I guess my commitment to posting more didn't quite follow through, did it ( Read more... )

The short version: My mom is in the ICU. I have strep. I am trying to chill out and relax before I make myself sick. Or sicker. Or whatever.
( the long version )

(By the Beta Band. Listened to on my commute to work ( Read more... )

Yep, I was off work this week ( Read more... )

Man, THE DARK KNIGHT is really, really, amazingly good. If anyone wants to see it and desires a companion, I'm your gal. I need to see it again, and soon ( Read more... )

New glasses acquired. Photographs to come (a better picture than I can take of myself with my phone, anyway ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm actually sick, I think. My severely painful chest, sore muscles and joints, and headache from yesterday have settled down into intermittent, painful, unproductive coughing, a slightly runny nose, and the aforementioned sore muscles and headache ( Read more... )

I "called" in sick to work today. (I often just send e-mail explaining that I won't be there because I'm ill, and that works out OK - no way was I going to be able to speak to anyone this morning.) When I first woke up, my head hurt so badly I couldn't move for a while. The headache is lessened now, thank Bowie, but every once in a while, I'll turn ( Read more... )

Sick. Taking-day-off-work sick. I slept (or at least lay in bed) until 1:30pm. I feel better now, but we'll see. I have had one of those bugs that gives you the "round-the-world" - attacking more or less every system in the body one by one. Skin; GI tract; throat; head; sinuses; eyes. I've seen a million kleenex, and I've rocked them all ( Read more... )

Well, not quite yet. Approximately 14 more hours of not being at work.
( health blatherings )