nashenas1

Just your average woman.

Update (2024-03-09): I just edited my birthday, because I was wrong all these years, and my birthday is actually September 11th, not September 10th. It’s because I had a wrong impression of how calculating leap years works in our calendar (or the Gregorian calendar). My mom’s birthday was May 30th, not May 29th. 😁 Damn those pesky leap days! Making me miscalculate things. 😉 Just kidding. ☺️ To be honest, it was not really that important to me, and that’s why it took me so long to find out I had been wrong all this time.

As I said before, I am good with details only when they are important to me (for example, I absolutely hate punctuation and I use them however I like; my punctuation is just as bad in Persian 😁) , and I don’t use the Gregorian calendar as much as I use the Persian calendar (yes, we use a completely different calendar in Iran; you can thank Omar Khayyam ❤️ for that ). Anyway, I learned that a few months ago, but I edited it just now. I just thought I should correct my mistake. By the way, I use the YYYY-MM-DD format to write dates. Side note: My birthday is Shahrivar 20th in the Persian calendar and my mom’s birthday is Khordad 8th. They are usually September 11th and May 29th, but adding leap days can shift them back and forth. (For now. It’s going to change after 2028, and it will continue to do so after that, but in 2100 it will be back to the old routine; I will have been dead for years by then ☺️). For those who are interested in zodiac (I don’t like it all), these two Persian months are called Virgo and Gemini respectively.

I’m mostly OK these days, despite all the negative news in the western media. The more recent protests were bad, but not as bad as the protests in 2019 that ironically got barely any attention in the hypocritical western media. They were a lot worse. Then there was that Soleimani circus thanks to Trump. I was not sad at all when he was killed. It was just a bad strategic move, but you can’t expect much from Trump, can you? After that, the pandemic happened. I got the virus twice, but luckily for me both times the only symptom I had was a sore throat. I was mostly fine. Thankfully, I currently have no major health problems. I got vaccinated, because I am not anti-vaccine. I got the virus after that.

The only serious health problem I can think of right now is that I have taken medications for my mental health since early 2010 on and off. I have experienced manic and depressive episodes thoroughout these years. The first one (in early 2010) was the most extreme one and it was a manic episode. It was absolutely bad; I was completely out of control and scared the hell out of my sister (your mental health is important. If you are having problems, get help). I have vision problems too. Does it really count? 🤨 I have been wearing glasses since 1999 when I was 11. 😉 Nearsightedness at first; then in early 2014 astigmatism was added to my previous problem (I will be 40 in less than 5 years, so I should watch out for the other problems). Believe it or not, life is far shorter than you think. 🙂 Heart problems run in my family, so I should watch out for them. My mother passed away unexpectedly in early 2011; less than 4 months before her 60th birthday. She most probably had untreated heart problems, because she died of cardiac arrest when she was asleep, and according to my sister, there were a few signs she obviously ignored (so maybe it was not that unexpected). I know we all are going to die someday, but I currently have no intention of shortening my life. I have never been suicidal. 😁

We have seen lots of bad days and the worst days have not come yet, but I am quite hopeful for the future. We will make it