I think that I'm gonna make an eye appointment relatively soon. The fact that I couldn't read the teeny print on the bank website, and the trouble I've had since I got my current glasses kinda convinces me that something's up. I DON'T want bifocals, but... Fuck if I wouldn't rather be able to see properly! Also, while I was fine through the con other than the coughing from my stupid asthma, it might now be turning into something else. I was going to go in to the allergist anyway, but this means I'll try to get in tomorrow rather than just getting an appointment when I can. I'm betting its just an opportunistic cold developing cos the asthma has been kicking my ass since the illness I had three weeks before the con. I have to say I'm gettin' pretty tired of getting sick. :P

Other than that, I spent a bit of my remaining con money (Yes, even with the bank stupidity I still had money allocated left for fun stuff) and got the Pathfinder book. With my discount and the sale I got at $35 new, free shipping. It retails at $50. Woot. :)

Saturday I'm considering starting my Xmas shopping. Friday is a NO EFFING WAY day for me and shopping- I hate stores to start with without rabid bargain-hunting swarms. I'm aiming for about $10 per gift, maybe a bit more for the family ones. Anyone who's on my list (you know who you are!) lemme know what you want! For me... All I want is LOTS of Barnes & Noble gift cards.

This being the first day home, not much is going on. I'll go back to work at midnight, work two days and its Thanksgiving. I'll be at my folks Thursday evening, and that's about all that's going on.

Icky medicine. :P

Its a bottle of generic stuff with Dextromethorphan, a cough suppressant. I tried to sleep yesterday, and every time I laid down (aside from one two-hour space where I DID sleep) I starting coughing uncontrollably. This stuff, a generic version of Delsym, works pretty good. I actually slept from about 5 PM til 11. It's ONLY a suppressant, which is what I needed. Of course, it tastes horrible. Grape horrible, as opposed to yellow, green, pink or brown horrible. Of them all, the medicines that were yellow were inevitably the worst. This stuff, supposedly grape, I can get down and the aftertaste is nonexistent. Unlike ANY of the Robutussen or 44D variants, which you can STILL taste an hour later. Bleah.

I'm nearly through this stupid cold. I think I'll be pretty much fine tomorrow. Although... The sensation that I get from the stuff feels real weird; I can feel a cough there, but it kinda just doesn't happen and there's this indescribable sensation in my throat... Weird.

I'm on a four day weekend, mostly because I wanted it and because it means I won't have to rush to work right after the game on Sunday. This is a good thing. And because I had a little extra cash after paying the bills and getting groceries I decided to get some books. This was done in two halves- some ordered from Barnes & Noble online, the rest gotten CHEAP from Half Price Books.

From Barnes & Noble I got:

My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding (A collection of supernatural wedding tales including one from the Dresden Files)

My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon (Companion to the above)

Strange Brew (An anthology centered around alcohol, with a Dresden Story)

Mean Streets (YET ANOTHER Anthology, this one of gritty city supernatural tales. Another Dresden tale in this one as well)

Armageddon 2419 AD (The ORIGINAL Buck Rogers story! Beware the Yellow Peril! Despite that, its a good read.)

The above have all shipped, and will probably get here by Wednesday.

From Half Price Books, the haul was bigger and smaller- bigger, in that there were more books bought, smaller, as it'd take three or more of them to match ONE of the anthologies in size! feezlekahn accompanied me- we went to the one near Northtown Mall, north of us.

Han Solo's Revenge by Brian Daley (A Star Wars novel, one of three from Daley. Guilty pleasure from long ago)

Ambulance Ship by James White (A tale of the Hospital Station series)

A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeline L'Engle (The third book from the Wrinkle In Time series)

The Moon Maid by Edgar Rice Burroughs (A true pulp, I saw it and at a dollar I HAD to get it!)

Dorsai! by Gordon R. Dickson (The classic, I've never read it!)

The Mummy, or Ramses The Damned by Anne Rice (From her Vampire Chronicles series, tho he ain't a vamp!)

The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice (More Vampire Chronicles and Lestat)

The Fortress in the Eye of Time by C. J. Cherryh (I've no idea, but its a fantasy and its Cherryh!)

And that's the haul. Most of the stuff from Half Price were a buck or two each. I may order one or two books further on Barnes & Noble, but that'll hinge on their actually HAVING what I'm after. I've gotten a taste for some of the older and more obscure stuff I remember reading long ago. :)

Also on Friday, I made chili. I, feezlekahn partook, though I did offer to mirrdae and zxizaraxii. They'd already eaten, however. khirsahdrgn had a guest over so I didn't ask him. The chili was a good batch, and I REALLY ought to write the damned recipe down- I make it from memory every time and I know there are a few who'd like to know what goes in. joshuwain brought over some odd hamburgers made of ground sirloin and a couple of different mushrooms ground together too... They weren't to my taste, and the Oniony kaiser rolls weren't something I like. However, I'm a fussy bitch and it's prolly just me. ;)

And now we get to the 'bad' and the 'it f*cking figures' part. I couldn't sleep today. I tried, and it just didn't happen. So I ended up staying up playing 'UFO Alien Attack', and OLD Microprose game for about six hours, til I headed out to the book store. The fatigue finally started taking me down after dinner, so I kinda slumped unconscious after my dinner companions went off to see a movie. I think it was 'Kick Ass' but I was pretty muzzy by then. And now I know WHY I was screwed up- I've apparently gotten a cold or something, and I set to kicking my butt with a vengeance. I took ibuprofin and sudafed, and slept like the dead through fever-sweats. I THINK the fever broke, but I hope like hell I can get over this before Sunday. I REALLY wanna game! Thus, It F*CKING FIGURES that I'd get sick on a long weekend!

Feh. And that's it. Right now I'm up, feeling better and drinking tea. My throat feels like its been sanded and there's drainage, but other than that I seem okay... But we'll see. Thus today will be me trying to make sure its GONE.

... Kinda literally. As I left work, JUST as I reached my car there was a sudden sense of urgency... I managed to make it home, but ever since me and the bathroom have been getting quite well acquainted. At least its only from one end. :P

I had hoped to dodge it this time, but nope. O well.

Dad picked up Sprite, Gatorade and Immodium AD for me, and I think I'm a bit better. We shall see.

Well I'm still alive and nothing dramatic happened. Last week, I started feeling a bit of a cold or flulike thing affecting me. By Sunday morning, it was definitely there, and I wasn't too happy. So I basically spent the weekend curled up and playing City of Heroes/City of Villains on the New Toy, or sleeping. Tuesday arrived, and my throat felt like I'd swallowed a handful of broken glass, so I called into work. As it turns out, it peaked at about 11 PM or so, thus validating my decision. RIght now, I feel okay. I'm a bit run down, but thats to be expected.

Hopefully I'll get the Werewolf synopsis done by Sunday, and the posts by Goblin up by Saturday. Right now I'm not in the mood to write, but I DO wanna get that stuff finished.

City of Heroes is a BLAST, by the way. :)

I've a few minutes before I go out the door for an errand, so here's a little update. I'm all set with AC prep now but for the packing- the money is set aside and I know who is in the room now- Me, khirsahdrgn and feezlekhan. I might have room for one on the floor, but talk to me closer to the date. Steve, the fella who usually takes the other bed isn't going this year, due to finances, inability to get the time off and the fact that later this year he's moving to New Hampshire (!!)...

I'm also mostly set for Midwest Furfest. Yay!

On other things- I'm getting over the cold, tho I'm still coughing, its nowhere near as bad as it was earlier. I'm finally cought up on bills (I think), and if I feel up to it I might start dealing with the forest that was once a lawn on Sunday, and maybe de-weed the garden.

Mr. Lillehaug is okay, tho he had to pop back down to the Mayo yesterday- he was getting drainage from the sutures, which isn't supposed to happen. They fixed him back up, and the doctor said, 'If this is the worst thing that happens during your recovery, it'll be smooth sailing'. I think that's the accurate quote. :)

That's it for now. :)

As I posted before, I'm sick again. Just a cold, and I think (I HOPE) that its letting go fairly quickly. My apetite has gone to hell, and I feel like my head's packed with cotton. Bleah. I think this time it was just caused by my immune system being nuked by my asthma and the hellish amounts of pollen we've had.

In other news, there isn't much other news. I'm just hoping I get over this crap.

I seem to have ataramos's cold or whatever-it-is. Bleah. I'm contemplating calling off-shift tonight to see if I can shake it- but seeing as she's had it for almost a week I have my doubts. Everyone in the house save for maybe khirsahdrgn seems to have some sort of sharp-clawed, deeply-dug-in miserable infection. And people wonder why I call my place 'Plague House'. :P

And I just found out in foeclan's journal that joshuwain, his roomie and my former roomie, is ALSO sick and in the hospital with what seems to be a bacterial blood-infection. Gaah. At least THAT one can't be traced to here!

I don't think I have to worry about the Dreaded Bird Flu. Cos anything fatal would just end the misery, and I don't think we'd be that lucky. O.o

Its Sunday, and I'm still sick. :P I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired... That being said, I'll live. It still bothers me somewhat that in the last two years I've been getting sick a LOT more than I did in the previous decade. Not that I never got sick- I did, but the general severity seems to have ramped up on me. Ick.

Anyway, yesterday we played in joshuwain's Vanguard campaign. Most of the run was the continuance, completion or ending of various sub-plots, and dealing with some of the real-world events that also took place in the campaign. I'm putting it behind a cut cos its HUGE. The run was titled "Life, or Something Like It", and was the 12th 'issue' of the campaign. :)

( Life, Or Something Like It )

...And I'm still sick. I generally don't use this to bitch, but geez... This first hit me last Wednesday morning, and I'm still coughing, and I couldn't sleep today, and thus I really feel crappy. Blah.

I'm SO tired of being sick 'n tired...