@Samanthabwriter How fun!

@AskTheDevil It's either I picked this body out of compassion for someone else, or God nerfed me (pick a God, any god), or my body has the bones and joints of someone born in 600BCE because that's when I was born.

I let other people decide which seems most likely.

@AskTheDevil It also wouldn't fix my kneecaps. They move of their own accord. Although wearing a slight heel (2inch or so) usually prevents hyperextensions and dislocations.

I went for a massage. My massage therapist said I should see a doctor so I got to have the fun experience of trying to explain rib subluxation and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome in my very broken Korean. My massage therapist is horrified, but I feel better.

A friend has pointed out that multiple books on my writing docket qualify as "I Survived And Now It's Definitely Your Problem" as well as "Fake Hating".

I'm not apologizing for this.

Okay, fine, I'll make my own choices.

... I'm going to go see if my sewing machine works so I can sew together a pirate coat and embroidery it while I watch Bridgerton (it's getting a treasure map, dragons, sea monsters, and a Chinese junk on it).

Hello, internet, I need to use you as my brain this morning.

WHAT AM I WORKING ON?

- I Survived And Now It's Definitely Your Problem
- I'd Cross The World To Find You
- Ren Faire Pirate Coat (not a book)
- Update The Blog
- Fake Hating
- Started Out On The Bottom And Now My Enemies Perish

Random Internet Person: I'm introducing myself to [Author Liana Knows].

Me: Oh! You'll love them! They're so sweet! Are you going to the [favorite brunch place] with them?

Random Internet Person: I meant I'm going to start reading their books... o.0

Me: Oh... kay. Start with [Book 1].

I'm disabled all the time. If you see me putting up memes and making jokes, it's because I'm having a really bad pain day and laughing at the brokeness of my body makes it easier to stay alive.

@AskTheDevil This also means future surgeries are really, *really* not recommended. Because, yes, drilling a hole in my kneecap and looping a muscle through it would keep it from dislocating, but I'd need the surgery every five years and I'd be doing it without meds.

It's not happening.

@AskTheDevil The confusion is that I'm a chronic pain patient. I have dislocated joints a couple times a day. My body is a wreck and should be buried.

... and pain killers don't work. Opiods don't work. We have yet to find a way to treat my pain and we found this out during a c-section because I thought otc pain killers were placebos. People took the bitter tictac and said they felt better, but I never did. So I figured they were better at faking it.

@AskTheDevil That's an excellent word.

@AskTheDevil It's even more fun when they mix languages.

Kaja in Korean means "Let's Go". It's already a verb. But Youngest will steal it and add the English verb ending so she says, "I'm kajaing."

@AskTheDevil I love using archaic language that my kids pick up and then use to the bewilderment of teachers.

"Your child keeps calling the day after tomorrow 'overmorrow' and we don't know why."

"Overmorrow literally mean The Day After Tomorrow."

o.o

Part of the Spoonie Life is getting to explain to befuddled doctors that, no, that medicine will not actually work. Explaining that I can't take the standard array of pain meds to new drs is always super, super fun. I guess they don't cover disabilities in med school.

I have been informed there will be a street festival this weekend with lumpia. If you aren't familiar with lumpia, you need some Filipino friends who love you enough to feed you.

@AskTheDevil I've only ever heard obfusticate and even that one I don't hear regularly.

@Oma_Trisha That sounds lovely. Enjoy your evening.

Okay, [group name for people on this website], it's 9am, let's check the to-do list and see what needs doing. I strongly suspect I need to spend the morning finishing the book that's due to my editor in a few weeks. So. Fun.

*goes to pay bills instead*