orange bulbs

i'm spending a rare moment alone at home. jon is playing with da boys over at a friend's house.. doin' techie stuff. i only have one thing on my agenda tonight and that's to write 5 or 6 lines of my testimony for a drama thing we're doing in december. until then i'm watching five peppers in trouble.

jon went over to moms last night to get some of our stuff from her garage to put back in ours. while he was there he also picked up a few things she had set aside for me. one of which was my birfday card!!

my birfday kind of got put off this year. at least temporarily. with all of us having gotten sick it just didn't seem right. we're going out for my dinner this sunday, though.

mom also gave me some orange bulbs for our christmas tree. when we get it set up it'll look smashing!!

i can't believe people are already decorating for christmas. it used to be they'd do it before thanksgiving. now it's happening before halloween. now, that's just wrong! nobody messes with my holiday and gets away with it. grr!

not at work but working

today is the last day i have to take my antibiotics. YAY! i celebrate not because i am getting better everyday i take them, but because they give me awful abdominal cramps. i find myself curled up in a ball, rubbing my tummy, and saying “ow. ow. ow.”

but truly i am glad to be getting better each day. it seems my energy hasn’t quite come back and that’s what i miss the most. i can almost handle not feeling well as long as i am still kind of myself.

once jon and i both are feeling better – we are going to celebrate my birfday with dinner (hopefully at maggiano’s), a movie (elizabeth the golden age) and possibly barnes & noble where i intend to spend some of my birfday money on a new book or two. yippee!

and we still need to have my family birfday dinner (i’ve already requested rockfish because of their jalapeno soup). every single one of us ended up getting at least a cold. my poor brother got walking pneumonia, too. so none of us have been up to any celebrating.

i am working from home today. i just heated up half of my leftover burrito from chipotle. ok, that’s another thing. i’ve been so just not feeling up to cooking or shopping. or laundry. or cleaning this filthy house. i feel like a louse and a slob and a slug. ugh. (that rhymed)

i like pei wei and chipotle and stuff. and i like not having to cook. but i do not like having to spend so much money on meals when we know we need to watch our spending. so.. ergh!!

it’s kinda cool working from home. i’m in my pjs and yet i’ve gotten a lot accomplished. probably more than i would have if i’d gone in because i have no distractions. cool!

if you’re working, then why are you blogging and heating up burritos? you may ask. i am on my lunch break so get over it.

i’ve been really into using library thing again (as you can tell on the column to the right). i used to use it eons ago and just got out of the habit because i wasn’t really reading much at the time.

the only thing it is lacking is being an application on facebook. i had posted a bookshelf application on there, but i’m not going to keep up with two database for what i’m reading and i quite prefer this one. please, facebook, add library thing as an app. for me. please.

oh,.. my facebook page is here. i think right now you have to be a facebooker to see profiles, though.

getting back to work...

walking pneumonia

i went to the doctor today after having a cough for 17 days and i found out i have walking pneumonia. well, that's a first. but i knew it had to be something, afterall i was just so rundown and felt kinda like a weakling for taking it easy when i didn't seem to have a fever or 'sick head'. you know 'sick head' - when you feel lousy and can't focus and stuff. i always feel like if my head is clear i should be working and going about things as usual. but, uh.. i guess that isn't the case.

so finding this news out kinda confirms for me that i wasn't feeling rundown for nothing. it is almost good news in a retarded kind of way.

jon was wondering if i was still going out with the friday doSomethings and i told him i'd better not. (i've googled walking pneumonia and found out it's contagious, and i'm supposed to be getting plenty of rest. by the way, i hate that phrase.) he sounded pretty disappointed which makes me feel like "i disappointed him".

truth was, though, that he was wanting to get me a birthday cake for the evening. aw.. so sweet. but i just really don't feel up to it. still. and yet, i still feel like i've disappointed him and everyone. i can't just let myself not be well. and now i think i know why. i don't like to disappoint.

and that's all i'm gonna say. because i've got some resting to do. heh.

ding dong

i was going to take a little nap this afternoon while waiting for jon to call me and say he's on his way home (so i could suggest he pick up pei wei for dinner!), and before i could drift off the doorbell rang.

i considered ignoring it. afterall, no one ever really comes by so it must be someone wanting to sell something.

after it rang again and someone knocked on the door, i went ahead and got up and answered it. there was a young gal at the door wanting to thank me for the haunted house yesterday because she had so much fun. in fact, she told a friend of hers at school today about it who thought it was so cool that she wants to come with her next year.

it was so thoughtful of this girl to come out of her way to give thanks. something i think can be quite lacking in most kids her age and in society in general. and so i praised her for coming and telling me. and i shut the door thinking - i'm glad i got up and answered it.

if you're out and about next halloween, apparently our neighborhood kids highly recommend our haunted house.