Or is the Yuletide archive down for everyone? I had planned to spend the day reading but... Perhaps I'll just explore AO3 on my own.

So, sinus infection, not bronchitis. Still feeling like crap, though. Work tomorrow, come hives or high snowfall. I'm still not sure what to do about Christmas dinner. I'm hoping I'll feel well enough to go grocery shopping this afternoon. Damn it! I hate to 'dumb down' Christmas dinner! SH offered to have #2Son grill something. SRSLY?? You want to cook out? In Ohio?? For Christmas??? Is it too much to ask that someone go pick up a Honeybaked ham?? "You have to order those in advance and stand in line and..." WTF ever, dude. I'll deal somehow.

I did manage to guilt #3Son and his friend into helping decorate the big tree last night. SH decided to decorate the tree in the dining room by himself. "What are you putting on it?" asks I. "The box of ornaments for that tree." "Well, no, you're not because I just saw that box in the basement." "I'm putting these on." "Those are not all there are." As he made no move to bring up the others, I did it myself and then got punished with the guilts when he glared at me at bedtime and informed me that he was really sore and had done too much. (Hernia surgery a week ago.) Dude, I never asked you to deck the halls. I asked the boys. I just insisted that, if you were going to do it, you do it correctly with, you know, actual glass balls and such and not just the garlands. *eyeroll*

Newsflash: apparently a common side effect of levaquin is insomnia. Are you fucking kidding me?? SONOFABITCH! I tossed and turned all. night. long. I'm hoping that changing my dosing schedule and taking it this morning along with copious amounts of benadryl and my iPhone sleep app tonight will put an end to that crap. At least it's broad-spectrum enough that if I am also working on bronchitis it will knock it out, along with every other potential bacterial pathogen in a five mile radius. I'm bound to start feeling better soon. I hope. Please, God? Or Yahweh? Or Santa? Anybody?

revolos55 has a lovely holiday tale of mouse herding here.

Tags: in sickness or in health, marriage is not for the timid

Well, the power came back after about an hour and I spent the afternoon blissed out on scarletbaldy's fic, Human Credentials. Again. I've read it several times before.

Imagine my joy when I found Part Two!

Imagine my tears when I found that it is not finished.

*pokes you with a sharp pointy stick*

*points like the Ghost of Christmas Future at your 'puter*

Get thee to work, woman! Go! The way I feel right now, I might be dead by the time you get back to it!

Of course, in that case, there's really no rush, now, is there? *g*

*hugs you tight*

MORE! MORE!

Tags: fic rec

Still sick *stop* have already called in sick for tomorrow *stop* will go to doctor tomorrow*stop* the power went out *stop* scarletbaldy's fic, Human Credentials, keeping me sane for now but the power better be back on by the time I finish part 1 or I'll go down to the power company and give all of them my germs in 'gratitude'.

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Tags: in sickness or in health, iphone, via ljapp
I am: US, Ohio, Franklin, Worthington, Olentangy River Rd, 6128

Started as a cold. Has progressed to a mild form of bronchitis (yes, I'm self-diagnosing. Bad doctor!) and diarrhea. Currently, I'm trying to rehydrate but since nothing tastes good, not even water (and I LIKE water), it's hard to keep pushing myself to drink. I'm tempted to have #1Son bring IV supplies home from work along with a couple of liters of crystalloid. I'll see how I'm doing at three o'clock. He's there til 5.

So long as I'm not doing anything, I'm OK and I don't cough. I don't think I've been febrile but my chest and abs hurt from coughing.

Then the puppies got out.

I would headdesk if I had the energy.

I caught them, after trekking what seemed to be miles in the snow and cold, but couldn't keep them. They kept trying to run in opposite directions and, at 70 and 60 pounds, I had to let them go after I wound up on my ass in the snow, panting like a pulmonary cripple at the top of Everest, Ziva's collar in my hand. I staggered back to the deck s-l-o-w-l-y and sat down in my pajamas in the snow until I had recovered enough to make it through the back door. Then I grabbed the phone and called SH to come home from coffee and catch the pups.

Meanwhile, I lay on the floor of the kitchen for half an hour until my BP was above 80. If you can feel a pulse at your wrist/radial artery, it's above 80. Carotid pulse means it's above 60. I couldn't feel my fingers. I don't know what BP that indicates but it wasn't because they were cold. Probably cerebral hypoperfusion.

The cats came and lay next to me on the floor to insure continued proof of life. Cats giving CPR: there's a thought. Chessie would probably have been there but she'd locked herself in #1Son's bedroom. *sigh*

So, my annual vacation the week before Christmas week to get things done has been a bust. I've been mostly in bed since Wednesday. I think presents are all bought. Not sure when I'll be able to get to the grocery store. Nothing's been wrapped, the trees aren't decorated, half my laundry is done but I may have to make do with that. I go back to work Monday. If I'm at all able. We don't get sick days.

SH had an inguinal hernia repair done Monday and is doing great but isn't in any position to do much more than he already has. He'll make a run to the liquor store next week for Tanqueray for my dad and brother. But if he overdoes it, he gets sore and tired. I was hoping #2Son could help SH raise the height of the fence where Ziva gets over it (Victor getting out was entirely my fault. I thought he deserved a run after his sister had been scampering after bunnies. Then Z decided to hop the fence again and that was all she wrote.) but he had to go to work. #3Son is still in bed. It is now 1:50. I may have to legislate/delegate jobs for the three of them, such as decorating and grocery shopping. Yeah. That'll go over like a lead balloon. Kill. Me. Now.

Tags: in sickness or in health
I am: in bed
I feel: sick

I'm actually doing research for a fic. I don't think I've ever had to do that before. Thank God for the interwebs.

Tags: scrubs is a moron

The scrubsspawn and I are at my bro's in Atlanta with the g'rents, too. #1Son, up uncharacteristically early, and I are watching the Macy's Day Parade (sorry. I've called it that for years.) I still don't understand the point of the Rockettes. The cast from Hair did Aquarius. Damn, I'd love to see that. The cast from Shrek did I'm A Believer and Donkey is still love. The Kermit balloon is still the best.

Tonight we gorge. Tomorrow, a late dinner at Watershed, Emily Salyers' (Indigo Girls) restaurant. I heart Watershed.

Be it with family, friends, or just chatting online with your loved ones, have a blessed Thanksgiving.

Someone sent me fic feedback more than two years after posting. That was a lovely surprise and made me go back and reread the thing. Parts I quite like and overall I'm satisfied with it so I guess it's stood the test of time, but it's hardly my best effort. But the feedback was good for my ego.

Bravo, Brandon Sanderson! This is the poor schmuck author chosen by Robert Jordan's editor-wife, Harriet, to finish the Wheel of Time series. He did an outstanding job on The Gathering Storm. The plot moved at an acceptable pace and I actually felt as though things happened in this book, rather than just setting the stage for things to come, as has happened in several books. There was no Lan, no Elayne or Birgitta, but otherwise he hit all the main characters. I actually enjoyed this entry into the series far more than I did the past few, which were bogged down in the great sink hole of prolonged and enormous fantasy fiction. This effort seemed far more focused and easier to follow. Two more books to go, one a year from now, one two years from now, and I'm actually looking forward to them again. And, of course, the last lines of the book will be "The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the age that gave it birth comes again..." because it's, you know, The Wheel of Time. The fans who think there will be an eternally happy ending with the Dark One's destruction haven't been reading the fine print and I mock you all from afar.

I'm way behind on Dexter as one of the eps didn't record and Showtime On Demand has been a pain in the ass over it, but John Lithgow is completely creepy in a different but equally disturbing fashion to Jimmy Smits last year. These guys who almost always play good guys must be having a blast being Teh EvOl. But it creeps me the fuck out. How say all of you? Perhaps we need a poll.

I'm UTD on Californication, tho, and cringed at the end of last week because I am so not a fan of that chick. I love the stripper and the TA (and Karen, of course) but the Brit snob is completely not my cup of tea.

Loving NCIS this season however NCIS:LA does not impress. WTF did they do with Macy, the boss from the pilot eps? I liked her. She had depth. Potential. Bah! Mike Rowe trumps NCIS:LA and even my Tivo understands this without explanation. TV Guide NCIS spoiler: ( Read more... )

dashakay has pointed me toward some Big Bang Theory fic. I may never forgive her. Also, cretkid wrote a drabble about Wallowitz for me here. Just scroll down to my request and the drabble is in the reply. Thank you again, CK!! *hug*

I miss True Blood. Has anyone seen the True Blood soft drink? Borders had some yesterday but it seemed exorbitantly priced so I passed. Hot Topic has three TB t-shirts (and a metric fuck-ton of New Moon crap), tho: a bright red Fangoria t, a Bon Temps HS football team t, and the Merlotte's waitress t, which is the one I bought although I may have to go back for the Fangoria one.

I bought my Hallmark ornaments for the year last week: the leg lamp from A Christmas Story (sadly, not lit from within, damnit! C'mon, designer people. It's a lamp!!), Kirk, Spock, and Pike from The Menagerie (TOS). Kirk and Spock argue and are so very slashy that it makes me smile. The third ornament is the Swedish Chef with Lobster Banditos!! They don't move but they say several phrases from the skit and the Chef sings his song! *loves* I made sure to get my ass out early this year as I had to order last year's Muppet ornament on eBay and the damned thing doesn't work! *sob* I was crushed. I may go back for Dorothy and Toto and the TOS phaser (with sound). *contemplates spending more $$* *contemplates new master bath* *contemplates robbing a bank* *sigh*

Tags: californication, dexter, ncis, ornaments, trueblood, wot

You'll only go back 360 posts on my friends' page? That takes me back to Halloween. What about the other seven weeks I was absent? Do I have to check each journal? We are NOT amused!

So...... It seems I took a short break from the interwebs (LJ, DW, YIM, fanfic) that turned into a couple of months. *glances around* Looks much the same from where I stand/sit/type. ;) I've missed birthdays and sundry life experiences and am now perusing hundreds of entries in an honest effort to catch up, so if you get a late reply to an entry or a late birthday hug, please to be excusing my belated self. I am quite out of practice at this internet stuff.

What have I been up to, you ask? Reading. Work. Puppies. Children. ( Read more... )

If you have not yet read amalnahurriyeh's Machines of Freedom, run, do not walk over to her journal and read it now. It's a lovely long fic, beautifully written, with illustrations by scooly42! It's kidfic, apocafic, MSR, and had a (for me) surprise ending (no doubt because I'm slow on the uptake). In the words of Shaina Berkowitz, what's not to love?

Damn, I hate the shorter days. It's 4:30 and almost dark.