Last Saturday I got my hair cut!

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It was so cold when I woke up this morning. I mean, not really cold, certainly not by Chicago standards, but definitely cold enough that I saw no compelling reason why I should have to relinquish my place under warm comfy blankets and cuddly Zelda. I complained about this to Zelda, who blinked at me uncomprehendingly and washed my face for me, ( Read more... )

Well so I lost all of yesterday to a migraine, even more epically than I usually do - I woke up, realized immediately I was already too far into migraine for painkillers to work, so I squinted at my phone until I managed to compose an email, and then swallowed some Advil and lay back down. this was at 6:45. I woke up at about 11:30, dragged ( Read more... )

I cleaned my desk yesterday. By which I really only mean I took up the pile of ancient mail that needed shredding and actually, you know, did the shredding, but it still counts, I say. there's like a whole new 9x12 section of desk that's visible and can have stuff put on it again. I'm trying to avoid actually putting stuff on it, but the ( Read more... )

Well, I did in fact get sprung from physical therapy last Monday, and my shoulder has been reasonably well behaved. I've also all of a sudden been actually working out, and functioning like a semi acceptable adult all around, which is weird and unusual and I am side-eying it and thinking about poking it with a stick because it's very weird. (In ( Read more... )

It's been a good birthday weekend. (So convenient that my birthday will overlap with a long weekend most years.) I came home Friday and did a lot of cooking and prep for the party on Saturday, which included making like 3 dozen deviled eggs and a gallon of potato salad and paladin making a ton of twice-baked potatoes, then collapsed on the couch ( Read more... )

Yesterday I came home very cranky and full of fussing, so I drank most of a 375mL bottle of raspberry liqueur and ordered sushi for dinner and went on TeamSpeak to play FF14. My guild graciously ran me through the second, third, and fourth turn of the First Coil of Bahamut, and we made a stab at Leviathan EX that didn't succeed (but one day. ONE ( Read more... )

It got warm. It got warm! It's been consistently in the 50s for days! I could almost start to believe that maybe winter hell will not be here forever, although I have lived in Chicago too long to believe it's really spring. It's supposed to be somewhat chilly again this week (down to mid-40s), although it pretends it's climbing back up after ( Read more... )

So I've been working on this post off and on in my head for over a year. The funny thing about me and FF14 is that I'm really not an MMO gamer. I managed to play SMT Imagine for all of like two hours before I quit, and I loved Glitch beyond any semblance of reason (O Glitch we mourn your untimely demise), but it was so aggressively un-MMO-like.
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I sort of spaced out a lot this week because we've been having ludicrous air pressure swings and absolutely awful temperatures (I was very lucky that my husband was willing to drive me to the train for three days when it was too fucking cold for human beings to be outside, i.e. wind chills of -35.) The net result of the air pressure swings was ( Read more... )