{"id":1957,"date":"2017-11-17T22:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=224"},"modified":"2017-11-17T22:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T22:45:51","slug":"17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/17\/17-2\/","title":{"rendered":"17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s key? Traceability. If you call me on something, and I make an assertion, rest assured I will back it up.<br \/>\nRecycling more&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">NoJoMo Day 4 &#8211; 11\/4\/2012<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Since I don&#8217;t have a tome for either, I&#8217;ll try to address both writing prompts. Instead of an extra hour of sleep, I&#8217;ll attempt an extra few minutes of writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1. What do you desire most in your life? What is holding you back from obtaining or achieving your heart&#8217;s desire?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">At this point, normalcy. It&#8217;s very absent for anyone with somewhat fragile health. I have my soulmate. I had professional potential (though I have my doubts about it since my vision started going). The routines in life, however, are gone &#8212; possibly forever. I can&#8217;t know on a day-to-day basis how I&#8217;m going to feel, whether I&#8217;ll be up to whatever I have planned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That&#8217;s put a strain on many other relationships I had. My wife is understanding; she sees what&#8217;s going on. Others don&#8217;t. But I don&#8217;t look sick! Yeah, and you don&#8217;t look stupid; looks can be deceiving.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I don&#8217;t feel comfortable around other family members for other reasons, too. There&#8217;s been a lot of bereavement in the past few years. Nothing, other than this little apartment with my wife, feels like &#8220;home.&#8221; When we stayed with my mom last year during Irene, it just felt strange. Visiting my grandfather and uncle after my dad died felt strange.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Thanksgiving with her parents will be a bit more comfortable (I am starting to feel a bit more at home at her parents&#8217; place&#8230;..it has taken six years, but&#8230;.), but I&#8217;ll be worried about what my mom is doing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>2. What is your strangest tic or habit? For example feeling compelled to sniff your food before eating it or always counting steps when you go up or down stairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Uhhh&#8230;..&lt;b&gt;I have MS&lt;\/b&gt;. I have lots of &#8220;strange&#8221; things. Some of them aren&#8217;t terribly noticable if you&#8217;re not paying attention. My left foot doesn&#8217;t point straight ahead. My gait is weird. I can&#8217;t run at all. My eyes do weird dances. Restless Leg Syndrome? Uh, no. But I do have similar twitches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I also have &#8220;angry hands.&#8221; I do do this thing where I interlace my fingers when I&#8217;m frustrated with something.&lt;hr&gt;<br \/>\n*yawn*<br \/>\nYeah, time to post up, and try to sleep. Aint&#8217;s aren&#8217;t until Monday night. But watching Eli Manning beat the Falcons will suffice.<\/p>\n<p><i>1. What do you desire most in your life? What is holding you back from obtaining <\/i><i>or achieving your heart\u2019s desire?<\/i><br \/>\nLast time, I said, &#8220;normalcy.&#8221;\u00a0 If I&#8217;d known then what I know now, I don&#8217;t know that I would have wished for something different, really.\u00a0 I was completely consumed with my health, not taking into account that on some of the important parts of life, I did have normalcy.<br \/>\nNow, though, I&#8217;m aiming to get back to where I was then, financially.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still earning less money than I did then.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not at all secure, financially.\u00a0 At the same time, what I&#8217;m ready for is something new and satisfying.\u00a0 What I&#8217;m doing now is somewhat related to one of my stops in the intervening years.\u00a0 But it still is a fucking cesspool\u00a0 Though my main problem before is gone, his mentality pervades.<br \/>\nIt takes time to win hearts and minds;\u00a0 will I be able to do it?\u00a0 Do I have the stamina?<br \/>\n<em>2. What is your strangest tic or habit? For example feeling compelled to sniff your food before eating it or always counting steps when you go up or down stairs<\/em><br \/>\nSince the last time, I&#8217;ve started carrying a cane.\u00a0 I really have problems going down stairs, as my balance is wonky, and I can&#8217;t feel my feet.\u00a0 I also need to tilt my head to the right in order to be able to walk in a straight line.\u00a0 The angry hands have subsided a lot.\u00a0 A lot of that probably has to do with the fact that I often have my hands above my head to stretch my diaphragm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s key? Traceability. If you call me on something, and I make an assertion, rest assured I will back it up. Recycling more&#8230;&#8230; NoJoMo Day 4 &#8211; 11\/4\/2012 Since I don&#8217;t have a tome for either, I&#8217;ll try to address both writing prompts. 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