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I'm pretty sure that WAS a migraine I was fighting off for a couple days there, because it just wiped me OUT. I used to get migraines pretty regularly in college, usually as a response to stress. I'd make it through midterms or finals, usually with multiple all-nighters and days of panic (because that probably-ADHD made me a chronic procrastinator-yet-perfectionist), and as soon as it was over, I'd be laid out with a migraine for a couple days.

Now I still get them, but usually recognize it coming on... it'll be a low-level headache that rapidly gets worse, and comes with a lot of light sensitivity. If I catch it early enough, and take some ibuprofin/naproxen, hydrate, and get a nap in, I can almost always head it off.

This time I didn't get the photosensitivity, and nothing I did seemed to impact it at all. Ultimately, sleep seemed to chase it away, but I am still pretty tired and drained feeling.

We did also have a pretty big storm system come through today. It rained and had some extremely impressive thunder at work, but north a ways there was a tornado warning. (Literally yesterday I texted Alex about how we hadn't had many tornadoes this year in CO... didn't mean to summon one!)

I'm a little dismayed at how much of August is gone! I feel like the month just started, and I meant to put it on pause for a few days... and now it's three quarters over. But two more days of work, and then I've got more than a week off!!

But check out these great ravens that were hanging out on the fence near work. They were huge!

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But I have to catch them early enough. It's no good if I wake up with one. In fact, I've had to call into work twice when that happened.
Sometimes I use to just sit in my tub with the shower on cool and gentle with the lights out.

Alex has meloxicam for some of his chronic pain stuff, and sometimes he'll give me one if I'm really hurting and he's got enough.

If I wake up with a migraine, I'm FUCKED and I know it, ugh. I haven't had to call out of work over it for a pretty long time, but it's happened.

I gently warm or cool shower in the dark sounds like it would be actually tolerable, compared to most stuff that just makes me want to cry at the time, ha.

nice

Thank you!

I heard about the tornados that hit CO when I listened to TWC this morning and I thought about you. I'm glad you stayed safe.

We were safe! The warnings were for north of us, and fortunately no one I knew saw more than threatening funnel clouds.

Boo for migraine!

Yay for more than a week off.

DOUBLE YAY FOR RAVENS!!!! I'm looking forward to being in NC. I hear there are crows and ravens there.

Agreed with all of the above! The migraine can die, but I am SO EXCITED for the time off. One more day!

And yes, I love the ravens! Corvids of all kinds are among my favorites. Alex pointed out the other day that we have quite the bumper crop of magpies this year. They've been everywhere!

I'm just glad you're going to have more than one day off where you can rest and do stuff you want to do and just breathe!

Texas has grackles. I think there may be crows somewhere in this state, and for a while, there were apparently some ravens in Austin at Barton Springs park, but I haven't seen them. Mostly I just see grackles. And they're pretty, they are. But I want to see crows and ravens and magpies. I'm also pretty excited to be on the coast again because I miss seagulls. I miss them a lot.

Me too! I'm hoping it just gives me a break from the burnout, and maybe even helps me get back to writing again.

I like grackles well enough, with their rusty-gate-hinge calls and pretty iridescent feathers, but ravens/crows/magpies are always my faves. I didn't realize they were a rarity in TX!
Here we get lots of seagulls in parking lots, haha. Lots more variety in gulls at actual beaches!

I think giving you a break from the burnout, no matter what you do, will refresh and revive you and certainly clear your head and heart for more writing.

Grackles are pretty, no doubt. I like watching them - esp the males when they're puffing up and dancing around for the girls. But I want to be around crows and ravens. I want to collect their feathers for my altars and for gifts to people who have those two as spirit guides. Up here, we don't have seagulls. They're all over Corpus (and the T-Head and L-Head have tons of pelicans, and I miss those fuckers, too, with their big gaping mouths), but once I moved away from Corpus, I didn't see gulls anymore. The parks here have plenty of fucks and geese, cranes, herons because of the water in the parks, but no gulls, and I miss them. We have cardinals and blue jays and a few other wild birds like that, and they're pretty and I like seeing them a lot. I know that in NC I'll have all manner of similar birds but also some different wild ones.

Agreed! I think I just need the break and the replenishing, for sure.

We get white pelicans here on the lakes, though brown pelicans are pretty purely coastal. We have a running joke that pelicans are signs of the end times, because they're just so damn big.
("Fucks and geese", lmao. Usually it's my autocorrect insisting I meant "duck off".)
We don't get cranes here, but herons are always fun to see. Ducks and geese are beyond plentiful.
We do get lots of birds of prey, which I also love.
I enjoy songbirds, but my mom has always been a pretty avid birdwatcher, so I know I picked it up from her. Moving into a new region will let you see all kinds of new things, which I bet will be really neat!

I've never seen pelicans away from the coast. At least, not here. Maybe it'll be different in NC because we probably won't be living right ON the coast but one of the sounds, which'll have beaches of their own but then we'll be an hour tops away from ACTUAL oceanside beach, and I'm so, so, so excited about that. I've seen a few big gray herons but mostly it's the white cranes and egrets. We have them in as much abundances as the DUCKS and geese. (Fucks and geese...Jesus. I'm still getting used to a full-sized keyboard, and while I'm getting better, sometimes my fingers don't want to cooperate!) We have hawks here, as you've seen, but I don't see as many over in this house as I've seen at my aunt's but they'd perch on branches in the field behind her house because there were all manner of snakes and probably mice and bunnies there to feast on. Mostly here it's grackles and cardinals with the occasional blue jay. Lots of sparrows and those smaller birds that look like sparrows but aren't, and some of those have red heads. I haven't even heard woodpeckers over here, though there were ones by my aunt's.

I imagine that they prefer coastlines, but I bet even those smaller beaches along the sounds will get lots of coastal birds!

I just love that for once "duck" became "fuck" instead of the other way around! :D

Cardinals are one of the few birds that we don't get in Colorado that I wish we did. (I mean, I'm sure there are more! But cardinals are a very iconic one that we don't ever get here.) I'm always excited when I see them when we're traveling.

My guess is the other sparrow-like ones are finches. We have loads of house finches here, and the males can be really vibrantly red sometimes!

Woodpeckers are always fun to see. We get flickers very commonly, and both harry's and downy woodpeckers aren't *rare* to see. I miss acorn woodpeckers from NM. And I've never gotten to see a pileated woodpecker, but you might on the east coast!

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