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It's been a helluva week.

I had an allergic reaction on Tuesday that took me out for pretty much the whole day. I was trying to be healthy in the morning and got some oatmeal, and I even told the barista that I was allergic to cinnamon. He said they would leave the cinnamon off but they had a brown sugar maple mix they could put on, and I was like "oh that sounds lovely!"

it was not lovely.

By 8am I could tell my throat was getting itchy and wanting to close up and so I went in search of Benadryl. My coworkers had some, and I took them. So the worst of the reaction was avoided, but then by noon I could barely move and walk. So I had to go home and sleep. This was also extra annoying because it meant that I had to leave my car at work, which meant taking a Lyft back to get my car at 7pm once I was awake again.

By 7pm it was actually ice storming and we ended up getting something like 6 inches of snow. So that wasn't great. Ended up getting the car, had to immediately get gas, and then I decided to treat myself to a burger and fries from Culver's. Ended up eating in the parking lot listening to French pop/electronica.

And that was only Tuesday.

Yesterday I made up two of the three hours of work that I missed, and then today I'm making up another hour, so at least I won't be out the time. My paycheck for this week was delayed which is suuuuuper annoying. I went grocery shopping last night and apparently my credit cards are maxxed out so I couldn't get groceries.

That is actually very concerning because I paid $500 to my credit cards in February. So now I have to call the credit card company and figure out what the hell is going on.

Good things from this week:

Have been enjoying myself with a rewatch of Twin Peaks. Many more thoughts on that in a separate post.

I'm really enjoying my Personal Rings planner. I think I've figured out a good groove between the Personal size and A5. Once I figure out how to blur out some of my writing (for privacy) I'm going to post some pics on my tumblr and will try to figure out how to share them here.

I've been thinking a lot about privacy lately, especially online privacy, and really want to share more "real" details of my life online to keep in touch with friends. This will be especially important if we end up moving abroad. My favorite way of keeping in touch with people has always been blogs, but I haven't successfully convinced any of my in-person friends to use Dreamwidth. I may need to begin the crusade again. I think I have an essay in me somewhere about privacy and the return to Web 1.5 and nostalgia, but now is not the time.

How are you all doing? Fellow Americans, how are we doing/preparing/coping with the messy brutality of it all?