*sniff
*cough
*rubs eyes
*clears scratchy throat
*sniffles some more
*gives up and goes for tissues

I don't need to check with the local authorities, my body is telling me - it's allergy season.

*pads off to make a cuppa tea

I coughed all day yesterday. I took cough syrup. I sucked cough drops and hard candies. I took more cough syrup. I went to the drugstore and picked up a "tough, long-lasting up to 8 hrs of relief" cough syrup for bedtime (note the "up to" - it was more like 2 hrs). I still sound like a coal miner with black lung. It's a hard, loud cough every ( Read more... )

Whoever said "no use crying over spilled milk" didn't just spill a gallon of milk on the floor, slip on the stairs going to get the mop, walk by the washing machine and realized a wet load of laundry had been sitting in there for 1.5 days, then pull their stitches while pulling out the stove in order to mop under it ( Read more... )

Ow. Ow Ow Ow. Organizer Bunny came this morning for 4 hours. We got halfway through the study, which is amazing. But I'm exhausted. That's the most I've spoken in 3 days and I can feel the stitches pulling. I wanted to postpone but there aren't that many weekends left before Michael moves in, so I gritted through it ( Read more... )

We played hooky from church. K has 2 big projects due this Thursday and I wanted to get one finished before she went off for the day with her dad. She did a good job on it - it was a lot of writing. It drives home the point that my little girl isn't so little any more. Now she just needs to do the poster between now and Thursday morning ( Read more... )

That if you leave some full cans of diet cherry coke in the back of the truck and it's 0 degrees outside, cans go BOOM.  Sticky brown chunks of ice all over the inside of the truck.  I'm lucky it didn't crack a window.

The Snowflakes of Death began to fall around 1. Schools closed, companies sent people home early.  The two guys from Chicago ( ( Read more... )

Went back to my doctor today for my two week follow up , to check on my toe.  Evil, evil man.  Oh sure, he's good looking.  Oh sure, he's been a great doctor for 20 years, but he's got a mean streak in him, that closet sadist.  ;)

Warning: do not read while eating. 
My pinky toe on my right foot has been bothering me, rubbing against my shoe and ( Read more... )

Some days you're the cat - and some days, you're the mouse.

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