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Post 1

Sea Change

Hello dear! smiley - kisssmiley - kiss

I was in hospital or recovering from ventral fibrillation mid- to late- Jan, and then was Stupid on Lanoxin for the next four months, so I missed the Superbowl ads this year. Do you remember any to tell? smiley - cheerup

I read OK lists for awhile, and I am just too old, and too crotchety (and impatient with the time investment with the security on each page) for the style of conversation. I had many conversations like that back in college, and they were deeply engrossing at the time. I keep on meaning to go to Michael's to make you a friendship bracelet and bring it to an OK event, but laziness and a fear of my water getting 'accidentally' GHBed prevent.

I wasn't able to get my self-portraits to shink to the available size and retain the detail I wanted. I had finally found my nude photoes of me I traded a professional photographer some watercolors for, but haven't dared to get them scanned to give them to Roxy yet. I would be amused to see the OK reaction, though. smiley - evilgrin


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Post 2

Maria d J Gutierrez

Laoxin? Is that all? I've got a line up of meds that impresses even my fellow chronic pain clinic members. I still have never been hospitalized. I think it would all go away (except for the ADHD) within a week of quitting the job that I've spent all of five days at since sometime around March. I managed to miss the superbowl too! Well, I didn't watch it, but I really didn't miss it. My water has never been GHBed! Of course I can't say I remember having water at any event other than Burning Man and then it was never off my person. Ever been to Burning Man? I think everybody should be at least once. I saw seven of the most beautiful sunrises of my life in that week. I'm still shocked at how many fire eaters I know, and fire hoola hoopers too. Nude photos? I don't thing you'd raise an eyebrow in that clan with anything so tame. I've seen most of those people naked without trying. Watercolors? That sounds nice. I still haven't had my portrait painted though I paid for it in May of last year. 4,000 smackeroos and that was half the regular price according to the Venice Family Clinic Artwalk folk. I did finally meet the artist yesterday. The security is a pain and it's completely nullified by half the list having their OKmail forwarded to their regular email addresses, but I've grown tired of telling them that. Kids, what can you do? It was fun for those of us who didn't go to Burning Man this year with the virus sending each of us something in the neighborhood of 300 emails. Are your Ventrals all better now? What's a Ventral and how does it fibrillate? I have fibromilalgia! Cause unknown, no cure, no determainative test! I still feel like a hypocondriac, and a stupid one at that. The pain jumps around with no rhyme or reason and stays for anywhere from a few minutes to six months. I couldn't make up a less beliveable set of symptoms. Really, if I just chucked the job I'd be fine, I know it. No idea how I'm going to pay the rent this month. Not the first time I'm afraid, difference is that I don't go nuts about anything anymore. Maybe a combination of the drugs and the fact that I've strayed from my catholic upbringing to be the most non conservatively religious person I know. Did you know that heaven is here, overlaying this world, the way microwaves and radiowaves do, only since it vibrates at a much higher frequency, it's three feet above us? No, really, it is. My little home is going to be a guest on House Hunters on HGTV! A friend works as a PA and needed a place to pad a show and I offered up my crackerbox. He sent a postcard with the air date: October 23, check your local listings for the time. I don't have either cable TV or a VCR so I hit up a neighbor to tape it for me. She says I could go over and watch it with her. I don't have a microwave or a coffee maker either. I do, however, have a cat that likes graham crackers, begal crust pizza, and oat bran cereal. She fits right in here. smiley - smiley


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Post 3

Sea Change

Lanoxin is not all, but it's the one that makes me stupid. We both have FM-the drugs I take don't seem to work on you, only in my case the drugs I was taking that actually worked on it set my heart off.

The left ventricle of my heart has an electrical abnormality that is just called Ventral Fibrillation. I've lived in a commune where it was considered amusing to dose the animals, and the OK seem like the type who would be curious about that, too, based on conversations I have read. I have been at a circuit party where you almost got GHB by contact because it was so pervasive. GHB is deadly to my condition, so in a way I could be considered as paranoid than the Orangers.

I dream of going to Japan and to Burning Man, but know I'm too much of a coward to actually go either place.

Don't know a thing about HGTV. Tried watching it and nearly went comotose from boredom, but the commercials kept me awake.

My Siamese are mad for Pringles.


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Post 4

Maria d J Gutierrez

I've never heard of GHB being at any OK event nor heard of anything ever been spiked without everyone knowing what is spiked with what. They really are a very considerate bunch. Quite a few of them work in places that do drug tests or have to submit to drug tests for other reasons, so "no thanks" is never a big deal. Besides, I can't imagine any of them wasting the money or the drugs on someone who whouldn't appreicate the gesture. There's no shortage of people who would. There are people in the group who NEVER touch alcohol, and would rather die then smoke a cigarette, and vegitarians and vegans galore. They tolerate everything but intolerance. I remember that your wrists would keep you from typing too long. That still the case? My cat is a tuxedo type but since she was found in a gutter, along with her three sisters, she's a mutt. smiley - smiley


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Post 5

Sea Change

Still not typing lots, yes.

So, two posts and no mention of your dogs? What do they think of the feline?

Got some beads today. Finally found the ones I wanted in Burbank. How big around is your wrist or ankle?


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Post 6

Maria d J Gutierrez

wrist is just short of 6.5 inches around. no use measuring my ankle, i'd never wear something there. ankle jewelrey just seems trashy. one of the OKs, ryan, just got a reoccuring role on days of our lives. he didn't even have to audition for it, he says, the casting director remembered him from something he did a while back. the fact that he is better looking than most models probably had nothing to do with it. smiley - smiley


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