busybee fluffy rambles

Wow, I’m really glad I recently switched from pay-by-the-mile insurance back to traditional monthly insurance. My car’s been getting a lot more activity in the last few weeks (and the monthly rate on my insurance is lower than the base rate on the by-the-mile anyway).

Which is to say I’ve been driving around a lot to look at quite a few places. Some of them have been pretty interesting. Others have been… “interesting.”

What are some of the things going on in my life? Ugh, where to start.

Stuff I want to work on:

• Refactor
• Lewi and Unity
• Music in general
• Publ:
  • A post editor/submission system (particularly so that I can move my drawing group’s site off of Tumblr, and also so that I can enable public comic transcriptions again)
  • A native comment system
  • Also the rather large list of things I want to do to Publ itself
• Subl
• A game for Strawberry Jam

Stuff I need to work on:

• The day job
• Finding a better housing situation than my current condo

Stuff I have the energy to work on:

I’ve been on guanfacine for about a month now, and I still haven’t stopped feeling drowsy and tired all day, to the point that I’ll often just fall asleep in the middle of things. Even when I’m doing things like grocery shopping I’ll suddenly feel really tired and need to take a couple moments to brace myself. It’s almost like it’s causing narcolepsy or something.

Last week I talked about this with my psychiatrist and we decided to try combination therapy with strattera, a stimulant-based med, since my ADHD responded well to the Adderall (aside from my blood pressure spiking badly).

So far, it hasn’t been helping at all. I’m getting the panic and anxiety from stimulants, while also being drowsy all day. What’s even worse is I’m also getting frequent muscle spasms, which is apparently a common reaction to some ADHD meds. And ironically, the treatment for that? Guanfacine.