Update 5/9/15

Long time no post. Sorry about that guys! I’ve been busy with life, starting my own business and lots of changes – some that haven’t even finished.

Hopefully I’ll get back to posting writing as well as cooking post and maybe my adventures with chainmaille jewelry.

While I’m here, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check out my business Turnbuckle Cupcakes! We do wrestling inspired cupcakes as well as wrestling, cupcake, and fandom crochets and chainmaille jewelry (coming soon). You can find us here:

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Please check us out and spread the word! We’re trying to raise the money so we can work a booth at WrestleCade!

Hey everybody! Myself and my friend JulieAnn have started our own business! After months of talking, designing, figuring details out and such, we are proud to give you Turnbuckle Cupcakes! Cupcakes inspired by wrestlers (and wrestling in general)! Please go like our page as we work on fixing it up as well as selling cupcakes! We also have set up a twitter and a pinterest so please go follow those! And remember….

Turnbuckle Cupcakes…. where the smackdown is in your mouth!

I swear I have not forgotten about this  blog. Life though has thrown me multiple curve balls since my birthday. My grandma broke both arms, had surgery on both, stayed in the hospital (that has half a hour to a hour and half away) for a month and has been home only a little over a month and my mom and I have been taking care of her. Plus there’s been issues with school and every other aspect of my life. Also I have a new responsibility as I’m in charge of and lead a Wrestling Club at my local library.

I swear I’ll get back to posting when I’m able.

Thank you guys for sticking around ❤

 

-Brandy

Just got a notice that I’ve been on WordPress for a year! Hard to believe that I’ve had this blog for a year and have managed to keep updating it (shh, let’s not talk about the time in between posts – it’s better than any other blog I’ve ever had).

I want to say thank you to everyone who reads this blog that likes my poems and stories that I post along with my cooking experiences. Thank you and here’s to another year!

Hi guys,

Alright so I’m gonna be heading back to school soon so I can’t say for sure when I’ll update next or anything but hopefully soon (watch me come up with a poem in a few haha). I may get tons of inspiration while at school so who knows?

Anyway, there’s a story behind this (isn’t there always?). You see, I was homeschooled for a few years after my mom pulled me out of the middle school I was in part way through the first half of 7th grade. Then I went to return to public school and instead of putting me in 11th, they put me in 10th. Okay fine. Except my fibromyalgia was starting to show it’s self and so we had to deal with that and the school I was going to wouldn’t work with us and they wouldn’t work with me the next year either. Finally they told my mom to just keep me out of school and even told her and myself to just let myself quit school or go to this college for my GED. Of course they didn’t fly so well with either one of us. What’s so bad is I was making nearly straight A’s in every class but because I was going in and out of the hospital, having tons of doctor appointments and on lots of medicine, including narcotic pain medicine, I was punished for it and was failed time and time again except for about one or two classes where the teachers knew what was going on (all of them did but only a few cared).

But finally we got some people to listen and work with us. So I’ll be going back to a school where I’ll be able to work at my own pace so I won’t have to wait for other students to catch up and I’ll be able to work online as well so if I have to be at home, I’ll still be able to work which is great because the fibro loves making it hard for me to lay down and I have insomnia as well and you know what they say, everything’s connected.

I’ll have to wear a uniform but that’s not so bad (black or blue slacks, white button up shirt and burgundy tie) and it seems that the only days I’d have to be at the building (when I could be) would be Monday through Thursday.

I’m nothing but a pile of nerves. My stomach is in knots and I’m just really excited but then also so bloody damn nervous. I want to go shopping for my uniform and the few things I need for school and I want it to go ahead and start but at the same time I’m like, ‘Fuck!’, so fucking nervous.

Anyhow, I just wanted to give you guys an update. I hope anyone who is returning to school has a great school year and those of you who aren’t returning to school you too better have a great year.

Till next time!

Quick update! I updated my ‘About Me’ page

Quick update! I updated my ‘About Me’ page and also my ‘Where To Find Me’ page.

Long time no post, right? Well, it’s only been a little over a month but anyhow… Sadly, I don’t come with a new poem, cooking post or anything like that. Just one of my lovely rambling posts. I’m still struggling with my thumb/hand issue which we thought had cleared up but now we’re not so sure as the pain is returning and I can’t write too long at a time. And on top of that I’ve gotten sick and what was thought to be a sinus infection, may not be or may have something else on top of it. Fun, right?

…

Okay, so I really have no idea what this post should be about. I have ideas sure, but nothing I really feel like writing about right now. So, I guess this post serves as an, ‘I’m alive I swear and I haven’t forgotten about this blog!’ kind of post.

Though I do have one thing to talk – uh, blog about. I started to kind of keep a journal again. I say, ‘kind of’ as I don’t write in it everyday. I just write when I have something to ramble about that I know no one cares about or about things that I need to get off my chest as well as quotes, random drawings, lyrics, and so on. I’ve already realized a few things, thanks to it as it seems I manage somehow to always get off topic or find something to write about (*cough* so unusual, right?).

I know there are people that write in their journals (or diaries if you prefer) everyday, detailing every bit of their lives or those that write whenever they need to and then there are those who can’t keep a journal to save their life. And honestly, that was me when I was younger. I’d write when something would happen or when family drama would happen but eventually I just stopped. I actually found three of my old journals over a month ago and that’s kind of how I got back into using a journal.

And now I have no idea of how to finish up this post. From the time I started this post to now has been over two hours and my thoughts have gotten shifted around, emotions messed up and family drama just piled on top of everything along with idiots. So I’m not quite sure what I wanted to bring up with this post.

I do wonder about how other people keep up with their journals, if they do. Do they feel the need to detail every part of their life or just the important parts aka things that changed them or things that want to always remember? Is it filled with quotes and lyrics that they love? Are there little drawings in the corners, along the words or right in the middle of the page? Do they write in straight lines or do they start in a corner or have the page upside down or what? Everyone has their own style and it shows, I think in the way people keep their journals, diaries or even their blogs. There’s people that haven’t updated their’s in months or years while some are updated everyday or every couple of weeks.

I dunno, but I guess that really, I just think that you can find out a lot abut a person and who they are with how they keep a journal, without even having to read any of it. And I guess that’s it for this ramble session.

Till next time!

Time for a little update. Yesterday I had my orthopedics appointment about my hand. I got a cortisone shot, found out what I had (and its a different tendonitis than the one I had before and that yes the first issue started the second issue)  and also I was informed that I would have to wear my thumb immobilizing splint for six whole weeks 24/7. Which means that typing is hard because of the splint and all the typos I keep making thanks to it (I literally deleted this whole post by clicking on some wrong keys and I could only rescue the second half so I had to retype the first part).

So it’s gonna be slow like molasses around here for a bit longer.

In other news, I came up with a new novel in the shower yesterday and wrote pretty much the first chapter in my head while still in the shower. Once I got out of the shower, I quickly turned on my laptop and typed out what I had and I wrote the first two chapters (sort of as the second one may get more added to it) in about an hour. It’s a supernatural themed novel. Just what I needed… another novel to not work on.

Hopefully I’ll have some more writing or recipes to share (my grandma may be getting a new stove for the house today which means if not today, than some time soon I’ll be able to actually bake things!) and maybe I’ll share some photography, though I’m not 100% on that or how to work it. Maybe I could post a list of questions and you, my dear followers could ask the questions?

Either hopefully, I’ll have a new post up as soon as I can.

Till next time!

I feel bad for this but this is yet another ‘sorry I haven’t been posting but I have reasons why and reasons why I won’t be posting that much in the upcoming future’ post.

Back in February, I mentioned about being in a splint so I couldn’t really type. Well since then, I have been put in a resting splint and put on steroids and currently I’m in a thumb immobilizing splint and on more steroids for a longer period of time. I can still type a bit but not much and sadly, lots of typos are made.  But really, the issue is that it hurts to type, especially for long periods of time or to do much at a time.

So, even though I don’t post every day, every other day or hell, every week… I thought you guys deserved to know what was going on, what with the fact that in the past few months, I’ve spent more time in splints then without them and now I’m on my second round of steroids and this may continue on past my next appointment in about two weeks.

Hopefully though, I’ll soon have things to post or at least ideas of things to post. I’ll try and keep you guys updated so hopefully you won’t unfollow. I promise that I will eventually post something!

 

National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

Facebook Event for National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

An event I created for National Fibromyalgia Awareness Day. I’d like it if people could join the event to show their support for people dealing with fibromyalgia. So far the page just has info about fibromyalgia, how to show support (via wearing a purple ribbon and/or a purple butterfly) and a link to a pledge to show your support for the person or people in your life, dealing with fibromyalgia.

Hopefully, we’ll have an event (or two…) set up, which would be exciting. They’d be in the North Carolina area as that’s where I live.

Please reblog to share or just go join the event (yes, it is public to everyone) and hey talk about fibromyalgia, give ideas on how to spread awareness, link others to cool sites with fibromyalgia clothes that warn people not to say, “But you don’t look sick!”, share an event (or events) going on in your area or just join to show your support.

Thank you 🙂