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January 20 2007

Drivel On

I've been sick. Not in any gonna die sorta way, but sick enough to have basically checked out of the human race for the past few days. It doesn't help that it is cold, grey, and just plain depressing outside, I suppose.

It also doesn't help that RT has been working his tail off and that he's not around to perk me up. I keep telling him that it's part of his job, but he just mumbles something about "end of year". Apparently it is an accountant thing.

All of this translates into my having spent too much time in bed during the day and too much time geeking out in front of the computer at night doing entirely useless things (note the drop cap that begins this current blog-drivel). When I recite this litany of woes to the friends who have called me up, the ones who live out of town tell me it sounds like the flu. The ones who live close by tell me it is a combination of the January blahs and Chinook winds.

Unfortunately, neither diagnosis has fixed the problem.

I finally forced myself to look in the mirror this afternoon, and after I recovered from that, I got in the shower, got dressed, and went grocery shopping. Cooking is an amazing cure for most things that ail me, and since all I had in the house was four eggs and sixteen cans of tuna packed in water (don't ask), clearly something had to be done.

I don't know that spending $200 at the grocery store has any curative value, but having a delightful conversation with the cheese lady seems to have perked me right up. In fact, it perked me up so well, that here it is, 2:05 AM, and I am sitting at the computer telling you all about it.

Somehow, I don't think this is a step in the right direction.

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Comments:

#1 20 January 2007 - 02:30

I find a relaxing trip to the grocery highly curative, especially when an amiable chat with a friendly person is part of the experience.

Hope your recovery speeds along...and enjoyed your previous post and pics.

behindtheblink

#2 20 January 2007 - 08:09

Feel better soon! I have been hearing a lot about the Chinook winds from my friend who is a meteorologist in Calgary.

I like the drop cap at the beginning of your post. Also, it appears that you added a coffee "branch" (not the right word - sprig?) to the left side of your blog. Cool.

jabberwocky

#3 20 January 2007 - 13:57

I, too, find something rehabilitating in spending time and money in the grocery store stocking up on healthy and delicious things to use in the kitchen.

I hope you are feeling much better now, and I, too, really like those small changes you make in your blog.