increase feelings of pleasantness and the like.

Completely off topic, but I teared up for the first time today while watching Buffy.  It was during the episode in season two where Buffy asks Giles if life ever gets easier.  She then asks him to lie to her.  Something about him going on about how "no one ever dies, the bad guys are easily recognizable and easily defeated and we stay happy" made me rather emotional.  Dammit Buffy!  I was expecting cheese and you give me depth.