I used to keep a blog that was just for my day to day fibromyalgia life. This blog focuses more on my work. I really wanted an opportunity to document my pain levels and how they correspond to stress as well as my fitness routine. It might be helpful to also track the weather and what I eat. I know that doctors recommend this for a lot of other diseases. I really think that there is a pattern but it would take me being dedicated for several months to find it. I also don’t know how to use Excel or whatever Microsoft thing you track stuff in. I really want to end up with a spreadsheet or chart. Ideally, it would be a graph.

I want to know what I need to change or watch out for to really affect my fibromyalgia. I really think that this would also help me to stay motivated with my workout schedule. However, I am always so tired and fatigued that I don’t really have the energy to research how to do such a journal let alone actually keep it every single day. Does anyone else keep a fibromyalgia journal? How? If so do you want to keep one for me?

All bloggers have experienced that sickening feeling when you go to your blog and it’s no longer there. In my case it’s usually that my host is just down for a few minutes. However, even though I’ve been doing this for a number of years and I have a back up it makes me sick to my stomach every single time. I always feels as helpless and clueless as if you put a bunch of Ferrari parts in front of me and told me to make a car.

Then I start thinking: What I would do if I have to start all over? Would I do anything differently? What’s wrong? I didn’t even touch it. It’s really one of the most heart wrenching parts of blogging. Usually it just takes a few seconds to rectify the problem, but they are some of the most tense seconds of any bloggers life.

I think that my venture into voice recognition software has really started qualifying as an experiment. I really find it a lot more enjoyable and easier than typing with my fibromyalgia. However, it is really an adventure. Over time the software has really come to recognize my voice and speech patterns better. It’s slowly learning that I have crushes on men in pink ties and learning all of my decorating terms. It even got fibromyalgia right finally.

I can deal with a few random nonsensical sentences and hours of editing. However, I do have a problem with the sheer randomness. At times it will just take whatever I said wrong, and start new programs or make line breaks and there’s really nothing that I can do about it. My computer just starts freaking out like it has its own mind. Then I just can’t ever seem to get it back to my original document and continue typing. It would really be a lot easier if I just sat down and figured out how to disable anything except for the actual typing, which is all it really needs to do.