Haven't been posting here too much recently, so figured I'd give a little update for those following along at home.
So, when we last left off, I had an epic doctors visit to cure all my ails.
For the tl;dr crowd, all is basically well, carry on
The ADHD drugs have been pretty good to me. They've really helped me focus and I feel like everything I put my attention in effort into turns out another level better than what I was doing before - both at home and at work.
There have been some side effects that have lingered - started having shortness of breath this week after forgetting to take my pill one day, alcohol affects me differently, I constantly feel thirsty, so I'm constantly drinking water and as a result, going pee like 10 times a day. The alcohol one might be the biggest bummer. I'm not sure if it's tied to the thirsty/dehydrated thing, but if I have more than one or two drinks, i don't really start to feel drunk - its almost like the hangover starts to hit before the drunk sets in. And then the next day I feel really dehydrated/spinny. Kinda a bummer. Makes me want to drink less which is ok I guess, but limits some of the fun I'm used to having. Oh, and it's also suppressed my appetite a bit - between that and the drinking less, I've lost 8-10 pounds in the past month!
Things have been crazy busy for me at work - I've been traveling a bunch recently. When all is said and done, I will have spent maybe 3 days in the office all of September. And I'm not a sales guy - usually I travel maybe 3 days every 2 months. I've gone about 3 weeks now where I have put in at least 2-3 hours of work each weekend day in addition to 10+ hr days during the week. I'm used to being an 8-5 guy and not working at home, but my department size has contracted and I've taken on some higher level responsibilities ("opportunities"). All in the name of trying to get ahead :-/
Things have been extremely quiet on the dating front. I went on 3 dates with this one girl and it was going fairly well, but started to get a little too deep emotionally and had to eject. Nothing on the horizon at this point either, but I'll be out of town 2 of the next 3 weeks and I'll have my daughter most of the time I am in town, so it's just not worth it to me at this point. FWB has turned a bit too clingy and keeps telling me how she likes me but knows I don't want anything more than FWB. I had a married girl i work with trying to get with me, but that always leads to too much drama and I end up developing a conscience, so I didn't persue. I haven't had a cold stretch this long since I was married but my crockpot has been getting a good workout
So essentially, I'm old and boring right now