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First, in honor of Evil Commercial Pink Sheep day [ECPS for short]… it happens every February 14th.

Let me explain: it’s Evil because the it’s other name is ‘Midwinter depression day’. Commercial is for the fact that it is now a completely commercial entity whatever its roots may have been. Pink because that’s what a good chunk of the crap relating to this holiday is coloured (and usually the more awful shades). And Sheep because that’s what all who celebrate it are.

So here’s my challenge, next year do not buy anything (large, pink, chocolate, roses, or otherwise non-essential to daily life. Do still get groceries and the milk from the corner store) between Feb 1 and 14. Talk to your sweetie and pick a different day for the two of you. A less commercial more intimate day.

Second, Breakups.

For those concerned let me start with the fact that S and I have not broken up at the time of writing. But another friend and her previous other half have; while another is threatening to break up with his gf because she cleaned his desk. And this has lead me to thinking, what are the number 1 cause of the breakups you’ve heard about lately?

This is a sadly diminutive post. Here’s hoping for more on Sunday.

So I decided I’d write a somewhat maudlin and self serving post about the cause of my missed post yesterday. Migraines. For those looking for wit, humour, or my usual sarcasm I’d recommend skipping today’s post.

For those who’ve never experienced one, you have my envy. For those who’ve had one, you’ll have had your own variation on what I describe here, but the only consistent symptom, I’m aware of at any rate, to migraines is the pain and associated stopping of life to await it’s passing.

I got my first one when I was a teenager. At the time I didn’t realize all the things that would make it worse (light, caffeine, noise, etc), I simply went through my day a zombie until I could get home and hide in the dark and quiet. Eventually my mother took me to the herbal store for a supplement to help decrease the frequency and severity. I took it daily for a quite a number of years and still take it on occasion when I’m aware I’ve been exposed to a migraine trigger. In my early twenties, I had my wisdom teeth removed and, although I didn’t immediately make the correlation because I was still taking the supplement daily, the migraines frequency dropped down.

Most often I get light and sound sensitive migraines which makes functioning or talking to people similar to taking a big hammer and hitting your head or hand with it every time you open your eyes or your mouth. I’ve only rarely had the migraines that included nausea, vibration sensitivity, and I’m rather thankful for that. I can’t imagine how much worse it must feel to know that going to the washroom is necessary, but that the motion is going to hurt and when you get their you’ll be trying to hurl contents you may not have out of your stomach. At least with mine I just look weird wandering around in really dark shades and ear plugs indoors.

On a bizarre recollection note, I actually had a horrible migraine the first time I ever met S - I forget why I was convinced I needed to be at A’s gathering that evening, but I was… dark shades, wincing at people’s voices and all. The romantic readers will suggest that it was to ensure I met him and sadly I don’t have a really good counter argument for that statement.

Or is this an old plan revisited? Meh.

I was out at a social web/media gathering earlier this week and it was good fun. Met some interesting people and realized that maybe I don’t always have to be travelling to have something to write about. Maybe I can just write out different topics…

You know, write something instead of reporting things. So that’s the new goal - each Sunday I’m going to post something. Not necessarily something new, perhaps an old poem or story snippet. But I’ve noticed lately that my public speaking, languages, and writing have all gone down hill so here’s hoping practice will improve at least the writing and public speaking in English aspects of them. For the other languages I don’t know what to do - the asian ones are on my iPod, but I’m driving to and from work instead of taking public transit at present so that means the radio in the car and the office is not the place to be talking back to an iPod :-S

Any suggestions on how to polish my languages again without travelling? Or on topics to blog about for this Sunday?