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brandywine28) wrote2023-01-31 08:09 pm
brandywine28) wrote2023-01-31 08:09 pm
requisition me a beat
Hey, everyone! Guess who had Covid! I mean, along with half the western hemisphere in this grey, post-holidays hellscape?
...did you guess me? Well, then, you'd be right! Yup. I lost my January to Covid and I am annoyed. I was really enjoying being one of the only people I knew who hadn't had it; it gave me a reason to be smug, and I have so few of those! Guess I have to give back my gold star now.
It was...hmm. Well, I used to be one of those practically translucent, highly allergic kids who was constantly wheezing, so I can honestly say I've had worse congestion in my life, worse coughing, worse sneezing. At the height of it, I was sleeping sitting up like the Elephant Man, so my head wouldn't fill up with fluid and explode like a ripe melon, but like I said, I've been down that road before -- and I'm about as vaxxed as it's possible to be, so we're talking three or four days of that, max. But. I hesitate to say it wasn't that bad, 'cos here's the thing I wasn't expecting:
The migraines. I'm serious. It's not a symptom I've really ever heard anyone else talking about? Anywhere? Ever? But I guess it's a thing, because this virus came for MY HEAD, y'all. All day, every day, for three weeks straight: sharp, throbbing head pain. Pulsating. Nightmarish. It traveled all over, but it's favorite spot was just behind my right ear, where it would settle and just start to JACKHAMMER. Three weeks of this -- that's long after I stopped testing positive! Although by the third or fourth day I was already fantasizing about slamming my head between a pair of steel doors. Or popping it with a big pin a la Tom & Jerry.
So, yeah, let's just say screens and I have not been getting along of late. Which means I've barely been around, which means I have a whole month's worth of news to catch up on! It feels a little silly to ask what's been going on with you all when I could just as easily go and do an excessively long backwards scroll. (And trust me, I plan to.) But at the same time, NOT asking kind of implies...that I don't care? Which I do! I care so much!
Aaaaand now I'm annoyed again. I really didn't want my first entry of the year to be such a downer. Good things have happened! Not many, because I've barely gone outside or spoken to a soul since New Year's, but...okay, well:
-- My mother. Two days of minor sniffling and nothing more. Proof that miracles can happen?
--pensnest sent me a beautiful Christmas card! Which, somewhat hilariously, didn't arrive until January twenty-something, but!
-- It just so happened to get here on a day I desperately needed something to smile about. And I did! (And also, Christmas tidings, blah blah blah, all year round, blah blah blah. Duh. Everyone knows that.)
-- All I ate all month was green grapes and vanilla ice cream and I think I may have discovered the hottest new diet fad. My cookbook will only be three pages long, but it'll sell millions!
So to end on a high note: Pen is the best, the postal system is imperfect, and I smelled, like, nine different things today. Uh, coffee flavored lip balm, Windex...things! Various things! That's what I do now. I wander around the house smelling things just to make sure I still can. A great use of my time!
...did you guess me? Well, then, you'd be right! Yup. I lost my January to Covid and I am annoyed. I was really enjoying being one of the only people I knew who hadn't had it; it gave me a reason to be smug, and I have so few of those! Guess I have to give back my gold star now.
It was...hmm. Well, I used to be one of those practically translucent, highly allergic kids who was constantly wheezing, so I can honestly say I've had worse congestion in my life, worse coughing, worse sneezing. At the height of it, I was sleeping sitting up like the Elephant Man, so my head wouldn't fill up with fluid and explode like a ripe melon, but like I said, I've been down that road before -- and I'm about as vaxxed as it's possible to be, so we're talking three or four days of that, max. But. I hesitate to say it wasn't that bad, 'cos here's the thing I wasn't expecting:
The migraines. I'm serious. It's not a symptom I've really ever heard anyone else talking about? Anywhere? Ever? But I guess it's a thing, because this virus came for MY HEAD, y'all. All day, every day, for three weeks straight: sharp, throbbing head pain. Pulsating. Nightmarish. It traveled all over, but it's favorite spot was just behind my right ear, where it would settle and just start to JACKHAMMER. Three weeks of this -- that's long after I stopped testing positive! Although by the third or fourth day I was already fantasizing about slamming my head between a pair of steel doors. Or popping it with a big pin a la Tom & Jerry.
So, yeah, let's just say screens and I have not been getting along of late. Which means I've barely been around, which means I have a whole month's worth of news to catch up on! It feels a little silly to ask what's been going on with you all when I could just as easily go and do an excessively long backwards scroll. (And trust me, I plan to.) But at the same time, NOT asking kind of implies...that I don't care? Which I do! I care so much!
Aaaaand now I'm annoyed again. I really didn't want my first entry of the year to be such a downer. Good things have happened! Not many, because I've barely gone outside or spoken to a soul since New Year's, but...okay, well:
-- My mother. Two days of minor sniffling and nothing more. Proof that miracles can happen?
--
pensnest sent me a beautiful Christmas card! Which, somewhat hilariously, didn't arrive until January twenty-something, but!-- It just so happened to get here on a day I desperately needed something to smile about. And I did! (And also, Christmas tidings, blah blah blah, all year round, blah blah blah. Duh. Everyone knows that.)
-- All I ate all month was green grapes and vanilla ice cream and I think I may have discovered the hottest new diet fad. My cookbook will only be three pages long, but it'll sell millions!
So to end on a high note: Pen is the best, the postal system is imperfect, and I smelled, like, nine different things today. Uh, coffee flavored lip balm, Windex...things! Various things! That's what I do now. I wander around the house smelling things just to make sure I still can. A great use of my time!
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I don't even remember what I've posted lately so obviously it hasn't been terribly important. Oh, except I'm doing tarot readings and writing personalized secular/generically spiritual rituals for $ now. HMU if you or anyone you know wants either. Not a fan of commercializing my witchiness but needs must in this world.
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Commercialism is less cool, obviously, but that's the world we're living in now. Everyone's gotta make a living and if a tree falls in the woods and no one finds a way to monetize it, did it even really happen? No judgement here.
<3
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I'm glad you got some happy greetings just when you needed them.
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<3
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I guess the advantage of our mutual postal systems being crook (because we've been having strikes here, so goodness knows when things get delayed) is that you get an unseasonal but pleasing surprise at a random time.
Keep sniffing away! (I shall also keep sniffing, but that is because I am currently a snot factory. Not the C-word, just a cold, but what with social distancing, masks, handwashing etc I have not *had* a serious cold in a very long time. Bleah.)
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Random surprises are the best surprises! (But fair warning: if you ever jump out at me from behind a pillar and scream "Happy Birthday!" I will probably scream and slap you. Several people have already learned that the hard way. :)
It's turning out to be a terrible season for mucus in general! Seems like everyone who doesn't have Covid has the plain, old, ordinary flu, which, you're right, hasn't made the rounds in awhile! Well, seeing as I am hellaciously late replying to this comment, I'm hoping you're feeling better by now. But even so, I second your Bleah.