Holy smokes, I'm doing good this week in the dragon department! I got a two-color hatchling, my second and third dino egg, and two silvers! Whoohoo! *does an extremely nerdy dance*

In other news, I've managed to hurt my back. Lower back, to be specific. Pulled it, I think. Evidently I somehow did it in my sleep, because I went to sleep at one point and was just fine (though I'd slept funny on my neck so that was stiff), and woke up to my back being all seized up. I think it's the same spot I pulled a couple years ago while moving into the new apartment. Hurts like hell, and makes walking a bitch. Guess it's a good thing I don't have any very pressing errands to run in the next couple of days. Sheesh.

I have my interview with the human services people tomorrow, regarding what kind of assistance I can get. Wish me luck. I'm going to need it, especially since Becky flaked out on paying me for babysitting and evidently there is no final paycheck coming like myself and the lady at the assistance office figured based on my quit date (that "one more paycheck" postponed my assistance by two weeks, too x_x ).

I just hope I can get up tomorrow, let alone drive. I had some more shakes in my arms this morning, which is a little troubling since I didn't used to have them much in my arms, but mostly in my legs.

Pray I get back on my feet, figuratively if not literally, so that I can find out what the hell is wrong with me and work on getting better.

Yay, nice big super attack with lots of shakes, spasms, uncontrollable muscle contractions, funny vision, had to remind myself to breathe much of the time... Not sure how long it lasted, but it was a while.

Oh, and I've still got my cold, or allergies or whatever it is. Majorly congested. Fun.

I need to run a couple errands, but I don't think I'm going anywhere today.

Sigh.

I think I'm in love. <3

This account is gonna cost a small fortune. XD;

So Wednesday I snagged my cartilage earring, right, gave it a good yank (hurt like hell). But it's not like that hasn't happened before, so I cursed and mostly forgot about it.

Then Thursday while shopping with Mom, it started hurting again basically out of the blue. I guess I bumped it or something. I started feeling at it with my fingers and commented to Mom, who suggested I take out my earring. At first I didn't, because it wasn't the first time I'd irritated a piercing and I figured it was no big deal, but a few minutes later it was bothering me so much that I took out the earring anyway. My ear was all swollen and my earring was way tight, and when I got the earring out, well, ew. So I pocketed my earring and, with the immediate pain relieved, went about my day. When I got home, I cleaned it up with my piercing cleaner stuff, noting the area around the hole was particularly swollen, but still not really thinking much of it.

So finally this (Friday) morning, I get up, go to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and note how red my ear is. Further investigation revealed a huge, hard knot bulging out from the back of my ear. It hurt, too. What the hell, I thought, has my cartilage deformed or something? oO

Anyway, wanting it to heal but not close up, I cleaned it again, and sterilized my earring, and gently--because it still hurt like a sunuvabitch--pushed my earring into the hole (not forcing it), from both the front and the back.

( If you're easily queasy, you may want to skip the detail here. )

But WOW what a difference it made. Doesn't hurt nearly as much with all that pressure relieved, and I was able to put my earring back in. It's no damned wonder it was bothering me! The knot is gone, now, and so is the pain.

Obligatory eggies:

And now for the real entry.

Feeling better than yesterday, though still pretty blah. Got a headache. >.o

My obsession with vernal pool invertebrates is increasing. >>; I have three species of brine shrimp, and a freshwater species I'm waiting on. :3 I've found a bunch of other people online--with a lot of effort o_o-- that have the same interests. Not only are they interested, but some of them breed various other species, from fairy shrimp to clam shrimp to water fleas and triops, and a lot of trading goes on between the members of the community. Plus, I'm picking up tips on how to find my own little crustaceans out in the wild, and I can't wait to go hunting. I'm hoping to get a good look round the ponds the next time I'm at my folks' place; I'm pretty sure there aren't any fish in their ponds, so they're fairly likely to be full of critters. :3

Silly? Maybe. Adorable and fun? Totally. ^^;

Meanwhile, we've got storms here, again. Which actually ties into the above, since the rain will fill up the pools my little pets tend to appear in in the wild. I'm hoping I'll feel well enough one day this week to go explore a little. Gas is kinda expensive, but since I haven' t been driving back and forth to work, I think I can get away with one day of driving around country roads. ;) And at least it'll get me out of the house. Blargh.

I guess that's it for now, except to note that although I've been hungry, I've had like no appetite for a few days now. Although yesterday I somehow managed to inhale nearly an entire box of Cheez-Its in one sitting. I'm a little grossed out by that fact. >>;;;

Images are restricted on Gaia right now, so I can't incubate this egg there like I usually do. So instead I'm spamming your friends pages. :D

"Aciphex."

That is a terrible, terrible name for a medicine.

You know what that sounds like spoken aloud?

"Ass Effects."

The dream was primarily Mighty Ducks. At one point I was even my own (male) character. I like him, and I haven't thought of the Ducks much lately, so this was pretty awesome.

But then it got weird. Okay, my dreams are always weird. But this was weird.

The Mighty Ducks were fighting Dragaunus' robotic minions. Nothing strange there. Pretty much a day in the life, really. Much of the actual battle was in my own, real neighborhood, only with a lot of insanely tall trees. Okay, still not that unusual.

Except that one of the main robot types they were battling were Daleks. No sign of Doctor Who.

More of the robots were badniks from Sonic the Hedgehog.

There was a scene where I was frantically choosing from among an array of wooden sticks to try and figure out which one was my wand. The name "Harry Potter" was spoken distinctly at this time.

Was that Hulk Hogan shushing me as we snuck down a darkened hotel hallway?

A rather epic fight took place directly across the street from the little church of Scientology a couple blocks away.

At one point I (as my character) collapsed, exhausted, on... the sales counter from the job I quit a few weeks ago.

For some reason, the Ducks' headquarters floated overhead. Coming and going involved a rope ladder. Never saw Sportacus, though.

Still trying to figure out where the trolls I had to chase off came from.

I woke up with Alice Cooper's (We're All) Clones stuck in my head.

Is it just me, or has InsaneJournal been down for about two days, now? Like, not even a 404 error or "lol we're doing maintenance" page but just, not there?