A dramatic sky with orange clouds over residential houses and trees which are in darkness.

Red sky in the morning,
Dental warning 📷 🌅

The face pain dramatically improved last night. It was a miracle! I was in such a bad way and the sheer relief of having it all go away so quickly was mind blowing. I have arranged to see a dentist very soon. But I will have to pay :(

I got some fresh air and it’s been a pretty good day :)

New post incoming (well maybe in a few days) over on my aeryn.art blog (RSS) on Pika.

I will be linking from here tho :)

Please cross your fingers for me that I actually finish writing it 📝✏️

Today is a frosty, sunny day. It looks so pretty outside and I’m looking forward to getting out into it later.

Today has been extremely intense with tooth pain and kinda general face pain. I nearly went to hospital I was so completely overwhelmed and panicky with it. I was just at the end of what I could cope with. Luckily it’s all died down in the last few hours. I’ll be phoning dentists in the morning.

I’m listening to to an owl hooting outside nearby

I got some photography done on my computer tonight. Just a quiet night in dosed up with codeine, and Virgin River.

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I’ve gone and hurt another tooth in the other side of my mouth. Not sure how. Maybe I’m compensating when I eat. But holy swearwords this hurts.

I have a dodgy tooth and it’s been playing up the last couple of days. It’s probably going to need to be extracted at some point fairly soon.

Last night the pain was pretty horrendous, blooming across my face, and I got very little sleep. Just dozing in and out of wakefulnesss over and over again. So many times.

One thing face pain does for me is it really sends me into a deep meditative presence at times. What else is there to do? Pain is pain. If the painkillers aren’t killing it, then I can only experience it. It’s kinda fascinating watching it shift and change, fade in and out. Not that it helps it go away or anything.

Anyway. This morning my watch announced a cheerful congratulations that I’d hit my sleep goal.

🤷‍♀️

I find the sleep tracking to be pretty bad on this thing. One time it tracked me as asleep when I was actually playing Fortnite. I guess I really am a chill gamer. 🎮

I need to find a dentist.

I cried quite a bit during the first three episodes of Arcane Season 2.

I feel like something’s building up for a purge. It’s been a rough year.

Aaah. Fresh air! My first time outside for 7 days.

I’ve been tinkering with the custom CSS on my aeryn.me site again. Last time I kinda fucked it a little, and then left it like that for a couple of months because 🤷‍♀️. But it seems like I got it mostly how I like it now. But I still want to change the colours and make them just right 👌.

Me: *pours boiling water into a glass jar and rests lid on top*
Fly: why thank you, time for a swi 🪦

I have a couple of these tiny, floaty flies in my kitchen. They’re like inquisitive toddlers I have to watch whilst carrying on with my very important kitchen business.

Two overlapping orange Micro.blog stickers on a green work mat. They are shaped like a speech symbol with white borders and yellow star shapes in the centre.

I received my Micro.blog stickers just before Christmas. Yay! They came all the way from Oregon, from @jean. Thank you 🤩

Victory Royales feel so good 🎮

I went through a period of maybe a decade where I pretty much hated Christmas. I gradually realised that it was the seasonal bullshit I actually hated.

Over time I learned to love it again and learn what it meant to me, the truth of it. Until I decided to choose it and claim it for myself.

I learned a new word today: Twixmas. What a pile of suck!

Also. Snoopy has already stopped celebrating Christmas on my Apple devices. 😢

My own tradition is there are 12 days of Christmas and I like to keep with that. I’m sentimental but it’s the way I am.

I really hope I sleep properly tonight. I had such a bad night last night I ended up crashing again at 9am and waking at 12 noon. It’s killing me. Insomnia is the fkn worst.

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Me: *opens oven door and sets temperature for preheat*
Fly: thank you, I’ll make myself right at home in there

The last 2 days feels like a dream