Reminder to self: Do NOT take the Avonex injection on Sunday night, especially when battling other health issues!  I have a miserable migraine today and it cost me another day's worth of sick time (and it goes without saying that I feel guilty about calling in sick, no matter how lousy I feel).  I could have felt this way yesterday and been ready to rumble today, but NOOOOOO.   :::eye roll:::

Unfortunately, this throws off my after-work schedule by a day.  I really need groceries but it's totally against my sense of ethics to run errands if I've called in sick to work, unless it's a real emergency.  So...that gets pushed back to tomorrow, which means missing the support group that I was going to check out.  That was a therapy assignment, and my therapist will be SO not pleased when she sees me on Wednesday.  On the bright side, I did get the information e-mail about the relationship skills class, and I'll be preregistering for that and am already signed up for another "dialogue" type class, so can tell her about those.

:::shuffles back to bed for awhile:::

ETA: CONGRATULATIONS, JIM RICE!  Now there's another bright spot to the day.   :D

Hey all.  I've been feeling pretty quiet the last couple of days.  Haven't had much to say and still don't, really.  Just wanted to let everyone know I'm still out here.

One more day to go on the antibiotics.  The leg swelling is nearly gone, although being at work all day flared it up a bit.  I also got way off my sleep schedule over the weekend and had a "Sunday sleep hangover."  I hardly slept last night, and as a result I'm exhausted.  So much so, in fact, that I'm going to bed as soon as I post this.  Yeah, 9:00 p.m. and I'm heading that way.  I was going to order some music from Amazon (more on that in a future post) this evening.  I was also going to catch up on replies to comments (at least the ones that have pinged my e-mail)...those will have to wait as well.  I'm just too tired.  I feel dull in the mind.  A good sleep and some leg propping will make the world look MUCH brighter tomorrow, I'm sure.  :D

I know I haven't written anything in awhile so thought I'd at least let everyone know I'm still alive!  No real good excuse for the hiatus.  Mostly I've been caught up in trying to make it through the latter half of the work week, following the games, keeping up with everyone else's journals, trying to answer comment replies and e-mails, and generally trying to keep up with my day to day stuff, all of this while battling chronic pain issues.  That's a long story involving my low back as well as all the body parts that are anywhere near the low back, including my stomach, which is why my mood is currently "nauseated."  It seems that when one of my medical conditions acts up, all the others do as well.  I'll get over it, don't worry!  I always do, once I get adequate rest.

During and after last night's horrible mess of a game I got lost in cyberspace for hours and hours, stayed up WAY too late, as in 5:00 (!), and stayed in bed until noon today.  So I've been a slug.  Thank goodness for the long weekend.  I can both recover from my serious sleep hygiene transgression and get some things accomplished while keeping up with our guys' road trip.  I'm hoping for a better outcome for tonight's game (EVERY night's game, actually).  I hope to talk with all of you friends soon.  It goes without saying that I wish everyone a fabulous holiday weekend!