I Guess I'll Start Blogging!

The anniversary of the day I took the plunge and created my semi-anonymous Twitter account, @ChronicSass, is coming up in about ten days from now. Since that day, I've wanted to begin a blog, but I just haven't actually took that step - until now, that is.

For those of you who might now know who I am, I suggest you check out my Twitter page in order to correctly get to know me. But I'll say a little bit about me to start off my first blog post.

My name is Dana, but you're more than welcome to call me Chronic Sass or Chronically Sassy if you so prefer. I am a 21 year old college student, about to start my fourth year but I have two more ahead of me. Officially I have been diagnosed with PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) in 2011, fibromyalgia sort of in 2012 and then officially again in 2014, chronic migraines in 2012, and the trifecta of anxiety/depression/panic disorder since I was a kid. I self-diagnosed myself with chronic costochondritis, as I have had the same symptom of it since 2011, because physicians have yet to come up with another answer. 

So here I am, blogger world. The girl otherwise known as Chronically Sassy has arrived on the scene, ready to write up a storm about, well, whatever the hell I wanna write about I guess.

To be fair, here's a short list of the topics you should plan on reading about if you're so kind as to keep up with my posts:

1. The fabulous life of a chronically ill girl.

2. College, and how my chronic illness is making it much harder to accomplish my goals. 

3. Drugs, treatments, doctors appointments, side effects, and all of that annoying crap. 

4. Other events in my oh-so interesting and eventful life. 

5. Probably lots of ridiculous pictures to accompany my sassy words.

Yeah. Like that one. 

This is basically going to be another place for me to feel safe about talking about my life, my illness, and my feelings about it all. Just like my Twitter account under the same name. Except this way I don't have to narrow my sassy thoughts down to 140 characters. 

I will say right now that I will try not to make any promises. The more promises that I make, the less I love up to them. As much as I'd love to say that I would post a blog entry once a day or once a week or whatever, but I know that eventually I won't live up to that. What I will say is that I will post as frequently and as much as I have the time and energy to do, which might not be much - especially when the next semester starts up in the fall. 

I will also say that I would love to be able to connect with more people in the Spoonie community through this blog. I'd like to host give always and contests and advertise the successes of other wonderful spoonies who I've met along the way. 

If there are certain topics that you would like me to write about, please do not hesitate to ask me at any time! Please please please reach out to me, whether it's to talk or if you just want me to listen (more like read) or whatever you may want or need, I cannot urge enough how I want people to reach out to me and I want to connect with people. 

So until then...

List of 100 Books You Should Read Before You Die.

BBC's 100 Books To Read Before You Die

Bold = Read.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma -Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery (In French)
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo