Turns out that the medication denial was due to the pre-authorization forms being filled out incorrectly. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Anyway I dunno what I was trying to say here besides “I am accruing medical bills I will struggle to pay” and “I wish I hadn’t done this to myself” and “I am scared of this appointment today”

Take care of yourselves, everyone. Don’t be me.

This is compounded by the fact that the US healthcare system is garbage, and my first choice of diabetes medicine was denied by my insurance company. I have been KNOWINGLY unmedicated for diabetes for two months now. I have been trying to restrict my carbohydrates, but that likely isn’t sufficient.

I am scared of what this physical neglect has done. It’s frightening to learn you’ve got high blood pressure, high cholesterol, iron deficiency, diabetes, AND a skin condition in a matter of a month. I have another follow-up with my primary care doctor today, and I am expecting more bad news.

So I finally started taking better care of my health in October of 2025, when I turned 40. I had neglected my health for decades at that point—in fact, I hadn’t received any physical care not related to pregnancy in roughly 14 years at that point. I have accrued 5 new diagnoses in these 3 months.

Bonus infuriating thing: when the site then punishes you for using an adblocker. I wouldn’t have to if your website were USABLE!

Not much makes me angrier than a recipe site reloading two dozen times in ten minutes because there’s so many ads on the page it can’t keep up.

LRP: I wasn’t able to do a lot of things until my oldest was able to babysit their younger brother. Spaces where kids weren’t allowed were spaces I couldn’t go. I didn’t build a community of real-life friends until relatively recently, because my kids prevented me from socializing in most spaces.

Keeping children out of public spaces means that mostly women are also kept out of public spaces. It makes parenting lonelier and isolating parents is a great way to make them susceptible to all sorts of fucked up social conditioning. Also children are people and should be seen and heard.

Day 5 #FirstDraftFrenzy update!

I wrote 2,238 words today, 169 (nice) words above my daily goal of 2,069 (nice nice)

My current total is 11,261 words, 916 words above my goal total of 10,345. Closer yet to being a day ahead!

(My pen ran out of ink and the inkwell is at home. 😔)

#writing

Here’s my #FirstDraftFrenzy update for today!

I wrote 2,661 words today, 592 above my daily goal of 2,069 (nice)

Goal for today was 8,276 words, and I reached a total of 9,023. This is 747 words above my monthly goal! How long will it take me to be a day ahead?

#writing

#FirstDraftFrenzy update for today and we can pretend I totally updated y’all the last two days.

Goal for today was 6,207 words, out of 60,000. Today I have reached 6,362 words, 155 above goal.

update: I did not get a good grade in planning today but that's okay I still have five more days

please brain work so I can finish planning this novel before November

I want to get a good grade in November Noveling

There's something wonderful and funny about having a fandom in law. Like, I don't go here, but my friend does, so now I know random shit about F1 teams or wrestlers or kpop groups

Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"

The same A5 binder, fountain pen, water cup and coffee as before, with the addition of a ThinkPad, matcha beverage, and a man across the table.

I dragged my husband up here to Apothecary Coffee in Farmington to work on his own stuff with me. We can’t always do this (he is not working today) but it’s nice to have had the opportunity for once!

A teal A5 size binder on a table with a fountain pen sits open to show a story plot in progress, using the Rough Draft Challenge planner by Sarra Cannon of Heart Breathings. There is also a water cup covered with stickers and a cup of coffee from Apothecary Coffee in Farmington, MI.

Working on a story plot idea for November. I’m using the Rough Draft Challenge planner from Sarra Cannon of Heart Breathings, and I’m plotting this to write it during @firstdraftdetroit.bsky.social’s First Draft Frenzy! November is SOON, oh my GOODNESS aaaa
#writing #plotting

man plotting a novel is hard work

why is it such a struggle to figure out what should happen. ugh. (this is why I haven't attempted fantasy before now. whew)

Last night my kids were abominations who roughhoused on our bed and lost my sleep mask and I got NO SLEEP last night which means NO plotting happened today.

Perhaps tomorrow.

"Erin do you even have any author friends here"

not really no but I don't wanna go back to that hellscape I used to have author friends on

“But if I kill off the (first) love interest can I still call it romance even though there’s a happy ending eventually????”

probably, but that isn’t stopping me from questioning myself

Ahhhh I’m trying to actually concoct a real plot for that novel I pantsed last November, and now I’m second-guessing myself 😭😭😭

That's the thing, right, is that as a data analysis tool machine learning could be useful as fuck. "here's 365 days of data on how my sheep use the land, tell me how to set up fencing to mimic their preferred seasonal use"

he didn't dingle it last night (though he did almost take a pitch to the dingler) but he sure did dingle it today

I hope everyone at the Tigers game last night heard me scream DINGLE THAT BALL at Dillon Dingler while he was at bat

I often mash it together with Coach Z and say “grood jorb” to my kids.

Sometimes I get extremely nostalgic about homestar runner

We’re right behind home plate!

They have a TIGER CAROUSEL

Absolutely this 👇