The Joys of Moving.

July 1st, 2009

Well, it’s been quite a week. As countless folk have noticed, my online presence has been a bit of mess. Basically, I moved hosts. The old company I was previously under was having issues, so the incredible Kya let me move on over to her place on the web.

So, I moved. The transfer in itself was simple (thanks to the help of Hannah), but Wordpress made the whole experience rather ridiculous. I’m not really sure what went wrong, as Hannah has been the one working behind the scenes, but it caused me to lose all of my old entries and comments. In result, we’ve spent the last week manually reposting whatever old entries we could find through old files. (The many comments are lost forever. *sobs*) Sounds fun, right? XD

While I would’ve loved to spend a full day getting everything back up and looking pretty, I couldn’t. I had relatives in town over the weekend, a book launch party for Teresa Burrell, an overnight stay in Long Beach, and now I’m been battling yet another flu. In result, everything has been rather messy.

Anyway, the point of this muttering blog is to say I’m not going anywhere. I’m just trying to get my head back on straight and get organized. I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to find all of June’s entries, but it’s not looking promising. Also, I pray the annoying white text doesn’t bug everyone as much as it bugs me. That’s another kink we’re trying to straighten out.

Alright. Back to falling in and out of sleep in attempt to regain some health!

Under: health, site matience — @ 3:11 pm

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A Secret.

April 4th, 2009

If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been battling an (oh- so) deathly illness for nearly a full week now. It wasn’t until this afternoon that I was able to get in and see a doctor. While I thought it was just an average cold gone sour, it turns out I have a severe case of strep throat.

I feel massive guilt towards my poor roommate, who has put up with my consistent coughing day and night for far too long. But then she is lucky, it could have been much worse. While over the counter medications made me loopy and irritable, they didn’t do much for the hacking. At some point over the weekend, I began searching for homemade coughing remedies.

A few did absolutely nothing. Some soothed my throat as I was sleeping. But only one actually calmed my coughing down. I’m considering it an ultimate secret recipe! One that you should treasure for ever and always… Because seriously, this concoction made this last week of ultimate hell so much easier.

It doesn’t taste too good. I’ll warn you there. And you may have to take a few deep breaths while you drink it, but it so worth it. I promise. Try and use organic ingredients, because I’m a firm believer that it does make a difference.

Heather’s Oh-So Secret Cough Remedy:
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger.
1 tablespoon honey.
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar.
2 tablespoon filtered water.

Drink up and expect relief!

Under: health, recipes, vegan — @ 6:37 pm

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Dancing Into the Hail.

March 8th, 2009

Wow. I cannot believe it’s already been a week since I last wrote. In the whirlwind of my accident, I lost track of time and fell into a time warp. Spinning, spinning, spinning. I’ve been twirling and singing and falling. Flying, too.

My finger accident was much more serious then I realized. I woke up the morning after my last blog, to the bandage soaked through and my sheets stained with fresh blood. Thanks to my several different blood disorders, the cut couldn’t form platelets fast enough and therefore the blood kept flowing. It took about two… three days to finally get the small gash to stop bleeding and by then, I was anemic and weak. I hadn”t felt that weak and sick since I was 13, before my spleen was removed.

It was frightening, to say the least. At one point, I was sure my parents needed to call for a helicopter to transport me back to CHOC. I was ready to resign my healthy, vibrant life for one with an IV attached to me at all times once more. Now that I’m okay and dancing through my days again, I decided that once I’m back in Orange County, I’m seeing my hematologist and getting retested FOR EVERYTHING. I’m taking my giant horse pills of medicine, so this should NOT have happened.

On a happier note, a lovely Canadian slept on my couch for a few days this week. Dalia is a good friend of mine that I know thanks to a certain vampire series (*cough*Twilight*cough*). Anyway, I didn’t realize how much I LOVE Berkeley and San Francisco until I got to show it off to her. I was so proud and enthused to share my city with her. Plus, she’s vegan, too. So we ate up all the wonderful Bay Area cruelty free food. No animals were harmed in our epic journeys!

I’ll probably write more on our experiences later, but for now, I’ll leave you with a video. It’s pretty much self explanatory. But, um, do be warned that the language I use would make it rated R in theaters. I was rather frazzled and cold, so the F bomb was exploded a few good times.

Oh, and this was filmed on March 3rd of 2009. Like I said, I was kind of loopy – from lack of blood AND defeating hell’s fury! I swear, I’m not usually THIS annoying.

Under: friendship, health, rain, story time, video, weather — @ 7:26 pm

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