Has it really been that long since I updated?

Apparently it has.... I had a really good weekend. Got some reading done, plenty of rp, got the dishes and laundry done so I don't feel like I did nothing. Even did some tidying in the upstairs hall bath (need to tidy up more stuff in there and can then scrub it down) and in the computer room (you can't see much in the way of results from that, except I can get to my desktop keyboard easier, and my mail-to-be-processed has been reduced to actual current issues).

Last night, I went to pay all my bills and found most of them were informational notices instead. The only one that was really a bill, wasn't anywhere near due yet. So I gloated to a friend online about it. Of course, tonight, my credit card bill arrived, along with the bill for the lawn care. Sigh. I should know better. On the other hand, the credit card bill is teensy-tiny (for once), as is the lawn-care bill (as always). So it could be worse.

Work today was a nightmare, and not because of the tasks or anything like that. ( No, instead it was a sinus headache and business stuff that meant I shouldn't leave. And I will now apparently babble at length about this.... )

Went back and added a cut, since that's a lot of blather about not much. Suffice to say that I am very glad to be home. Not feeling a whole lot better, but not worse either. Still working on the "better" part. If I don't achieve it shortly, I may go lie down, but I'm afraid if I do that now, I'll fall asleep and get up at 3 am or something of the sort, and really mess myself up.

It was a good weekend, though, and today has been gorgeous, even if I was not the most appreciative viewer. Most of the day, the sky has been a glorious blue-grey, something between soothing and bruised, but with breaks. This afternoon, the sunlight was shining out of those breaks, edging the clouds in light too bright to have a color I can name, light to bright to look at even peripherally, and touching things with highlights of - I don't know what to call it, less a shade than a lightness, as if the sun was polishing away the shadows we call "color" from the edges of things....

Of course, it was also freaking painful to drive in whenever you were going toward it. But it was beautiful when you were in the right spot. Headache or no, it was beautiful.

It is raining.

This is a fluff entry, but it's my fluff entry. It's raining. There have been clouds all day but I haven't seen rain. Now, when I cannot watch it, it is raining, the drops big and heavy as they strike against the window. At first I didn't realize it - they were not loud - but then I began to hear them and the window was already streaked with water outside. Paths of water, running in the room-light, against the blackness of the world beyond...the air chill, and the sound of the rain against the window, quiet, but present....

If I went now into either of the upstairs bathroom areas, I could listen to the rain against the skylight, so much louder than it is against the windows....