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Seriously. I mean, that never happens. Like, ever.

Also, this whole being sick for New Year's thing? It's getting to be a tradition; I was even sicker last year. While I appreciate that I am not very ill, it's still not a tradition I would choose if I had any say in these things. Please, 2009, make me feel better!

Oh, and guess which genius decided it would be a good idea to fly with a head cold? Yep, that'd be me.

So, now we need some good news, because otherwise I'll want ice cream or a cigarette to cheer me up, which will just generate phlegm. My mom went to the doctor on Friday, and he says that it's been long enough since the cancer has gone into remission, and she can cut back to bi-annual MRI testing. This means fewer doctor's visits and less stressful waiting for test results in the coming year. Also exciting because it means that he expects her not to relapse again. Also, the polyps she had removed in those two surgeries a while back were nothing serious, and he doesn't think the area requires more observation than a regular doctor's visit would provide. So, that was a big huge hunk of good news this Christmas.

Anyone else have good news to share? I'd like some happy thoughts just now, please!

I was expecting to write y'all a Christmas wrap-up today, in between getting a ton of work done at the office. Instead, I have gotten nothing done. Either work or LJ-wise

At some point I contracted a cold, and I can't breathe or concentrate, and generally feel like yuck today. What with the getting of my monthly visitor on Friday, the dehydration from several days of wine drinking, the sweating from the abrupt switch to 60F temperatures yesterday, and the stuffyness from smoking too much this weekend, I didn't notice I was getting sick until this morning when I arrived at work.

On the gift (receiving) front: I got the gold hoops I asked for, a case for my sewing machine, some gift certificates, and a couple of really pretty ornaments. On the gift (giving) front: Mom loved her stuff, I got big reactions from my cousins to gifts I wasn't sure about (Yay!), but my father's gift was a total bust. Unfortunately, even after I offered to convert the records to CD's for him, or allow him to return the thing, he seems stuck on what I thought he was going to do with it because he doesn't have an MP3 player. I tried explaining the 'put the MP3's onto CD's using the computer' concept to him several times, but all I got was a blank look. Oh, well. I may just have to go and return it myself, and get him the more expensive version record-to-CD converter for early-Father's-Day and Christmas combined - or something. At least that one he seems to understand.

In other news, I have two chapters of FAA on my laptop that I'm not really happy with, but that I feel compelled to post because I did such a bad job getting fic written and posted in 2008, and I want to do better in 2009. I'm traveling for New Years (I think) so maybe I'll get some work done then. Also, I need to find my account registration info for fanfiction.net, so I can update my page there. It's got to be a year since I did that.

More later, now I need more coffee.

Not feeling like I have much to say at the moment, but wanted to touch base. I was out of work sick Thursday and Friday; I thought I had the flu, and as much as I hate to do so, I went to the doctor, because I had to know if I was contagious for a family party on Saturday. Turns out I had actual 'hay fever', as in, an allergy attack that gave me a fever, chills, muscle aches, etc.. I had no clue allergies could do that. So, ragweed/goldenrod is evil, and I am on allergy meds until after the first frost - whenever that is.

Party Saturday was fun, although I didn't have as much energy to be social and actually think enough to participate in conversations. I spent a lot of the time playing with my niece and the other little kids. I stayed overnight with my sister-in-law at her mom's house after, and spent Sunday with their family. My bro married into good people.

Yesterday work was insane, and it promises to be worse today because now bosslady is sick. Evidently, bossman was out while I was, with an actual virus, and spread the wealth. So, yeah, I better go bury myself in paperwork, etc. TTYL.

Oh, PS; WEDDING SATURDAY!!! I don't believe

happynonoplace is getting married. So weird. Except, when you see them together, it is significantly less weird and more awesome.

Current Mood: cranky

Not a lot went on this weekend. I slept, medicated, drank lots of fluids, etc. Caught up on my TV, watched football, did laundry. Read a little bit of fic, including some oldies I hadn't seen in a while. Managed to post a couple of comments today. That's about it.

The swelling has gone down in my neck, for which I am grateful. I now have a phlegm issue, but I can swallow, so that's better. I even had some coffee today. For those of you who know me, that was 4 days without coffee, and 5 without a cigarette including today. I may just not go back to smoking, we'll see how it goes. If I do quit, it'll be weird because as several friends have been trying and trying to quit, I was just like, 'eh, I'll do that at some point, whatever'. Who knows, maybe this is 'some point'. Anyway, 5 days without my glorious stimulants, and although I did have a couple of mild fits of temper, I have yet to have any serious anxiety or to kill anyone in a fit of rage. This is good.

Once I'm not sick, and my stamina and concentration are back up, we'll have the true test: can I write like this?

Current Mood: cold

I'm on day 3 or 4 of a swollen gland pressing against my throat, making it hard to swallow and breathe. Thus, I have not been doing much reading or writing. I'm trying to focus long enough to have a something to comment about on your new fics/LJ entries, but so far nothing is striking me, so you may get some weird comments next week, on things you'd forgotten you wrote about.

An additional note: If I was a boss, and someone fell asleep at their desk, I'd be a little pissed. Like, enough to ask why they were falling asleep at their desk. I've been doing it all week, and no one has said squat. This either makes interim office manager the awesomness, or so stressed she has no clue what's going on.

Back to sleep now.

Current Mood: exhausted

Hello, all.

I went to the emergency room Wednesday morning, because the treatment I used on Tuesday did not help at all. I woke up Wednesday with splotches in three more places, and some welts on my face, and my left hand stiff and oozy from the pustules; and so sought medical attention. They gave me steiroids, prescription benadryl, and some stuff to protect my stomach lining from the other meds, as well as a note saying I should not be at work. I did not have to ask for the note.

So, today I'm back at work. Wearing latex gloves, because they won't let me touch anything without them. Also, long sleeves.

It's gonna be a fun day, I can tell. Ah well, at least this is the end of the week, and by Monday I'll be back to normal (I hope). First roommate's birthday party is tomorrow, and we're having more than 30 eople in the house...And there I'll be, in my gloves. I was actually thinking about tracking down some of those lace 80's Madonna gloves, so the latex is not quite so obvious. Or, not.

I hope everyone had a good week, and I'll be back soon.

Current Mood: bitchy
Current Location: Th Front Desk

Happy 10:13!!!

Reader's Circle tonight! It's fun, it's exciting, it's books! And, yeah, could I be any more geeky?

I stayed home yesterday, due to a sore throat that made speaking my least favorite activity. My glands are no longer swollen, though, so I'm back in the saddle at work today. Still not sure if it's allergies, or a cold, or some type of infection; but it seems to be healing itself, so I can avoid the doctor if the swelling is completely gone by tomorrow.

I'm still slogging through the same gothic novel I've been reading on and off for a couple of months; now with a haunted castle! I also took some time out from reading that to reorganize my printed-out fanfic, and read an extreeemely trashy romance novel, that was so bad I will not be discussing it tonight. One of those jobs where there is no character development, and the plot is too derivitave to be taken seriously in any way. It had a plot like swiss cheese; for example, one of the main characters gets shot at, and doesn't tell anyone, or worry about it, or bother to take any interest in figuring out who shot at him. It kinda made me sad, because I've read other books by the same author that I thought were really creative, plot-wise. Next up, HP revisited. That should have me finishing book 6 right around the time book 7 gets delivered.

And, as an added bonus, concert! after the book meeting. One of our original members is in a band, and they're having their first show tonight, so we will all stick around and applaud wildly.

It seems silly to do a 'weekend update' on Wednesday, so I'm gonna skip it. It was a weekend, I had fun, I wish it was still a weekend. 'Nough said. There will most likely be a happy hour tomorrow, and some other activities for the coming weekend.

Current Mood: bored
Current Location: The Front Desk

I went to work today, which is weird, since I spent 5 days indoors, and I am still sick. No smoking, no candy, no large meals, and generally no fun today. Wooo. Came very close to either falling on my head or tossing my cookies for no apparent reason earlier today, which was just as much fun as it sounds. I'm gonna have to stop and get some of that numbing throat spray and more cough drops on my way home, otherwise I won't be able to smoke, or be around Mandy and Kate smoking, and I'll nic-fit and kill someone. Likely Mandy.

Think I have a date for moving, April 1, but it might change again, I'm never sure of stuff these days. It'll be weird to move again, especially with the cat. The poor cat. Can't bear to abandon her again, since she's been abandoned twice, and I have those pesky guilt issues. She's off her nut, though.

No writing is getting done, and I can place most of the blame on the facts that; a) the IT department at work is supposed to help us WORK, not do personal stuff; and b) my home PC is dying. In its death throws. About to bite the big one.

Sad to lose the computer, sadder to have to pay for a new one. Bills are evil.

New things to do at home: e-mail links and documents to myself, tinker with problems in the vain hope of solving them. New things to do at work: grovel in the hopes of getting documents off of my old computer. Accounting. Rejection letters for lawyers.

Need sleep, and medication.

Current Mood: sick
Current Location: The Front Desk

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