Closing out the month - with blood and mucus
I've been suffering thourgh the usual nasty, knock-you-over cold since Wednesday, dragging myself through work only to be rewarded with a weekend of sleep and not being able to attend any of the weekend celebrations for various birthdays (the parties are no doubt more joyful for my absence).
It has also been a spectacularly dry winter thus far, so my sneezing is often accompanied by bloody noses. It's lovely.
I also continue to wait for the delivery of a parcel by the demons of DHL, although by this point I suspect they'll simply return the parcel of over $100 in Christmas and birthday presents to the point of origin without actually telling me. This may have already happened.
Still, I am coping as best I can, and here are some things that have been helping keep me from pure madness:
1. Celestial Seasoning's Gingerbread Spice and Candy Cane Lane holiday teas; as a rule I disapprove of holiday teas, but that may be due to supermarket trauma in encountering eggnog flavoured tea. Gingerbread Spice is a pleasant blend of ginger and cinnamon that is very soothing on sore throats. Candy Cane Lane is, quite simply, one of the most divine pre-bagged teas out there. Also there are polar bears on the box.
2. Rocky Mountain Soap's Mandarin Spice bath salts. Despite major congestion, I can actually smell this, and shutting myself in the bathroom in a hot, steaming bath with a packet of Mandarin Spice thrown in the water actually made Friday evening something near to enjoyable.
3. My shiny print collections of John Allison's Scary-Go-Round, which is charming and colourful and full of bats and the undead and sometimes horrible creations of science. It is a picker-upper.
4. Rereading my scant collection of Madeleine L'Engle. Charles Wallace is the biggest 'sperglord.
5. BBC Radio! I lay in a chair and listened to All Quiet on the Western Front yesterday it was quite nice.
6. RUNE FACTORY 3. THIS BELONGS IN ALL DS'. UNLESS YOU HATE ADORABLE THINGS. OR FUN. OR INSANITY.
It has also been a spectacularly dry winter thus far, so my sneezing is often accompanied by bloody noses. It's lovely.
I also continue to wait for the delivery of a parcel by the demons of DHL, although by this point I suspect they'll simply return the parcel of over $100 in Christmas and birthday presents to the point of origin without actually telling me. This may have already happened.
Still, I am coping as best I can, and here are some things that have been helping keep me from pure madness:
1. Celestial Seasoning's Gingerbread Spice and Candy Cane Lane holiday teas; as a rule I disapprove of holiday teas, but that may be due to supermarket trauma in encountering eggnog flavoured tea. Gingerbread Spice is a pleasant blend of ginger and cinnamon that is very soothing on sore throats. Candy Cane Lane is, quite simply, one of the most divine pre-bagged teas out there. Also there are polar bears on the box.
2. Rocky Mountain Soap's Mandarin Spice bath salts. Despite major congestion, I can actually smell this, and shutting myself in the bathroom in a hot, steaming bath with a packet of Mandarin Spice thrown in the water actually made Friday evening something near to enjoyable.
3. My shiny print collections of John Allison's Scary-Go-Round, which is charming and colourful and full of bats and the undead and sometimes horrible creations of science. It is a picker-upper.
4. Rereading my scant collection of Madeleine L'Engle. Charles Wallace is the biggest 'sperglord.
5. BBC Radio! I lay in a chair and listened to All Quiet on the Western Front yesterday it was quite nice.
6. RUNE FACTORY 3. THIS BELONGS IN ALL DS'. UNLESS YOU HATE ADORABLE THINGS. OR FUN. OR INSANITY.