sumpthin' to do
this looks like an interesting exercise, maybe i'll start it on the 1st.
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February 25, 2011
hm
this week has felt particularly long... i've been trying to stay up later because i kept waking up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back to sleep. i think it's working, but i do feel more tired when my alarm finally goes off. maybe it's just cyclical.
i've found some new music recently, as suggested by a friend whom i met when i was 16 while working at hardee's in stoughton. the group is called beats antique and they sound really cool. they'll be coming to the majestic in may and we'll probably be in attendance. additionally, murder by death will be at the annex in a couple weeks, so we'll be seeing them, too.
here's to friday, and another nice weekend. *clnk*
February 21, 2011
wow
another long weekend behind us... i hung out at mickey's on thursday night while matt worked; resulting in a sleepy-in friday. after a dog walk and some errands, we biked downtown to exercise our right to assemble. the sight was amazing. the capitol rotunda was packed full of people who had been there since tuesday... there were balloons being popped about, and someone was playing a bucket as a drum. we warmed up at the 'dise a couple times before giving up waiting for jesse jackson to speak... we biked to the wisco and then to mickey's before heading home.
we spent most of saturday in lazy seclusion, watching dead like me and knitting.
i was really sleepy on sunday for some reason; nora eventually gave up and shook me out of my slumber. they're so patient.
also, a neighbor reminded me that they're going to begin our street project soon... i'm not sure what that will mean in regards to parking, hopefully i can still get in and out of the driveway. so, by mid-april, we'll have a real street with curbs and two rain gardens at the creek. apparently i can pay the bill in its entirety without interest by october, or annually over the next eight years... i should reread the fine print.
February 16, 2011
i <3 technology
most mornings, i use my iphone and radio alarm to listen to digital radio. i almost always tune into the minimal station and it gets me to work. yesterday, i heard a beat that i wanted to remember for later, so i sound hounded it; and yesterday afternoon, i used my phone to buy the album.
also, i'm wearing a pair of pants and shoes that i haven't worn since before buying the house; the pants are too big.
February 15, 2011
back to urgent care
by 2pm yesterday, my kidneys were throbbing every 3 seconds and i could barely sit upright. i stuck it out until 5 and headed to urgent care after work. the dr and i determined that the sulfer-based antibiotic dulled the infection for a bit, but did not completely clear it... so it came back with a vengeance. he put me on something stronger; ciprofloxacin, which i couldn't take until 2 hours after eating dinner last night, which meant it didn't kick in until midnight and my kidneys and fever didn't stop being present until 2am. needless to say, i slept in this morning.
i tried taking the second dose on an empty stomach, which they suggest, but mine is a weird one and didn't like it so much. so, after only two of 14 doses, i've already become extra sensitive to sunlight and heat. i had to take my coat off in the car on the way to work.
in even better news, i get my annual review today...
February 14, 2011
another good one
we ran errands and generally got stuff done on friday and had a fairly regular evening. i did not awake on saturday covered in hives, so that was nice... we hopped over to wilson's cuz i wanted a bloody but we were 30 minutes late for breakfast; so we had lunch. i was able to snag a moment in time when matt was agreeable to playing scrabble, so while everyone around us was shouting at the badgers' basketball team, we were hunkered over the ipad while i tried to make sense of a crappy rack:
after having had just about enough of the screaming red and white, we went to mickeys to be among regular people. we had a near-issue when we were accidentally too close for my comfort to a certain person walking in the opposite direction, but luckily all parties remained civil.
sunday was extremely lazy, on my part. well, i did finish a scarf, but i did not vacuum, as was a glimmer of a plan earlier in the day.
February 11, 2011
well
now that i'm getting used to my new (old) role at work, i've been a lot more cheerful. i think my grey matter was decomposing or something. today i get to work on inline error validation for a web form ... and i'm kinda excited about it. :x
it's nice to have something to work on again where i can pop my earbuds in and code.
February 10, 2011
so complainey!
i don't think my antibiotics are doing anything but making me feel worse.
and have *crazy* dreams. like, really weird ones. with a cast that i'd rather not have in my brain anymore ever.
although, one strange thing i'll note is that i dreamed i went to subway, but it was all movie-ticket-like and the guy was way too nice. i placed my order, and he made me point on the menu board to where the veggie sub was and chuckled as though he enjoyed telling someone what to do. then he yelled the order back down this long table to some girl who put all of the ingredients (including whole baby portabellas!) into a plastic, lidded pitcher. she added some italian dressing and shook the pitcher and tossed the stuff onto a loaf of bread. after that, i got distracted by someone and left the restaurant empty handed.
February 9, 2011
*grumble*
i feel worse today... not "down there", but in general. i'm nauseated (note: i did not say nauseous), tired, and generally irritated. that last one might be caused by other cyclical events.
i just realized that a uti is not covered by my list of rules... maybe it's just grandfathered in because it's "obviously broken".
as i stated previously, i'm allergic to most antibiotics (the 'illins and 'oins), and am now taking a sulfur-based anti-b. of course, i had to look up side effects and the internet told me i'd likely turn into a walking hive with vomiting and gas.
all i know is that 10 minutes after taking this morning's pill, i almost leaned over my cubeville garbage can.
February 8, 2011
keep forgetting
about once a year, i fondly recall a very nice young man driving all the way from madison to oregon to pick me up. we hung out on state street and i remember that he bought a new cd from the exclusive company. we listened to the whole thing while driving around the country and i remember the awe that i had for the noise involved.
every year or so i just can't pry that band name out of the annals of my grey matter, now that i have, i need to blog about it at once in order to stop this brain problem. it was negativland, and i have yet to procure my own ear candy; it's been 18 years.
blech
¡¡tmi warning!!
if you're a female who's ever had a uti, you know immediately what's going on. the wrinkle of the nose at the slightest inkling of needing to use the bathroom, the desire to curl up in a ball and sweat, the sleeplessness of having to get up every hour.
that was me last night. i had some red pills left over from last time, which at least allowed me to sleep for a couple of hours. i woke around 4 and, with some convincing, took a some aspirin. i described the feeling that i was trying to suppress as, "a balloon coated with sandpaper inside my bladder."
my sleep was fitful until 8 when i decided i'd better get up and get things taken care of before sitting at urgent care; little did i know it would take the better part of 2.5 hours (from door to door to door). i had good company, so the time wasn't intolerable.
the dr. i randomly got was really nice, and i don't have a primary physician (i know, i know); but he only works at urgent care and not as a general practitioner.
additionally, i'm allergic to penicillin and nitrofurantoin, so we're trying a sulfur-based antibiotic. hopefully i don't wake up saturday morning covered in hives, cuz that would mean we've run out of bug-killing pills.
in other news, because of the urinary analgesic, my pee matches my hair color; orange.
February 7, 2011
also
i made italian sausages with rice and broccoli for lunch. i was happy to find that woodman's now carries nooch, which is a lot different than the brewer's yeast that i got a couple months ago.
testing
just got an app with which to blog.
whoah
a debaucherous weekend, for sure.
on friday, we grabbed lunch when i got home, went to woodman's and got a bottle of kahlua to thank our neighbor for taking care of the street and everyone's driveway on wednesday afternoon.
it was girls' night out, so i freshened up my hair color and we headed out to the inferno for some chicago house. it wasn't quite as i remembered (fewer strong, black, female vocals), but i was able to get my groove on. the crowd wasn't as big as months past, but i think it's cuz of the weather.
on saturday, i awoke with a craving for la hacienda. whenever i tell people that's my favorite mexican restaurant, i usually get boos and hisses and am told precisely how stupid i am (i love it when people get that defensive over cuisine). i also thought it would be a good use of our time to host a two-person pub crawl. so we cabbed over to the restaurant and proceeded to walk our way back home, while stopping at a few select places. our notes are as follows:
pubcrawl feb '11
the echo: really drunk kid with his mum, barely successful sober cribbage (i lost), "perfectly satisfied f&$!ing customers" (bartender quote).
the 'dise: pool (i won), playboy (it was being passed around for comment), bathroom idea*.
up north: good music, good bartender, a free beer.
wisco: darts (i won), the dark night, tshirts(?).
mickeys: tony, jaeger bombs.
*our million dollar idea... more to come.
sunday was a lazy one, at least for me. i slept in late and got tired very early. unfortunately, my early bedtime resulted in a not-so-sleepy night. i think i woke up at 2, refused to look at a clock, and couldn't fall back to sleep til 6. of course, that was minutes before the alarm was to go off. oh well, we can sleep when we're dead, right?
February 3, 2011
two days off
it feels like a monday cuz i've had the past two days off work...
my check engine light popped on on saturday and i promptly ignored it, stating, "those go on and off all the time." well, come tuesday, i had about 20 miles worth of gas in my tank and figured i wouldn't make it home if we were going to be crawling along as anticipated.
i stopped at my usual gas station and proceeded to pump gas but was surprised when it stopped at $1.45 and spit gas back at me. i tried it again and it happened again.
i had to leave my car there for service and couldn't come to work.
wednesday was self-explanatory (a foot of snow and 5' drifts), thankfully the office (and most of the rest of madison) decided to close.
much fun was had by all.