Finally posting again

My intention in creating this blog was to track my symptoms, and I have not done well with it. I figured out that when I am feeling really bad then I am in too much pain to type, and when I am feeling better, I don't want to. I want to play!  I have been very up and down lately.  Today I am in mega pain.  I have taken a T3 which I save for my worst days, and so far I am still bad off.  On the better days lately I have taken my furry companion to Riverside park and walked a little, sat a little, journaled a little, and it's been glorious!  Other times, like today, I roll around on my bed moaning, and praying for God to end my suffering.  It is a crappy existence if you ask me.  One interesting note about all this is that my brain/ mental energy has been far better since I cut back on my Cymbalta (anti-depressant) a couple weeks ago.  My libido has made a comeback as well, which is a double edged sword.  It makes me think about having a guy in my life again, and I don't want to want a guy in my life again!  I have loved not wanting or missing a male presence.  I have not done well in that arena  so far in my life, and I felt God was holding me in a place of grace, not to be missing it.  But I admit, somewhere in the back of my mind I knew I would someday "go there" again.  So now must be the time.  I am very clear with my self about what I want in a relationship.  I just have zero hope of ever finding it.  I really don't want a fulltime guy. I don't want someone who will demand a lot of my time.  I want to keep having lots of time for myself and my art.  Some time of companionship, affection, and wild-monkey-sex, would be lovely. Now go away, and don't call me for a couple days. I'm busy.  I certainly don't want to lose myself in a relationship ever again, or dedicate myself to someone completely as I have in the past. I just wonder if I can really avoid that. It seems to be in my nature, that when I love I do it wholly and completely. It is certainly in my ideals.  But I also have some new ideals that involve loving and caring for myself.  I have the ideal about a love relationship that I can do both.  But I am scared to death of testing that.  Ah, well, who isn't?