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me vs. the virus
Dec. 9th, 2008 09:06 amso far so good. looks like i won the deathmatch and the illness lost.
but it did manage to take me out of work for 2 days and devour any usefulness i hoped to get out of my weekend. which is very bad considering how much i needed to get done. i spent a lot of time sleeping and knitting, and a little time being productive yesterday when i began to feel better.
thank you very much to those who wished me speedy recovery. it seems to have worked.
today i am gainfully at work again and drinking mint tea rather than coffee. coffee generally seems to me like a bad idea for sick people. the good thing is that i seem to have once again broken any addiction i have to coffee for the moment. i have no headache.
what i did get done was make chilli, get groceries, cat food, and the first part of my xmas candy done. not a very impressive list. why does it ALWAYS have to snow when i make xmas candy? next year i really need to remember to freeze it in the garage rather than on the deck, because picking the snow out of my caramels is NOT fun. i am anxious to try and finish the xmas stuff this week because of shipping. things will start to get dicey soon. i am hoping to mail most of my gifts to my folks house this year so that i don't have to pack them in my suitcase.
ross is having surgery tomorrow so i will be out of work to chauffer my very drugged husband and make sure he gets some TLC whether he likes it or not. :) this is a follow up on the sinus stuff he had done last summer and is just removing some scar tissue on one side. his recovery should be easier than last time if anything. hopefully he will be finished quickly and i will be able to use part of the day to get stuff done before i have to go to a dreadful township meeting in the evening.
they are surveying the whole area we live in to put curbs in and and new sewers. we desperately need the new sewers (ours are still the old clay ones) and have no argument with this, although we do expect to lose our lovely old cottonwood tree. we get to keep our 2 silver maples, so it could be a lot worse. the issue is that we have a corner double lot and the fees will be higher for us than for the other houses in the community that will only be charged for the one side or 2 sides. ross wants me to go advocate for us, but i'm not really sure what to say other than "it's too much damn money!" i have never been to one of these meetings before. home ownership still rather baffles me.
but it did manage to take me out of work for 2 days and devour any usefulness i hoped to get out of my weekend. which is very bad considering how much i needed to get done. i spent a lot of time sleeping and knitting, and a little time being productive yesterday when i began to feel better.
thank you very much to those who wished me speedy recovery. it seems to have worked.
today i am gainfully at work again and drinking mint tea rather than coffee. coffee generally seems to me like a bad idea for sick people. the good thing is that i seem to have once again broken any addiction i have to coffee for the moment. i have no headache.
what i did get done was make chilli, get groceries, cat food, and the first part of my xmas candy done. not a very impressive list. why does it ALWAYS have to snow when i make xmas candy? next year i really need to remember to freeze it in the garage rather than on the deck, because picking the snow out of my caramels is NOT fun. i am anxious to try and finish the xmas stuff this week because of shipping. things will start to get dicey soon. i am hoping to mail most of my gifts to my folks house this year so that i don't have to pack them in my suitcase.
ross is having surgery tomorrow so i will be out of work to chauffer my very drugged husband and make sure he gets some TLC whether he likes it or not. :) this is a follow up on the sinus stuff he had done last summer and is just removing some scar tissue on one side. his recovery should be easier than last time if anything. hopefully he will be finished quickly and i will be able to use part of the day to get stuff done before i have to go to a dreadful township meeting in the evening.
they are surveying the whole area we live in to put curbs in and and new sewers. we desperately need the new sewers (ours are still the old clay ones) and have no argument with this, although we do expect to lose our lovely old cottonwood tree. we get to keep our 2 silver maples, so it could be a lot worse. the issue is that we have a corner double lot and the fees will be higher for us than for the other houses in the community that will only be charged for the one side or 2 sides. ross wants me to go advocate for us, but i'm not really sure what to say other than "it's too much damn money!" i have never been to one of these meetings before. home ownership still rather baffles me.