cornerofmadness: (roy shirtless)
Some days you just need someone to pat your shoulder and commiserate. There's nothing like saying something that has been hurtful to you and being told to suck it up cry baby. (and surprisingly NOT my family this time).

Of course I'm touchy today because a) I think I waited too long to go to the doctor's because this started to spread south into my lungs. I feel worse than I did in a week of being sick b) some of that sick is the meds which is very unusual for me. I'm almost never sick over claritin but it's making me tired and Zpacks almost never make me nauseated but this time...
C) I didn't sleep but I have half days on friday and tried to nap. Nope, how can you be this exhausted and not sleep?

I did go do laundry but there you have it. Here's hoping I'm good enough to drive to Athens tomorrow. If nothing else I've been going out to eat because I'm not feeling like cooking.

I got a second blind date book, this one a JOhn Grisham kid's mystery. Who knew he did that? At least that'll be more readable.

I want to clean my house SO MUCH but every time I lean over my sinuses explode AND my parents accused me of giving them this infection over the phone as they're both sick now. I TOLD them it was virulent :-) It is strange all three of us have it at once especially since I'm 200 miles away.

It's eating into writing. My poor Weird West story is just lying there like a rotting carcass. But someone I don't know stopped in to love on my picfor 1000 story. that was the nicest thing that's happened all week. I DID get more edits done for Blood Red but realized I had several major timeline issues. This is what happens when you not only expand a short story piecemeal but also give it to your beta readers a chapter at a time. A ton of stuff gets missed. Sigh. Now to figure out a fix.

You know how some pets are super comforting when you're sick. that's not Kanda. He hasn't sat with me since I got sick. He's like eww cooties.
cornerofmadness: (Knackered)
I have a sinus infection, both ears are infected and I have a UTI (but with my diabetic meds that's pretty much a given I have one often). The doc gave me a Z pack and cough medicine (I don't really have a cough) and a decongestant. Well the pharmacy didn't have the cough medicine and they were all oh, the decongestant is 25$. So? I spent 750$ on meds last week. Turns out that decongestant was Claritin. Um...okay so it's like double the OTC dose (which would have cost the same anyhow...) The cough medicine will be here tomorrow and it's 60$. Um, NO. just no. If I start coughing I'll go buy some damn nyquil. 60$....

And I STILL have to drive 100 miles round trip on Saturday or my poor student will never get started on her research. I have to go buy the stuff in Athens. Sigh. Like I feel up to this.

The library is doing their 'blind date' thing again for Valentine's Day. You pick from a rack of covered books and read whatever you get and review it. You can win stuff. Last time I won a book (big surprise) Well I want another book so I did it (Hey I returned 2 of the 6 books I had out!!) I got a 125 mini inspiration memoirs by famous author. so you know a page and a half each. I couldn't imagine anything I'd want to read less. I'll get another one tomorrow....

My House is For Sale I have wanted this house since my first week in this place. It's glorious from the outside. Sadly there are no inside pics :( and while anywhere else this house would be twice this much, I can't imagine paying half a million to live in Jackson. I am still wondering though if my friends granddad still works for this company. COme on, have granddaddy show it to you and take me with you.

I finished a hidden object game from Bigfish called Escape from Ravenhurst. I love these games. Bigfish has hard ones. This one was impossible. I couldn't do it without the walkthrough. Even the walkthrough writers are like we've never seen anything this complicated. It had TONS of animation and storyline. I did the final scene's puzzle and then was like okay now what? Nothing happened. No final farewell from the villain, no animation no nothing. I thought maybe I did the puzzle wrong. Couldn't get back into it. I looked at two walk throughs since the one was ambiguous but the official big fish one says 'congrats you finished.'

WHAT? I did all this? Took me three weeks (of limited play a day, by choice) and there's no 'the end' I don't know what happens after he brings the ghosts helping me back to life? There's no damn resolution? In a game of crazy assed complicated convoluted storyline? thanks bigfish. jerks.
cornerofmadness: (kagari gaming)
Mom is now taking it more seriously that I'm dying of the plague. Every few minutes on the phone she's like WOW you sound horrible. Yes Mom, i told you so. So horrible in fact someone volunteered to do my secretary duties at today's meeting and sent me home after my classes.

That reading meme

What I've just finished reading:

The Killer of Little Shepherds - by Douglas Starr

It's a non-fiction crime novel about Vacher, a late 19th cen. sexual sadist and Lacassagne, a French doctor who single handedly invented many of the methods used today. I don't have the review written yet but it was interested, the forensics far more so than Vacher.

What I'm reading now

Die For Me by Amy Plum

It's a paranormal YA romance. It fills my YA bingo card for a book set in Paris. So far, it's not bad. Yeah a little over top with He's SOOOOOOOOO gorgeous crap but it's a YA romance so what can I expect?

What I'm reading next

The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley. The lastest Flavia de Luce book. How can I resist an 11 year old girl -chemist who loves poisons?

declutter day 205 Item tossed -Kitty Prozac why kept-For Soul why tossed -Worthless and he's been gone a year (except for his stink)

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