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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, I started to get a sinus headache around 9 and by 10 it was pretty clear the decongestant alone wasn't going to stop it, so I took a tylenol. Shortly, it was pretty clear that wasn't going to stop it either. Normally, I would have gone home around 11 or so with something like that, tried to sleep it off, and then worked from home if I felt better.
Today wasn't normal. Today, the president of the company was up in our office and going to talk with us at lunch. So I stayed. After that, I was going to leave, but they'd given us a free lunch and I thought perhaps food would help (not likely, considering I'd snacked earlier to no effect) and it certainly wouldn't hurt (much more confident of that one). Before I was done with my lunch, I was told that I was supposed to be in a meeting about one of our client sites. That went on for a while and, when it was over, I wrote up my info on it for someone else. (I volunteered to do so. But it would have been stupid, and unfair to both us and the client, not to do so - I had more details about tradeoffs and setup of one item in my head than had been discussed, and the meeting was not really the place to discuss them, but the person I sent them to is writing out the design for this, and they do sort of matter for that.)
Then I dealt with the email that had piled up. By the time I did that, it was nearly 4. I left...and realized as I was walking to the car that I couldn't just skip running my errands. First, I'm on-call this week except today (trade with a coworker who had vacation last Monday). That makes errands later in the week more problematical. Secondly, I needed to pick up a refill for a prescription that's just a few pills from "out". Soooo....
At various points during the day, the headache/sinus combo was making me dizzy or very vaguely nauseous (the level at which you feel off but have no concerns about actually being ill). Fortunately, by the time I left, I was not at all dizzy. I was driving real carefully, though, due to a certain distrust of my reactions when I felt like that. I didn't have any problems, though; or rather, none that were actually problems. I reflexively got off the freeway at Nyberg, remembering I had to get some stuff, then realized the last errand of the day was Costco, not Fred Meyer. Wrong exit. However, by the time I was on the exit ramp, I'd already realized the freeway was a complete mess south of there. The traffic report informed me that an accident by the view point on 205 North had caused the backup, so it extended a good mile or two (not sure exactly how far that is). I just took 65th over and cut back to Costco and it was probably faster than staying on the freeway, since it was very much a parking lot there.
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.
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, I started to get a sinus headache around 9 and by 10 it was pretty clear the decongestant alone wasn't going to stop it, so I took a tylenol. Shortly, it was pretty clear that wasn't going to stop it either. Normally, I would have gone home around 11 or so with something like that, tried to sleep it off, and then worked from home if I felt better.
Today wasn't normal. Today, the president of the company was up in our office and going to talk with us at lunch. So I stayed. After that, I was going to leave, but they'd given us a free lunch and I thought perhaps food would help (not likely, considering I'd snacked earlier to no effect) and it certainly wouldn't hurt (much more confident of that one). Before I was done with my lunch, I was told that I was supposed to be in a meeting about one of our client sites. That went on for a while and, when it was over, I wrote up my info on it for someone else. (I volunteered to do so. But it would have been stupid, and unfair to both us and the client, not to do so - I had more details about tradeoffs and setup of one item in my head than had been discussed, and the meeting was not really the place to discuss them, but the person I sent them to is writing out the design for this, and they do sort of matter for that.)
Then I dealt with the email that had piled up. By the time I did that, it was nearly 4. I left...and realized as I was walking to the car that I couldn't just skip running my errands. First, I'm on-call this week except today (trade with a coworker who had vacation last Monday). That makes errands later in the week more problematical. Secondly, I needed to pick up a refill for a prescription that's just a few pills from "out". Soooo....
At various points during the day, the headache/sinus combo was making me dizzy or very vaguely nauseous (the level at which you feel off but have no concerns about actually being ill). Fortunately, by the time I left, I was not at all dizzy. I was driving real carefully, though, due to a certain distrust of my reactions when I felt like that. I didn't have any problems, though; or rather, none that were actually problems. I reflexively got off the freeway at Nyberg, remembering I had to get some stuff, then realized the last errand of the day was Costco, not Fred Meyer. Wrong exit. However, by the time I was on the exit ramp, I'd already realized the freeway was a complete mess south of there. The traffic report informed me that an accident by the view point on 205 North had caused the backup, so it extended a good mile or two (not sure exactly how far that is). I just took 65th over and cut back to Costco and it was probably faster than staying on the freeway, since it was very much a parking lot there.
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.
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