{"id":438,"date":"2014-10-04T03:04:15","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T08:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2014-10-04T03:04:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T08:04:15","slug":"a-bit-about-the-past-month-and-my-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"A bit about the past month, and my birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, my phone buzzed at 7:13 a.m.–6 minutes before the alarm on my FitBit was supposed to buzz, and 7 minutes before the alarm clock would go off. \u00a0It woke me up, and I’d normally have ignored it, but once I figured out it was the phone and not an alarm, I saw that it was my sister calling. \u00a0It’s my birthday (although it’s now after midnight, so technically not), and my computer’s calendar reminder said I turned 35. And yeah, just ask Rob, that reminder is actually kinda necessary.<\/p>\n

But anyway. \u00a0She called to wish me a happy birthday, and she wanted to check on me because I’ve apparently not been on facebook in a while, and hadn’t responded to a text the other day.<\/p>\n

And she was right–partially. \u00a0I haven’t posted anything on facebook in over a month, though I check it every day. \u00a0In part, I’ve been preoccupied most of September. \u00a0A couple weekends were spent doing things with a friend who visited from Scotland–we had dinner with M.L. Brennan, who writes a fantastic vampire series<\/a>, and the next day we went to Medieval Times in New Jersey. \u00a0There was a lot of cleaning–we had a bulk pickup early in the month and wanted to get rid of stuff, and it was just necessary–and I binge watched a lot of tv to catch up with a couple of shows before the new seasons.<\/p>\n

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This room desperately needed cleaning. It’s slightly cleaner now.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Plus, I’ve been getting a lot of writing done, and now that the weather’s cooler, I’ve been able to get back into exercising. \u00a0Which is a good thing, because I had a checkup last week, and my triglycerides went from 257 in March to 430. \u00a0Yeah. That’s not a good thing. \u00a0There were a variety of factors, and I’m pretty aware of all of them, and I’m doing something about it.<\/p>\n

So, I’ve been pretty busy, and it never crossed my mind that I hadn’t been active online anywhere but Twitter.<\/p>\n

I often get a bit melancholy at the beginning of October; my birthday makes me miss friends I haven’t talked to in a while. That melancholy makes me a bit depressed, and less likely to notice I’m withdrawing from most everything. \u00a0And it’s a little deeper now that October starts with memories of my mom’s passing a couple days before my birthday.<\/p>\n

Often, I end up being very introspective, and a lot of what’s going through my head finds its way out in my writing. \u00a0Right now I’m working on a short story-type thing, and it’s very much influenced by these feelings. I’m not certain if it’s something that’ll end up getting read by anyone, but it’s how I work through a lot of my issues.<\/p>\n

The downside is that I lose track of almost everything around me, and I plan on getting to stuff, like responding to messages, later on. \u00a0And sometimes, I end up sitting and staring at the screen, overthinking what I’m trying to write, so I set it aside until later and end up forgetting it.<\/p>\n

But my birthday was a good day. I’ve got a phone that’s fully functional, and blue cupcakes with chocolate icing and star-shaped sprinkles. Still being awake at 4 a.m. is probably not all that great, though, so sleep is likely what I should be doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, my phone buzzed at 7:13 a.m.–6 minutes before the alarm on my FitBit was supposed to buzz, and 7 minutes before the alarm clock would go off. \u00a0It woke me up, and I’d normally have ignored it, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3TGyK-74","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stellamortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}