I got some sort of cold/flu/manflu just before Christmas. Salmonella or something in Thailand. Then a cold after we got back from Thailand. Yesterday was a hangover, which was my own fault, but still not fun. And today I have a cold again. This is getting really, really, supremely old.

While normally it’s not a big deal for me to take some time off ( Read more... )

I thought I did very well with the jet lag. Thailand is 15 hours ahead of Seattle. We arrived home in the middle of the day, but managed to stay up until midnight and then pass out in a heap. Sunday night I got optimistically 2 hours of sleep, I was just not tired and even when I was tired I felt rather unwell. But yesterday I was reasonably ( Read more... )

For years after graduation from high school, my stress dream of choice was the classic “It’s the end of the year and I realize I have to take a final for a class I’d never shown up for/didn’t know I had” kind of dreams. I never had these when I was in high school, only after. Eventually, they slowly turned into dreams where I was called back to ( Read more... )

We survived Thanksgiving. It was no small feat getting both of us, all our crap, and the dog going. But since it was still snowy, we wanted to go in the middle of the day on Thanksgiving Eve, so we could have time to make our way and hopefully minimize time spent sitting in traffic. We still sat in traffic, because Tacoma sucks, but it wasn’t as ( Read more... )

Ok, the Couch to 5k is getting to me. Some weeks/days have been harder than others, but today was rough. I don’t know if it was the weather, the fact that I did it later than normal, or the fact that it was 25 minutes, but I am so very, very tired. Paul helped me cook dinner…and by “help” I mean he made everything and I sort of supervised. There’s ( Read more... )

Grr. I’ve just been frustrated a lot lately. It just seems like I keep trying things that aren’t working. Kind of came to a head Wednesday, I was frustrated with some work stuff, and then other things keep going wrong. Little things get screwed up.

I’ve been making a serious effort to exercise, sticking with the Couch to 5k program, plus additional ( Read more... )

Okay. 104 days until we go to Thailand. And 111 until we get to Phuket. I’m stoked for the whole trip, but the Phuket part is a little…anxiety-inducing.

I can’t really swim. Less because I’m physically unable to, more because I don’t really believe I can float. Which creates problems. This was compounded pretty bad in early puberty by a) not ( Read more... )

A bit over a week ago the neighbors were complaining about the trees in our yard, that the ones in the back are growing over fences and the one in the front is getting too close to the power lines. They called our landlord to take care of it (because other than mowing the grass we have no gardening obligations, it falls entirely onto our landlords ( Read more... )