I haven’t wanted to talk about this but I can’t get it off my mind so…
A not close friend, but in my circle and he has been a client as well, has a 16 year old Daughter. Well he did anyway as they took her off life support yesterday, as of today she is still here, kinda. She had a series of strokes caused by, apparently, smoking the fake weed stuff Kush. For those that are not aware this is a synthetic cannabanoid(sp?) that is sold in head shops, gas stations etc. She is brain dead at 16 a casualty of greed and the War on Drugs IMHO.
Congrats, CatDude!! My daughter called my FIL PawPaw when she was really little - she’s not using it any more, so you’re welcome to it!
{{{Jim}}} - man, that sucks way too much.
I’m home and I have an awful niggling feeling that I’m getting what **FCD **has, or a close relative. My throat has started hurting, I have fits of coughing, and I’ve got a terrible aching at the base of my neck working its way to my shoulders. If this continues, I won’t be going to FL. **FCD **is still a mess, and he insists he’s going to work tomorrow. I may have to lock him in his room.
I just fed him his first non-cookies of the day, and he’s going to go lie down in a bit. I had me some tylenol as an appetizer, but I’m still not feeling exactly right. I don’t wanna be sick, dammit! And the damp, grey dreariness doesn’t help at all.
Jim, all I can say is Jesus that’s awful. And I’ll be taking special care to talk to my kids about that stuff.
FCM, I’m sending anti-virus vibrations to you, and request same back. There seems to be a puking illness going around here, and I don’t need that, and my daughter especially doesn’t, as tomorrow she’s doing her school project where she pretends to be Mary Anning in a “living wax museum.” I would hate for her to miss that!
Dindin today was potato soup and potato skins. Soup is meh, skins are AWESOME. And I no longer have six orphaned baked potatoes languishing in my fridge.
Stuff I look forward to: my medical massages, such as I’m having this evening (the actual process frankly sucks, but the results are wonderful), and my bi-monthly La Leche League meetings. It’s nice to be able to give support to the new moms who need it, and fun to sit around and jaw with my crunchy friends as well.
My nose is a little stuffy, and I have a bit of a headache. I hope I’m not coming down with something. I had a long nap this afternoon to hopefully ward off whatever I might be catching. Dunno if it’ll work.
Probably going to the local museum with my class tomorrow to look at some impressionist paintings.
Stuff I look forward to:
Saturdays. I don’t have to work, or think about work, or worry about work, I leave that for Sunday night
I also like church usually.
I didn’t look forward to dropping my babies off at daycare today though, that sucked.
The tylenol seems to have helped my sore throat. We’ll see how I feel in the morning.
Daughter stopped by to pick up some papers, and she’s gone. **FCD **tried to nap without success. All in all, a blah evening. I really need to do the dishes.
I went to a most lovely concert last Saturday night. A really nice friend of mine was singing some of his songs with his band. It was great to see him again And I got into the concert for free because I brought homemade cookies!
Things I look forward to: Really, my last year or so has been so unsettled that I haven’t had any kind of a set schedule, and my stuff has all been in storage since last April. I’m looking forward to seeing the contract I’m on go to full-hire (next month, maybe) so I can rent an apartment, get all my shit out of storage and start watching movies, cooking, brewing, playing recorder, taking karate classes and playing online games again; so, once that starts, I think I’ll be so busy doing all sorts of shit that I won’t have anything to look forward TO, I’ll be DOING IT.
Sorry for the double post, but this just occurred to me: If I go in the other room and put everything back on the shelves tonight, I won’t have to face it tomorrow!
It might snow tonight! Hubby loves it, me, not so much. I doubt it will be much here. It says it’s most likely on hills over 700 feet, we’re just 100 feet ASL. They’ve been wrong before.
And I got into the concert for free because I brought homemade cookies! 
