Healthily Looking for Dopamine
I wanted to apologize for taking a while to write this post; after my last post about going to the hospital for my procedure, I got disappointing results, and that’ll be for another post (probably), and I didn’t have the energy to write about it, and didn’t have the energy to write posts in general, […]
Getting Hospitalized for My Procedure
In just a few hours, I’m headed to the hospital for a procedure to hopefully figure out the cause of my chronic headaches and intracranial hypertension, and I wanted to share about it with you. Last year, when I was hospitalized with what was then diagnosed as idiopathic intracranial hypertension, I shared that I’d been […]
Mother Daughter Trip to London on a Budget; Day Two
Our second day in London, the frugal part of our mother daughter trip, was a great one, in which we spent no money other than some coffee to warm ourselves up. We left the hotel we were staying in early in the morning because we wanted to see the changing of the guards that started […]
Mother-Daughter Quick Trip to London on a Budget: Day One
My daughter, Rose, and I are on a trip to a few different countries and it isn’t a frugal trip. However, there are frugal things that we are doing, so I figured I’d share the frugal days that I am doing with her, so you can get ideas of what frugal things you can also […]
DIY Door Install on a Budget: More Work Than Planned, Still Worth It
My kids recently switched bedrooms. Or more like they started switching rooms a month ago and my house still hasn’t recovered, and my living room still is filled with things that need to make it into their new rooms. Before now, the girls shared the largest bedroom, and the boys each had their own bedroom. […]
Update on My University Exams
I apologize for my posting schedule not being as frequent lately. It’s challenging balancing running a home, taking care of kids, and working, let alone as someone with chronic illnesses and chronic exhaustion. When you add studying for finals on top of that, things get a bit hectic. (Forget about actually having a life.) I […]
Follow Up About My Visit to the Eagle Syndrome Expert (and a New Answer?)
I was diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension, too much pressure in my brain, last summer, after a hospitalization. Thankfully I didn’t have papilledema (I’m never sure I spell that right), swelling that puts pressure on the optic nerve and can cause blindness, which was a relief, but it was still scary and confusing. At that […]
Happy Birthday Penniless Parenting!
Today’s a special day! I don’t have the most time to write something, because I have a lot planned for today and not enough time (yay, accounting stuff that my accountant said I need to get in ASAP), but I couldn’t let today pass without acknowledging today’s specialness. Because today, 16 years ago, this blog […]
Trauma Healing, Tutoring, and Finding My Footing at University
I mentioned in a recent post how challenging I was finding my statistics course in University, as well as an update on how I did last semester as well as how I was doing in social psychology, and I wanted to follow up on that. In therapy, I was talking about my stress in statistics, […]
Flight to Rome: Delayed. Our Frugal Trip to Italy, Day 1
Kids waiting patiently in the airport My kids (and my son’s girlfriend) and I recently came back from a trip to Italy. (I know, I still have a few posts to write to finish up about my trip to Bulgaria- coming soon.) It was a great trip, our favorite family trip ever, and probably my […]