I was really angry the last time I blogged — I even cried afterwards with my door closed, because I didn’t want to upset my niece or worry anyone — and it did help to express some of the anger I still battle with. But I also looked at it later and realised that while […]

I caught sight of my eyes in the mirror last Saturday. “Wow,” I thought, “you finally look like how you feel” and moved on. It’s only now, on the following Tuesday, that it wasn’t my pain putting dark circles under my eyes. It wasn’t my depression that seems to hit when no one is around, […]

Continuing my Just a Minute… series. Reading… Honestly, not a lot! With how much coding I’m doing, it’s been hard to settle into anything relaxing. Also, considering I’m working on a rec site for fanworks, reading fanfiction (my go-to) has lost it’s shine thus far. Listening… I have been obsessed with rock music, lately. Probably […]

I love my mother. I love my mother’s flaws, I love my mother’s quirks, I love my mother. I love my mother, but sometimes I wonder if I got my sadness and loneliness from her. I’ve seen her draw attention and befriend anyone in a way that’ll always be foreign for me. My mother probably […]

Back when I did Just a Minute… » blog posts, I had a lot more going on. I was also fresh in my twenties when I started this series; when you’re older, the big things seem small and the small things go away. Add chronic pain and the life challenges that come with that alone, […]