Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to all of you. I've been trying to get out with friends and be more social the last few days. Attempting to work on little stuff like eye contact. And conversations..mostly trying to keep a conversation from being about myself. I did a little better than I usually do..I think it was because of the Lithium. The thoughts and paranoia weren't any better, but it helped me with hiding it.

Honestly, I don't like taking Lithium. It's like it does something different every day. One day it will cheer me up, but dry my mouth out to the point where I'm drinking a bottle of water every 20 minutes. The next it might not help my mood, but I will have a lot of energy. Some days my stomach will hurt after taking it.

I've been cooking a lot lately, too. I made some omelettes for breakfast a few times. I deep fried some hush puppies, which led to these scars on my hands. Story time!..

I was cooking hush puppies, but they tasted too bland. So I started experimenting...this is where I should have stopped. I covered various cheeses in the batter and deep fried them, making my own kind of Ched R' Bites from Sonic. ..They were delicious.

I had the oil about two inches from the top of the pot, which is where I messed up, and I went to deep fry this larger piece of cheese. I dropped it in too quickly, and the oil went over the sides into the burner. The oil burst into flames and my first reaction was to get the pot off of the stove as quickly as possible. When I did, the oil spilled out and went all over my hand, the floor, and a chair. I didn't let it go though. With my other hand I covered the burner with a glass bowl hoping it would smother the flame...it didn't. I realized that I had a fire extinguisher and put it out, saving my trailer from the firey end that I would have brought upon it. Now I have these bad burns on my left hand. The end.