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Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Dream:

I was walking to my class at my university and it was stormingggg…and I for some reason forgot pants. I had a long t-shirt on with a small jacket so I had to go to the campus shop to pick up some pants. I found some, I think. They were these cute little shorts but mannn it was still raining and I wanted shorts. Too bad this is all they had. One of the security guards there stopped me to talk a bit because today they were having an event. I didn’t know about the event so he walked me back with his jacket up over his head to cover from the rain. Apparently there was this “catch a fish” day where you can just catch fish around campus since it was flooding. My best friend was there and there were also some amazing venders! I was like “screw going to class!” And I went around catching fish with a net. There was this speaker who has these beautiful ranchu goldfish that I’ve never seen before (because they don’t exist) talking about how he breeds and raises them. Then he would pick one lucky person to catch a goldfish from his private collection. I heard praises and congratulatory cheers from the crowd as this man was chosen and caught a really nice one. I wasn’t paying attention much as I was on the hunt for my own fish. I ended up catching this cute black and white ranchu and put it in a bucket that was provided at the event. The top had a viewing space that you could get a better view of your catch before putting in the bottom compartment, which was just a bucket. I also caught some (nonexistent fish…things) and a crab that ate one of my guppies. I ended up putting that crab back. Another storm started to roll in so the some of the vendors and people packed up to leave. I was about to leave as well and walked past some of these huge storage containers that were packed with fish. There was a person on the speaker phone that was reminding people not to touch the fish in the containers since they were someone’s catch. Pshhh it’s a good thing they said that because I was about to catch this amazing medium sized orange, red, and black pleco and then stopped myself. This girl walked by me talking about “how it’s f’d up that people would try to steal other people’s catch…” anyways! I ended up staying a little while more through the storm because there were some fish that I really wanted to try catching and then my alarm went off.

End of dream

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Saturday, August 31, 2024

Todayyyyy was a fish dayyy! I got so many new fish! I bought two female bettas for my sorority tank. One is a samurai betta and the other one is a koi betta! I also got a bubble eye goldfish for the goldfish pond and hill stream loach! I also got three youkihi medaka for my mini pond! Ughh so satisfying! (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))♡

I also did a 30% water change on the goldfish pond and I will need to do a 30% water change for the sorority tank tomorrow. Overall, today was such a fun day. I also gave my dog a nice relaxing bath since it’s so hot as well.

We have a hurricane passing by so it’s just muggy and hot but with no rain. It is definitely messing with my fibro and my ability to function normally. I’m going to have to walk around with an ice pack glued to my neck.

Today’s rating: 7/10 (so hot!! (*´Д｀*)

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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Today I caught up with all of my fish duties! I did a 50% water change on my guppy tank, refilled the water for the pond, and maintained the floating plants! By the time I was sone with all of that I was pretty sore.

I have noticed that my fibro acts up more at night now for some reason. It used to be more in the morning, but now it has switched to nighttime. I’m not sure if I like that more or not ╰(*´︶`*)╯I think I will be taking the rest of the week off from work to recover from my trip.

Does anyone else feel really emotional when they have a fibro flareup? ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´ω`ﾟ)ﾟ｡

Today’s rating: 5/10

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Today was a lovely day! It’s so nice, sunny, and breezy ^ - ^ I’m just trying my best to recover from the trip. I’m also trying really hard to not just lay in bed all day. I feel like laying in bed all day just makes my fibro even worse, so I decided to start on a little project.

I am making a cute little pond for my room and I am in the process of growing some little grass looking plants for it. I started to become interested in medakas recently so I’ve been slowly making them a cute little environment for them. I was going to start it before the trip but I didn’t want my parents to take care of my other fish, my dog, and more fish while I was gone so I decided to wait.

There’s another storm/hurricane on its way and I’m just trying my best to prepare for it. I used to love the rain before my fibro and now I have to make sure my body is ready to take the humidity, cold, and breezy conditions. I never imagined being this delicate in my late 20s but here I am, just trying to survive.

Today’s rating: 8/10

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Monday, August 26, 2024

I’m finally home from a wedding! Omg I don’t want to fly for a while, that was just too much for me. I’m pretty sure my fibromyalgia will be flaring up for maybe days or weeks at this point.

Not too sure what to do with this flare up. I think this is the worst I’ve been in a while, but I’m glad that I got to experience my best friend’s wedding. I am also elated that I got to see all three of my friends together finally after ten long years!

I think our Airbnb was haunted. The fan light would turn on by itself and would get brighter or dim out of nowhere. We even took out the batteries and it would still turn on by itself. We would see shadows and my friend would have some weird dreams. So I also didn’t get the best sleep which is also adding to my fibro flare up.

Hopefully, this flare up won’t last too long, but I will definitely keep this updated. I’m trying to keep up with this personal blog to track my fibro.

Day: 2/10

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Friday, August 15, 2024

Today was a very cloudy and rainy day but it was still pretty fun. I got another ranchu goldfish to go into my pond and I also got some guppies. I moved my killifish into the pond outside and I decided to put the guppies into my low tech tank in my room. I got two pairs and they are so beautiful!! Hopefully I will be able to have some babies soon so I can have a little guppy pond.

My fibro has only acted up a little bit today. It got pretty hot in the store so I was getting very sleepy and groggy. Not too bad overall though!

I have made the decision to pierce my lip again. This time I will let it heal all the way! I am very determined to keep this piercing this time! I got a new stud for it, but for some reason it is in Guam right now... I'm not sure why it just completely past me and went to Guam instead but hey...you do you I guess.

Overall I'd say today was a 8/10

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August 14, Wednesday 2024

I am finally feeling better about my life. Although it has taken me so long to feel okay being in the world, I think I have finally been able to find some happiness.

Today my parents helped me figure out how to make a better filter for my pond! I really like the idea they came up with and my new ranchu goldfish are very happy in their new home. I also got to finally repot some of my new plants the I got over the weekend and they are look very healthy not that I gave them more soil to live in.

I wish I could control my fibromyalgia a little more so I can go to work more than three days a week, but I guess I still have to take things slowly. I tried to work more a week ago and it wrecked my body! I could barely move.

Those with fibro...how do you deal with managing to go to work full time and making sure you don't have a flare up? I have only been officially diagnosed with fibro for about 7 months. At first I thought I had long covid, since this happened right after I got covid for the first time last year. I was suffering with undiagnosed fibro for a whole year before actually getting the news.

Anyways, I am not sure what to name this new goldfish! Let me know if you have a good name. I believe this one might be a boy.