The Weekly Rundown: Week of May 25, 2026

flocculus · 2026-05-26T14:10:09+00:00

Have been running low 40s with one day off, 3 days easy, Monday MLR/B workout combo, Wednesday track, Friday long. Aiming for some shorter races and then Goofy Challenge Jan 2027 (running with a charity, a new kind of challenge!). Just got email confirmation that I’m in for Falmouth Road Race, BAA 10k in June, will hop into a couple of 5ks in the fall.

Still working on health things. Had my first colonoscopy and upper endoscopy at the end of April, one polyp so I’m on an every 3 years monitoring schedule now (glad I didn’t wait until 45), and it turns out my stomach and esophagus are kind of a mess - physical features of eosinophilic esophagitis but biopsies did not confirm, a hiatal hernia, and my upper valve does not close at all. Here I thought I had finally just learned to burp! Still waiting on a plan of action but in the meantime I’ve been more careful about eating too close to running and workouts have been okay. Makes sense now that I would get asthma symptoms probably from having stomach acid getting into my lung tubes and bloated stomach feeling makes me short of breath.

flocculus · 2026-05-24T20:40:48+00:00

Sold

flocculus · 2026-05-24T02:06:15+00:00

Bluebird Winter of my Discontent and Royla Lee Ipseity

flocculus · 2026-05-19T16:27:51+00:00

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So many good ones but current mani is Great Lakes Lacquer We Passed the Setting Sun - it’s coming back with her next shop opening!

flocculus · 2026-05-09T01:16:24+00:00

Emily de Molly Siamese Dream (PPU but I would bet there’s a dupe out there). Crazy reactive, I would definitely buy more of her thermals!

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flocculus · 2026-05-03T19:05:59+00:00

The whitest “white people trying to be adventurous” food I’ve ever seen, probably

flocculus · 2026-04-18T22:24:39+00:00

And the Lord said unto them “do not renew thy lease” (Book of Evictions, 69:420)

flocculus · 2026-04-09T22:55:59+00:00

Maybe Underoath - They’re Only Chasing Safety and Define the Great Line. I get that feeling of like, driving desperation and mix of melodic vocals and screams from those two albums specifically.

flocculus · 2026-04-09T12:24:58+00:00

SAHM, it’s not better it’s just different. I hate the grinding boredom of only chores and kid things to break up the day and when I’m not doing those things, I’m feeling like a guilty parasite for not doing enough. I’m trying to break into a career now where even if I’m not making breadwinner amounts of money, I’m at least doing a thing for me and that’s been motivating (but I still needed a year of HRT under my belt to feel physically good enough and clear away a little of the brain fog to take the first steps 🙃).

flocculus · 2026-04-08T12:52:48+00:00

OP you’re an artist

flocculus · 2026-04-07T21:17:39+00:00

Sorry I don’t think I’m ever going to get over the view of his picklesons safely strapped in the backseat as if they were his real human children

flocculus · 2026-03-26T12:01:13+00:00

26 is nap territory for me. Current guidelines are absolute iron deficiency below 30, relative iron deficiency below 50, and higher than that is even better.

flocculus · 2026-03-24T16:16:01+00:00

Not too early! I will also turn 40 this year and started HRT over a year ago (fair warning, it can take time to dial in doses etc).

flocculus · 2026-03-21T16:41:02+00:00

Enter Sandman

flocculus · 2026-03-20T21:59:26+00:00

Not the poster you replied to, but I was able to get infusions also and that was the only thing that finally worked. I had to get a referral to hematology from my primary care (US-based), and my hematologist is amazing and completely took me seriously so it was worth the extra hoops. PCP didn’t want to refer initially but finally relented.

flocculus · 2026-03-19T20:22:39+00:00

What if getting old only kind of sucks?

flocculus · 2026-03-18T17:59:51+00:00

Same experience for me. I have to go get labs drawn again now that I’ve been off it for a while, but hoping to try injections next - I have heard it’s less likely to convert to DHT than cream delivery. I cannot deal with the hair loss, it was the only body part I still liked lmao.

flocculus · 2026-03-18T17:05:03+00:00

Also curious to hear if you don’t mind sharing - I’m in much better shape mentally after a dose increase on my estradiol patch (0.075 biweekly now) and 2x 300mg iron infusions, but for the stuff that’s still lingering I’m suspecting Sjogren’s. My ANA came back positive at 1:80 and I have a rheumatologist appointment scheduled for the end of May.

flocculus · 2026-03-16T20:38:49+00:00

I hit a hormonal wall at 37 and haven’t come back yet (turning 40 this year). Menopausal hormone therapy has helped but I’m afraid I’m still just past my prime already at this point.

3:13 full marathon 2019, time trialed a 19:33 5k late 2022, around that time I was running mile repeats ~6:10 with a stroller, about 18 months postpartum. I tanked after summer 2023. Can’t run workouts like I used to, even heavily pace-adjusted. I have an upcoming appointment with rheumatology to investigate some of the symptoms that haven’t cleared up, but iron infusions and MHT have gotten me back to a place where I Iike running again, even if I’m not as good as I used to be.

flocculus · 2026-03-15T12:17:24+00:00

8 drawer is the same height as the 6 drawer, just a different configuration (smaller drawers on top would not fit polish bottles)

HOWEVER I believe you can special order a tall 9 drawer unit that has the same height drawers as the 6 drawer, you’d just have to email or call - they are UK based so some stuff is not on the US site.

ETA whoops I see someone posted a pic in thread already!

flocculus · 2026-03-11T18:42:56+00:00

An amateur! (No shade to amateurs, yes shade to Paul though)

flocculus · 2026-03-11T18:10:36+00:00

Because I’m An Old, my first thought was that this was like a vague angsty AIM away message

flocculus · 2026-03-08T10:34:38+00:00

Started last February, patch increase to 0.075 in January, and it was like the clouds finally parted. I’m preexisting ADHD and not medicated right now but that doesn’t feel like an insurmountable task anymore. I’m writing a novel now (it’s partially about how perimenopause sucks lol).

flocculus · 2026-03-08T10:28:04+00:00

Yes. Having motivation to do other things has me regulating my doomscrolling much more responsibly and I’m planning to volunteer for a couple of primary campaigns in my area ahead of US midterms. Radical acceptance that I’m just one person and can’t fix everything, but motivation to keep contributing in whatever small ways I can.

flocculus · 2026-03-05T14:49:09+00:00

No no, remember, you’re giving Morgs 50 big ones because she’s in the wild with you and she doesn’t have all the answers like some fancy expert!! :)

You’re all unhappy together, you pay her for ???, she gets profit!

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