User:	seanlily
	Date:	2009-11-30 14:39
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 My library, where I work and complain about some coworkers, caught fire this morning.

Apparently a transformer blew (we've had problems in the past with that causing power outages) and somehow that triggered something in our workroom/boiler room. That area is destroyed, we're not sure how bad the rest of it is, the water damage and smoke. We get to go in tomorrow to start figuring it out. Luckily it happened about 7:30 am so only the person there was the custodian and he's ok. Not sure what happens next. 

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-30 10:55
	Subject:	*checks*
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Yup, still sick.

I'm sleeping in the second bedroom because I'm coughing a lot and also because...well you know those stupid stereotypes about how all guys turn into babies when they're sick? Yeah, that, only I'm not a guy. I whine a lot and the sad thing is that I know I do it and that doesn't stop me from doing it. Also my sleep schedule is really messed up.

So that's the state of me.

Meant to say, this seems to be a garden variety cold and not teh hamtrax.

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-27 20:42
	Subject:	body chemistry for the lose...
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So yeah, because my sleep schedule's been so fucked up, I haven't been taking my Wellbutrin. I really really need to remember that it's not optional.

Dinner tonight, which should have been dinner last night, was good, but it was only half of what I meant to serve and the meat was just a little too pink even though my meat thermometer said it was a lot more done that it turned out to be.* I really didn't feel the cooking vibe so we had the caramelized butternut squash/sweet potato dish (which was very good) and lamb, which was very good even if it was a little pink. We'll have greens and mashed potatoes tomorrow.

Things would have been a lot smoother if I'd been taking my meds, as it was I stressed this one waaaaaay too much.



*Um, hi...I'm really not in the mood for recommendations or helpful hints or solutions or whatever here.

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-27 16:26
	Subject:	so much for Thanksgiving on the right day
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Right now I'm mostly thankful that I no longer have a migraine.

There's food in the oven and I'll do a much longer post about it all later.

Hope those of you who celebrate (and those how don't) had a great day!

	User:	seanlily
	Date:	2009-11-27 14:38
	Subject:	Stuffed and Tired
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 We did a variation on the turkey day and had steak instead. Yum. I'm not much of a turkey lover anyway, I eat it at times, but I don't love it.  Fun times, even if it was a smaller group than usual, which was actually better because I wasn't feeling all that social.

My back has been bothering me this week, not ouch painful don't want to move, but just enough to put a damper on the whole week and make me watch my movements. 

I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke and really DID NOT LIKE. 
Mostly, it was twice as long as it needed to be to tell the story of these two gentleman magicians and there was a lot of nothing going on.

I've started Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It's a little slow starting and I was a little confused at first with the different time periods but I'm starting to figure it out, so at 100 of 1000 pages I'm liking it. 

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-25 10:44
	Subject:	simple yet tasty
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Take a bagel, slice it, toast it and put a generous amount of cream cheese on both slices. Then take a couple artichoke hearts and chop them up fine* and use them as sammich filling. Serve with Kalamata olives on the side.

Speaking of food, we got our box yesterday; I was just too wiped to report it.

Persimmons, tangerines, apples, kale, chard, lettuce, some other green and sweet potatoes.

( rambly stuff about greens and T-Day dinner )

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-24 22:40
	Subject:	huh....
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Due to a bit of stupidity on my part, I spent the day without internets. And you know...I missed people, but not the internets themselves. Lemme know if anything interesting happened.

Actually, you all should be glad I spent the day offline; I'm grumpy and crampy and apparently someone, probably Og, slept in just the wrong spot on the bed, forcing me to sleep in a certain position, so my knees and back hurt. It's not that I wouldn't happily kick him off the bed, it's that he does it in the middle of the night and I automatically adjust without waking up.

For those not on my NaNo filter, I'm declaring it a half win. I wrote 20,500 words and I'll probably manage another 5,000 before the end of the month. Or who knows, maybe I won't. Still that's 20K of fic I didn't have on October 31, so there you have it.

I have to go to our local upscale grocery store to pick up the lamb tomorrow. That's gonna be fun. I also have to go to Coco's to pick up the pie so at least I'll have French Toast for lunch or something.

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-24 02:36
	Subject:	I don't know...
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I'm just not in the mood for much of anything. I'm having my period and I think I'm coming down with a cold and I'm all with the grumpy.

I might be scarce for a day or two.

	User:	seanlily
	Date:	2009-11-22 13:43
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Kind of bored. Things to do but don't want to do them.  But don't know what I want to do, so a brief SG-1 break.  Maybe then I'll wake up enough to do the things I have to do. 

	User:	seanlily
	Date:	2009-11-19 18:38
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	Mood:	tired

 Long day at an all day program, 3rd of 4 and feeling like I'm behind in it all.

But I wasn't at work, so that was a plus.

I'm getting into Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Clarke, not loving it, but interested enough, it's a little slow, but I think it should pick up now that I've hit part 2, I hope. 

I've got to start thinking Christmas presents for family and I'm stuck. Family doesn't have many ideas either. 

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-18 18:24
	Subject:	Ick. And also, Ow.
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So, ever since the gall bladder mess* I've had pretty serious acid reflux issues. Normally this isn't a problem since I'm on medication for it. However, even with the medication, if I eat too much before sleeping, I end up with this thing where acid backs up into my throat and since I'm asleep and not exactly noticing, I keep breathing. You know how sometimes, if you breathe at just the wrong moment while drinking a glass of water, you get water in your airway, which then freaks out because, oh hey, turns out you're not supposed to breathe liquid? Yeah, it's like that, only a) it's acid and b) you're sound asleep when it happens.

Obviously the answer is not to eat right before sleeping, but last night, I'd been up for over 24 hours and hadn't had food for something like 10 hours and I was getting shaky and weird. I woke up after breathing in acid three different times because, while I wanted to stay awake after the first time, I simply couldn't thanks to exhaustion and medication.

I feel like death warmed over and I have a massive migraine.


*short version: it wasn't stones so it took six weeks, during which I had three ER visits, to diagnose. On the plus side, the time between the diagnosis being made and my surgery was something like 10 hours. Also, Medicare doesn't suck.

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-17 21:01
	Subject:	take a good hard look!
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And then maybe, open your wallets?

NSFW or other places where "motherfucking" is inappropriate.




Thanks to Salixbabylon for the link!

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-17 14:33
	Subject:	I know...I know...
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I'm spammy today, but sometimes I just need to mention how much I love the junior Senator from the great state of California.

Hint: A lot.

	User:	telesilla
	Date:	2009-11-17 12:57
	Subject:	I know it's an old one....
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But it was linked from one of today's pics and I think it's hilarious. I also haven't slept all night so I think a lot of things are hilarious.

	User:	seanlily
	Date:	2009-11-17 15:26
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 I've had the day off, which is nice, except the cat wants me to hold her which makes it difficult to do anything. I'm trying to compromise but she's being stubborn.

I'm reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke. I'm not loving it yet, but it's ok. Going to make popcorn and curl up and read some more, and the cat can sit on my lap and be happy. Oh, maybe I'll make some tea too.