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26 days since I last wrote. 3 weeks and 5 days. Pathetic. I could have come on here more, but I didn't. I haven't. I didn't even come online for awhile to feed my fish or even get my daily candies or accumulate gold from my store on the marketplace. I just haven't been up to it.

Therapy has been going well, minus a week I had to skip due to labor day. They were closed, and the buses didn't run. So the only way I could get around anywhere is if I got a ride. I ended up staying home and just goofing around and hanging out with a friend. That's about it. Anyways. I have been doing more chec in's and also more stuff. In about a few weeks, I have gotten homework, finally. I went 3 weeks without, and now I have 3 to do. Go to Frontier, take a shower at least 2 times a week, and continue taking my pills like I am s'pposed to. Easy enough. I already took one shower this week. I have also been taking my pills like I am s'pposed to. Although I have been adding 2 acetaminophen in the morning when I get up and sometimes when I go to bed and sometimes during the day, I still manage to continue my medication regimen like usual.

Which leads to my back pain. It's gotten worse. It's gotten to the point where it severely hurts when I get up in the mornings(at least until after I take acetaminophen and my morning pills), and then sometimes when I get up from sitting down or when I sit down from being up and walking about during the day, and then right before I go to sleep in the early morning hours. *sigh* As long as I haven't gotten to the point where I have to take 8 acetaminophen a day, I should be alright. Right now, I am at taking at least anywhere from 2(normal dose) of the 500mg tablets, up to 6 of them, a day. If I hit 8, I need to rethink where this is headed and maybe get some help for the severe pain. The bottle said that according to the newer rules of the FDA, I can't take no more than 8 acetaminophen(500mg a tablet-which is 4,000mg total). Anymore, and it could literally hurt my liver. It also stated on the instructions and warnings to not take acetaminophen(or any other pain relievers, for that matter) for more than 7-10 days, and not to take more than 4,000mg within 24hrs. Well, I should be oki, but I can concern myself with it eventually. I have started taking the acetaminophen like last week sometime(I don't think it's been 7 days, or even 10, for that matter). So I am going to have to get help for this sooner or later from my gp.

That back stuff leads to another thing. I'm now full-time using the disabled carts(the electric ones) at the store when I go shopping. It's due to the back stuff and also the thing about my paws and ankles, too. When I used to use the regular carts, my back would start hurting or my paws and ankles would try or start to give out. I had to always stop and stretch my back out across the cart or stop walking to give my paws and ankles a break. This usually lead me into hogging a whole aisle just to do so. It also took me a LOT longer to get my stuff, and I ended up racing just to get to the bus stop to make the bus, or I would just end up missing the bus and catching the next one. Now, since using the disabled carts at the store, I have been able to zip up and down the aisles without stopping. I can txt and drive and not get an "excuse me" from anyone trying to pass me by. My back doesn't hurt. My paws and ankles don't try and give out like they used to. I can talk on my phone if I wanted to. At least I know that in the grocery store that's not illegal(talking OR texting on the phone while driving). As long as I am very careful and pay attention to "traffic"(people). My main rule is don't flip a U-turn unless it's totally clear from all directions. Then be careful not to run into stuff(much) as I am doing so. Another rule of thumb for me is when I am turning to go into an aisle or to go down a lane to get to an aisle, or even to go in a circle just to get to an aisle or lane, to always use these 3 words of advice: Stop, look, and listen. Good idea. Very. So yea. After shopping I just take the disabled cart out as far as I can to the bus stop(usually halfway, unless there are carts blocking the way), then I walk the last bit to the stop. Usually I have about 2 minutes to spare(better than before, when it was like about another hour or so), to get my bus pass ready, my purse zipped up and my purchases in my hands again, before the bus gets there.

It's been pretty hot here lately. We've also had some rain. Not to mention that during one of those lightning storms, my phone decided to say screw it and jump off my terrace. I was scrambling to get inside and I had it firmly in my hand. It decided to jump out of my hand and onto the terrace, but instead of stopping, it ran all the way to the edge. I reached to grab it, and...It jumped. I ran out of my house screaming at my phone all the way. I grabbed it and...It was gone...I had to get my old Pantech phone(the one that looks like a Blackberry). It took me near an hour just to get the phone setup. Then, like a stupid, I formatted my phone and lost all the music on there. Ah, well. I couldn't use the MP3 player on it anyways on the bus, because I don't have the proper headphones for it. So now, no MP3 player until we can figure out when the next upgrade is. Hopefully the music can be restored. If not, that's alright, because I can still put music back on it. Right now, I need to find out if I can get a different ringtone for my phone, as the current one is getting quite annoying. I also need to get a different txt tone too. Would be great if they could both be the same music artist theme.

Since coming back online here, I have both accumulated AND blew gold. Right now, I am at 664,722,623mill gold. I hope I can get past that and be able to keep going, like I had before. Would be great. After I post this, I will have 664,722,683mill gold!

I should get off here and check on some stuff. I also need to go do my mood for yesterday on MoodTracker. I haven't done that yet. I also need to go on MFP and record my food/exercise diary for yesterday(I really need to start doing that regularly again). I also need to note that I have started using the support alert thingie on MoodTracker. For appts, and for taking my pills both morning and evening. Maybe I should have separate reminders for coming on here daily, recording food/exercise of MFP regularly. That would help me out a lot. That probably should include some Pokémon training, too. I know that would mean literally blowing up my telephone with txts, but I enjoy getting them. So it shouldn't matter on that part. Another thing I need to do is go on Facebook and play some games on GSN Casino. I have been doing real great on that, too, lately. I also need to play Absolute Bingo, and maybe play my Microsoft games. I might have to have support alerts for that too. I dunno. Maybe I'm just going overboard.

Oki I better post this. I have soap-boxed way too much today. I will do more of this hopefully tomorrow!