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The Onion summarizes the election results...

(Got up early yesterday to take sdavido downtown so he wouldn't strain his arm with all the papers he had to hand back, got up early today to vote together and give him a ride in, drove out to Franklin tonight... gee, I wonder why I'm tired...)

I seem to be getting over (thankfully!) a 48-hour bug. I developed a sore throat Tuesday night, and woke up yesterday with a horrible cold. I managed to get through the day at work (with regular doses of medicine), but when I got home from work last night around 8:30 I basically fell into bed and stayed there. Barely pried myself out to change a couple hours later. Got absolutely nothing done, which was bad.

This morning I was still stuffy but not as fuzzy, and at this point, thankfully, I'm feeling almost like myself again. Still way behind on what I have to do, though... need to make something for the Concertino dinner, and do laundry, and pack, etc., etc. And sitting down to just check mail quickly has taken much longer than I meant it to, of course. Hopefully I can still get everything done somehow.

And this morning sdavido woke up with the level of cold I had yesterday, which has thrown him further off-schedule with what he needs to do... why do these things always strike at the worst times? (Although I suppose there is no good time, really.)

Oh well, at least it doesn't seem like something that'll linger...

sdavido finally seems to be gaining the upper hand in his fight with the evil laryngitis. Yay! He's not 100% better yet, but it's so nice to hear his voice again (albeit a little scratchy), and to see him getting some of his bounce back. Now I just need to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't push too hard too soon and relapse. Interestingly, the nurse said when I called last week that this usually lasts 2 - 3 weeks, and he's had it about 2 1/2... maybe he's being average for once. :-)

For those of you who are eagerly awaiting an update... moving all the stuff into storage, thankfully, went really well. Almost scarily so. (e.g., I was fretting about the unit not being big enough, and a bigger one became available a few days ago; I was worried about not having enough people, and unexpectedly gained an extra person this morning; the truck place didn't have the size truck I reserved, but gave me a larger one at the same price...) It did take a little longer than I'd hoped but we had no major disasters. (The biggest snag was part of the crew getting caught in traffic en route to the final destination.) I'm tremendously grateful to several members of the Amazing Arisia Logistics Team for helping everything go so smoothly. It's a tremendous weight off our shoulders to have that done. And now that all that stuff is in one place I think we'll feel less pressured to find a house right away, and can wait for the right moment.

Of course the whirlwind of packing stuff up to go into storage left some ripples here, so our place is suddenly un-neat again... but at least we have more places to put things now, so that should be corrected soon.

On a related front, my cough has been better today, at least while on medication... as soon as the dosage runs out it starts up again. So it's controlled but not really gone. I have an appointment to see someone tomorrow to make sure it's nothing serious. Hopefully it'll be a waste of time!

My mother's home! Yay! She'll probably be weak for a while, but indications are positive. Just have to try and keep her from pushing too hard too fast.

Keeping this short b/c it's been a really intense week (and tonight was really busy at the store) and I'm toasted, but wanted to keep y'all posted...

Feeling a little better today... ( Read more... )

Stay healthy, everyone!

sdavido is doing much better than he was yesterday - the fever is gone, yay! - but he still has the nasty chest cough. I called our doctor tonight b/c SD- felt like he might have fluid in his lungs, and the doctor said I should take him in for a chest x-ray to make sure it isn't pneumonia. So we spent the evening waiting in various parts of the MGH E.R. as we moved through the processing stages. When the results came back, it turned out that his lungs look clear (whew), so they think it's probably bronchitis. Supposedly it'll go away on its own in time... but he's hoping to go back to work on Monday. Taking time off is really complicated when working part-time at three different schools. So we'll just have to hope that his remaining progress will be fast... I don't want him to make himself worse.

Thanks for all your good wishes!

Just a quick update so you know I haven't forgotten about you... I'm still fighting a cold, and managed to wrench my back during a coughing fit this morning (sigh), so it may take me another day or two to catch up on e-mail and such. But I wanted to post a quick update, at least. ( Read more... )
In a completely unrelated bit of trivia, I notice that while we were away LiveJournal passed 5 million users. So your math question for today is: If we graph time elapsed vs. members, how long will it be before LJ takes over the world? A prize may be awarded if you can prove your answer. (Trying not to obsess about the election tomorrow! Gulp.)

For those of you following the fascinating saga of my ear, I spoke to a nurse today, and she said to keep taking the Advil and a decongestant and just watch it for a couple more days. If it gets worse I should call again, if it gets better, don't worry. She said she'd be much more concerned if I had a fever. So hopefully this will just go away on its own. (I think it is a little better, it's just not gone yet.)

If I had anything else to say, I'm too tired to remember it right now... g'night!

Nothing major to report, but... I've been getting pain in my left ear for the past couple days. Depending on how long it's been since I took Advil, it ranges from almost-not-there to momentarily immobilizing. I'm also a little stuffy so I'm hoping it's just a cold and will go away soon. If it doesn't I might call the doctor.

And, as you may have seen in sdavido's post, our car's electrical system died this afternoon. So we had to get it towed. Fortunately we have a good mechanic so we knew where to have it taken. But since it's Sunday nobody was actually there... we had it left in the best spot available, and I'll go by in the morning and arrange treatment. The AAA guy thinks it's the alternator. Could be worse. Of course, I'd prefer nothing be wrong at all - I like my car, I don't like to see it hurt - but at least it should be fixable.

That's about it for the moment, hopefully next time I'll have more pleasant news...