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*i'm just about over a cold.  it was a weird, weeklong mini-series cold where first i just had a really sore throat, then my throat was fine but i had a fever, then my fever went away but i was a coughing, sneezing, pleghmy mess.  bleh.  but yesterday i sounded like bea arthur, and that's kind of cool.  also, points for fascinating funky illness progression.

*somewhere in there i went to the doctor (to make sure it wasn't strep throat, to which i'm prone; it isn't), and a baby shower.  i won a game of luck and a game of skill.  in the game of skill, we had to guess how big my skinny friend's pregnant tummy is.  i used my own perma-pregnant sized & shaped tummy for reference, then added 2 inches.  i won a fancy set of pens.  david won a cd holder for his car visor.  rose & i chatted & i came up with the idea of baby shower games tailored to attachment parenting folks, with word searches & scrambles for things like "sling", "doula", and "birthing tub" instead of "crib mattress" or "bottle nipple".

*after the party, rose came back home with us & we opened PYSANKY SEASON 2009!  i am pretty eggcited (you didn't think i'd be celebrating without my stock of egg puns, did you?), and i hope you are too.  get ready for hopefully many photos of pretty eggs. 

*yesterday was the first pretty sunset we've had in a long time, which i think is an indicator of being steadily on the upswing of the wheel.  yesterday was the pagan holiday imbolc (which, props to david, he remembered before rose or me!), and that's a quarter turn up to the top of the year, so yay!  i like pretty sunsets.

*there was a fire in the development where we live.  we drove past it today, and it was really bad.  we totally need new (working) fire extinguishers.  i am not so paranoid as i once was, but i am still scared of the possibility.  couple the fact that trailers burn particularly quickly with the issue of living in a weird fire department zone which has a farther department responding, well...we totally need new fire extinguishers.

*a friend from church was kind enough to give me a coupon for a free consultation with a chiropractor/natural healing type person.  i have an appointment thursday.  i'm also getting some bloodwork done to see if i might have a vitamin deficiency.  that would be fucking awesome, because it's pretty easily correctable.  i take a multivitamin now, but i might have a problem with uptake, which, if identified, could probably be treated.  i just hope i get some answers, sooner rather than later.  i've been sore & stiff for at least a year now, and easily fatigued for most of my life, and i'm sick of it. 

*david & i are reading the all new square foot garden together, and hoping to build one this gardening season.  it's raised bed intensive gardening, meaning you use a lot less space & it might have more aesthetic appeal to the control freaks at the main office where we live.  i'm also reading the anti 9 to 5 guide, which seems like it would be infinitely helpful were i at the stage where i know what i want to do, which i am not.  also, the book has so far been based on the assumption that i currently have a job which i hate, which i do not.  so, a good read, but not particularly helpful.  i'm not sure whether to keep going, or to put it down & get it out from the library again when i get a little farther along.  i'm leaning in that direction.

*that's it for now.  peace out.