{"id":2917,"date":"2026-10-23T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merwanjeeframjee.com\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2026-10-23T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T15:19:21","slug":"friday-october-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merwanjeeframjee.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/friday-october-23-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"FRIDAY OCTOBER 23, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week I made a Cyanotype for a show at the arboretum outside of Chicago. It was a lot of work, and I figured out how to mount rag on birch board – and where to buy and how to cut birch board. I’m sure I’m going to do more of this in the future. I had to get this in the mail Monday, but wasn’t ready until Tuesday – and then I had immediately get to work on the house because after decades – we’re getting a bit of new furniture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I painted the den<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Painting is expensive damn it. I thought I could get away with a single gallon, but it took two coats and two gallons, so over $100 in paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remainder of the old closet was ripped out so I did repair work with quick dry plaster and then went to paint over it and realized the ceiling wasn’t painted in ceiling paint, so it stood out – had to repaint the entire ceiling then in ceiling paint, which I had on hand at least. But it took extra time, cleaning, emptying the room out which was packed with stuff, and painting the two coats – it took a long time. I probably put in 30 hours on getting the room prepped and I had help as hubby moved everything out of it and did the lifting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also having all my art supplies akimbo isn’t making life easier, all my print making stuff was everywhere. But – today it’s done, and I would have had a nice sleep in if my husband hadn’t decided to toss around a heavy wedge pillow at 4am next to my ear like a dummy. I startled awake so hard it was impossible to go back to sleep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this time of year I struggled with slow dry times too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seizures are back<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I wasn’t sleeping too well this week and had a really pretty bad one, for me – I mean, it wasn’t the end of the world or the worst that can happen, but I lost my vision for a bit. My eyes had the nystagmus effect of moving involuntarily like a type writer, they would go, right, right, right all the way back to the left and start again. For what seemed like ages I thought I might be stuck that way, I realized I must have had a seizure and the eye effect was still hanging around, I’ve had that happen before, come out of it and something is still kinda not right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My joints are also really bad. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m getting knots the size of marbles in my fingers now. I have two specialists appointments but I can’t afford it, not really. I started on that glucosamine stuff for arthritis and it turns out I’m allergic to shellfish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am cutting out more foods, I enjoy an apple and pb occasionally and some cheese had snuck in but will cut it. I think it was exhaustion and maybe an infection or irritation somewhere which can cause me problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m really tired today, I really needed to sleep. I wish my husband hadn’t jolted me awake at 4am \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synesthesia <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I knew I had some sort of Synesthesia with color but the Internet makes it sound so different from what I have like hearing numbers or idk – but when I see color it’s like a symphony, it pops off a thousand fireworks in my brain if it’s a nice color. Now lock me in a room with fluorescent lighting and a dull brown and I’ll get a migraine, get nauseated and hate life. I’m considering carrying around a small vile of brightly colored beads just to make me happy. Probably a side effect of epilepsy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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