3 posts tagged “earache”

COME ON, BRAIN!  WAKE UP!  If we do what needs to be done today, we'll be sitting pretty for tomorrow's meeting.  *SLAP* WAKE UP!!!

Twitter is vexing me.  I still don't know what I have to say that would be worth twittering, and with only two tweets out there, I'm collecting more camera whores, skanks and spammers than I have real friends following me.  I'm not sure if it's even worth the trouble to keep blocking these people, but I HATE that they're there.  I wish that when you blocked someone, they'd drop from your list of followers.  I've heard it said that with twitter, like with almost everything in life, you get out of it what you put into it.  Fair enough.  I just don't know what to put into it.  I'm not a talker.  Blogging is one thing: I see it mostly as talking to myself.  Tweeting feels more like shouting at the world, ...and I got nothin'.  I am enjoying following Eddie Izzard, Wil Wheaton, Nathan Fillion and Neil Gaiman, but even then, catching up on tweets when I've been away for a few hours feels like such a timesuck.  I'm thinking this is one service that's just not for me, but I'm going to ride it out a while. Maybe something will eventually click.

It's cold this morning.  I have on socks, pants, and a sweatshirt, and I've gone back to hot coffee.  It's weird for July.  My brain knows it's July, but I keep slipping into September.

Still no rain.  I hope we get some.  My garden isn't terribly dry, but I'm sure it would still like some rain.

Speaking of my garden, I have flowers on my peas and tomatoes, the zucchini is ready to flower, and I've seen one huge bloom on one of the pumpkin vines growing beside the compost pile.  The lettuce is growing like crazy.  I pull some every day, and the lettuce bed still looks packed solid.

I'm excited for the long weekend.  I've so much I want to do, and I'm really looking forward to the fireworks.  That's one of my favorite events of the year, one of our favorite traditions.

Ok, so I'm starting to feel some enthusiasm for *something*.  I must be waking up finally.  Time to get some work done.

My ear and the left side of my head still hurt like crazy.  Now I'm getting those jolts of stabbing pain too.  Fun.  Stupid allergies!

Craig woke me early this morning to let me know that after *MANY* hours of labor, Anne had a baby girl.  My heart is overflowing with joy for her!  I haven't heard her name or any stats yet, but it's good just to know all are well, especailly after a long labor!  Hopefully Anne is getting a little rest after all that effort!

I couldn't get back to sleep thanks to an ear infection.  I felt it coming on yesterday, and it's hurting pretty bad today, from mid neck all the way up to my temple.

It's just as well I get an early start to my day.  I'm going to try to make my brain do a double shift today, since Craig has Thursday, Friday and Monday off.  I get paid hourly, so if I want to take those days off, I either take a chunk out of my next paycheck, or I make up the time elsewhere.

I'm worried about Jasmine.  Craig found her in a corner of the back room this morning.  That's usually a sign that the end is nigh, but in Jasmine's case, it could also mean she stumbled onto the slippery floor, lost her footing, and after much sliding around, wound up in a far corner.  I'm nervous, but when I fed them, she chowed down, and in my experience, when an animal is ready to go, they don't want to eat.  Her balance is a little off, but she still managed her way to the water bowl after eating too, so the lost-her-footing scenario seems more likely.  Still worried though, and painfully aware of the inevitable.

Some time today I should run one quick errand, and then drop my car off at the mechanics.  I'm losing brake fluid.  I really need to run an errand, but I'm nervous about driving it too, so I'm thinking I may just find some way to do without the errand, and head straight for the mechanics.  Fortunately, they're just down the street, so I can drop the car off and walk home.  I should've done that last week, but it was way too blasted hot and I was painfully sunburned.

Ah, Monday.  Starting the week full-force this time, right from the get-go, eh?  I'd better get some breakfast and jump in the game, before I get run over and left behind.

I know it's still really early in the year, but I'm ready for my first healthy day of 2009.  It can happen any time now.

This head congestion and accompanying earaches (yes, both ears) are really getting stupid annoying.  I noticed a little ringing in my left ear yesterday morning, and I could still feel a lot of pressure there, so I didn't think much of it.  Yesterday evening, however, I kept noticing this really annoying electrical buzzing/humming noise that seemed to always be under everything else I could hear.  Standing in the quiet of the kitchen, I even found myself turning a slow, full circle to the left trying locate the source of the noise ...and then I remembered it was all in my head.  Except, this buzzing isn't like the normal tone I've heard with tinnitus in the past.  I even made Craig put his ear to mine to listen, because I wasn't totally convinced this unfamiliar feedback-like static noise was all in my head.  ...I don't know; it made sense at the time.  The noise is really stupid annoying though!  I'm just glad it's not worse, and I hope it's not permanent.  I don't know how people with chronic tinnitus can stand it.  It would drive me insane.  (Might still.)

Jasmine is getting better, but she still ***HATES*** her treatments and meds!  She hasn't bit me yet though,  She's such a lady.

I very carefully selected my heels for traction in snow today.  They were good in the snow all afternoon.  Then I nearly killed myself with my first step onto my kitchen floor on arriving home, because scuffing my feet across the mudroom rug hadn't been enough to get the packed snow out of the treads, and walking on a thin snow layer over vinyl was as slick as the smoothest ice.  I may have pulled something trying to regain my balance.  (ow)

There's a training area for local firemen out by the airport.  I've always known it was there and still, driving home and seeing the thick, black, oily clouds rolling up from massive bright orange flames...!!!  That always gives me a split second of terror before I remember the training grounds.  I *know* the training grounds are there, right by the airport, and it still scares the hell out of me.  I can't even imagine how those fires must terrify non-locals coming and going from the airport.  Passengers on the corresponding side of the planes on all flights can't possibly miss the seeing the horrific scene.

Argh.  I'm so damn tired.  I think I need an afternoon cup of something caffeinated, or I just won't be able to stay upright.

I also have one more resolution for the year.  I resolve to drink more in 2009.  Alcohol, that is.  I want to be perfectly clear about that.