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Body feels better than yesterday, head feels worse.

Stuffed all of yesterday's weeding efforts into the yard waste bin, then lopped off all the suckers from the 40-ish trees lining our backyard, as well as the branches dipping down into walking height, and the ones blocking light from the windows on the north of the house. The yard waste bin is now full, so unless I borrow the neighbor's bin (which I might do; they have like no yard so never use it), I'm not pruning the rosebushes today after all. :/ I've also swept half the house and started the week's laundry.

Time for a sit-down break, which will probably consist of sun tea, painkillers, and more going through my backlog of edits on Queen's Choice. I've been powering my way through twenty pages a day, and it feels good. Both in the getting it done and clearing space on my desk sense, but also in the continual tweaking of the story for a smoother read. My word count isn't dropping much (currently at 118,124 words), so I'm also trying to identify subplots and characters I can cut if needed. 120K words is kind of the absolute upper limit for this genre, with 100K a safer goal. I think I've got one set of threads I could cut, if I can finagle the words to still make sense, but I'll need to be careful if I do so, because it's entwined with characters I cannot cut.

Wonderful Husband has been sick on-and-off (mostly on) since we got back. So has the Squiddle, though in his case it's mostly just a snotty nose.

This morning I woke up feeling like I'd been hit by a hammer. Two Advil and a lie-down later, it's not much better.

I think I'm missing my dance class this afternoon.

ETA: went to dance class, took another couple Advil, stayed away from the teacher and other students, and sat down when I started to feel a little dizzy toward the end. Am guessing I'm 50% actually sick and 50% under the influence of the Santa Ana winds.

Have caught Squiddle's tummybug. Why do I always end up hot and sweating when I throw up? Fortunately my inlaws have, just this year, put stone tiling in three rooms of their house. Lying down on the cold, hard laundry room floor afterward felt wonderful....

ETA: Wonderful Husband has it too. Worse than I do. :(

Current Mood: surprisingly okay
Current Location: Eastleigh, UK

Am home sick and voiceless. Woke up at half past midnight (after going to bed at half past nine; I was being good) and had to take painkillers for my throat. Woke up this morning at half past seven and had to take more. ;_; Not that I haven't been spending the last few days sounding like I've smoked a pack a day for the last twenty years (either that or gargled with razor blades...) anyway. But now my voice, she is all gone.

Wanna be healthy again....

Current Mood: sick
Current Location: home

The coughing is back. Not happy about this.

OTOH, I have proven that I, unlike the rest of my coworkers, am able to toast things without burning them. Ha, I say, and ha again!

*proceeds to die of the dedness*

Current Mood: sick
Current Location: work

One of the annoying things about this round of being sick is that I'm not sick enough to call in sick to work. I am, however, sick enough that writing is a bust, and that trying to wrangle a corset pattern is moot. At least I spent an hour and a bit cuddled in bed last night embroidering, and finished off another color in the cross-stitch project.

Another annyoing thing is is that this morning we woke up and Wonderful Husband started coughing and I thought to myself I recognize that cough. And indeed I did. So now we've both got it. Bleh.

Current Mood: dark
Current Location: work

Good things about today:

1) I woke up.
2) People I care about woke up.
3) It was raining this morning.

Coughing has mutated into sore throat and general malaise. Has stopped raining but is still overcast, which means watching the lunar eclipse tonight is probably out. Can I have a do-over day?

Current Mood: sick
Current Location: work

Still have my lovely friendly cough sticking with me, but am well enough to go into work.

After starting to draft the Effigy Corset to my measurements last night, realized that it actually won't work for the (low square-necked) Flemish-style outfit I want to make for 'Faire. Pulled out Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion and determined that the other extant corset of the era, a German one, is much more suitable to that neckline. Measured it out and it has a waistline just over half of mine and a bust just over 2/3 of mine. *sigh* Rather than trying to draft it all out sans guide and give myself a headache, I think I'll try my Sophia gown (made from Simplicity's "Shakespeare in Love" pattern) over my new chemise to see how the neckline sits, and use that as a base, just changing the seamlines around as needed. It'll be easier.

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: home, sewing room

Well, there was a three-and-a-half-hour nap this afternoon, which was nearly as disturbed as my rest last night, and composed of a series of three nearly-linear dreams, the culmination of which was me (as my viewpoint character) becoming the new King of the Fae and going to war with the people who had driven my family from our homes.

Then there was the fever going on a roller coaster ride. The highest I measured it at was 100.7, but Wonderful Husband says that's after I'd already cooled down a bit. Currently it's at 99.2 degrees. My norm is 98.6....

Have been achy and headachy most of the day. Finished the new chemise, but didn't get anything done toward the corset part of the plans.

Downloaded and watched the newest Transformers: Animated episode, and was wowed by it. I'm really hoping they pay out on what they put into this episode. This BlackArachnia is definitely a fitting homage to the original, down to her love of history, and I hope she makes the same (eventual) choices. (All the same... planet of Shelobs. Ick. No thanks.)

Current Mood: (still) sick
Current Location: home, heading toward bed

Apparently I have interesting dreams when I am sick. The winner from last night was the one about discovering a gharial under the bed, where it had eaten my cat (only a puff of black and white fur left on the bedside carpet) and then proceeded to chew on my right hand. Eventually Wonderful Husband and I managed to subdue the thing, duct-tape its jaw closed, and call Animal Control. Whereupon we were informed that we were informed that we were being levied a rather heavy fine for coming into contact with the beast.

All things considered, I'd rather be healthy and dreamless. Am railing against the universe because (insert Waspinator voice here) I had plans for this weekend. Well, the new chemise is mostly done, anyway. After that comes the corset... we'll see how I'm feeling.

Current Mood: sick
Current Location: home

Well, it's 2008 here now. The rain is really coming down, but people were setting off fireworks regardless. At the moment my sister-in-law and I are watching Paul McCartney perform "Get You Into My Life." One of the amusing things about watching British television is that there are very, very, VERY few people, ads, or anything I recognize. It's fun.

Still fighting jetlag, am minorly sick (threw up earlier, but fortunately there was very little in my stomach to come up)... am hoping that it's just a small annoyance I caught on the plane that will be over soon. Like in the morning. Sticking to small amounts of simple foods at the moment. No animal protein or fats. So far it's working. ^_^ Otherwise, I feel fine.

Wrote a little on Twin Terrors 5 today, and have been been doing embroidery. The former (not the latter) was helped by Transformers being my first movie of choice on the flight over. The second was Waitress, and I got halfway through Hairspray before we went into a landing pattern, so I'm hoping to finish it on the way back.

Back to nibbling my grapes and roll....

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: Southampton, England

Ugh.

The good: people! I got to see people this weekend!

racerxmachina,

roseembolism, and

swordkitty and

seshat, whom I do not often get to see as they are up in the Bay Area and I'm down here in the Los Angeles basin. And fun stuff was done, including yarn shopping, Book Off, Little Tokyo (walked away with five manga including *squee!* the first three volumes of the new Kaimu Tachibana series!, and the '06 Clamp calendar), dinner with friends, a trip to the Mitsuwa $.98 marketplace which is now offering tansu and kimono and obi (though, alas, not for $.98), a kimono show in an antique mall, lunch at Mitsuwa in Torrance (yay for large bottles of Aquarius!), lots of cat petting, good breakfasts, and video game playing by people who are not me.

The bad: the stomach flu. I've never thrown up in the restroom of a restaurant before. Fortunately all that was in my stomach at that point was water and a piece of toast. But I felt better enough afterward to tackle more water and a plate of rice, all of which came back up at a quarter to one in the morning. Again, felt better afterward. But overall... ick. And if I'm feeling as lousy/weak/drained tomorrow morning as I have today, I'm considering calling in sick to work.