more off-tone babbling
Dec. 24th, 2001 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elvendolli have cramps right now, which makes me less then a happy camper.
but, they're tolerable, which, right now, seems like a blessing. this happens any time my period starts in the morning - i get absolutely unbearable cramps. it hasn't happened in a long time, so i guess i should be grateful for that, and it wasn't so bad as forcing me to bite down on my wrist just to get pain elsewhere, but it was damn close.
for the first hour and a half, i tried bearing it, tried laying down, tried pacing, rinse, repeat. finally i broke down, took tylenol, took a russian herbal pill that seems to help but that i dislike because it makes my mouth taste weird for the rest of the day, and layed down. pain then subsided within an hour, and i fell asleep.
waking up was rough. i don't deal with waking up from naps well to begin with, and pms'ing too didn't help. i don't know if it would've been possible to actually get me to agree to get up if abi wasn't calling 'yuka, eedie' (which, translated from abirussian means 'yulia, come here'), which i thought was really cute.
after i did get up, i was groggy and out of it for a long time, which included me snapping at my grandma after she ran into me as i was carrying a cup of hot tea - which i feel really bad about, but am almost amused that she didn't say anything back - my mom said that if it would've been her, she would've been put through the ground within minutes.
after a while, i became human again, and we went to my stepdad's sister's house for what turned out to be a dinner party with some of their friends - it was a decent time, and i took a whole lot of pictures of abi while there : )
and now we're home, and i'm dreading being kicked off the computer, as, among other things i forgot to pack, my book got left at home. although it may also mean i end up going to bed at a half decent hour.
oh, and this morning, the whole family (my parents, my sisters, my grandparents and my great-aunt) packed into the minivan to try and buy a parakeet for my grandma. it seemed like such an exercise in absurdity as well as futility, as it seems odd to have 8 people to go pick a parakeet, but then i thought about it, and realized that the only reason i minded it so much is because of my dislike for my greataunt - without her there, it would have been natural to me (even if its absurd for mos families). but, my grandma decided she wants an english parakeet (its a breed, they're plain looking, and i'm too lazy to do a web search), and the three that the pet store didn't look enough like the parakeet we had in russia (nevermind the fact that i think getting a lookalike of our old parakeet is a bit extreme, too). while at the store, i spent most of the time drooling over the big birds. i've been wanting a parrot for a really long time, and all i could do was picture the cat thwapping one around to keep from asking for one.
but, they're tolerable, which, right now, seems like a blessing. this happens any time my period starts in the morning - i get absolutely unbearable cramps. it hasn't happened in a long time, so i guess i should be grateful for that, and it wasn't so bad as forcing me to bite down on my wrist just to get pain elsewhere, but it was damn close.
for the first hour and a half, i tried bearing it, tried laying down, tried pacing, rinse, repeat. finally i broke down, took tylenol, took a russian herbal pill that seems to help but that i dislike because it makes my mouth taste weird for the rest of the day, and layed down. pain then subsided within an hour, and i fell asleep.
waking up was rough. i don't deal with waking up from naps well to begin with, and pms'ing too didn't help. i don't know if it would've been possible to actually get me to agree to get up if abi wasn't calling 'yuka, eedie' (which, translated from abirussian means 'yulia, come here'), which i thought was really cute.
after i did get up, i was groggy and out of it for a long time, which included me snapping at my grandma after she ran into me as i was carrying a cup of hot tea - which i feel really bad about, but am almost amused that she didn't say anything back - my mom said that if it would've been her, she would've been put through the ground within minutes.
after a while, i became human again, and we went to my stepdad's sister's house for what turned out to be a dinner party with some of their friends - it was a decent time, and i took a whole lot of pictures of abi while there : )
and now we're home, and i'm dreading being kicked off the computer, as, among other things i forgot to pack, my book got left at home. although it may also mean i end up going to bed at a half decent hour.
oh, and this morning, the whole family (my parents, my sisters, my grandparents and my great-aunt) packed into the minivan to try and buy a parakeet for my grandma. it seemed like such an exercise in absurdity as well as futility, as it seems odd to have 8 people to go pick a parakeet, but then i thought about it, and realized that the only reason i minded it so much is because of my dislike for my greataunt - without her there, it would have been natural to me (even if its absurd for mos families). but, my grandma decided she wants an english parakeet (its a breed, they're plain looking, and i'm too lazy to do a web search), and the three that the pet store didn't look enough like the parakeet we had in russia (nevermind the fact that i think getting a lookalike of our old parakeet is a bit extreme, too). while at the store, i spent most of the time drooling over the big birds. i've been wanting a parrot for a really long time, and all i could do was picture the cat thwapping one around to keep from asking for one.
