1. What's your nickname?
I have many. My childhood nickname is known only by a few. Most common nicknames now are Crystal Star, Mina, Mia, and Mia Mina
What do you think of it? (Them?)
Since each of them have a special significance to me, I like them all.
2. How mature do you think you are?
Some days I feel like I’m mature beyond my years. Some days I feel like I’m mature to my age. Some days I hate adulting and wish to be much younger and less mature than I am.
3. What's your physical appearance?
I’m female (yeah I know I’m not supposed to be on the internet LOL), 5’7” (1.7m}, strawberry-blondish brown long hair (past my hips long), blue to green eyes (They change colors back and forth, sometimes I even have one of each - see heterochromia. My husband and children say my eyes turn red when I’m angry.), pale to tan skin depending on how much I have been outside - though honestly since I got sick, I’m paler than I think I’ve ever been.
What do you like about it and what not?
I love my eyes and hair. They are what I think are my best features.
The rest of my body, especially since I got sick.
4. What are your interests, and what are your hobbies?
My interests are varied and many. I enjoy reading, writing, computers, video games, music, movies, spending time with my granddaughter, and looking at artwork among other things.
5. Describe your usual day for us.
My typical day presently is very boring. I’ve gotten out of doing anything creative since I got sick. So this is how it typically goes:
Midnight to six am - I lay in bed trying to sleep watching YouTube (Binge watching) and drifting in and out of sleep while looking through Amino.
Six am - I take my first dosage of medication (1200 mg of Gabapentin for pain).
Six am to ten am - I’m back in bed sleep watching YouTube going backwards when I wake up to watch what I missed in whatever I’m watching while looking through Amino.
Ten am - I take my second dosage of medication (225 mg of Venlafaxine for pain and 240 mg of Tecfidera for RRMS).
Ten am to two pm - I usually try to eat something with the medicine to keep my stomach from reacting badly to the Tecfidera. Then I’ll either get up and work on something or lay back down depending on how much sleep I’ve actually gotten. If I lay back down it’s back to the drifting in and out of sleep while watching YouTube and looking through Amino.
Two pm - Time for my third dosage of medication (1200 mg of Gabapentin for pain).
Two pm to five pm - Again, depending on how I feel. I may get up take a shower then sit at the computer look over the bills. Then maybe work on something I need to be working on or play a video game.
Five pm to seven pm - Dinner and continuing the last few hours activities.
Seven pm to ten pm - Usually talking to friends online in Discord and possibly video gaming with them. Depending on the day, it could be a variety of games.
Ten pm - Time for my fourth and final dosage of medication for the day (1200 mg of Gabapentin for pain and 240 mg of Tecfidera for RRMS).
Ten pm to Midnight - Depending on the day and how I feel, I may go lay down and start the binge of YouTube while drifting in and out of sleep while messing on my phone and looking through Amino.
Now, this schedule changes per day due to scheduled events. Example: Sunday and Tuesday - I usually have my granddaughter. She usually gets here around 5:30 am. I’ll get her back to sleep, if I can and drift into a light sleep next to her so I can feel her wake up after I take my first meds of the day. Then I’m usually up at ten am doing things with her till her mother comes to pick her up around three or four. If my daughter is working a double shift, I may have her till 11 pm. If she needs, I may give her a bath, etc.
What do you like about your everyday routine and what not?
I love spending time with my granddaughter, my husband and my friends...even if it is through Discord.
Right now, I hate that my sleep is so broken and dominating. I want to stop feeling so drained all the time. I know most of it is the medicine, but I want to actually do things.
6. What types of writing are you interested in?
Mystery, Sci-fi, Horror, Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy. Fan-fiction….I think that covers it.
Do you have a story you're working on right now?
Several actually
If so, what is it about?
I have one that is a murder mystery; one is a futuristic world story, one is a vampire story, one is a sci-fi vampire-werewolf story, some are character stories from roleplay and gaming. Another is brewing in my head through I have only pinned a character development on it for the main character.
7. What do you think about your future?
I would like to publish some of my stories as books. I would also like to develop some other things on the side as well.
What's your ideal career choice and are you going with it, or settling for something safer?
Unfortunately, my career is over. I was a computer engineer. Now I can’t do a job per se. So what is left is what I can do when my health allows me to “work”, I’m hoping to make my hobbies (writing and reading) my work to keep my mind and body active.
8. What's your family like?
I have blood family that I love, I have the family I made with my husband and my children. I have family made of friends that I love as much as if they were blood.
What do you think of them?
I love my father sister, her husband, and niece as well as all my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. I adore and love my husband and children. I adore and love my granddaughter. I love my scale babies and the pets we have lost as well. I love my family of friends both my housemates and those who don’t live with us across the world.
9. What's your best friends like?
They are like my blood family. I count them as my brothers and sisters or closer.
Do you have many friends?
Friends as just friends I have some, but not many. It is hard for me to make friends. Many whom I have befriended over the years have drifted away. I miss them even though we talk occasionally online.
10. What music do you listen to?
I listen to everything from Folk to Opera to Contemporary to Rock to Country to Pop to Metal to “Children’s” to KPop and JPop to Musicals. I have very eclectic tastes in music which usually drives those around me crazy when I get stuck on a song.
Photo Credit: Background picture is not mine. Credit to the original artists.
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