Thankful for November!

I'm going to try this again - I've been trying to write for several days but none of my words seemed right. We'll see if this makes the cut.

Thank goodness for November! I love October - I'm a huge fan of the colors and the weather was blissful, I have no complaints. I don't care too much for Halloween - I was in a hurry to pack up all the costumes in the BigHouse Clothes Closet and put away our Fall Festival stuff. Our House is actually in amazing shape right now. Well, considering the fact that there are two of us on staff and neither Micah nor I are self-proclaimed clean freaks. Thank goodness - we would get nothing accomplished otherwise! We did have someone volunteer to clean for us yesterday though and that was glorious. Anyway, so I had some of our volunteers put up the BigHouse Christmas tree today. Mainly because otherwise they won't get to enjoy it much since the college students will basically be gone after Thanksgiving. But I didn't get out the ornaments yet...that will be another day. Savor.. :)

Headaches - well, there haven't been any miraculous days like October 21st. Yeah, bummer, trust me - I know. I struggled with coping last week - either b/c of hormones or the medicine or the return of intense pain, I don't know. I started practicing meditation again for 45 minutes a day, and that seems to help. I go back to the neurologist on Tuesday, so I'll find out then what the next things to try will be. I'm guessing he'll want to keep me on Zonegran and see how I do at 400mg for at least a month. Currently my biggest concern is the loss of appetite I'm already having with it (at only half a dose). It's frighteningly similar to Topamax (*shudder*) but at least stuff doesn't taste weird (yet..?). I'm still hoping there's another miracle day in that bottle of pills. If so, it will be worth it. If not, I guess it was worth it anyway - it's not like I was expecting anything.