Another nice day!

1. Woke up with a headache that meekly subsided under the weight of 1 measly Tylenol #4 tablet. Take that, occipital neuralgia ( Read more... )

my response to today's writing group prompt: "perfection ( Read more... )

Written today in our writing group. The prompt was: Write about a time you forgave someone for something you never thought you could forgive ( Read more... )

I had a great day today. I had good energy with only one 2-hour siesta, only an hour or two of nausea, two very enjoyable social outings, an excellent dinner, and a salted caramel cupcake from Cakes and PurlsI mostly didn't feel like a sick person at all! It was like real life ( Read more... )

Today's impromptu poem from writing group ( Read more... )

I actually went to Writing Group at CWC today, for the first time in months. I'd been avoiding it, thinking I would go again when I was feeling better, both physically and emotionally, but today I decided to try to get back on the writing group horse, seein' as how I can't depend on things getting a lot better ( Read more... )

When I was down in Palo Alto yesterday, I was utterly shocked to see unattended bicycles everywhere. Not locked up, not under guard or protection of any kind, just leaning up against walls outside restaurants, stores, whatever. The only place where I saw bikes with actual locks on them was in the parking lot of the Caltrain station ( Read more... )

It turns out that Cobweb's kidney infection persists, so the vet has started us giving her different antibiotics which will continue for the next 3-4 weeks. These new antibiotics are in pill form, but Shannon and I now have a pill shooter (acquired one night after-hours at the vet, because we had despaired of pilling C without one -- my fingertips ( Read more... )

I've been a big baby the past few days, welcoming the new year with a helluva cold. I've slept some 20 hours/day, drunk lots of orange juice, used up lots of tissues, and taken lots of Nyquil. Intellectually, I feel a bit drunk, as if -- when I turn my head -- my brain doesn't move as quickly as my skull does. Physically, I feel as if someone has ( Read more... )

I got a gazillion things done today, mostly housework. Very exciting. I also biked over to west Berkeley to visit Caruso the Loaner Cat, only to find that Ilah's house is once again being invaded by ants. This seems to be the case every time I cat-sit there. Poor Caruso had little black ants easily visible, crawling on his white fur. Grossed out, I ( Read more... )