In which I plan treats
Jun. 14th, 2011 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayToday is Humira day. It is both yay-ful and ouch.
Ouch because the injection hurts. That's not actually the difficult part. Nope, the difficult part is that I have to hold the pen in place for at least 10 seconds until all the drug is in. That means fighting my body's "Ow! Stop that!" response, which is trying to make my arm move away very fast. The ouch doesn't last long, it's done about a minute after I do the injection, but it's still not my favourite thing and it's hard work making myself continue the ouch. Plus this week I have to inject on the left side of my belly, where I manage to nick a blood vessel and create a big bruise at least half the time.
On the yay-ful side, I reward myself with some tasty and high calorie treat. It's a way of persuading myself to just get it the hell over and making sure that I do it properly. After all, I could hardly reward myself if I flinched and had a misfire or didn't let the full dose go through, could I?
Today I have been debating between a yummy little chocolatey thing in my freezer, that is heated in the microwave and goes all melty in the middle. It's very yummy. But I'm also tempted by Haagen-Dazs ice cream. Both together would definitely be way too much calorific goodness, so I have to choose.
Oh, my life is tough with these tricky decisions.
I am now starting the pre-mother panic cleaning. Tonight I am restricting myself to just vacuuming upstairs, then dust-mopping the hardwood floors upstairs and washing the kitchen floor. Yesterday I cleaned my bathroom to within an inch of its life. Thursday or Friday evening, it will be the downstairs bathroom and vacuuming everything down there. I can predict that I will be doing all of it all over again on Saturday and quite possibly some of it will be done again on Sunday. Yup, I am approaching full-on crazy cleaning due to the impending arrival of my mother. It's possible that I'm overreacting...
I'm disabling anonymous commenting on LiveJournal. For the last few weeks, I've been getting several pieces of spam every day and LJ doesn't give me the option of marking anonymous comments as spam, only ones from registered users. Nope, that is not helpful at all. As screening anonymous comments doesn't seem to help, I'm disabling them entirely. There is only so many times that I can wade through deleting everything.
I've been watching Mad Men S1 on DVD for the past few evenings. It's thoroughly brilliant, but not something that I can really be mainlined the way some things are. So tonight, I'm hitting up Netflix again. Possibly watching the next part of House of Cards or, if there is time, I might try a film. It seems like lately, the only times that I've watched films is at the cinema. And Netflix has quite a few things that I want to see.
If I have two hours free after exercise, cleaning, supper and Humira, it's a film definitely. Possibly with Haagen-Dazs.
Ouch because the injection hurts. That's not actually the difficult part. Nope, the difficult part is that I have to hold the pen in place for at least 10 seconds until all the drug is in. That means fighting my body's "Ow! Stop that!" response, which is trying to make my arm move away very fast. The ouch doesn't last long, it's done about a minute after I do the injection, but it's still not my favourite thing and it's hard work making myself continue the ouch. Plus this week I have to inject on the left side of my belly, where I manage to nick a blood vessel and create a big bruise at least half the time.
On the yay-ful side, I reward myself with some tasty and high calorie treat. It's a way of persuading myself to just get it the hell over and making sure that I do it properly. After all, I could hardly reward myself if I flinched and had a misfire or didn't let the full dose go through, could I?
Today I have been debating between a yummy little chocolatey thing in my freezer, that is heated in the microwave and goes all melty in the middle. It's very yummy. But I'm also tempted by Haagen-Dazs ice cream. Both together would definitely be way too much calorific goodness, so I have to choose.
Oh, my life is tough with these tricky decisions.
I am now starting the pre-mother panic cleaning. Tonight I am restricting myself to just vacuuming upstairs, then dust-mopping the hardwood floors upstairs and washing the kitchen floor. Yesterday I cleaned my bathroom to within an inch of its life. Thursday or Friday evening, it will be the downstairs bathroom and vacuuming everything down there. I can predict that I will be doing all of it all over again on Saturday and quite possibly some of it will be done again on Sunday. Yup, I am approaching full-on crazy cleaning due to the impending arrival of my mother. It's possible that I'm overreacting...
I'm disabling anonymous commenting on LiveJournal. For the last few weeks, I've been getting several pieces of spam every day and LJ doesn't give me the option of marking anonymous comments as spam, only ones from registered users. Nope, that is not helpful at all. As screening anonymous comments doesn't seem to help, I'm disabling them entirely. There is only so many times that I can wade through deleting everything.
I've been watching Mad Men S1 on DVD for the past few evenings. It's thoroughly brilliant, but not something that I can really be mainlined the way some things are. So tonight, I'm hitting up Netflix again. Possibly watching the next part of House of Cards or, if there is time, I might try a film. It seems like lately, the only times that I've watched films is at the cinema. And Netflix has quite a few things that I want to see.
If I have two hours free after exercise, cleaning, supper and Humira, it's a film definitely. Possibly with Haagen-Dazs.
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