what day is it?
Jul. 21st, 2016 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fufarawUnable to follow a plot, but able to focus on the screen at least, last night, I watched DVR'd and Instant Watch eps of Dr. Jeff, Rocky Mountain Vet, I Am Jazz, and basically, house porn. Property Bros Buying and Selling, Desperate Kitchens, Hunting Vintage, House Hunters International, Texas Flip and Move, and one of my favorites, Good Bones. I love the joyous crafty mom on that show, and the git'er done redhead and her 'hit it!" demo brother. Sheer mindless destruction for channeling free-floating rage, and unlimited budget reconstruction. Plus, mom usually finds some element or article left in the derelict house to showcase, a touch I like. Listed Sisters didn't seem to be on offer--I like them, too. Dozing off to the Scott twins and waking up to John and Anthony felt pretty seamless, or that could just have been the fuzzy brain.
I finished up with an ep from the original season of Pitbulls & Parolees, and schlepped off to my bed. I've been sleeping as much on the couch for the last week, because sitting propped up, I didn't cough as much. Flat in bed, I kept myself awake wheezing musically, or if I did fall asleep I'd cough myself awake in an hour or two, plus keeping OH awake as well. But I woke in my own bed this AM, breathing fairly well, with only an occasional coughing spasm. We sort of blinked at each other. I've had this crap for a week, he's had it for two. He made coffee, and we sat down to catch up on the news online. One cup in, I was blinking and sleepy, and went back to bed and slept another two hours. I ambled out to the living room and begged for scrambled eggs. I'm perfectly capable of making them, but they're his pans, in his kitchen, and it's not worth dealing with him hovering to supervise. But the eggs were yummy, as always, and I had the rest of my coffee. And then nodded over the laptop, dozing off three times in two hours.
I left OH dozing in the recliner (over his laptop) and as the house was heating up in the day, went to the back of the house to put fans in the windows to pull cool air from the woods, set pedestal fans in the hall to push the cool air through the house, put the box fan in the front window to exhaust warm air, and closed the blinds to shut out the sun. I scalded the empty water bottles, filled them from the filter pitcher, refilling the pitcher as needed, and put the bottles in the fridge. Then I did a quick cleanup of the kitchen counters, and bagged the wastebaskets full of used tissues to go in the trash. I disinfected the toilet and wiped down the bathroom counter and faucet, cleaned myself up a little and changed pajamas, but I ran out of steam before I managed to change the bed. Tomorrow. And a real shower. And a shampoo. And a call for an appointment to get my hair cut--short.
Had a banana for lunch, and some cooled tea made of boiled chopped ginger, honey, and lemon. Realized I'd not taken any anti-cold or cough meds the whole day and celebrated the occasion in my head, since I was too tired to do it out loud. And then I sat down and dozed off over the laptop again.
OH woke up and, since the sun was over the yardarm, he went out to water the plants in the shade. No deadheading, though. He ran out of energy. It looks like we may have this crap on the run. Oh--I glanced at my desk planner, and realized it was still turned to last week. Huh. I really have been lost in time. So tell me, what have I missed?
I finished up with an ep from the original season of Pitbulls & Parolees, and schlepped off to my bed. I've been sleeping as much on the couch for the last week, because sitting propped up, I didn't cough as much. Flat in bed, I kept myself awake wheezing musically, or if I did fall asleep I'd cough myself awake in an hour or two, plus keeping OH awake as well. But I woke in my own bed this AM, breathing fairly well, with only an occasional coughing spasm. We sort of blinked at each other. I've had this crap for a week, he's had it for two. He made coffee, and we sat down to catch up on the news online. One cup in, I was blinking and sleepy, and went back to bed and slept another two hours. I ambled out to the living room and begged for scrambled eggs. I'm perfectly capable of making them, but they're his pans, in his kitchen, and it's not worth dealing with him hovering to supervise. But the eggs were yummy, as always, and I had the rest of my coffee. And then nodded over the laptop, dozing off three times in two hours.
I left OH dozing in the recliner (over his laptop) and as the house was heating up in the day, went to the back of the house to put fans in the windows to pull cool air from the woods, set pedestal fans in the hall to push the cool air through the house, put the box fan in the front window to exhaust warm air, and closed the blinds to shut out the sun. I scalded the empty water bottles, filled them from the filter pitcher, refilling the pitcher as needed, and put the bottles in the fridge. Then I did a quick cleanup of the kitchen counters, and bagged the wastebaskets full of used tissues to go in the trash. I disinfected the toilet and wiped down the bathroom counter and faucet, cleaned myself up a little and changed pajamas, but I ran out of steam before I managed to change the bed. Tomorrow. And a real shower. And a shampoo. And a call for an appointment to get my hair cut--short.
Had a banana for lunch, and some cooled tea made of boiled chopped ginger, honey, and lemon. Realized I'd not taken any anti-cold or cough meds the whole day and celebrated the occasion in my head, since I was too tired to do it out loud. And then I sat down and dozed off over the laptop again.
OH woke up and, since the sun was over the yardarm, he went out to water the plants in the shade. No deadheading, though. He ran out of energy. It looks like we may have this crap on the run. Oh--I glanced at my desk planner, and realized it was still turned to last week. Huh. I really have been lost in time. So tell me, what have I missed?
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Date: 2016-07-22 02:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-22 05:17 pm (UTC)Don't push too far, too fast! :)
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Date: 2016-07-22 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-22 11:11 pm (UTC)I approve of your ascension to Queen and will serve faithfully, with axe or broom, as you wish.
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Date: 2016-07-22 11:24 pm (UTC)Thanks for the good wishes!
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Date: 2016-07-22 11:50 pm (UTC)Feeling better today. Well--disappointingly weak, still, but the congestion is clearing. I have a new deep sympathy for asthmatics-- Startling awake with suffocation is a new panic trigger. Gah.
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Date: 2016-07-23 01:22 am (UTC)Keep cool and look after yourself. I have found that a vile tasting cheap menthol and eucalyptus chewing gum works as well as branded lozenges on the cough - has no sugar and is much cheaper. Worth giving it a try.
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Date: 2016-07-23 05:39 pm (UTC)This is not that, which is definitely a mercy. This is just a puzzling, no-fever version of the common cold, I think. Miserable, but not crippling.
You take extra care, and kick that crap to the curb (kerb?), and get better soon.