I'm done with it. Coughing. Hacking. Choking. Gahhh! What a horrible allergy season this has been. Dry, hacking cough for weeks then actual bronchitis for about 10 days, with little relief from medication. Back to sinus drainage and the hacking cough. And I'm so easily tired out. I manage to go to work, but come home and go straight to bed almost every night.
I've been trying all day to work on a sewing project with limited success. I just can't get into it. I'm making a lime green satin Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts' Club Band costume for my friend's son's Bar Mitzvah. I've got the jacket cut out, tomorrow I'm going to sew it up. I will.
I bought a new pen mouse and took it work. I'm trying to take some of the strain off my right thumb. I think it is a little better than it usually is by Saturday, but it is still giving me grief today. That's part of the reason I can't keep on the sewing. Everytime I pick up the scissors, it starts to hurt again.
I've been reading a lot. I got a gift card for Half Price Books for Christmas and picked up 5 or 6 books already. Except for one Sooky Stackhouse book, the rest are more short story anthologies. The Sooky was the 8th of the Charlaine Harris Southern Vampire Mystery series, "From Dead to Worse". I read the first 7 last year, and then had to wait for the next one. By the time it came out and then went to paperback, I had almost forgotten. Now there's another one out, due in paperback in April (just in time for my birthday). The books aren't very long, usually around 300 pages, so I'm usually done in a day or two. It's like eating potato chips, you keep thinking you'll stop for now, but you just keep snacking (reading).
We've been keeping up with the latest blockbusters. We saw "Avatar" this week, in 3D. I liked it but it was VERY long, and I kept thinking it was so like another movie -- "Battle for Terra". Except for the occasional actual person thrown it (the bad guys), the animated story elements were so similar it was distracting. We saw the new "Sherlock Holmes" recently, too. Again, beats watching reruns of CSI, so not all bad. It was ok, but ultimately disappointing in the casting (other than Robert Downey Jr & Jude Law). I spent most of the show trying to get a better look at the costumes. AWESOME costuming, worth seeing the show for.
I've been stressed this week over the earthquake in Haiti. Our friend's mother owns a company there that makes home decor items. Her house is on the same street as the national palace. A couple of his brothers and their families live there, too. He didn't hear from them for 3 days; my empathy was running on high. What would you do -- you can't call them, you can't go there to look for them, all you can do is sit and wait to find out if they are alive or trapped or whatever. What a relief when he found out that they had survived, although her 4-story house was a total loss.
OK. Tomorrow will be better, I can tell.
