Falling behind again
Been a while since I have posted, and I will just jump into the rundown:
the ankle is still stiff and I only have about 70% of my mobility, but the pain and swelling are greatly reduced and I can bear weight on it! Hooray!
*sigh* I just begin to think I am getting caught up with what I have missed while out with a FUBAR'd ankle, and I catch a cold. Not just a sniff-sniff cold, a hacking, coughing, chest-infecting wretched mess of a cold. In ENGL 101 today, my friend had the perfect words to describe what comes up when you have a chest infection: lung butter. I don't know whether to laugh uproariously or shudder at the mental image. A little bit of both, probably!
So thanks to this cold, I am falling behind with my coursework again. And doggedly trying to keep up. College is hard work for anybody, but when you add a debilitating illness, disability and all the rest, it feels damn near impossible sometimes! But I'm not depressed or letting it all get me down. After all, I still have a very good set of grades (one that is definitely an A, and two that will probably be A's as long as I keep working my ass off! But they will definitely be no lower than B's.) Husband is still helping me more than he knows - not having to fuss with the housework feels sooo good ... there are times when I come home from school and there is a stew bubbling in the crockpot and I can just toss my books on the nice clean floor willy-nilly ... it is those times that I sigh contentedly and think, "So THIS is what it feels like to be a MAN!!!" XD XD XD
Heheh ... so anyway, because of sickness, there was no Samhain celebrating for me. And no passing out candy to the wee ones either. I really didn't want to pass out the Bubonic Plague along with the Tootsie Rolls. But we will make up for it next year, husband and I promised each other. He was sad that I wasn't able to celebrate - not only because Samhain is the most major Wiccan holiday, but also because it was on Samhain night that I dedicated myself to Paganism and Wicca-Craft back in 2003. And that was after a few years of study, so I have been on this path for well over 5 years now - it seems hard to believe, but here I am. I admit that the high ritual has really sort of taken a backseat, but there is no mistaking how my religion has colored my life. I am a much better, stronger person than ever. And he knows how happy it makes me, so husband was a little disappointed I didn't get to celebrate. But there is still Yule to look forward to!
*sigh* well, ya'll, I think I have come to the painful decision that there's just not going to be a NaNoWriMo for me this year. My grades are just too important to me and, as I said to a friend this morning, Grades = scholarship opportunities. and scholarships = money. and at this point in my life, Money > Novel writing! Scholarships are a more immediate source of cash at this point in time. And I am going to be researching them during December, which is my month off.
I really need to get to bed - I have been so exhausted beyond words. I have a mate from school coming over tomorrow so that I can help him with his first college research paper ... actually, to be fair, his first EVER research paper. His father "homeschooled" him (half-assed, really) and he has never done a paper like this before. *sigh* But he is a smart guy, so I don't think it will be that tough at all! I will just have to refrain from telling him to shove over and just let me hurry up and type the damn thing! Heehee.
Okay. Time to go slather my chest with vaporub, take a hit off of my inhaler, suck down a cough drop and try to get some sleep.
Oh! Once more thing. Speaking of inhalers, unbeknownst to me, the asthma inhalers I have been using for darn near 15 years had CFC's in them, and a couple years ago the gov't stepped in and said no more CFC's! (they made the hole in the ozone layer.) So I have to get used to this new inhaler. It is alright, except for the fact that it has a very bitter aftertaste, like the bitter taste you get when you accidentally bite into an apple seed.
And that, friends, was all the pointless knowledge you never knew you didn't want to know! haha!
the ankle is still stiff and I only have about 70% of my mobility, but the pain and swelling are greatly reduced and I can bear weight on it! Hooray!
*sigh* I just begin to think I am getting caught up with what I have missed while out with a FUBAR'd ankle, and I catch a cold. Not just a sniff-sniff cold, a hacking, coughing, chest-infecting wretched mess of a cold. In ENGL 101 today, my friend had the perfect words to describe what comes up when you have a chest infection: lung butter. I don't know whether to laugh uproariously or shudder at the mental image. A little bit of both, probably!
So thanks to this cold, I am falling behind with my coursework again. And doggedly trying to keep up. College is hard work for anybody, but when you add a debilitating illness, disability and all the rest, it feels damn near impossible sometimes! But I'm not depressed or letting it all get me down. After all, I still have a very good set of grades (one that is definitely an A, and two that will probably be A's as long as I keep working my ass off! But they will definitely be no lower than B's.) Husband is still helping me more than he knows - not having to fuss with the housework feels sooo good ... there are times when I come home from school and there is a stew bubbling in the crockpot and I can just toss my books on the nice clean floor willy-nilly ... it is those times that I sigh contentedly and think, "So THIS is what it feels like to be a MAN!!!" XD XD XD
Heheh ... so anyway, because of sickness, there was no Samhain celebrating for me. And no passing out candy to the wee ones either. I really didn't want to pass out the Bubonic Plague along with the Tootsie Rolls. But we will make up for it next year, husband and I promised each other. He was sad that I wasn't able to celebrate - not only because Samhain is the most major Wiccan holiday, but also because it was on Samhain night that I dedicated myself to Paganism and Wicca-Craft back in 2003. And that was after a few years of study, so I have been on this path for well over 5 years now - it seems hard to believe, but here I am. I admit that the high ritual has really sort of taken a backseat, but there is no mistaking how my religion has colored my life. I am a much better, stronger person than ever. And he knows how happy it makes me, so husband was a little disappointed I didn't get to celebrate. But there is still Yule to look forward to!
*sigh* well, ya'll, I think I have come to the painful decision that there's just not going to be a NaNoWriMo for me this year. My grades are just too important to me and, as I said to a friend this morning, Grades = scholarship opportunities. and scholarships = money. and at this point in my life, Money > Novel writing! Scholarships are a more immediate source of cash at this point in time. And I am going to be researching them during December, which is my month off.
I really need to get to bed - I have been so exhausted beyond words. I have a mate from school coming over tomorrow so that I can help him with his first college research paper ... actually, to be fair, his first EVER research paper. His father "homeschooled" him (half-assed, really) and he has never done a paper like this before. *sigh* But he is a smart guy, so I don't think it will be that tough at all! I will just have to refrain from telling him to shove over and just let me hurry up and type the damn thing! Heehee.
Okay. Time to go slather my chest with vaporub, take a hit off of my inhaler, suck down a cough drop and try to get some sleep.
Oh! Once more thing. Speaking of inhalers, unbeknownst to me, the asthma inhalers I have been using for darn near 15 years had CFC's in them, and a couple years ago the gov't stepped in and said no more CFC's! (they made the hole in the ozone layer.) So I have to get used to this new inhaler. It is alright, except for the fact that it has a very bitter aftertaste, like the bitter taste you get when you accidentally bite into an apple seed.
And that, friends, was all the pointless knowledge you never knew you didn't want to know! haha!