Well, it's official: I have bronchitis. Again. The doctor gave me a prescription for a five-day course of antibiotics (at least this kind of thing is no longer 10-day) and a new emergency inhaler. (My asthma is under very good control and I almost never feel the need for an inhaler, but the last one I bought was about 18 months ago, so it's still a ( Read more... )

So I have another ride to work, but from a different person, since the original person isn't going in after all. The person I'm getting the ride from doesn't need to be there until this evening, too, for a meeting my husband's also going to (he's got a lift from someone else), but he's going in early and just hanging out, reading stuff on his ( Read more... )

I almost forgot--yesterday we got a new copier in my office! The old one didn't do duplex, collating or anything fancy, and this one does all that PLUS I can put four sheets of paper in, select the "booklet" option, and it prints what's on those sheets on two sides of a single sheet so that when you fold it in half it's a little book, which will ( Read more... )

Well, it's already been announced that the Philadelphia public and parochial schools are closed tomorrow because of this storm that's supposed to drop 9-14" of snow on the city. (It's been snowing since 6 pm according to Ben--I hadn't even noticed at first.) It's just as well that the schools are closed, since Rachel has had a cold all weekend; ( Read more... )

The rain seems to have stopped and the sun has just come out. Dare I take the wet clothes upstairs in the washer to the laundromat to be dried? The new dryer I've ordered from Sears doesn't arrive until Dec. 6. The old one was working fine Sunday night, and then I tried to run it yesterday morning and got nothing. I suspect that someone ( Read more... )

( A call received at work in the church office )

Ben just called from school to say that he should have taken me up on my offer to stay home because there are only about THREE teachers in the entire school! All of the ninth- and tenth-graders are crammed into the lunchroom while the juniors and seniors are in the auditorium. (The principal, who is quite fond of talking about how the students ( Read more... )

I wrote over 2000 words of Animal Control today! Starting to make up for having written nothing yesterday or Sunday. I only typed five pages of Chapter 20, though, so I still need to catch up on the typing ( Read more... )

Not too long ago I got another call from Holly, our church music director and my good friend, who earlier dropped off a care package for me before going to the church to give some voice lessons to students who had to be rescheduled because she threw her back out last week; she's actually still in the church office, working on the bulletin in my ( Read more... )