Fun at EurekaPalooza~!

Well well. EurekaPalooza was an amazing event. It was my first year and blew my lil’ mind~! So organized and playful. Great people helping out and tons of fun things to do. 

I didn’t dare squeeze my fat butt into the ‘Orbitron’…but man I wanted to.

I brought Wanda along for the first part of the day…she LOVED it. Had a little picnic and totally fell for ‘Handmade Moments’ and ‘Magic Mule’. Then it was her nap-time and she had to scoot.

Karen the Queen Organizer was everywhere…I hope she gets her own nap soon…with a foot rub and cookies. This is the best shot I got of her. She was just too fast~!

I don’t know who this guy is…but man oh man, was he doing it right…that’s some luxury there, folks. ha~!

Two of our favorites also visited, Water and the Sun…they really got us growing~!

At one point…along with the trail races and all of the other fun things, Christian FitzPatrick and SORT the area Search and Rescue Team played fun, real life games with folks. It was so cool. I walked down the trail a bit and it wasn’t easy to spot the game markers…really made you open your eyes and pay attention. Yeow~! Those folks work hard.

  

This guy was totally into it…and he was Sharp-Eyed~!

I’m really sorry I missed getting more band pictures…but I got caught up in the fun…seeing so many ‘family’ faces and lovin’ on heaps of necks.

I did get a couple from the last band, Fossils of Ancient Robots. But it was so darn dark and my lil’ camera just it’s that strong…so just imagine the coolest thing ever, and THAT is what FoAR is like. (Yes, I’m biased.

  

And one of the all time heros of the day was Kyle ‘DJ HAVOK’ Egan…who play between every band and kinda held the entire energy together while they were loading out and loading in…He was magnificent AND played a long set just before FoAR…which blew what was left of my mind…wheeeeee

And here’s a tiny little bite of some of what the HAVOK brought:

Dear Lithium…you make me wanna shimmy-shimmy shake

I’ve lost my sense of humor. Blame it on the drugs. It’s become bothersome. My bipolar has sat down on my head and made life just plain hard again. The simple act of typing has degraded into two finger pecking. I shake so that by the time I’m awake in the morning I already have to take one of my special pills to keep me from biting my tongue, or worse.

These are probably the Lithium shakes, which are very common especially in anyone whose been on lithium for a good length of time, like me. These shakes are deep and throughout my body. I’d actually call them quakes.

I’ve tried keeping myself extra warm, like the quakes are caused by being cool. But that hasn’t worked. They are not connected to body temperature…or mood or tension. They just come on like a steamroller and flatten my ass.

I haven’t gotten much work done, though I’m really aching to do some down and dirty intensive brain activity. But the brain is shaking too. And it’s hard to think when your teeth are constantly chattering. If I take enough of my special medicine to make it stop, everything stops…no thinking, no creativity, no talking. And I’m lucky if I can do the two-finger qwerty dance.

Walking seems to relieve it a bit…but then there is the whole bumping and tripping into things. My hips have permeant bruises. Makes me think of my favorite Dresden Dolls song…

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