i have had this rotten stuffy nose and sore throat and crap for almost a week and it is making me seriously insane. mainly because i CANNOT SLEEP. the lack of fitful rest is not helping me recover, obviously. the biggest obstacle is really my distinct phobia of suffocation, which manifests whenever i try to lay down and my nose immediately stuffs ( Read more... )

Valentimnes day greeted us with almost 18 inches of snow. they closed B&N so i had an unexpected day off! delighted with my fortune, i was working on a valentines image, but halfway through i went out to help shovel the driveway and walk and then when i came back inside my sinuses completely rebelled. so i spent the better portion of Vday sick, ( Read more... )

so Calliope had another "Episode" where she laid on the floor crying like someone was standing on her tail, then she staggers to her feet, limps around like her legs hurt and cries some more and flops down and cries and it breaks my heart. so i spent the evening crying, searching the internet for some kind of information and finally bought some ( Read more... )

been sick! SICK! SICK!!! for the last 3 days. oh my lord the sick. started sunday night. we went sunday to see Dion's mom for lunch and then sawy MI2, which i posted about previously. had a sore throat that night... went to Wegmans at 1AM to buy cough drops, cepacol throat spray and Comtrex cold medecine. should have bought more tissues but didn't ( Read more... )

this last weekend, saturday the 13th was an art festival in Lockwood NY called "Art on The Water" at the Vanishing Point studio. i had two paintings in that one, and that was pretty busy. unfortunately the majority of my better work was at the solo show so i didn't have the best stuff in that show, but whatever. we went to see the opening/festival ( Read more... )

( cut to spare you the gory details... )