varicella zoster

published: 2024.09.08
tagged: girlblogging, kpop
by mana

now playing – toumin shoujo by BiSH

so, first thing’s first: I currently have shingles. for those of you too young to know what shingles is: congratulations, sincerely. I mean that. I had chicken pox in 1991 and the first varicella vaccine wasn’t available widely in the USA until 1995, so needless to say, I’ve had chicken pox before (when I was very young). Shingles is what we call the re-emergence of the same virus that causes chicken pox later on in life (since it can live in your nerve cells, usually dormant). Since we don’t fully understand what causes the virus to re-emerge, I don’t know why it chose now to do so, but I am lucky in that my partner had a bout of it a few years ago, so I knew what was happening (and how serious it was) as soon as the rash formed.

I made it into my doctor the same day, which was amazing, I’m glad they were able to work me in so quickly, and I’m on medication for it, but as a result any plans I’ve had recently (specifically for working on the site) have had this varicella-shaped-wrench thrown in them :’3

So in addition to being the itchiest I have been in some time, I’ve been working on a rework of this website. While I do like the current layout, it’s more of a “can I do this kind of thing” and not quite what I really wanted to achieve, and I’ve been experimenting more with css & html and have a new layout in the works I sincerely hope everyone will like (if you don’t, I like it, so uhh…sorry?). Also the new version should be even more responsive for my phone & tablet-screen homies!) :D

I’m almost done watching the K-pop survival program “R U Next?” which the group Illit was formed from. I’m really enjoying it, though the last few episodes have been harder to watch bc they’re so emotional. You can really tell all the girls are doing their best and poor Chanelle is going through it ;w; she did, however, end up debuting in the new FIFTY FIFTY lineup. their new comeback, starry night, is really good and I like it a lot, so I’m glad it ended up being a happy ending for Chanelle bc she is clearly having a really hard time in this show ;w;

I ended up buying Fields of Mistria a few days ago and have been getting pretty into that, in addition to finally getting a good modlist together for Stardew Valley, so I’ve been alternating those two a bunch lately. basically as soon as I run into a bug or force close in Fields of Mistria (since it is currently in Early Access, there’s still some kinks to be worked out ^^;;), I’ll swap to playing Stardew for a bit. I’m also working on a modlist of my current playthrough of SDV, so look forward to that and some mod recommendations once I get the layout finished!

I hit 1000 questions answered on my retrospring! I had plans to answer every single generatable question as a celebration of my 1000 question milestone, so I guess that will be my next blog post :3 please look forward to it!