and I’m in one pissy mood -- I guess everyone’s entitled to one on occasion.

I do not feel like the optimist today. I quit the medication for anxiety the day after the election this week (though that may have given me good reason to not only stay on it but increase the dosage). Once the stuff started saturating my brain tissue, migraines went from the occasional affliction to a DAILY one, and the severity of them was steadily increasing. I cut back to half doses for a few days and after forgetting it altogether on Wed, determined I may as well quit. The constant headache remained even on the half dose, but not nearly as debilitating. Since then, the headaches have been slowly but steadily fading -- today, I had NONE -- though during what I presume to be a ‘withdrawal’ phase, my mood is very discomforting and is more askew than before I BEGAN the medication.

Not desiring that I become in any way BORED, in the present absence of the headaches, my trusty carcass has mustered up some significant pain in the bottoms of my feet and in my left shoulder. If only the headache had remained, I’d at least be a bit more BALANCED jumbled mass of pain from head to toe.

The new header pic is a study (from a photo made in the fall of 2002) of a lone steer in a neighbor’s cattle pasture. It’s rather expressive of how I’ve felt lately -- all alone and in a bit of a fog. Ah well, this too shall pass. I had too many errands to run today and was unable to ride, though it was such a lovely fall day for doing so. Tomorrow, if I do nothing else, we will ride the mares -- horseback riding always makes me feel better.

Granny finally has something to say (http://granny.mindsay.com/). I think sometimes Granny may have too MUCH to say. But then one must be tolerant of the eccentricities of the aging among us.