Mini Whine...

I can HEAR myself breathing - the air trying to filter through whatever is blocking it in the passageways (trying not to be gross here, but it feels gross).  I've been coughing so hard that my neck is feeling the stenosis (narrowing of the spinal column, pinching the nerves and leaving little room), my THIGH muscles feel like I just ran a marathon out of the blue; I'm just worn out from all the coughing and recently the cough that's been non-productive for a month has decided to start choking me with.....well...product.  ugh.  yuck.  And top it all off I now have a fever - that's with the ibuprofen and Norco (which has tylenol in it) on board)  In other words, I feel miserable.  I've left work twice in a row and I really should call in sick, but you know how strict employmers can be about time off and sickness.

I haven't been able to concentrate on a single book, and therefore I've read the first paragraph of about 10 books, then they just lay around here with me...  We'll have to s ee whate happens.  Hopefully the doc will provide some antibiotics and cough syrup without me paying for an office visit, which can also pay for the meds.  it's either office visits or medicaion.  Can't do both.

Whatever - the weekend is coming up so I'll have some ktime to recuperate - just wish it were longer - like four day.  At least x-mas vacation is coming up - two weeks off....maybe.

okay - I'm trying to be positive about this (it's hard though)  Like - I had a flu shot, imagine how bad this would be without the flu shot?  Maybe it doesn't do anything at all, I'm trying to think that it's making this illness easier than it could have been.  ;)

so, laying here, cuddling the little dog, holding a book near me and the t.v. is playing Craig Ferguson.  A frozen strawberry fruitbar would be good about now.....

This is why I did no Teaser Tuesday or It's Monday post.  Not feelin' it.

evil e-mail and so much for reading

I had plans to finish reading Tempest Rising, and go on to the next League of Reluctant Adults author book, (not sure which one, though - maybe Anton Strout).

then I check my e-mail and looked at the number of unread e-mails in my box. over 10,000. I made the mistake of going page by page, to delete e-mails, and to make sure I save the "important" ones. Hah! I don't really have extremely important e-mails, just (hey you won this, or e-mails from family). Before I knew it, it was past 2 in the morning. (now it's 3 a.m.). I can't seem to step away from the computer. I don't feel good, (better than last week though, really), I'm tired, my arms ache and I want to finish my book.

Thus this mini-whine-fest. I am making a vow to clear at least four pages of e-mails every day. Tonight I got my inbox down from 11,000 (approx) to 7,000. That's a lot of e-mails. I don't know why I just don't clear them as I read them. Pure laziness, or disorganization I guess. Starting tomorrow, I will clear all the day's e-mails along with a few extra until I get the inbox down to zero - or at least less than 25! It's just rediculous to save them. I'm not going to re-read them! Crazy.

Goals for tomorrow include a walk (for my health) and relaxing with the rest of Tempest Rising. No housework (which I rarely do anyway because of physical limitations- the silver lining to my clouds), no t.v. - just reading. Maybe no computer either.....nyah! I have to serve my cafe-world meals, and harvest my farmville crops!

non-reviews and a little bit of whining

I must really be tripping this year. There are eight books I've read this year that I haven't written anything about. That was the whole purpose of me doing this blog; to write about books that I enjoyed, or sort of enjoyed. What a dweeb am I?

Maybe I'll go back to review them, but tonight - I'm fighting a cold; 'cause of course I have to go back to work this week, so I MUST catch a cold and be miserable! Can't start out the beginning of the year calling in sick, so I have to tough it out, which means more pain (but no more pain meds to help cope), and more general discomfort. I've found that when my pain spikes, it usually does not go back down to the previous level, it stays higher than it was before. All I can do is take extra ibuprofen. Part of what I have to do this week is work with books, using my hands and elbows, so it's probably going to suck, no matter how much I don't want it to. It's hard to stay positive during times like these.

On the other hand - today my 2 year old granddaughter counted to 10, many times as she was pointing to things on a bookpage. Once she gets past ten, she starts repeating numbers, but that's pretty amazing anyway. We were also working with shapes (we were reading Calico Cat Looks Around) from a reading book. On the last page there are shapes like square, circle, petal, crescent...etc. The first go around she didn't get any right. The second go around she got a few right and the third go around she got every single shape right. I'm not sure if she'll remember by tomorrow though. It's possible she might remember some, but probably not all. Makes me want to start easy words on flashcards for her, as long as it stays fun. Toddlers and preschoolers should have lots of playtime, and NO academic stress. Just playing is learning.

My husband and I will have our 30th wedding anniversary on Tuesday (August 11). He had put aside a little money to go out to dinner (we live from paycheck to paycheck). This weekend started a heatwave in our area. One of our fans had broken recently. Last night another fan wore out, and my middle son's room was so uncomfortably hot (no circulation) that he ended up going to his girlfriend's to sleep. Today my husband comes to me and asks "what would you rather do? Go out to dinner for our anniversary or buy a couple fans for the house?" This may seem like a very unromantic choice, but I picked fans. It might seem like he gave me a very unromantic choice, but he knows that I'm needing extra airflow, and I want my son to be comfortable also. So we can still go out for an icecream on our anniversary evening. We don't need the whole dinner thing, that only lasts as long as you digest it anyway. The fans will last longer!