Lisa

Now for an update about me…

So you might have seen the update about Davey I posted a little while ago.  Now how about an update about myself?  :) This has been a crazy few months, hence the lack of posts – reviews or personal.  If you’ve been following my blog you know I moved in with my mom in January.  Any kind of changes in my life can easily either make me manic or put me in a funk.  Whether it’s a good change or a bad change makes no difference on whether I will be come manic or depressed. You would think a good change like moving in with my mom, something I was excited about, would make me manic, right?  Nope, I wound up in a funk, which only got worse because of dealing with some problems with my teenage brother and getting stressed out about that.  I finally pulled out of the funk about 2 or 3 weeks ago.  I’ve been playing catchup on both blogs and doing just fine. Then over the past week or so I’ve noticed I’m very easily irritable, and while I feel fine in the morning and early afternoon, as the day goes on I start feeling [...]

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The Joys of Being Bipolar

I am finally out of a bad funk that I was in for about a month or so.  I let myself get overwhelmed and stressed out with my 2 blogs and all I needed to do, and while I kept plugging away at it for most of that time, the week before last I just didn’t do anything.  I also tended to neglect Just Davey & Me, while focusing more on Mommy and Me Giveaways.  This is the reason for the lack of giveaways lately. I took most of a week off from both blogs to just chill out and not stress about it all and that helped quite a bit.   Last week was our Home Sweet Home event on Mommy and Me Giveaways, and I did my best to get back in the swing of things then.  I got behind a couple of days.  One night I even skipped my mania meds because I get the most accomplished when I stay up all night.  Well that backfired, since I wasn’t really manic to begin with and I have been so tired lately.  I got a couple of posts done on Mommy and Me, then got a tiny bit [...]

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Dieting and Quitting Smoking

Dieting and quitting smoking — the two don’t really go together, do they?  Well that is what I am about to be doing, both of them!  I had a doctor’s appointment today to get refills on my inhaler, and this led to the decision to go on a diet, exercise, and quit smoking. I have been smoking regularly since I was 13 (and on occasion until then since I was 10).  I’m 29 now.  I’ve also had asthma since I was a baby, so of course I really never should have started smoking, but kids think they are invincible and don’t think about the long-term effects.  I started smoking because it was “cool” and honestly, because I liked it and how it made me feel.  But now, many years later, it has taken its toll on me.  About 5 years ago I had to see a pulmonologist because my asthma was so bad.  It flares up bad about twice a year.  But that year it was flaring up much more often than that.  Until my doctor finally prescribed a nebulizer for me, I was in the ER about once a week getting breathing treatments because my inhaler wasn’t enough to [...]

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All moved in!

So I mentioned before that I was moving, and that was why I had to give up Brielle.  My mom and I had some plans for the house I was living in, and were hoping to buy it and build a little guest house in the backyard for my mom, and then my friend was also going to move in later when her daughter graduates…  but that didn’t quite work out how we planned.  My mom and I have been going back and forth on this for awhile and finally decided I should move back into my mom’s house and then my friend will move in here with us when her daughter graduates in May.  And my mom doesn’t want pets in the house, hence the giving up Brielle. So I moved back into my mom’s about a week ago.  The move itself wasn’t too bad this time because I didn’t actually have to pack and unpack very much.  I moved things over in plastic bins for the most part and just unpacked as I moved and reused the bins.  I was all moved and settled in within a couple of days. Now the big problem is adjusting and disciplining [...]

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A blogger’s life, for me anyway…

I have been asked by quite a few people how to start a review blog.  My friends and family see me getting all this free stuff, and they think it’s awesome and want to do it themselves.  Most people don’t realize the kind of work that goes into a review blog.  Most people don’t see the hours I put into my other blog, and will soon be putting into this blog too.  I always tell them upfront it is a LOT more work than it sounds like and even spend up to an hour typing out instructions on how to start a blog.  Not a single one of them has actually started a blog.  They all apparently decide it is more work than they want and change their minds.  Here is a little peek into my blogger life for you.  I know this isn’t how it is for every blogger out there, but my other blog has become a very successful blog (and hopefully this one will too!) and it is because my co-bloggers and I put in this kind of work to it.  Here is a peek at my blogger life this year… I have been working myself to [...]

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Just another Manic… um… Sunday!

aspergerstraits

I’m bipolar.  I was diagnosed about 8 years ago, and treated for severe clinical depression for about 6 years before that, since I was 15.  For the most part I’m perfectly fine on my medication, however in the past year or so I’ve been more prone to bouts of mania and we have to play with the dosage on my mania meds.  Lately I’m having a lot of manic nights, staying up all night blogging or pitching companies.  Like last night.  I get obsessive about things and then I can’t shut my mind down so I can sleep.  To be honest, I’m not totally sure it is actually mania though. Since I am dealing with Davey possibly being on the autism spectrum, I have been talking with a good friend a lot who was a school psychologist, has 2 kids on the autism spectrum, and has Asperger’s herself.  She told me about a year ago that she thinks I was misdiagnosed with  my various diagnoses and that I actually have Asperger’s.  I have been diagnosed with bipolar, depression, general anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, ADD, borderline personality disorder, and dissociative problems in the past.  That is a lot of diagnoses [...]

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