on birth control, nausea, PCOS and school

Wow...it's been quite a couple of days.  I'd been having quite a bit of trouble with my PCOS flaring up, but my ever-loving husband pointed out that I ought to try the birthcontrol that I had stashed in the closet since May of 2009, and I took his word for it.  Within 30 minutes of me taking the first pill, the pain went away immediately.  Which surprised me, to say the least.  Since the 10th of this month, I've not had one ovarian pain.  Except for the lower back pain (which is cured with tylenol and ibuprofin, and tylenol pm as needed) and the moodiness along with the extreme nausea (which I think is caused by the hormones that my body isn't used to), I've been doing fantastic. 

On the ever-popular social networking site that I belong to, I'm getting tired of the drama.  I've been thinking about deleting my own personal site on the site that remains FACEless (ahem)...but it's sad, really, because I don't want to give up the progress I've made with one of the better known games on there.  I've put a lot of time into that game and the site itself, and a lot of personal family and friends are on there that I don't have regular contact with otherwise.  Not enough people read this blog, which is ok I guess for a starter, but still.... I dunno. 

Whaddya ya'll think?

Interesting thoughts and ideas

Have you ever thought what it'd be like if your life suddenly changed?  For example, say you're poor.  What would you feel like waking up a millionaire the next morning?  Or-what if you were filthy stinkin' rich, and you woke up poor as a church mouse?  Would your friends change, or would you just be in awe of what you have gotten into, either way?  I've been thinking about that-I wish one morning, my husband and I would be able to wake up filthy stinking rich.  He and I both don't want to be rich to show it off to people, we want to have nice things-who doesn't?  We want to use the money to glorify the name of our Lord.  Right now, he and I are so poor-but we're madly in love with each other.  He and I don't ask for much, we have the Lord in our hearts, a little food in our belly, and each other.  That's all we want. 

If he and I did have plenty of money, the first thing I would do would get the medical treatment I need in order to be healthier.  As many of my readers (ha) know, I suffer from PCOS.  It gets painful at times.  The cysts have been acting up and has been causing me pain.  Since I am uninsured, I cannot afford to go to the doctor for trivial things-they'd tell me to just deal with it and go home.  So I have been downing tylenol and ibuprofen like candy to just ease the pain a notch or ten, and have been trying to use the heating pad to keep the cramping to a minimum.  It's barely helped-but this too shall pass.

I have also been thinking of taking up writing stories again.  That's something I've always loved to do.  Some people its art, others music.  My niche is writing.  When I'm writing about fictional characters and their problems, the stresses and strains of living penny by penny just slip right out of my mind. 

What do you all do to ease your stress?