LadyGypsy.net – the blog of Kimberly Dowd of New Jersey

It’s the Friday Five! This week’s theme is mementos. Since I can’t remember squat anymore, this should be great.

1. Do you still have your senior yearbook? Where is it?
In a box in my closet. It’s pretty beat, thanks to a basement flood back when I had the house. The pages are stuck together, but for a 20-year-old book (weep!) it’s not so bad.

2. What souvenir did you bring back from your last trip?
I like buying tacky refrigerator magnets from places I go. This probably applies to my last vacation which was so long ago I can barely remember. Okay fine, it was last year.

3. What visible signs are there of your most recent injury?
I get bumps and bruises all the time, but nothing lingers, thank goodness.

4. What’s the neatest wedding favor you’ve ever seen?
John & Kristen’s wedding had lovely votive candles for each guest/couple. If you want to see them (and a bunch of fantastic photos) go here and scroll down to the 19th picture.

5. What do you do with playbills and movie-ticket stubs?
I don’t see many plays at all (I should change that) or movies for that matter (I’m ok with that) so I usually toss all of that stuff.

I’m not very sentimental, I guess.

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This weekend: Tomorrow we’re going to go see the Cleopatra exhibit at the Franklin Institute. (Groupon, I love you!). Tomorrow night I have a birthday party to attend for my cousin’s kid. (I should just macro that line.) Since I don’t think a 14 year old guy would want a Cleopatra souvenir, I guess I’ll pick up an iTunes gift card for him. Sunday is church in the morning then a lazy afternoon.

Tonight I did laundry after work, as is my habit. There’s something to be said for washing all of my workduds at the end of each week. I use extra bleach to get rid of the stress. Now I’m snuggled up on the sofa half-watching some cornball “Hammer” movies on TMC.

Life is good.

(Warning: more profanity here than in the whole blog, less than what’s on a typical restroom wall)

Today, WM told me that before I had to get ready for work, I needed to Google “Sorcerer’s Apprentice Movie.”

Go ahead. Watch the trailer. I’ll wait.

What the hell, Disney? What the effing hell?

Why would you knowingly piss all over one of the most famous and brand-making images of your entire animation franchise?

Why would you tar the memory of this:

I once wanted this as a tattoo

By dressing up Nicolas Cage (?!??!?) as Harry Dresden and pairing him with a clone of 16-year-old Shia LeBoeuf for this pile of horseshit?

This shit ain't right.

There are two types of Disney fans: Those who know everything Walt would have wanted for his company even though they have never met him and those who roll their eyes at group 1. So help me, I don’t trot out Uncle Walt very often at all* but here goes:

Thank God I'm already dead.

WM: It can’t be worse than Haunted Mansion.
Me: @#^&#%^*&^@!^!!
WM: This is what everyone said about Pirates of the Caribbean.
Me: !$@$#%$!@$@%$#!
WM: But that movie had good actors. This has Nicolas Cage.
Me: @^%&^#@$%#&!!!!

What the hell is next? Lindsay Lohan as Ariel? Pete’s Dragon played by the GEICO gecko? Lindsay Lohan as Madame Mim?

When I’m sour at work today, you’ll all know why.

* I disapprove of the sales of Mickey Mouse branded drinking accessories, like shakers & martini glasses & jigs. I don’t think Walt would have wanted that. He’d have loved cigarette lighters though.

(Edited to remove an egregious use of an apostrophe. Bad me!)

The thyroid gland is butterfly-shaped. Photo by Vicki's Nature on Flickr.

Results after 2 months of treatment

With thyroid stuff, we’re looking at two factors: TSH and T4.

Happily, my TSH came down from 6-ish to 3.77, which is normal according to the lab, but still high according to the new guidelines from the AACE, which would like to see TSH under 3. This means the medicine I’m on (Levothyroxine, 50mcg) is working.

Unfortunately, my T4 shot up to 12.44, which is called “high” and is a sign of hyperthyroidism.

Hm.

Doc believes the high T4 is a result of the changes in TSH. Normally, he’d want to up my meds to bring that TSH lower, but that high T4 is preventing him from doing this.

So I’m continuing with the Levothyroxine 50mcg for the next 3 months. Then I’ll go for another round of labwork and we’ll hopefully see a lower TSH and a lower T4.

How am I feeling?

It’s seriously hard to tell. I’m staying up later at night, but that could be because it’s lighter later, and I do love that. By Friday/Saturday/Sunday though, I’m wiped.

I’m not as chilly, but that could be because it’s warm out. I do still carry the sweater around even in 75 degree weather.

I’m not as blue. But my blueness comes and goes. Like everyone else’s blue. Plus, I love Spring!

Wacky side effects?

I can’t take the pill when I’m going to eat. I usually take it at night before bed, but one time I forgot and took it in the morning. I ate breakfast right after and ugh, hork, the nausea! Bleah! Never again.

Also in the first month of treatment, I’d occasionally feel a whooshing lightheaded dizzy sensation. It would only last for a few seconds, but it’s definitely weird. It stopped in the 2nd month.

Why am I blogging this?

1) This is my diary. 2) Because if you Google “levothyroxine side effects” you will find the biggest freak parade of side effects ever seen. It’s scary! Maybe someone will Google that and find this and see that… meh. No big deal. I’m not losing hair. I’m not falling over with vertigo. My tongue isn’t forked. All is well.

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The Dancing with the Stars finale was tonight. I tossed all my votes to Evan and Anna, although it looks like the judges tossed them under the bus. I’ll miss the results tomorrow night because we’re going to a free screening of Prince of Persia. Not my #1 choice in movies, but since it’s 1) from Disney and 2) based on a video game it shouldn’t suck TOO much. Right? RIGHT?