I Will Finish My 1999 Movie Project, Possibly Because of Instead of In Spite of Having a Stroke

Look...I have two belly buttons

Well, there I am like one of the support group members from the start of Flight Club, feeding tube jutting out my gut. You're probably wondering how I got here. Well, the truth is, I sneezed. 

I guess this photograph, with its sickly green tint, might be the most 1999 picture of me possible. Whatever the case, I've had a stroke, and I am essentially relegated my easy chair indefinitely, though hopefully things start to show improvement as spring rolls through and blooms. I still can't swallow, meaning I also cannot eat or drink, so those will be things I'll be working with a speech therapist on over the next several months with the hope and belief that my esophagus will one day, hopefully sooner, rather than later, work again. The left side of my body is completely numb to sensation, meaning no pain, hot or cold, though it is mobile. I have a splitting headache and everything feels horribly off. My stomach is extremely raw from the tube inserted there that I currently eat through. I hear that particularly pain should go away in a few weeks. 

The situation sucks. This is not how I foresaw 2025 unfolding.
However, I am trying to stay optimistic and look on the bright side of things. For one, my deep desire for this year, so much that it was even my New Year's resolution, is and was to rest, and now I have no choice, even though "rest" currently includes debilitating pain.

 Last year, I was trying to dedicate as much of my hobby time to the movies of 1999, for 1999's 25th anniversary. I created an alphabetical database of short reviews for all the 1999 movies I watched...but life got in the way at the end of the year, and I was not able to satisfactorily complete that project. 

Well...now I can. 

The database was initially intro'd as if it were a tagalong friend for the 1999 project, but I've altered that entry so that now the database itself is the star, and an ever growing document, cataloguing, hopefully one day, every film that year offered. That's just one way I am trying to feel normal in this highly abnormal time in my life.