whiskyinmind
27 November 2007 @ 01:19 pm

Doctor thinks it's labrynthitis apparently. I had a sore throat a few weeks ago and she thinks maybe there's been an infection at that point which is lingering. If I'm still falling over in a week I've to go back and get antibiotics.

She also told me I'm a little anaemic but that's to be expected today because girly TMI )

 - if it continues into next week I've to consider iron supplements.

On top of that, my blood pressure's a little high at rest and dropped to the floor (well, not quite) when she got me to stand up to retake it. She's a little concerned about that mixed with the light-headedness and the falling over and my family history so she's getting a complete set of blood tests and I've to get blood pressure readings every time I go get my meds renewed from now on.

Joy.

So all in all, I'm okay, just a little not quite right but I should be sorted with a little time and attention.

Now I'm off to make my house D and Wench-proof for Friday since they're invading. (Guys, this is my way of saying - absolutely fine by me! I'll contact you both eventually. When I get my act together...)

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whiskyinmind
27 November 2007 @ 01:19 pm

Doctor thinks it's labrynthitis apparently. I had a sore throat a few weeks ago and she thinks maybe there's been an infection at that point which is lingering. If I'm still falling over in a week I've to go back and get antibiotics.

She also told me I'm a little anaemic but that's to be expected today because girly TMI )

 - if it continues into next week I've to consider iron supplements.

On top of that, my blood pressure's a little high at rest and dropped to the floor (well, not quite) when she got me to stand up to retake it. She's a little concerned about that mixed with the light-headedness and the falling over and my family history so she's getting a complete set of blood tests and I've to get blood pressure readings every time I go get my meds renewed from now on.

Joy.

So all in all, I'm okay, just a little not quite right but I should be sorted with a little time and attention.

Now I'm off to make my house D and Wench-proof for Friday since they're invading. (Guys, this is my way of saying - absolutely fine by me! I'll contact you both eventually. When I get my act together...)

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whiskyinmind
27 August 2007 @ 09:48 am

I'm not the fittest person in the world, in fact, I'm probably the definition of couch potato these days. I haven't gone running since a cyclist knocked me over at the start of the year, my treadmill in the house is folded up and leaning against the wall of my spare room, my step machine makes a great coat stand in the hall and my bike is rusting out at the back of the house and has been for over a year now.

With the car in the garage though, and Sis needing her own car back this week, I have to get the train. Which is a five minute walk from my house (uphill on the way home), and only goes into the city centre so I have to walk along to the underground station (Central to St Enoch's) and then at the other end walk up Great George Street which is only around six blocks long, but the gradient? It's almost a vertical uphill walk first thing in the morning.

I now can't breathe. Really, I've been coughing and choking since I came in this morning and it's not getting any better at all...

But on the plus side, I'm trying to be healthier as well. This is day seven of reduced meds, it's day three of no alcohol, it's day three of me actually cooking proper food instead of heating things up (like pizza...) and not having biscuits (cookies) or crisps (chips) in the house so you never know, it could be a whole new me soon.

I'm also cutting down on caffeine. I'm not going cold turkey on it 'cause last time I did that my head nearly exploded and I couldn't stop shaking for three days, but I'm only having two cups of caffeinated drinks in a day - usually coffee - and the rest of the time I'm trying out herbal teas. At the moment I'm liking this camomile, spearmint and passion flower mix that I picked up at Tescos on Saturday but we'll see how long that lasts.

I slept this weekend. I don't know if it's because the side effects/discontinuation effects are evening out or if it's because I haven't had a beer all weekend. If it's the first then that's great, if it's the latter then I should have done this a long time ago.

I know I've said this before and it's come to naught, but I'm trying to make things better.

I have no idea why I'm posting this, I guess I just needed to say it maybe?

For INAP - I just logged into PayPal and Hotmail this morning and have a lump in my throat - thank you all so much! I currently have 162GBP, which is more than enough to stay with my current webhost and only a little shy of moving to the DreamHost offer - thank you all once more! I'm completely blown away by this.

Most of you have commented that you would prefer any leftover money to be used/saved for future hosting costs rather than given to charity so I think that's what we'll do for now.

I'll sort out the details properly later on today - those of you who have donated money, would you prefer your donations to remain anonymous? I would love to be able to thank you properly for this but respect your wishes completely (including keeping RL names masked).

ETA [livejournal.com profile] thedothatgirl - I got your email this morning, I also have my final shortlist for the AVAs, oddly enough they're more or less the same titles as you but in a slightly different order (go on, act like you're suprised!) and I only picked three from the Wildcards - will email you as soon as I can!

 
 
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whiskyinmind
27 August 2007 @ 09:48 am

I'm not the fittest person in the world, in fact, I'm probably the definition of couch potato these days. I haven't gone running since a cyclist knocked me over at the start of the year, my treadmill in the house is folded up and leaning against the wall of my spare room, my step machine makes a great coat stand in the hall and my bike is rusting out at the back of the house and has been for over a year now.

With the car in the garage though, and Sis needing her own car back this week, I have to get the train. Which is a five minute walk from my house (uphill on the way home), and only goes into the city centre so I have to walk along to the underground station (Central to St Enoch's) and then at the other end walk up Great George Street which is only around six blocks long, but the gradient? It's almost a vertical uphill walk first thing in the morning.

I now can't breathe. Really, I've been coughing and choking since I came in this morning and it's not getting any better at all...

But on the plus side, I'm trying to be healthier as well. This is day seven of reduced meds, it's day three of no alcohol, it's day three of me actually cooking proper food instead of heating things up (like pizza...) and not having biscuits (cookies) or crisps (chips) in the house so you never know, it could be a whole new me soon.

I'm also cutting down on caffeine. I'm not going cold turkey on it 'cause last time I did that my head nearly exploded and I couldn't stop shaking for three days, but I'm only having two cups of caffeinated drinks in a day - usually coffee - and the rest of the time I'm trying out herbal teas. At the moment I'm liking this camomile, spearmint and passion flower mix that I picked up at Tescos on Saturday but we'll see how long that lasts.

I slept this weekend. I don't know if it's because the side effects/discontinuation effects are evening out or if it's because I haven't had a beer all weekend. If it's the first then that's great, if it's the latter then I should have done this a long time ago.

I know I've said this before and it's come to naught, but I'm trying to make things better.

I have no idea why I'm posting this, I guess I just needed to say it maybe?

For INAP - I just logged into PayPal and Hotmail this morning and have a lump in my throat - thank you all so much! I currently have 162GBP, which is more than enough to stay with my current webhost and only a little shy of moving to the DreamHost offer - thank you all once more! I'm completely blown away by this.

Most of you have commented that you would prefer any leftover money to be used/saved for future hosting costs rather than given to charity so I think that's what we'll do for now.

I'll sort out the details properly later on today - those of you who have donated money, would you prefer your donations to remain anonymous? I would love to be able to thank you properly for this but respect your wishes completely (including keeping RL names masked).

ETA [livejournal.com profile] thedothatgirl - I got your email this morning, I also have my final shortlist for the AVAs, oddly enough they're more or less the same titles as you but in a slightly different order (go on, act like you're suprised!) and I only picked three from the Wildcards - will email you as soon as I can!

 
 
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whiskyinmind
12 July 2007 @ 08:16 am
 
m'at work. Feel like I shouldn't be. m'tempted to go home again.

No one's done anything about answering queries, two people so far have taken their personal issues out on me already, my back hurts like hell and my stomach is killing me.

</whine>

I was feeling better yesterday, now? I feel like shit again.

eta although one good thing - [livejournal.com profile] wenchpixie? I got your email this morning but had to leave the house before I could reply. SQUEE!
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whiskyinmind
12 July 2007 @ 08:16 am
 
m'at work. Feel like I shouldn't be. m'tempted to go home again.

No one's done anything about answering queries, two people so far have taken their personal issues out on me already, my back hurts like hell and my stomach is killing me.

</whine>

I was feeling better yesterday, now? I feel like shit again.

eta although one good thing - [livejournal.com profile] wenchpixie? I got your email this morning but had to leave the house before I could reply. SQUEE!
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whiskyinmind
11 July 2007 @ 11:52 am
First: I fixed my lights! The idiot who wired up my fuse box had labelled them all in the wrong order. So I was fixing the fourth one when I should have been fixing the second. Luckily he did the labelling in pencil so I've fixed it now. But I fixed the fuse all by myself! Yay!

Second: I have a kidney infection!
Yeah, you read that right, I'm celebrating having a kidney infection. The reason for the celebration? It isn't appendicitis. Therefore I don't need an operation, therefore it's a thing to celebrate.

(Yeah, I've been keeping quiet about not being well this time, because it seems like I'm always sick one way or another. I've been off work for the past three days, mostly curled up sleeping and in pain. My tests I had done by the nurse on Monday came back this morning and I'm on antibiotics now. Huge relief, problem is I have to go to work tomorrow now...)

Third: I have some kind of red berries growing in my garden. Strawberries or Raspberries, I dunno, they're the size of raspberries but they're paler? Maybe they're not ripe yet... I found them when I got back from the doctor's and found next door's kids in my wildlife reserve garden trying to get their toy plane back. I helped them get it and found the berries. *g* See, my not doing the garden is for a reason - berries bring wildlife, which the Bengal Tigers roaming the grounds can eat so I don't have to feed them...

(Will get the meme questions out to you all this afternoon!)
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whiskyinmind
11 July 2007 @ 11:52 am
First: I fixed my lights! The idiot who wired up my fuse box had labelled them all in the wrong order. So I was fixing the fourth one when I should have been fixing the second. Luckily he did the labelling in pencil so I've fixed it now. But I fixed the fuse all by myself! Yay!

Second: I have a kidney infection!
Yeah, you read that right, I'm celebrating having a kidney infection. The reason for the celebration? It isn't appendicitis. Therefore I don't need an operation, therefore it's a thing to celebrate.

(Yeah, I've been keeping quiet about not being well this time, because it seems like I'm always sick one way or another. I've been off work for the past three days, mostly curled up sleeping and in pain. My tests I had done by the nurse on Monday came back this morning and I'm on antibiotics now. Huge relief, problem is I have to go to work tomorrow now...)

Third: I have some kind of red berries growing in my garden. Strawberries or Raspberries, I dunno, they're the size of raspberries but they're paler? Maybe they're not ripe yet... I found them when I got back from the doctor's and found next door's kids in my wildlife reserve garden trying to get their toy plane back. I helped them get it and found the berries. *g* See, my not doing the garden is for a reason - berries bring wildlife, which the Bengal Tigers roaming the grounds can eat so I don't have to feed them...

(Will get the meme questions out to you all this afternoon!)
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whiskyinmind
Good grief I hope I'm PMSing and not just being a bitch for no reason. People are annoying me a lot today. And it's only 9.30.

One of the girls who started work in the library on the same day as me is leaving today. She's going off to work in a local library closer to her and I really hope she does well there. I know she will, she's Trina, of course she'll do well. I'll miss her. She's having a night out tonight and I don't know if I can go, I have a doctor's appointment ovre lunchtime today and I don't really feel like coming back in to work after it. Yes, I know that's a lame excuse, but it's been a bad day so far and I can't really see it getting better.

I have weak ankles (skiing accident when I was 14 - the first time I ever strapped on a pair of skis... typical) and go over on them all the time. It doesn't tend to hurt, but sometimes it does. It did this morning on the way out to the car. And then as I was shutting the passenger door after I'd put my bags in I slammed the door against my knee. It's still sore.

Every single person seems to be talking *really* loudly today and it's pissing me off a lot.

So yeah... I'm not a fun person to be around today so I'll sit in my little corner of the office and write drabbles (still taking time-specific prompts for Willow/Xander, Alec (X5-494) and any SPN characters - fire away).

meme - disturbingly apt I think... )

eta posted some Doctor Who icons from Utopia over here at [livejournal.com profile] fandomsbitca.

second edit Anyone in Portugal right now? I think I might have done some damage to [livejournal.com profile] jgracio - I'd appreciate it if someone could go check his head hasn't exploded from the power of my brain... *g*
 
 
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whiskyinmind
Good grief I hope I'm PMSing and not just being a bitch for no reason. People are annoying me a lot today. And it's only 9.30.

One of the girls who started work in the library on the same day as me is leaving today. She's going off to work in a local library closer to her and I really hope she does well there. I know she will, she's Trina, of course she'll do well. I'll miss her. She's having a night out tonight and I don't know if I can go, I have a doctor's appointment ovre lunchtime today and I don't really feel like coming back in to work after it. Yes, I know that's a lame excuse, but it's been a bad day so far and I can't really see it getting better.

I have weak ankles (skiing accident when I was 14 - the first time I ever strapped on a pair of skis... typical) and go over on them all the time. It doesn't tend to hurt, but sometimes it does. It did this morning on the way out to the car. And then as I was shutting the passenger door after I'd put my bags in I slammed the door against my knee. It's still sore.

Every single person seems to be talking *really* loudly today and it's pissing me off a lot.

So yeah... I'm not a fun person to be around today so I'll sit in my little corner of the office and write drabbles (still taking time-specific prompts for Willow/Xander, Alec (X5-494) and any SPN characters - fire away).

meme - disturbingly apt I think... )

eta posted some Doctor Who icons from Utopia over here at [livejournal.com profile] fandomsbitca.

second edit Anyone in Portugal right now? I think I might have done some damage to [livejournal.com profile] jgracio - I'd appreciate it if someone could go check his head hasn't exploded from the power of my brain... *g*
 
 
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whiskyinmind
11 December 2006 @ 11:53 am
ooog  
I actually had a pretty decent weekend, I had fun with the kids, I was semi-productive, I watched the second half of s1 SPN yesterday (well, I had to check my new DVD player wasn't going to crap out on me...) and I watched all of the nominated AVA vids yesterday to familiarise myself with them.

So why am I not at work? Because at some point in the middle of last night I developed a fever and aches all over. I'm actually feeling better now, but still (as my mum usd to say) 'weak as water'. I have tomorrow booked off work 'cause therapy's at an awkward time what with the yuletide rush (you'd think people got more depressed at this time of year or something...) and I ended up just having to take the day off on leave to solve any arguments. So now I bet my boss is thinking I'm at it and am just planning on having a four-day weekend, which would potentially be a valid argument if it wasn't for the fact that I can't even face the thought of going out to check the mail never mind do anything else. So excuse me while I go curl up under a million blankets and contemplate making some tea.

Oh - and the AVAs round one has now maxed out on submissions, [livejournal.com profile] thedothatgirl and I are now in the process of shortlisting and judging. In the meantime, the first of the special 'theme' rounds is now accepting submissions. The theme for this round is Comic Book Heroes - basically vids from any films/TV shows which have evolved from comics - X Men, Superman, Spiderman, Sin City, those kind of things. So head on over and check it out!
 
 
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whiskyinmind
11 December 2006 @ 11:53 am
ooog  
I actually had a pretty decent weekend, I had fun with the kids, I was semi-productive, I watched the second half of s1 SPN yesterday (well, I had to check my new DVD player wasn't going to crap out on me...) and I watched all of the nominated AVA vids yesterday to familiarise myself with them.

So why am I not at work? Because at some point in the middle of last night I developed a fever and aches all over. I'm actually feeling better now, but still (as my mum usd to say) 'weak as water'. I have tomorrow booked off work 'cause therapy's at an awkward time what with the yuletide rush (you'd think people got more depressed at this time of year or something...) and I ended up just having to take the day off on leave to solve any arguments. So now I bet my boss is thinking I'm at it and am just planning on having a four-day weekend, which would potentially be a valid argument if it wasn't for the fact that I can't even face the thought of going out to check the mail never mind do anything else. So excuse me while I go curl up under a million blankets and contemplate making some tea.

Oh - and the AVAs round one has now maxed out on submissions, [livejournal.com profile] thedothatgirl and I are now in the process of shortlisting and judging. In the meantime, the first of the special 'theme' rounds is now accepting submissions. The theme for this round is Comic Book Heroes - basically vids from any films/TV shows which have evolved from comics - X Men, Superman, Spiderman, Sin City, those kind of things. So head on over and check it out!
 
 
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whiskyinmind
26 November 2006 @ 11:57 pm
 
don't feel well - too much caffeine, pain under ribs and across shoulder - not good.*

laptop has survived the night, sis was lucky to.

Torchwood was predictable and a bit lame.

got more writing done than I thought I would but less than I wanted.Still a huge amount to write in the next four days.

Can't sleep, too sore and highly caffeinated.

Reading Hogfather. "Humans need fantasy to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape." Dude, Pratchett getting poetical? :)

*no I am not having a heart attack. Trust me, I know what the signs are.
 
 
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whiskyinmind
26 November 2006 @ 11:57 pm
 
don't feel well - too much caffeine, pain under ribs and across shoulder - not good.*

laptop has survived the night, sis was lucky to.

Torchwood was predictable and a bit lame.

got more writing done than I thought I would but less than I wanted.Still a huge amount to write in the next four days.

Can't sleep, too sore and highly caffeinated.

Reading Hogfather. "Humans need fantasy to be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape." Dude, Pratchett getting poetical? :)

*no I am not having a heart attack. Trust me, I know what the signs are.
 
 
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whiskyinmind
30 October 2006 @ 08:35 am
I am off the wagon, officially. I got more than a li'l drunk on Friday and fell asleep watching HGttG on Paramount 2. Woke up halfway through the repeat of the first episode after falling asleep midway through the third. That was decidedly odd.

Spent all day Saturday not being talked to by my nephew (and neice 'cause she's at the stage where she copies everything her big brother does) and zoning out. Ate at MacDonalds which I hate. Had more beer and watched SPN.

Sunday... spent most of the morning (and a good deal of the afternoon) collecting and burning a twenty track compilation CD which'll be the soundtrack for NaNoWriMo this year.. and drinking beer. Realised about seven o'clock that the only thing I'd actually eaten all weekend was the Grilled Vegie Melt Deli Sandwich at McD's and stuck some Spring rolls in the oven. Fell asleep and woke up to realise that the clocks had gone back on Sunday morning. Reset my alarm and fell asleep again.

My alarm didn't go off this morning. I have no idea why, I probably screwed it up when I reset the times but it seems okay.

So I have not had breakfast, I've had very little to eat all weekend and I'm kinda hungover.

Oh, and I forgot my meds this morning.

My head is going to explode.

Haven't seen Torchwood yet by the way - I think it should have taped last night, but going on the alarm clock fiasco I have no idea if it did or not. Guess I'll find out tonight, if I manage to make it home without turning into a short-lived character in a remake of Scanners...

eta it's bad enough that there's no coffee worth drinking in this place, but there's no damn sugar either... I can't even prop myself up with caffeine now. Oh good grief I am going to be such a cow by this afternoon...

Slayerversathon link...
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whiskyinmind
30 October 2006 @ 08:35 am
I am off the wagon, officially. I got more than a li'l drunk on Friday and fell asleep watching HGttG on Paramount 2. Woke up halfway through the repeat of the first episode after falling asleep midway through the third. That was decidedly odd.

Spent all day Saturday not being talked to by my nephew (and neice 'cause she's at the stage where she copies everything her big brother does) and zoning out. Ate at MacDonalds which I hate. Had more beer and watched SPN.

Sunday... spent most of the morning (and a good deal of the afternoon) collecting and burning a twenty track compilation CD which'll be the soundtrack for NaNoWriMo this year.. and drinking beer. Realised about seven o'clock that the only thing I'd actually eaten all weekend was the Grilled Vegie Melt Deli Sandwich at McD's and stuck some Spring rolls in the oven. Fell asleep and woke up to realise that the clocks had gone back on Sunday morning. Reset my alarm and fell asleep again.

My alarm didn't go off this morning. I have no idea why, I probably screwed it up when I reset the times but it seems okay.

So I have not had breakfast, I've had very little to eat all weekend and I'm kinda hungover.

Oh, and I forgot my meds this morning.

My head is going to explode.

Haven't seen Torchwood yet by the way - I think it should have taped last night, but going on the alarm clock fiasco I have no idea if it did or not. Guess I'll find out tonight, if I manage to make it home without turning into a short-lived character in a remake of Scanners...

eta it's bad enough that there's no coffee worth drinking in this place, but there's no damn sugar either... I can't even prop myself up with caffeine now. Oh good grief I am going to be such a cow by this afternoon...

Slayerversathon link...
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whiskyinmind
12 September 2006 @ 08:46 am
The cold I had for like three weeks which kept getting better then coming back with a vengeance? Is back. I think. My throat is killing me today, I can hardly swallow and my head's all kablooie... I'm going to drool over meet Sean Maher at the weekend! I can't be sick!!

*sigh*

The workshop yesterday wasn't as bad as I feared, even got some networking in (which seemed to make my boss a little jealous when she saw I was schmoozing with the head of the joint cataloguing project, heh!) but ultimately the part I was interested in was the last part and because someone else over-ran it was smooshed into a tiny 5 minute section with the guy talking in technical terms that flummoxed most of the attendees (I got most of what he saying up until the 'algorithms' part...) And I got home just after 7 so it wasn't the end of the world.

Plus, I made more icons - after saying that I'd posted something new every day so far, I kinda saw it as a challenge to make something worth posting and since I had the newest s2 promo pictures sitting on my harddrive, I opened Photoshop. *g*

Plus, [livejournal.com profile] fresleyforever was keeping me amused with text messages yesterday (I had my phone switched off during the workshop - hence the four hour gap between replies!) and at her prompting I'm possibly going to be following up the AtS/Supernatural crossover ficlet I wrote the other day. When I say possiby, I mean probably... actually, I mean almost definitely... ah screw it! *opens Word*

Huh... randomly I just moved my foot and the toe I stubbed about three hours ago is still sore. Great, bet that's going to bruise... (I should probably warn those of you meeting me at Cubed that I've been a little accident prone lately and have bruises and cuts all over me... The best one is the one on my arm - almost a perfect circle and a lovely shade of browny-purple... *g*)

Anyway, off I go to try to find something to soothe my throat and stop this thing in its tracks...

ETA update on the sore toe. I was a little concerned that it might actually have been broken so I've just checked. It's not broken, it's not bruised, it also has no nail left on it. *gah!*
 
 
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whiskyinmind
12 September 2006 @ 08:46 am
The cold I had for like three weeks which kept getting better then coming back with a vengeance? Is back. I think. My throat is killing me today, I can hardly swallow and my head's all kablooie... I'm going to drool over meet Sean Maher at the weekend! I can't be sick!!

*sigh*

The workshop yesterday wasn't as bad as I feared, even got some networking in (which seemed to make my boss a little jealous when she saw I was schmoozing with the head of the joint cataloguing project, heh!) but ultimately the part I was interested in was the last part and because someone else over-ran it was smooshed into a tiny 5 minute section with the guy talking in technical terms that flummoxed most of the attendees (I got most of what he saying up until the 'algorithms' part...) And I got home just after 7 so it wasn't the end of the world.

Plus, I made more icons - after saying that I'd posted something new every day so far, I kinda saw it as a challenge to make something worth posting and since I had the newest s2 promo pictures sitting on my harddrive, I opened Photoshop. *g*

Plus, [livejournal.com profile] fresleyforever was keeping me amused with text messages yesterday (I had my phone switched off during the workshop - hence the four hour gap between replies!) and at her prompting I'm possibly going to be following up the AtS/Supernatural crossover ficlet I wrote the other day. When I say possiby, I mean probably... actually, I mean almost definitely... ah screw it! *opens Word*

Huh... randomly I just moved my foot and the toe I stubbed about three hours ago is still sore. Great, bet that's going to bruise... (I should probably warn those of you meeting me at Cubed that I've been a little accident prone lately and have bruises and cuts all over me... The best one is the one on my arm - almost a perfect circle and a lovely shade of browny-purple... *g*)

Anyway, off I go to try to find something to soothe my throat and stop this thing in its tracks...

ETA update on the sore toe. I was a little concerned that it might actually have been broken so I've just checked. It's not broken, it's not bruised, it also has no nail left on it. *gah!*
 
 
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whiskyinmind
22 August 2006 @ 08:20 am
Feel like crap this morning, have a really sore throat for some reason - felt it coming on yesterday but put it down to me running out of antihistamines (hayfever gives me an itchy roof of the mouth thing - I figured the throat was an extension of that) but I'm now medicated and my throat feels like someone's had a go at it with a power sander (with high grade sandpaper). Probably not helped by the fact that Dram is turning into a night owl. Sleeps right through the whole day so that he can wake me up two hours after I get to sleep, and again at three am and again (and this is the killer one) at five to five. My alarm is set for 5.30, when he wakes me up 35 minutes before that it's not worth even trying to get any more sleep. It's his lampshade that does it, it scrapes against every single vertical surface in the room and then gets him trapped under the bed (lampshade = the cone thing he has on around his neck to stop him scratching at his eye). I think I'm going to take him to the vet tonight 'cause there's a little bit of... seepage, shall we say, at the corner of his eye. It's probably just his tear duct not getting a chance to clear 'cause his eyelids are sewn together but I want to check it out anyway. He has another week before the vet is going to take the stiches out so it's another week of him bumping into things and tearing the wallpaper off my walls (accidentally, the lampshade gets caught on a loose edge and it tears). Joy.

So now that I've bored you with my (again) lousy health and Dram, let me catch your interest again with the Old Friends With Indiscretions Willow/Xander ficathon Round Two Sign-Ups! (Okay, that sounded catchier in my head...) I'll be signing up once I come up with what I want and what I don't want, so come join in!

And while I have my *pimp* hat on, there's a new graphics contest open for Doctor Who iconers - [livejournal.com profile] martha_stills - first challenge has been posted but they need more members - go join!

And another pimp - the Rose Tyler ficathon. I'm tempted by this a lot, the two things that are stopping me are 1)I'm already committed to two ficathons around the same time and 2) most of the sign ups so far are shippy in nature and we all know how I feel about that... I'm going to ponder some more on this. Or maybe someone should set up a multifandom 'gen' ficathon? 'Cause I'd be all over that like a rash... will not set up a ficathon, I have too many other things to do and it just seems like a really stressfull thing to run

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Current Mood: okay (but scratchy throat gah!
 
 
whiskyinmind
22 August 2006 @ 08:20 am
Feel like crap this morning, have a really sore throat for some reason - felt it coming on yesterday but put it down to me running out of antihistamines (hayfever gives me an itchy roof of the mouth thing - I figured the throat was an extension of that) but I'm now medicated and my throat feels like someone's had a go at it with a power sander (with high grade sandpaper). Probably not helped by the fact that Dram is turning into a night owl. Sleeps right through the whole day so that he can wake me up two hours after I get to sleep, and again at three am and again (and this is the killer one) at five to five. My alarm is set for 5.30, when he wakes me up 35 minutes before that it's not worth even trying to get any more sleep. It's his lampshade that does it, it scrapes against every single vertical surface in the room and then gets him trapped under the bed (lampshade = the cone thing he has on around his neck to stop him scratching at his eye). I think I'm going to take him to the vet tonight 'cause there's a little bit of... seepage, shall we say, at the corner of his eye. It's probably just his tear duct not getting a chance to clear 'cause his eyelids are sewn together but I want to check it out anyway. He has another week before the vet is going to take the stiches out so it's another week of him bumping into things and tearing the wallpaper off my walls (accidentally, the lampshade gets caught on a loose edge and it tears). Joy.

So now that I've bored you with my (again) lousy health and Dram, let me catch your interest again with the Old Friends With Indiscretions Willow/Xander ficathon Round Two Sign-Ups! (Okay, that sounded catchier in my head...) I'll be signing up once I come up with what I want and what I don't want, so come join in!

And while I have my *pimp* hat on, there's a new graphics contest open for Doctor Who iconers - [livejournal.com profile] martha_stills - first challenge has been posted but they need more members - go join!

And another pimp - the Rose Tyler ficathon. I'm tempted by this a lot, the two things that are stopping me are 1)I'm already committed to two ficathons around the same time and 2) most of the sign ups so far are shippy in nature and we all know how I feel about that... I'm going to ponder some more on this. Or maybe someone should set up a multifandom 'gen' ficathon? 'Cause I'd be all over that like a rash... will not set up a ficathon, I have too many other things to do and it just seems like a really stressfull thing to run

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Current Mood: okay (but scratchy throat gah!