So we all got up way early in the morning for coronation. We had some issues to getting Benton moving but we got going and picked up Ari and were on the interstate by 7am. The drive was nice we chit chatted and got to site. We found a place to set stuff and got dressed. I haven't worn a veil in quite a long time so it took me a minute to get it settled but it looked good and I used the temple pendants that I bought from Dominique who had gotten them from Feed the Ravens. I thought I looked really nice . Ari and I sat in court and it wasn't as reverent as other courts but that is not the vibe of this crown. Ari and I sat and did string things though I untangled yarn and she knit and then ripped back the back panel of her sweater and started over. Seems the world still needs a bit of crafting chaos with us cause I ended up tearing out what I made this last week on the crochet stuffy I was making.

Anyhoo, the court started on time and ended with the crown transfer and then they moved right into oaths and setting the counties. Sutton and Celeste had a commitment at 1pm so things moved quickly but nicely. I had to run back to the ready room to get the county scrolls that the incoming crown's heralds hadn't grabbed. I'm also getting a roses mantle from Genevieve in my colors and I think I'm going to go for the 14th century style so its easier to add to things since I have a lot of viking style hoods that are pretty. Plus it will be easier to put it on an off for coronation courts etc than a full hood. I just need to dig out linen to hand to her.

But we then had a break for lunch and we had brought things and made sammiches and handed an extra one off to Will. Benton had spent the courts doing art with some of the kids and after lunch court was just another hour? So we were helping pack things up at 3pm-ish. We all got changed (except Benton cause he refuses to pack clothes when we tell him) adn then headed to out to the Mercantile Antiques Mall. We had a nice casual time and got to see baby goats! Then we headed to Black Bear Diner for dinner. We did basic food since we were all tired and hungry and the teenager wanted pancakes. Still hard for me to find things I can eat at Black Bear so I'm not sure it will continue to be on our rotation coming up.

Sunday Mel and Thorin went to the champions tourneys and Benton and I slept in and then went out to Joes for late breakfast. It was nice and then it was home to projects or well, I took a nap. I was so tired. I woke up with a headache which is not a good sign. But I got up and started prepping dinner. We had venison from the freezer I had set to defrost and I sliced up two roasts into medallions and then quick seared them after a coating of flour before putting them into a greased baking dish. I then used the same pan I had seared things in to sauté up a bunch of mushrooms and spices to make a hearty gravy. I used a bottle of porter since I was out of bullion but oh it was good. I placed a small piece of raw bacon on top of each medallion or around it if they were small and then slathered the gravy on and baked it. The original recipe asked for pancetta and a small amount of mozzarella on top. I agree with the pancetta and can't do the mozz. I was clearing things out of the freezer thus teh bacon. But thinner fat on the top is preferred so you don't over cook it which I did just slightly to get the bacon done. We had it with vegan cheezy mash potatoes and it was really good except a few of the medallions I had not cut cross grain. One of the roasts was an odd cut so that makes sense.

But it was good. I also made stuff butternut squash on Wednesday. I had picked from the ground perfect little squashes at Apple Annies and then sliced them in half, coated with bacon fat and spices (garlic powder, onion powder, cinnamon, pepper, Auntie arwens game seasoning (the list bit I had), and then topped with a 50/50 mix of ground pork sausage and spicy pork sausage and then spritzed with avacado oil and dusted with panko. I baked them for an hour and they were so good. Benton has ate most of the leftovers of that.

Anyway that hold tired thing...kept going. Mel got home and loved the dinner and I went to bed early and woke up not feeling right on monday. I made it to 1145am and then went back to bed. I was out for hours. I barely woke up for dinner and then back to bed. I took benton to the bus on Tuesday and then slept the rest of the day. I was better in the evening and Wednesday I shakily started work and got most a day in from home and I've worked the rest of the week like that.

I've been crocheting a bit. Mel packed up and left for GWW yesterday. And my plans are knitting, crocheting, sleeping, and drinks out with the girls this weekend. There is a lego convention I will see if Benton wants to go to a session on Sunday afternoon. I also want a pedicure which I may go do tonight after I pick Benton up from work. My massage got cancelled so I have some time tonight.

But I'm feeling better. The tired and brain fog with the congestion and cough were fun (not). But today I'm wide eyed and puffy tailed. I'm not taking that as carte blanche to be crazy but its a good sign.

Work was work and I finished early on Friday and sat down an immediately finished the viking age necklace I had been working on and then did a modern one for myself. I wore the modern one when I went out to get my waxing appt.

We had leftovers for dinner and I got my spinning wheel back up and operational. I hadn't spun since September so things were dried out and needed oil and adjustments but I got it up and running. Spicy did take an unhealthy interest in my wheel which I caught in a series of three photos 1, 2, and 3.

She really wants the fiber and keeps running off with the batts or she batts at the bobbin when its not spinning. I have no idea what she's trying but she does it with Mel's wheel too. She's been around spinning wheels since we rescued her and she's sat on my lap while I've been spinning. I just think she wants trouble.

I knit on mel's socks a bit too. I'm about 3 inches from the toe decreases. I went to bed pretty much on time. I slept well. Managed to sleep in for a bit which was nice. The boys went to the dojo early so I managed to make myself some chorizo breakfast tacos, play some video games and relaxed. I got things together and chatted with my cousin Jason while he checked on things at the north house for me. We are going to do a BBQ when we get up there since I haven't seen his girls since they were tiny or non-existent.

I then trundled my stuff off to Grandma's for the Local Yarn Store Day for Spinning day and to support the shop. They also were running an Odyssey of the Mind lemonade stand fundraiser for the kiddos trying to go to nationals. The kids were cute but I didn't need the lemonade but I did drop them a $25 donation.

I spun most of the afternoon on my wheel but I did stand for a while and do my drop spinning...slowly making progress on the purple that has been my SCA spinning. I have just one bump left of the pink I started in Sept on the wheel. My setup at the shop which shows the mug I bought with some fiber cause reasons. If you can't read it it says "Spinning cause knitting wasn't weird enough". which yeah.

Saturday was nice. I was very tired when I got home. It was peoply, even though it was a lot of my people but I did talk to folks who were visiting for LYS day and demo'd drop spinnning for folks too. But I was tired. Got home and vegg'd. We managed to have dinner and watch some TV but I was tuckered I think.

Sunday I woke up not feeling right. I cancelled my blood donation cuase I was just not feeling it. I'd been off my asthma controller for a few days since I couldn't get the order in on the app but figured out I could on the website? So weird but then due to things since covid the pharmacy hours are hard to get into for me to pick up. I thought they were open until 5pm on Saturday but they close at 4pm. Sighs. So I got it picked up on Sunday after I did a bit more spinning. I then headed to my hair cut appt but I'd been having weird dizzy spells. I felt weird when I was at the haircut but got it and did a return at Old Navy. I got home, the boys were playing borderlands and I went to take a nap. I was so tired and my head hurt. I thought it was a migraine and may have been but I slept till well passed 6pm. I got up and made a drink and had popcorn cause that was all that sounded good. I went to bed early and woke up feeling tired and lungs were unhappy. I made it through most of the day and at 3pm I finally just laid down for a nap and woke up at like 6pm Still very tired. I had dinner and then early turn in where I just rested and read until mel came to bed.

Today I'm very tired but and my lungs ache. Took my rescue inhaler when I woke up and let that settle for a while and then the controller. I'm work from home today cause yeah....just bleah. so yeah...ugh.

I'm almost done with #7 book.

Well my last line of my last post was "being a lump in bed sounds good" and yeah so I took a nap after work and I did not feel good. I hurt and was woozy and just ugh. Tuesday I woke up and it wasn't better it was worse and my side was acheing badly. I put a call into my doc with a message about my test result and I thought I had a UTI or kidney something. I was running a low grade fever off an on. I slept or read most of Tuesday, same with Wednesday and the doc called and said they would see my Friday. I was not a good advocate for myself and Mel told me to go to urgent care. I schedule one for the first thing Thursday AM.

They were confused by my symptoms and lack of things in my urine. So they sent me to the ER. I hit the new private ER and they were quick and efficient and also perplexed. Everything looked normal but I had the pain some burning at my bladder. They figured it was a kidney infection and gave me IV antibiotics and a scrip for a heavy black boxed antibiotics. The fluids and iv pain killers helped a bit. I had been drinking a lot of fluids and electrolytes but that just felt better in some ways. I got taco bell and was home in like 3.5 hours from the ER. Which is impressive. I slept more thursday night and then Friday we had our yearly appts. Figured out really quick that the front desk staff nerfed my request on Tuesday. Doc was also not convinced it was kidney since my urine was okay. We are awaiting cultures and the antibiotics they had prescribed me were 3X as strong and 2x as long as what she would normally give for a kidney infection. She thinks its muscular and gave me some muscle relaxers which seem to help. I will call her tomorrow for final updates, I still may need antibiotics but not the crazy shit they sent me from the ER that causes possible tendon rupture. Yikes.

So after the doc we had a nice breakfast at Joes. We headed home and I basically went back to bed. I got up after Mel was heading to the dojo. Benton was home from school and Mel had not told him I'd been in the ER. Whoops. But its okay. We had a nice dinner of left overs. He was whiny about playing video games. I had been back at playing Animal crossing. I went to bed pretty early with a muscle relaxer on board. I woke very early for me on Saturday but I was able to relax, get a shower, Get Spicy to the vet and then home to help pick up the house before Jesse and Jen arrived. I even picked up my knitting. Last we saw Jesse he was literally dying (like went into the hospital the next day at Mayo). His hemoglobin count was like 3.5. They took him off his Wegner's meds to see if that is what is causing the issue with his bone marrow and he got a bunch of blood transfusions. We still have another 8 weeks to see if this is what fixes him but he was looking so much better. We had a lovely time with them and good food while I knitted on Blossom's chicken.

Sunday I slept way in and we managed to get to Costco...I took it very easy. I bought two sets of Whalen industrial shelves for Ari's new house. We got groceries, got home to unload and then to Ari's to unload. She has been ms-fix-it with things and its been fun to watch. Then we came home and I took a muscle relaxer and took a 2+ hour nap.

well I ended the last post with me talking about how court was different. One thing I really liked was the local group had printed and laminated the baronial awards on one side and the kingdom awards on the other for folks to understand court and what awards were for. I want to steal this idea and shared it with the KW dicord. We walked Becca and rob in to court as the extended household since they are family family.

One IKA difference is the B&B don't swear fealty to the crown and they swear to serve on the sword of the barony not on the kingdom sword. Also, they don't have an award for territorial B&B when you step down. you may get a court barony and that is it. oof. So long and thanks for all the fish...not. They are also a Vivat kingdom with a wavy hand gesture which was a first for me.

After morning court I set at the fiber table and cast on a pair of Bamboo Field Mitts for Sir Justin for the war. It was fiddly and by the time I got it cast on and started I was tired. Plus I got cornered in a convo with the "sister" of a local from my barony in Atenveldt and she was quite the talker. It was okay. Sometimes you have to do that and she was a hoot to talk to. I got bundled up (it was 26F out) and walked around the tourney outside and stopped in at newcomers etc. It was nice but chilly. Glad I had all of the wool. The boys had a good time being hooligans (nicely). They ended up back at the cabin and playing virutal D&D...no books, one set of dice, no character sheets, all just in their heads and it was amazing to watch. I took a bit of a break before dinner and made sure the kiddos were washed and ready to go and things were setup for food. Teh cooks of the feast were awesome and had the full list of ingredients and I was able to mark the menu to note what I could and couldn't eat.

Also, I guess it got decided we were sitting head table. Which was a sudden change and we had to rearrange tables to watch kiddos. Thankfully we had surprised Becca and Rob with Aaron, Allie and Celyn. So Allie and B&R's friend Odde were awesome and watched the kiddos during the feast. At feast we got to know HRM Mary Isabel and she knows lots of folks we do including Zippy, Bjorn, Mina and Duchess Gabriel said everyone knows HRM. Lol. It was great fun and she's a fiber laurel so it was cool.

By the time dinner was finished and I was super tired. B&R had some things to do and I went back to see if the boys had destroyed things (they left before the end) and they were still playing virtual D&D. I got into pajamas and was reading my book when B&R and Mel came back. I guess they had to go do a B&B thing at a fire in teh cold. BRRRR. I was glad I was in jammies. lol. We were going to have an early morning and while folks were psuedo packing I figured out we could all travel to Golden Corral for group brunch on teh way to the airport. Allie and Aaron had an earlier flight so it worked perfectly.

We had a nice time and good food and was a nice decompress into the real world. Got into the car and headed to the airport and the rental car place. Benton forgot to hit the head on the way out of lunch and we had to make a mad break at the rental car place while I dealt with the car and luggage. Security was all good and funny until I realized I forgot my ipad there.

So all of our bags got pulled for more inspection. While we were waiting we saw the guy infront of us had magic cards. We all chatted magic and the poor TSA guy got involved and didn't want to fly his geek flag but did eventually. It was hilarious. His coworkers were super confused and it was hilarious. We headed to our gate and it was when I sat down I realized my ipad wasn't there. I made a mad dash and they had it. I had left it on the table by the inspection point. I had to unlock it for them and all good but many that was nuts. The gate was packed and we headed back to the main atrium adn found some rocking chairs to hang out at and watch the sculpture above a bar.

It was nice to chill and I knit. Our flight boarded on time and we headed out. What i hadn't realized was our flight in Phx was super quick connect and luckily we got off the plane cause folks waited and then our plan was late. It was raining in Phx and then in Tucson. But we got home, luggage made it and the cats were happy we were home.

Monday was work and schoool and Mel crashed after picking up the boy. He was not doing good and Benton was not either. I took it easy and in the morning neither one of them go out of bed and I stayed home to take care of them. I ran a quick errand to the grocer and by noon I was succumb to the sick. Thursday we tested cause Wednesday was gone. The positive for Covid hit so quickly the control line hadn't even set. Benton was clear. Saturday we tested again and we were barely postive and Benton negative and Monday we were all clear. I got better and better but I'm still not 100%. I was mostly hit by tired, headache and just confusion. I read and slept and yeah. I think the fact I'm missing the greater saphenous vein on my right leg means and have active varicose veins it hit me harder than mel but he still has a wicker cough.

I had to cancel my class at KWHSS, my massage and van maintenance. Sighs. Its okay. just sighs.

But on the book front I finished Book #3 House of M, I read #4 Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldree, I read #5 Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher and #6 Patterns in the Sand (seaside knitters #2). I'm now on #7 Moon Spinners (Seaside knitters #3). So I guess not bad for a month into the year?

We have War of the Phoenix next week and the weather is supposed to be a bit drippy but the new site is supposed to drain well. We shall see. We shall see.

Benton had recovered by the weekend from Covid. He was negative in a few days which was good and maintained that. I kept testing since I felt fucking awful for well even until now. I slept for 2 days and barely did anything but play games on my phone, read and sleep or just watch random shit on my phone. Went to urgent care on Sunday cause my symptoms were worse/different and they were convinced it was covid but gave me antibiotics for bronchitis. Those have finally started working as of Tuesday. I finally had some brain and could stay upright longer. I drove to get pizza and the boy from martial arts and that was too many spoons. Turning my head fast made things woozy but I'm better-ish. I'm working this AM and I hope to get a half day in. I may do the alst bit in bed with just triaging email? I dunno.

One thing I did start was playing Animal Crossing on the Switch. Its cute and easy and doesn't take brain power much. Which is what I needed. So reading...I've only put this in one post THIS YEAR WTF? So I'm stating the list again.

1) Calculated Risks
2) Spelunking through Hell
3) Sparrow Hill Road
4) The Girl in the Green Silk Gown
5) Angel of the Overpass finished 1/28/23
6) Indexing by Seanan McGuire finished on 2/10/23
7) Reflections by Seanan McGuire finished on 2/18/23 in SD
8) The Forgotten Dead by Jordan L. Hawk, found it on my kindle cute story LGBTQ+ awesomeness finished 2/20/23
9) Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher finished on 3/9/2023
10) Backpacking through Bedlam by Seanan McGuire finished on 3/12/23
11) Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher currently reading

The T. Kingfisher books take place in the same world as the The Clockwork Boys and the World of the White Rat so familiar folks are talked about or are there. They are fun and heartwarming with a touch of gore/horror cause Ursula aka T. K. loves to fuck with our heads in fun way. I have some of her actual horror and will read that eventually...maybe....it will depend.

So life is here...and I'm tired.

When last I wrote it was a monday like this one. Mom has since recovered from Covid but that was a scary thing. She doesnt' remember a week and only could complain that they made her do things too quickly (get dressed and ready for the day), she's usually doing all of that herself but she didn't cause she was ill. So that is what you complain about. They also had to do some tube feedings since she wasn't eating. She grumped about that too and said the food they were bringing her she wouldn't feed to my cats. This is again from the woman who made me eat the same casserole for 6 days a week for years complaining about food. sighs. But she is at least is here to complain.

Benton was out of school for 3 days and I got what he got and was so done by the end of that week. It wasn't bad just sore throat, achey head and lethargy. It was not covid...we tested multiple times but it still sucked and we were both crabby patties the whole weekend which was fine...it was a holiday weekend. I read a lot and slept a lot. I took care of Ari's kitties and birds. Mel and I finished going through the entire handspun stash that had gotten hit by moths. We lost a bit and now need to bag it up and store it again. But that was a lot and we got it done finally. I did not get to the linen closet redo but that is okay.

I finished book 29: Life and Limb by Jennifer Roberson; Read number 30 of the year Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire which was fabulous and mind blowing and cliffhangered!; (31) Read Death by Cashmere which is a Seaside Knitters Mystery by Sally Goldenbaum it was okay...I need the second book and own the third?; (32)Read Uprooted by Naomi Novick and Wow it was amazing and I want more in that world. Am now reading The Enchanted Emporium by Tanya Huff who is a mixed bag for writing. This world seems interesting so we shall see. I got it used so not too worried if its meh. Online reviews are a mix and some people get weird on "magical inbred families" and well, meh. I read enough fanfic I don't get squicked out from odd family dynamics etc.

This last weekend I went to drop off meds with mom and visit with her and she basically shooed me off cause she was busy playing games with the other little biddies. It was weird. I had barely talked with her for two weeks...she had had covid and well I felt super weird getting dismissed. I went and got a PSL (oatmilk) from Dunkin' and then went shopping for all things fall. I got some witchy stuff and got gifts for the next day for a party. It was splendid and I was out of the house for more hours than I had been in weeks. It was nice...did I do some shopping therapy, yes, did I need to do that? Yes. Got home for a nice dinner and I went to bed early to try to finish books number 32. Saturday I got to sleep in a bit and then got dressed to head to a pool party. Thyra had gotten a new pool installed with an amazing baja deck with umbrellas in the pool. Had a nice time getting drinks and chatting with folks and just relaxing and getting vitamin D. The apprentice requested the right to kidnap me for dinner and drinks so we got home at 5pm and then I got a shower and dressed up nice for the evening. We hit Ermanos and then did more drinks and churros at the Boxyard. Got a wonderful picture of the full moon over the awnings over Boxyard which was great. I slept almost 10 hours and then went and got to do all of the shopping for groceries. Costco and Safeway. Benton helped me with the Costco run but it was too loud and crowded and he was so done. I get that and I got him an eegees. I then got laundry on cause I was down to the underwear that I hate to wear...I need to put it away but its at least washed and dried. My goal is to work on that tomorrow.

So I've not been to the gym cause sick and then work last week was nuts with only 3 days of work I did 32 hours. WTF? Ugh. Usually holiday weeks you are able to get things finished and relax...that was not the case. I had finance variances to do for myself and my mechanical lead and that was done. It was a lot of work but I found the reasons things were weird and why I'm 800k$ behind schedule. and 1.3M$ overspent. Yeah. stressful

This week my goal is two gym sessions and to try to be kinder to myself. Mom's birthday is tomorrow. I hope to do something with her but we have an appt. We shall see. We shall see what the oncologist has to say this week. I'm pretty sure the numbers will still be bad but we will take that river when we have to traverse it.

 First off the family vacation was really nice and not as stressful as I expected it to be...at least when I finally got Mel to sit down while we were at my mom's and plan the rest of the trip and hotels etc.  It was good. We had a really nice time.  Found our travel limits, got to sight see and give money to local places we had missed.  I also got to see my Aunt Judy when we stopped in colorado and that was so awesome. Got back and had a huge work task that involved a lot of brain power and public speaking.  I spent two days taking with very upper level people, getting information and then presenting to large groups to accept some hardware.  I think of it as being in Queen mode and its exhausting....by Thursday I wasn't feeling great but I managed to finish the day with a call to my doc to get in the next day. My right tragus was swollen and i couldn't touch it and it was going into my jaw.  I have an ear infection as best as they can tell and got put on antibiotics...so I spent the weekend being a lump and playing video games, watching Ari's cats when I was not being hostess and photog for the dojo black belt dinner.  Roxie handled the food and I got folks lined up and posed and took photos and then watched the cats and then came home and went to bed early.  

This week of work has been finalizing the stuff from last week, working on our proposal and trying to concentrate.  The antibiotics are working but my brain is off and my ankle is being a PITA and so I just want to sleep.  I'm sure part of it is vacation let down....stress from work and the weather has been MONSOON!  so the house is sticky and warm but the storms have been nice.  So, life is better than last I wrote but I'm honestly thinking my meds need a change.  It does not help that my gym activity for almost a month has been nill....but that is what it is with work and travel.  So  I hope to kick this funk and just get back on an even keel

Photos from the trip: www.flickr.com/gp/ianuk/9x9bJa 

Friday ended with a very stressful meeting filled day and I really didn't get to stop thinking about work until I shut things off at 530 after having been "ON" with tons of zoom meetings since 730AM. I had meetings with upper level program management most of the day and it was a lot of diplomacy and some engineering discussion on an issue that just popped up. It was hard. I had a huge headache and made myself a big G&T and picked up my knitting and made Benton watch a movie with me. We watched Age of Ultron since we are going through the movies in order with Benton and it was fun. That movie really needed to be two movies for how much stuff was in it. We had spicy ramen dinner, had a visit from Ari (who we almost poisoned with the dinner, oops) and I went to bed with the goal to get up and hit the gym and get things going for the day.

I woke up really rough and didn't feel right. Got hit with bad GI issues and was glad I didn't go to the gym and I basically stayed near my bathroom for the day and snuggled up in bed reading or watching things on my iPad. It was rough. I had toast and mashed potatoes. I had manage one outing to get a pickup from our B&B which was nice and then back home. Thinking on it I was the only one to have tummy issues and I was also the only one eating the really spicy guacamole and then following it up with really spicy soup. I think the gauc had gone off. I went to bed early after sitting up in the living room for a while.

So Saturday was shot. Ugh.

Sunday I woke up and felt better. I was hungry and that was good. I had some coffee and a donut and then got a really good shower where I decided to blow dry my hair. The tippy tips of my hair now reach my tailbone tattoo which is cool. I had chopped about an inch of really wispy stuff off the end of my braid on Friday. Its much more grey than it had been and i can see where the dye is slowly pulling off the grey since those bits are this weird shiny auburn cause I have silver not grey. So its a thing.

After that I hit the stores and got my gifty from Danabren (THANK YOU!) and then home. I was tired and hangry...I had a very late lunch and then sat on my duff. Mel came in to play video games and he got me a naalbinding needle so I just started my hat for the CCC. I'm working with my own handspun which is awesome.

Did I get to any of my to do list? No. Did I have a nice weekend even though I had food poisoning? Yeah, I did. I even worked on my CCC project even though its not the part I expected to work on. It take a lot of brain power for me to cut out fabric...and I'm still trying to decide how I want the silk front to look (side split versus center split) and what length of sleeve? Short or long?
Thoughts?
Here is the trim and the silk:


And this is the overdress linen:

Last week on Monday I was run down and then Tuesday I couldn't get out of bed....no fever, just chills and exhaustion....feeling better now just still a bit woozy.

On the reading front:
25) Peace Talks by Jim Butcher
26) One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire
27) Ashes of Honor by Seanan McGuire
28 in progress) Chimes at Midnight by Seanan McGuire

Mel's blanket is now big enough to use as a couch blanket while I'm working on it. I still have no motivation to work on anything else. sighs. I think its just my brain being "finish the old stuff" before I can work on anything.

With me being sick the house has fallen into gross..I need to work on that this week. The carpets are grey with cat fur and my bathroom is scary.

In cat development, willow has figured out how to use the pull chains on teh lights in the living room and how to open Benton's door. She seems to go in about 630 every morning or so to snuggle with the sleeping boy or to just hang out on his bed.

Additionally, my fitbit died the previous weekend and I just need to order a new one since I get them free from my work wellness program I just need to do that. Its not free per se I have to get points by doing things but since I do work out regularly its easy to get the points and I still get taxed on the amount but its "free" enough I don't care. of course I go to order one and they are out of stock on the website...sighs...so it will be an amazon card and then buy it there.

So Thursday I was dead tired and left work, got groceries and a weird thing happened.  My legs kept cramping up...like enough for me to loose my balance.  Weird.  Get home, have food and then snuggle up on the couch with DH and the apprentice to watch John Wick which was way fun.  We headed to bed pretty early and my plan was to work a bunch of friday so I didn't have to work the weekend....yeah, that kinda happened.

Woke up Friday with a migraine and leg cramps and body aches and just stayed mostly in bed...got a really hot shower and more drugs and was somewhat functional but after a bit of work, vet appointment and little boy pick up I was toast.  Saturday (see toast) and worked some more and then retreated to my bed again.   Stomach cramps suck....a lot. Pain meds don't help worth a damn and my back still spasmsed. I managed to be upright a bit on Sunday but not much on Monday I got Ben to ari's and called the doc.

I have the stomach flu or a Noro variant. Its not quite like Ben had and my body has decided that I can eat just fine but my insides feel like I've been punched and keep cramping. Sighs.  So work today since I tried to work a bit from home and my passwords had gotten expired on Sunday (when I should have worked) and yeah.

I'm tired and crunched over but still doing status. Bleah.