Saturday, August 11, 2007

PERSONAL NANOWRIMO

I caught up and did some back-blogging this morning.

This post, however, is to say that the majority of activity in my blogging life is going to happen over on the Lloyd-Quinn blog, because this is where I'm keep track of my personal NaNoWriMo.

I'm completing my novel, and while not up to the word counts of the official National Novel Writing Month, my work is edited. This makes for low word counts, but a happy author.

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Friday, August 10, 2007

HEADACHE UPDATE

Actually, it's more of a lack of headache update. I sent this in an email to someone who contacted be about my post on the headache remedy I found. He wanted to know if it was still working.

It is.

Here's the email:
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I feel fantastic! That sounds very over-the-top, but it's true. My life is completely different right now compared to last year. I live in Texas, and we've pretty much had non-stop thunderstorms for over a month. The lake levels are so high several are closed because the picnic tables and boat ramps are under water. Since I could trace my migraines to weather about 80% of the time, I would have been very miserable if not for the e-book cure. I do still get the occasional migraine, but it only lasts a day, and in some cases I get get through it with a strong cup of tea for the caffeine.

I haven't changed anything else in my life other than following the directions in the e-book. Looking back at my calendar from last year, where I would keep track of migraine days, it's an obvious improvement. I used to have 3-4 migraine-free days a month. Now, it's maybe 1-2 migraines a month - the complete opposite. I was honestly beginning to fear for my job last spring because i was taking so much time off work
due to my headaches (I'm an information architect for large corporate websites and if I can't sit and be productive at a computer, they won't pay me). These days I only miss work for vacation.

I highly recommend this e-book. If you're wife is on any migraine medications, the cost of the e-book is about the same, and you only have to buy it once. I bought my copy in 2006, and received a free update when he added to it and released the 2007 version.

I did feel silly trying out something I "found on the Internet" when the best specialist in the state was recommending different medications and the "wonderful opportunity" to be in a Botox study. Given my severe adverse reactions to the drugs I had already tried, I couldn't stomach the thought of having something injected into my forehead that stayed there for 3 months until they did it again. Now, I will say that my boyfriend's step-mother is having the Botox injections for her migraines and they are working extremely well for her. She has always had health issues and her migraines left her bed-ridden for weeks, including hospital stays. Mine were never that bad. She has a copy of of the e-book, although I don't know whether she has read it or not since the injections are working for her.
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Here's a link to the headache cure that did work and is still working for me. It's from the Women's Health Institute of Texas. http://www.migraine-headaches-information.com/

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Saturday, August 04, 2007

END OF ALIAS, STILL LOST, ANTICIPATING STAR TREK XI

Finally watched the end of J.J. Abram's Alias TV show. The ending works, you find out the answer to the uber-Rambaldi mystery, and Sydney ties up all of her relationships in different ways.

Quite the ride. And it gives me hope for LOST, because they totally lost me (ha!) at the beginning of season 3 - too much (seemingly) mindless meanness. I have heard from many people that it gets better, to the point of surpassing its original glory. So once Tonbo picks up the LOST season 3 box set, I'll be watching it again.

I'm also very excited to see what JJ does with Star Trek ...

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