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Random stuff post!
Last Sunday, friend Nikki was back in town for SXSW. She moved to Oregon a bit ago, and it really seems like she found a home- she got herself engaged and looks pretty happy. May we all be so lucky.
Eric and I acknowledged our 12th wedding anniversary Monday, but didn't celebrate it... we were going to, but he came down with the flu that kicked my ass so hard, and going out for fancy food was not on the list of things he felt like doing, understandably- sleeping and shivering was more his speed. I know how that goes; I called the doctor and she didn't even ask him to come in, just wanted to know which pharmacy to call in the Tamiflu prescription to. Ugh, poor guy. They mentioned when I picked it up that it makes a lot of people nauseous and to take it with food; I really wish they'd mentioned that to me when I got my prescription. Oh well.
My own recovery has become a battle to try to keep the crap in my head at bay. I am taking so much guaifenesin and drinking so much water, but the stuff only budges very reluctantly. I haven't slept well because I can't breath through my nose. I'm really sick of it. At least my energy level is coming back. I suspect allergies might be contributing also- and that's not a bad thing overall. My town has gotten green again; all the trees are leafing out beautifully and there are wildflowers everywhere. It's been years since I've seen this many flowers.
This makes bees happy, of course, and I got to meet some up close and personal. Eric and I took a beekeeping class with a local honey company and it was fascinating. Part of me wants to have a beehive but we don't have much forage in our yard, and we've got a lot of work to do in the yard anyway so if it happens it wouldn't be for at least a year anyway. But considering my mead-making, it just makes sense. We'll see. It was really interesting to try different types of honey; we tried clover honey, rose and iris honey, and winter honey which had oak and elm- that tasted like pralines, so we think there was pecan in there too. Round Rock Honey doesn't do varietals, where they will sell you honey and say it's from one source- to guarantee that is big pain in the ass, so it's all just 'wildflower honey', which means honey made from whatever's around, which will be a little different every harvest. Pretty neat stuff.
Last Sunday, friend Nikki was back in town for SXSW. She moved to Oregon a bit ago, and it really seems like she found a home- she got herself engaged and looks pretty happy. May we all be so lucky.
Eric and I acknowledged our 12th wedding anniversary Monday, but didn't celebrate it... we were going to, but he came down with the flu that kicked my ass so hard, and going out for fancy food was not on the list of things he felt like doing, understandably- sleeping and shivering was more his speed. I know how that goes; I called the doctor and she didn't even ask him to come in, just wanted to know which pharmacy to call in the Tamiflu prescription to. Ugh, poor guy. They mentioned when I picked it up that it makes a lot of people nauseous and to take it with food; I really wish they'd mentioned that to me when I got my prescription. Oh well.
My own recovery has become a battle to try to keep the crap in my head at bay. I am taking so much guaifenesin and drinking so much water, but the stuff only budges very reluctantly. I haven't slept well because I can't breath through my nose. I'm really sick of it. At least my energy level is coming back. I suspect allergies might be contributing also- and that's not a bad thing overall. My town has gotten green again; all the trees are leafing out beautifully and there are wildflowers everywhere. It's been years since I've seen this many flowers.
This makes bees happy, of course, and I got to meet some up close and personal. Eric and I took a beekeeping class with a local honey company and it was fascinating. Part of me wants to have a beehive but we don't have much forage in our yard, and we've got a lot of work to do in the yard anyway so if it happens it wouldn't be for at least a year anyway. But considering my mead-making, it just makes sense. We'll see. It was really interesting to try different types of honey; we tried clover honey, rose and iris honey, and winter honey which had oak and elm- that tasted like pralines, so we think there was pecan in there too. Round Rock Honey doesn't do varietals, where they will sell you honey and say it's from one source- to guarantee that is big pain in the ass, so it's all just 'wildflower honey', which means honey made from whatever's around, which will be a little different every harvest. Pretty neat stuff.
