Tuesday Has No Phones

So it looks like the reason why I've had little to no energy this week is that I was fighting off a cold. I found that out when I woke up this morning with an achy throat and a stuffy head. Bleh. But at least now I know. I'll make sure to drink plenty of juice and tea this weekend.

lucifrix is coming up to stay with me, YAY! We shall watch DVDs and crappy New Year's weekend marathons and eat food that tastes good but is horrible for us and yay!

I won't be online much due to that, so in case I don't get a chance later: Happy new year one and all!

Am sick.

Took day off work.

Now going to curl up and not do a whole heck of a lot.

If quiet today, that's why.

So apparently we're having power issues in my hometown. Tonight shall be a quiet night of trying not to use more electricity than I have to, and hoping like heck the AC doesn't go out.

*fingers crossed*

I think I'm finally coming down from all the craziness of the holidays. Not that I didn't enjoy it, don't get me wrong, but it's a marathon of stuff to do that starts weeks before Christmas and doesn't end until... well right about now.

New Year's was spent with lucifrix who joined me in knitting, DVD marathons of MST3K, The Daily Show, and Arrested Development. There was also cooking with waffles, Chicken Paprikash, and the saltiest brunch casserole ever. The scariest thing about the casserole is that it was from a Cooking Light recipe that had been prodded and tweaked so that it would be lower in sodium. It's terrifying to think of what kind of a salt lick the family who submitted the original recipe had been eating.

My grandmother has been moved out of the hospital and into a rehab place where she'll learn how to sit, stand, walk, and so forth. As you might imagine this has caused no family drama whatsoever.

My boss is away this week. After a week of him being in a pissy mood due to pre-vacation stress and the phone ringing off the hook thanks to the start of the month and the start of the year, I'm ready for some peace and quiet. I've got tomorrow off in exchange for working on Martin Luther King Day. I'm also taking at least one other day off this week and I suspect it'll be Tuesday just so I can get a nice long stretch of relaxation in.

I'm also feeling vaguely productive so that stretch of time allows me to do things like take the Xmas tree down, reorganize my pantry, run some errands that've been on hold for forever, redo my budget now that my income and expenses have changed with the new year and see if I can afford a Blackberry and so on.

Or I'll just crash like I've been doing the past couple of days. We'll see.

I'd also like to give a shout out to amaliedageek for the great books she sent me.

Also to answer the question I've been getting a lot this week: Yes there will be more Pet and Protocol. Just not while my life's insane with things like family members in hospitals and such. But soon.

I've had a total of five emails today from very nifty people asking if I was still alive. The sheer numbers of this makes me suspect that someone has attempted to organize a search party.

So, to help out with that - *waves* - here I am!

Sorry for the radio silence. The health stuff took some interesting highs and lows in the past couple of weeks. Then on the fannish front I've got the final episode of No Limits staring me down, so a good chunk of my time's been going into that.

My sanity has either been kept in place because of, or in spite of, dicking around on Fandom High in the spare moments of what resembles free time.

And that's about it from me. Oh, except that this morning I discovered the special joy of not finding out your milk has gone bad until after you put it into your tea. And drink a sip. Ew. Just ew. Now I have trauma. And it was before the sell by date and everything!

Anyway, much past my bedtime, but since another one of the letters came in just as I was going to bed I figured I'd do a quick post.

Night!

Was out tonight with a family thing, so I'm late with the post. There's a new ats_nolimits live on the website. It was written by wesleysgirl and janedavitt. Give 'em much love.

My apologies to anybody who's waiting on email, comments, etc. from me. I'm having a very spacey kind of week and I don't know if that's from health stuff or something else. Hopefully my brain will come back to me at some point. Or what passes for my brain, at the very least ;)

Okay all, I'm in my last minute countdown before leaving for Philly. I'll be away from LJ until I get back, which'll be sometime on Friday.

Be good! (Or at least take pictures if you're naughty!)

Okay, got pretty much everything done that I can do tonight except shower and go to sleep. Tomorrow will be waking up early and presumably all the last minute stuff that go with it.

So consider this me signing off for now! I'm pretty sure Elder Brother does not have access at his house, so slim chance of me checking LJ or email over the weekend. If I get a chance to do phone posts - and have anything interesting to say - I'll try, but last time I was out there my cell got zero reception.

So if you don't hear from me until Tuesday, that's why.

Have a good weekend everybody!

Looks like there won't be a cabaret belly dance update for this week. I don't know why, but in the past few hours my body chemistry has taken a sudden turn south. I suspect oncoming migraine, given the nausea and the way I was reacting to people's headlights on the way home. So this is me, taking the night off.

On the plus side I've got Daria on my Tivo, thanks to Noggin and the wonders of digital cable. Also, ressearchminion and kita0610 have both, in their own way, been amusing me with RPS stuff. What else could a girl want?

Other than, perhaps, some peptol bismol. Bleargh. Yeah, def. staying home tonight. Tracy? Figure you'll still be getting your outline tomorrow night, as if I was going to class anyway. I don't think I've got the brainpower for it right now.

Outgoing email is still down. Incoming email seems okay. Tried to call tech support and found out that when they say the tech support is available "24/7" they don't mean in a row.

I've got to go out for most of the day anyway, but just wanted to give the update for those who are still waiting to hear from me.

Stupid down email.