Moony, thank you for the Australia Day wishes! It was a beautiful day weather-wise, with lots going on out and about. I chose to stay home to do the laundry I know what you're thinking ... just how much more exciting can that girl's life get?! Sorry, this reply is so late. I haven't been visiting my dear adults often enough with all this excitement.
Is everyone safe and warm ... or at least thinking warm thoughts?
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
Hep! I am safe, but not too warm.Yes, Brd, we are STILL out of school! Six class days missed due to one blizzard. I've been ion the office since Wednesday, but my 20 minute commute still takes more than an hour. Hopefully we'll finally get some melting and add a few lanes to the roads.
Well, I for one enjoyed Grease Live for the mess o' happy it was. I never thought the play was any great work of art and I had rock-bottom low expectations for this production. But after the WTF opening, I thought, "Oh hell, I'm just going to sit back and enjoy this." Which I did.
Yes, we are finally back in school. Temps are going up to the 60s this week, so there should be some good melting action, finally.
Companies around town are becoming positively theatrical. In the last little while I have spotted vans for a florist named Bialystock & Bloom and for Sweeney Todd, a medical waste removal firm!
'Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.' - Lucy Van Pelt
Bluemoon, maybe all of those! Some of the time I can't breathe through my nose, some of the time it's dripping like a faucet, and over the past day in addition to the sneezing bouts, I've added barking like a weasel to the mix, no doubt similar to what brdlwyr has been hearing on the train. Addy, keep up the fight!
I guess it could be some mild form of flu. (I had the flu shot.) Hubby and son had a touch, but they get over things faster than I do anyway. I hate to sound like an old person, but lately it seems that, in sucession, afflictions have been dealt to just about every bodily orifice, some of which I didn't even know I had before. j/k
Midst of all this, we're having to transfer apartments mid-April - at the same place - due to renovations they're doing, and I've been massively decluttering. Want to get that done before the packing starts.
brdlwyr, sorry about your mother. This is probably way TMI, but ... my dad was a periodic alcoholic, I think it's called. Long spans of soberness or light drinking, followed by a bender was sort of the pattern. Dysfunctional family indeed, lots of drama at times, but he was never anything other than a good dad to me.
FD - sounds like a seasonal allergy to me (can you believe the state won't give me a medical license?). Both my husband and I get the stuffy, drippy syndrome every winter. I suspect the heating system harbors dust, mold, etc.
Add me to the list of "adult children of an alcoholic". Dad almost lost his job and his family before he finally took steps towards sobriety - a goal never fully realized. People are complicated - never all good or all bad.
I do not recall ever noticing my mother "drunk" - she loved to have an occasional gin and tonic and bubbly with Mrs. Brd. In our family we have two recovered through AA. My brother quit drinking the day he buried his wife whose death was hastened by pills and booze. My sister with cancer i assume is still drinking. Her boyfriend that "beat her" reported that before her diagnosis she was drinking 15 beers a day. I have another brother who is a functioning drunk. 4 out of 10 - not too bad. Still higher than you 20% cancer rate!
My daughter is having her adenoids removed at 20 - definitely the cause of many of her sinus symptoms!
I think it is allergy related indeed. I drank some TheraFlu (I think) hot green tea honey lemon concoction before bedtime last night, and I think it has made my coughs and nose-blowing more productive. I'm a night owl way too often, but went to bed around midnight, and except waking up briefly maybe twice, I slept until about 11 AM. So can't say I didn't get any sleep. Still feel kinda draggy today, but think I'm gonna live.
"People are complicated - never all good or all bad." Amen to that, Blue!
I still have my adenoids and my tonsils and most of my right mind, I think.