Good Mornthing
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blissmorganIt is cool and grey and raining here today; it feels perfectly October and I am loving it.
I am still sick. I was hopeful that the triple-punch of antibiotics, steroids, and hydrocodone cough syrup would knock out of my chest whatever demon decided to settle in there. Alas! Yesterday was the last day of both the antibiotics and the steroids, and I opted to fall asleep from exhaustion (at like 9pm ) instead of taking the cough syrup. The chest demon woke me up ten minutes before my alarm this morning with a fit of coughing such that I was jamming my face down in the pillow to try, in vain, to keep from waking Secret Agent Lover Man. Give that he stirred and that the coughing did not stop, I gave up the remaining ten minutes as lost and got up to get on with the day.
The Spawn all moved reasonably well through the getting-ready portion of the day, even with the extra wrench of me remembering at the last minute that it is Silly Hat And Shoes Day at school (why? I do not know. It is Middle School. Silliness is its own reason.) and needing to help Youngest out of his socks and shoes, find a replacement pair of suitably silly socks, and get him all kitted out. Middlest is wearing a giant spider with poseable legs as a hat. Eldest has what he is calling a Conquistador had that is really a matador hat - and he is wearing it with a tie-dye tee-shirt.
I am trying to remember what sort of things I wore during middle school, and whether we had any such spirit days. Certain things come back to me, but not yet any of that. I remember the photo ripped out of a magazine that I hung in my locker, and the project I did on dolphins being used by the Navy for code work and getting full color photos from the Navy to include on my posterboard. I remember reading Gone With The Wind in math class, and learning how to draw Donald Duck's face on the whiteboard, and how liminal the library felt. I remember planning to start a Babysitter's Club with my friends that never came to fruition. I don't remember any Spirit Days until high school, though.
Today is largely an open unplanned possibilityscape. Secret Agent Lover Man is off work, but alas, there will be no saving of the world because I woke to the discovery of the uterus cleaning house again, and he has a thing about Not On Day One. Instead, we will go out to a leisurely breakfast at Whole Foods, where we don't have to prepare or clean anything because we can hit the hot bar, and he's going to do some retail therapy. He has an appointment later to which I will not be accompanying him, and that I will perhaps write about in a non-public post Because Of Reasons.
I spent a little time poking into a corner of the internet I haven't touched in ages. I wiped the dust off my Photobucket account and turned up my collection of icons - some made by me, some made by others - from back in the days of Livejournal. Among other things I have an entire set of Princess Bride icons, and a slew of Firefly icons. I will have to look through and sort out which 15 will be most suitable for me to use now that I am on Dreamwidth. I suspect that a shift in the way I will be using this in comparison to how I used to use LJ will mean that I'll need some new icons.
New is good.
Hello, Blisstopia. <3
I am still sick. I was hopeful that the triple-punch of antibiotics, steroids, and hydrocodone cough syrup would knock out of my chest whatever demon decided to settle in there. Alas! Yesterday was the last day of both the antibiotics and the steroids, and I opted to fall asleep from exhaustion (at like 9pm ) instead of taking the cough syrup. The chest demon woke me up ten minutes before my alarm this morning with a fit of coughing such that I was jamming my face down in the pillow to try, in vain, to keep from waking Secret Agent Lover Man. Give that he stirred and that the coughing did not stop, I gave up the remaining ten minutes as lost and got up to get on with the day.
The Spawn all moved reasonably well through the getting-ready portion of the day, even with the extra wrench of me remembering at the last minute that it is Silly Hat And Shoes Day at school (why? I do not know. It is Middle School. Silliness is its own reason.) and needing to help Youngest out of his socks and shoes, find a replacement pair of suitably silly socks, and get him all kitted out. Middlest is wearing a giant spider with poseable legs as a hat. Eldest has what he is calling a Conquistador had that is really a matador hat - and he is wearing it with a tie-dye tee-shirt.
I am trying to remember what sort of things I wore during middle school, and whether we had any such spirit days. Certain things come back to me, but not yet any of that. I remember the photo ripped out of a magazine that I hung in my locker, and the project I did on dolphins being used by the Navy for code work and getting full color photos from the Navy to include on my posterboard. I remember reading Gone With The Wind in math class, and learning how to draw Donald Duck's face on the whiteboard, and how liminal the library felt. I remember planning to start a Babysitter's Club with my friends that never came to fruition. I don't remember any Spirit Days until high school, though.
Today is largely an open unplanned possibilityscape. Secret Agent Lover Man is off work, but alas, there will be no saving of the world because I woke to the discovery of the uterus cleaning house again, and he has a thing about Not On Day One. Instead, we will go out to a leisurely breakfast at Whole Foods, where we don't have to prepare or clean anything because we can hit the hot bar, and he's going to do some retail therapy. He has an appointment later to which I will not be accompanying him, and that I will perhaps write about in a non-public post Because Of Reasons.
I spent a little time poking into a corner of the internet I haven't touched in ages. I wiped the dust off my Photobucket account and turned up my collection of icons - some made by me, some made by others - from back in the days of Livejournal. Among other things I have an entire set of Princess Bride icons, and a slew of Firefly icons. I will have to look through and sort out which 15 will be most suitable for me to use now that I am on Dreamwidth. I suspect that a shift in the way I will be using this in comparison to how I used to use LJ will mean that I'll need some new icons.
New is good.
Hello, Blisstopia. <3
+1
12/10/18 12:17 (UTC)(no subject)
12/10/18 15:39 (UTC)Thank you for reminding me of photobucket, I totally forgot about that. Let me try to log into my PB account.
OK, I'm in.
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12/10/18 15:43 (UTC)What operation are you going in for?
Good mornthing!
12/10/18 17:18 (UTC)I finally made the plunge and signed up for an account somewhere that isn't G+ to do the social thing. So, congratulations on being the first familiar face I've seen on here.
Hope the demons manage to exorcise themselves soon.
Re: Good mornthing!
12/10/18 17:33 (UTC)(no subject)
12/10/18 17:43 (UTC)(no subject)
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12/10/18 22:41 (UTC)But... I was too timid to dare to wear anything for Hat Day then. Whatever it was, I was sure it would be wrong and I'd be mocked for it. If I actually liked it, it would be stolen and destroyed. On the bright side, I could totally rock Hat Day now. I think I'm going to start wearing fabulous hats for no damned reason. I've always had a vague sense that age 40 was when I would start being a curmudgeonly eccentric with odd stockings and amazing powers of truth-telling and bullshit-banishing. I'd best start practicing!
Hullo Bliss 10-12
13/10/18 00:12 (UTC)Work was, and at least the day is over. Weekend coming up I will be eyeball deep in sausage making, pie making and general cooking stuff b/c hubby is cooking an SCA event next weekend. Me? I think I might make an apple-cinnamon and granola pound cake.
Hullo Bliss. Here's hoping those GERMS get kicked to the undercurb soon!
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14/10/18 02:02 (UTC)