Chris Mathieson

Forget trans people in sports, we need to monitor spelling bees and math olympiads for Tylenol doping.

Isn’t that the very definition of unfair advantage?

On the upside, I can still go to work, and sit in a lovely garden with amazing wifi. ;)

Cov+ damnit!

A female character from Tron: Legacy, sitting in a couch.

Today, I met Gem.

Since it’s my 50th birthday next week, give me your most unhinged suggestions on what I could do for my “mid-life crisis”.

Less than two weeks until my 50th birthday. DM me if you want to be invited. :)

Microsoft CoPilot is pushy to the point of feeling like a clingy ex.

I’m sorry, MSFT, you’re not getting pity sex out of me.

A poster for a garage sale, listing items and full of dogs towards her ex husband.

I have epic neighbours.

You’ve *maybe* lived half your years, but that doesn’t mean you’ve had half your experiences. :)

The average lifespan is 76, but if you’ve lived through childhood, you’re very likely to exceed the average significantly. :)

Plus three coffees, assorted vitamins, kitty snuggles, multiple hugs and a mindful pause before the frenetic wave of all these steroids, hormones and stimulants hit me. :D

This morning’s medications include:

50mg prednisone
1000mg NAC
10mg cetirizine
60mg biphentin
4 puffs 100mcg salbutamol (ventalin)
2 puffs budesonide / glycopyrronium / formoterol fumarate (breztri)
2 puffs 20mcg ipratropium bromide (atrovent)

When somebody tells you they hung out at The Haçienda in Manchester back-in-the-day, you’re clearly in the presence of someone cooler than most of the people you’ve ever met.

The Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away.

It’s gettin’, it’s gettin’, it’s gettin’ kind of hectic.

The Peach Pit boys getting ready to shoot a music video in a teal truck.

The Peach Pit buys playing Nintendo with a 7yo kid.

If you want to impress her, tell her that the boys borrowed my truck to film the “Lookout” video. And then my kid played Nintendo with the band, heh,

If I had a nickel for every astrophysicist I’ve met since I moved to Keremeos, I’d have nearly a dollar.

Boundary-setting sucks sometimes, even if it’s necessary.

I know exactly who you’re speaking of, and you’re bang on.

In-laws. Ugh.

In the last few years I’ve developed an awful histamine reaction to all forms of alcohol. An instant snotty, itchy mess.

How am I supposed to let someone get me drunk and take advantage of me now?!?

Was I anxiously attached *before* I married an avoidant on the spectrum? :D

Never got offered a sponge bath, but did learn the cheat code for unlimited ice cream and popsicles. “I’m feeling a little warm…”

Keeping up with respiratory virus immunizations will be key for a long and happy life.

The bad news is learning that there is permanent damage to my lungs, but no change in life expectancy.

End of day three in the hospital for Influenza A + Pneumonia + Asthma = breathing crisis.

O2 blood sats are still only 95% with oxygen support, but the infections are clearing and I showered myself today. Huzzah!

A photo of me in a hospital bed

Awash in antibiotics.

Think of it as weaponized incompetence’s mirror in a common unhealthy household dynamic.

In your experience and countless others. But “pigsty” is a very subjective thing, and my whole point is that many women have been conditioned to have unrealistic expectations of order and tidiness, and that trauma gets passed on to their partners.

I try do equal labour around the house and in parenting, emotional and otherwise, but also demand to be equal in setting standards and priorities. Women have a lot of social conditioning to let go of, too.