day five: still not king

[the_siobhan]

Coffee. Yah coffee. Good idea. Yar.

(Apparently caffeine turns one into a pirate. Who knew?)

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The DSL woke up this morning and I have email again.

It's like the world just suddenly went back to normal.

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The computers are set up, and we have a partial office stencilled out. Most of the cookware is sorted into the kitchen or packed away in storage. All the phones work and there is temporary shelving rigged so my clothes don't have to live in a plastic bag.

And the living room is still packed full of stuff.

Oh yeah... and I unpacked three more milk crates of booze, and I'm pretty sure there's a least one more just over the other side of that bookshelf. We don't call this place the Gin Palace for nothing.

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All the spiders that live in our house seem to be of the same species. Their legs are so long I mistook them for really big Harvestmen at first. (Also known as daddy-long-legs.) But they have segmented bodies and build chaotic cobwebs in all the corners of the basement so they are true arachnids.

I noticed the other day that three particularily large ones have built nets across our bedroom window. I'm torn. On the one hand, it's the most insect-free room in the house.

But they are right over my head! I keep thinking of those statistics that got published a while back about how many spiders the average adult swallows while sleeping.

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My stomach is doing weird things to me. I am getting unbelievable hunger, and then I eat and I am nauseous. It's weird. And it's not any kind of bug, as far as I can tell.

If anything, it reminds me of when I used to have a very active ulcer. Acid production would kick in at normal feeding times and I would get ravenous. Then my stomach would fill up with blood and I would get sick.

The only thing that doesn't make me think it's an ulcer is that there is no pain. Last couple of times it hurt like a mother. Usually in response to stress though, and although I've had lots of that lately, it hasn't been the negative kind of eat-myself-from-the-inside stress that used to trigger my stomach problems.

So -- I dunno. Maybe I'm just allergic to eating. I should get all my vitamin intake from Guinness from now on.

But I'm not giving up the coffee.

Comments

[black-arachnia.livejournal.com]

My stomach is doing weird things to me. I am getting unbelievable hunger, and then I eat and I am nauseous. It's weird. And it's not any kind of bug, as far as I can tell.

my vote is for the stress... i suffer from something similar. i feel like my stomach is eating itself from hunger, then after i eat i *really* wish i hadn't.

the discomfort comes and goes. but not in terms of days; more like weeks. weeks when i'm STRESSY!!! it doesn't have to be negative stress to make our bodies fear the worst, i guess.

hope you feel better, at any rate.

[2ndaryairplane.livejournal.com]

it's all the spiders that you have swallowed. they are getting to the food before you get to digest it. on the other hand, you must get a lot of fiber with all those cobwebs from those spiders and all ...

spider gut

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Now I remember why I like you.

You are an evil evil man.

[ev0lemi.livejournal.com]

i was gonna say it, but you beat me to it.

*jinx* i owe you a beer,

[lilactime.livejournal.com]

But they are right over my head! I keep thinking of those statistics that got published a while back about how many spiders the average adult swallows while sleeping.

No matter how hard I try (which isn't very hard, honestly) I always have big ol' spiders above my bed. It's partially because I have a window fan that sucks in all those annoying little flies. So the spiders are hanging out where the flies are.

But then I remember that little incident last fall where I woke up in the middle of the night with a lip the size of a golfball from something (likely a spider) biting the *inside* of my lip.

Spiders... or skeeters and blackflies. Either way, something is going to bite me in the middle of the night.

[2ndaryairplane.livejournal.com]

i don't think i know you, but i will take you beer!
=]

scary spiders...

[zero-gravity.livejournal.com]

i really have an unreasonable fear of spiders. shiver!

i will leave that strange governmental letter back my mailbox - and hopefully the postman will just leave it there until you can pick it up. I am off tomorrow, but my cuz will be around if you need anything, just ring the door bell, ok? it looked rather important-ish.

[elixxir.livejournal.com]

Not to scare you but it could be early onset symptoms of a developing ulcer. My symptoms were very similar to what you describe...hunger then nausea but not pain. When I went in for testing I had developed a tiny ulcer that we treated before it got to the nasty bleeding stage. Might be worthwhile to go get it checked out ~before~ it gets to the painful stage babe.

And yeah. That means the coffee's gotta go for a while. That part sucked. :p

[ev0lemi.livejournal.com]

i know i dont know you, just pointing out that you said what i was going to say first ;> however, if we do meet someday, remind me about the beer.

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

They will take my coffee over my cold dead body.