PonderEthereal

Insomnia can be a result of a chemical imbalance, a side effect of another disorder such as depression or anxiety or simply the result of bad habits. I have found that even when battling insomnia that comes from anxiety and depression, forming stronger good sleep habits is an immense help.

In order to break bad sleep habits, you need to set new good sleep habits. If you’ve only been sleeping badly recently, breaking bad sleep patterns will be easier and you should be back to sleep in a matter of days. But the longer you’ve been practicing bad sleep habits, the longer it will take to break those habits.

The secret to creating new, better sleeping habits is repetition. Whatever your routine is, follow your routine to the letter for a while. The more closely you follow it in the short term, the better your new pattern will stick and…

Yesterday, we got confirmation that Sam, one of my (mine as of when Ryan OFFICIALLY abandoned them - as opposed to just leaving them high and dry) ferrets, has adrenal disease. Adrenal disease is super common in ferrets, apparently.

The first vet I took him to was useless. He just didn’t know the first thing about ferrets and wouldn’t have known adrenal disease if it smacked him in the face. Bless his heart. Knowing what I know now, Sam was displaying classic signs of adrenal disease… hair loss all over his body except his head, muscle mass loss and fat gain in his hindquarters.

He doesn’t usually look that pathetic. He was stretching in this one, which makes him look WAY skinnier than he usually looks. But it’s a good demonstration of just how odd a ferret with adrenal disease can look.

He needs surgery - but that will cost upward…

I am looking through old posts for a particular subject entirely unrelated to my relationship with Ryan and I keep running across these posts where I’m crying about something he did or said.

It’s easy, in retrospect, to look back and say ‘if he was so abusive, why did I stay’. It was NOT easy, in the moment to separate my feelings of love for him from the way I should react to how he was behaving towards me. That is the nature of an abusive relationship. If the abused always ran away, ‘it would be no fun’, as Ryan told me. In plain english. In black and white. And I STILL didn’t listen.

There is nothing unpredictable about Ryan. How he acted 2, 4, 6 years ago is the same way he was acting the day we split (excepting a particular domestic violence incident). The sad, angry, frustrated entries from 2…

Crossposted to Trusera

Usually, my son, he just leaves shirts with buttons buttoned at the end of the day. He totally pulls it off over his head so that when he wears it again, he can just pull it back on over his head. And usually, even the shirts without buttons are on backwards and/or inside out. Although, I have to say that it is especially cute when the button-ups are inside out.

Usually, his pants are too big around the waist so that he can pull them down without unbuttoning them. Usually, unless a button is exceptionally easy, he has to have help and usually that is quite embarrassing for a pre-adolescent boy of his intellectual level.

Used to be, his handwriting was absolutely atrocious. He has this kind of awkward way of holding a pencil… reminiscent of a south paw’s over-the-top-of-the-page grip… but with his right hand.

He’s never really…

I just got a new centro and rather than syncing between outlook and my centro, I want to use an application that will require that I sync between Palm Desktop and my centro.

To do this, you need to have the proper sync conduits. If you right click your Sync manager on your system tray (loer right hand corner of your screen) and click ‘custom’, you will see a list of items that are synchronized each time you hot sync. These are called conduits. In my case, I had Outlook conduits but no Palm Desktop conduits.

If you remember, way back when you set up the software, you were asked if you want to use outlook or Palm Desktop. What a fateful decision! There is no way to change this setting inside the software once it’s set.

However, pop your cd in, click install and choose the option to ‘repair’. It…

There are two ways to get your phone to play your favorite mp3 as a ringtone. You can either use email to get the mp3 to your phone or you can copy the mp3 directly to your memory card. Then you use the blazer internet browser to get the mp3 into a ringtone.

By Email

This technique is by far the easiest but requires internet access on your phone. Although centro comes internet ready, you must have signed up for data service with your provider.

1. Save your mp3 ringtone to your computer and email it to yourself.
2. Check your email on your palm. Click on the link to the attachement.
3. Your palm will prompt you with a number of options, one of which is to save it as a ringtone. Follow the prompts.

By Memory Card

The Palm Centro uses Micro SD memory Card. For this method, you will need a SD card reader for your…

I updated to WP 2.6.3 today. And new themes and plugins abound. Clicky clicky. You go ahead… I’ll wait. See? It’s level of functionality is actually attractive. I never noticed, for instance, that the months of the year made a really pretty wavy pattern down the page when you list 7 years of them. It’s like a conspiracy of beauty beginning when the months were named.

Private posts don’t work… I mean… they WORK in the strictest sense of the word… in that they are all PRIVATE. But the levels thing that used to let some people see them and not others isnt working so no one can see them. Baby steps.

I’m still, also, obviously, getting the theme together. I decided to go with the practical stuff first… like say… oh… working php. Once I get that hammered out, I’ll make it pretty.

But… I have to say that I’m…

My son goes to a school in North County San Diego that has been fabulous. We transferred here at the beginning of the 07-08 school year. At first glance, the school looked run down, old, gang infested and just gross. I was about 2 hours from pulling every string possible to not send him there when I found that it was a California Distinguished School. I gave it a shot.

Come to find out, the special ed coordinator is totally well versed with Asperger’s Syndrome. No having to spell it out for her. And this IEP/504 plan process was like second nature to all of them. They had a process and they all came to the meeting knowing what needed to be done and there was no double talk or finagling. The 504 plan team has been wonderful. Compared to the two schools before, heavenly. We have our regular meetings…

Crossposted to Trusera

In line with the kind of aspie, non-social mom I am, my son has been playing with a boy that is moving in across the street for about a week and I’ve never met him. Quite honestly, I’m more afraid for the kids he plays with than for him. He comes home happy, not angry or hurt - and that’s enough for me. I saw the mom across the street the other day. I didn’t approach her. It’s enough that we are in close proximity and I can scope her out from there. She’s a real normal, nice mom.

Today though, bright and early, at 11AM on the first night/day of uninterrupted sleep I’ve had in weeks, there was a knock on the door. And then another one. And then the doorbell. And again. And no puny knock, mind you. It was a firm, “I know what I’m…

Crossposted to Trusera

Honestly, I haven’t found a whole lot of helpful information in books written for those with Asperger’s Syndrome. I prefer to learn by example - which is maybe why, reading a book written for a neurotypical works better for me. There is something to be said for not only gaining the information but figuring out what perspective a neurotypical must be taking on this information from the way the book is written, which then gives me a further foothold.

Communicating Effectively for Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) - An excellent book, written for up and coming corporate wanna-bes. It explains what to do when and why from a really basic place, including example interactions. This is a great book for an aspie in a professional environment as it includes jut about every professional scenario you are likely to run into. Not only does it cover the technical how-to’s like phrasing…