In which I indulge in a little pre-vacation bitching. Don’t even read this, my babies! Save yourselves! Run away!
Feet
I sit cross-legged in my office chair. This is because I am, by nature, a floor-sitter and I don’t really like chairs. Sometimes when I sit like this my feet go to sleep.
Right now my feet are asleep.
Throat
The vague itchy-tickle behind my left tonsil is still there. It’s been at least 36 hours since I noticed it. My throat seems to be a little phlegmmy.
Let it be known that IF I GET SICK RIGHT BEFORE VACATION, I WILL BE ROYALLY PISSED OFF.
Back
My bed is torture. My neck hurts, my back hurts, my muscles hurt, my arms hurt, my hands hurt… constantly. It’s a mess. Yoga doesn’t fix it.
I really need to get off of those 50-year-old totally sprung twin mattresses and on to a foam-core futon or something. Srsly. This situation is off the chain.
Brain
I like my job, but it’s slow. Not a lot of call volume, and only occasional projects. I’m working O/T on Saturday. I will probably watch Netflix vids most of the day and knit on my socks.
Happy Ending
The good news is, though, that I’ve survived my probation period at the new job and have just this week signed up for HEALTH INSURANCE and a DRY LOOP DSL!
And I got paid! I now have all of my NY money stashed. (I just need to stay the fuck out of it for the next nine days.)
And I finally got my swap package finished and mailed out; that’s a bit of stress off my mind. (It took me three months to finish the woman’s slippers; she sent me two cute purses and a camera strap back in August! I’m such an asshole.)
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The throat will be fine…
The bed could be helped with a thick foam thingy for $15 at WM. The expensive ones are better, but you’re saving money right now.
There’s no saving those mattresses… they’re so old that when I lie in one on my side, I’m too deep in to be able to see over the edge of the bed without lifting my head! -m
When I start coming down with something, I take at least a half-dozen 1000mg Vit C complex tablets.
As for mattresses, about a year ago, I started waking up with cold and tingly arms. I think what happened is that I’d put on muscle and leaned out such that my own weight was cutting off the circulation in my shoulders and arms. For more than 20 years, I’d slept on a cotton futon on top of foam rubber, but that was obviously no longer working. After trying out a pillow top mattress and a medium density natural latex mattress, I finally found heaven: a 3″ memory foam topper on top of an Aerobed air mattress. This is where I got the topper:
http://www.healthyfoundations.com/toppers.html
That looks awesome! I’ll need a bed to put under it, though. (Mine is most emphatically not a firm mattress. It’s two twins, side by side, both so soft they fold in half like tacos.) -m
If I were your feet, all wrapped up in knit socks, I would fall asleep too. Maybe you should knit a neck coozy to pamper your tingly throat.
Anything to keep from getting actually sick. I really don’t want to be recovering from something during my vacation! -m