I grow tired of this.
So, I have to wonder what the big deal is with painting the model of your car across the windshield. I can see perfectly well that you're driving a Mustang or a Cavalier; are your manly bits truly so small that you have to trumpet the model of your car to prove you're masculine or some such silliness? It just looks foolish, really.
Ahem.
In other news, still sick as hell from medication. I figured out (yesterday, because I'm slow) that most of the side effects/feeling icky that I've had this week is probably due a lot more to my antibiotic than to my birth control pills, since the antibiotic kills my appetite. As a result, I think I'm actually averaging less than 500 calories a day because I just can't face the thought of food. For example:
Sunday: Ate lunch at Flat Top with Eben (one bowl worth) and had a house salad from TGI Friday's with Joe for dinner; threw up both a couple hours after eating the salad.
Monday: Took about three hours to eat half a bowl of cereal; managed to eat about 8-10 oz. of cream of chicken and wild rice soup for lunch; managed about 1 cup cooked rice and a glass of milk for dinner.
Tuesday: Half a bowl of cereal. By lunchtime I was actually hungry and ordered from Noodles & Co with Steph, but after I ate half of my (small-size) meal, I felt ridiculously sick from overeating. Went home and went to Exalted, where I managed to eat about a spoonful of green beans and half a spoonful of rice. (As a side note, wrenbow gets lots of Meglet Points for putting up with me at like 11:45 Tuesday night when I wandered up and paced around her room while freaking out pointlessly.)
Yesterday: About a third of a slice of pumpkin bread, a third of a cup of yogurt, and a few bites of melon. I went to Joe's after work and pretty much fell asleep for a couple of hours. I woke up really dizzy and sick-feeling, and we decided not to go out to dinner (waste of money since I'm not going to finish anything I get, and he wasn't hungry) but instead ventured forth to Dominick's to try and find something easy to make that I could eat. I ended up with one of those microwaveable potato things and some raspberries, as well as a big bottle of water. We went back to his place and I decided I was going to eat half of the baked potato. We microwaved it, I stared at it for about half an hour, and eventually forced myself to cut it open and then it took me about an hour to eat the half of a baked potato, but I felt a lot better once I had eaten.
The problem is that I don't feel hungry at all, which is one of the side effects of the antibiotic, so I don't want to eat anything because it feels like continuing to eat when I'm already full, which is ick. This morning I've managed about half of a blueberry muffin and more water, and I'm studying the muffin and debating if I want a little bit more of it (probably not, but I'll leave it sitting out on my desk for me to consider.) I'm finally done with these stupid pills tomorrow, and by the end of the weekend I should be able to eat actual food again. Rar.
And in writing news, I realized that losing this entire week to feeling like crap has put me far behind on gen_challenge and yuri_challenge. Gah. I'll try and work on those today if work is slowish. I am going to take a moment to be very very grateful that first_seventhe is willing to beta on exceedingly short notice and a very short clock. I think I owe her chocolate in August. For that and other things. ^_^;
Okay. Back to work and waiting to hear about my car.
Ahem.
In other news, still sick as hell from medication. I figured out (yesterday, because I'm slow) that most of the side effects/feeling icky that I've had this week is probably due a lot more to my antibiotic than to my birth control pills, since the antibiotic kills my appetite. As a result, I think I'm actually averaging less than 500 calories a day because I just can't face the thought of food. For example:
Sunday: Ate lunch at Flat Top with Eben (one bowl worth) and had a house salad from TGI Friday's with Joe for dinner; threw up both a couple hours after eating the salad.
Monday: Took about three hours to eat half a bowl of cereal; managed to eat about 8-10 oz. of cream of chicken and wild rice soup for lunch; managed about 1 cup cooked rice and a glass of milk for dinner.
Tuesday: Half a bowl of cereal. By lunchtime I was actually hungry and ordered from Noodles & Co with Steph, but after I ate half of my (small-size) meal, I felt ridiculously sick from overeating. Went home and went to Exalted, where I managed to eat about a spoonful of green beans and half a spoonful of rice. (As a side note, wrenbow gets lots of Meglet Points for putting up with me at like 11:45 Tuesday night when I wandered up and paced around her room while freaking out pointlessly.)
Yesterday: About a third of a slice of pumpkin bread, a third of a cup of yogurt, and a few bites of melon. I went to Joe's after work and pretty much fell asleep for a couple of hours. I woke up really dizzy and sick-feeling, and we decided not to go out to dinner (waste of money since I'm not going to finish anything I get, and he wasn't hungry) but instead ventured forth to Dominick's to try and find something easy to make that I could eat. I ended up with one of those microwaveable potato things and some raspberries, as well as a big bottle of water. We went back to his place and I decided I was going to eat half of the baked potato. We microwaved it, I stared at it for about half an hour, and eventually forced myself to cut it open and then it took me about an hour to eat the half of a baked potato, but I felt a lot better once I had eaten.
The problem is that I don't feel hungry at all, which is one of the side effects of the antibiotic, so I don't want to eat anything because it feels like continuing to eat when I'm already full, which is ick. This morning I've managed about half of a blueberry muffin and more water, and I'm studying the muffin and debating if I want a little bit more of it (probably not, but I'll leave it sitting out on my desk for me to consider.) I'm finally done with these stupid pills tomorrow, and by the end of the weekend I should be able to eat actual food again. Rar.
And in writing news, I realized that losing this entire week to feeling like crap has put me far behind on gen_challenge and yuri_challenge. Gah. I'll try and work on those today if work is slowish. I am going to take a moment to be very very grateful that first_seventhe is willing to beta on exceedingly short notice and a very short clock. I think I owe her chocolate in August. For that and other things. ^_^;
Okay. Back to work and waiting to hear about my car.