The good, the bad, and the silly (and the sillier)

[kitanzi]

The good: I had been scheduled for a week long training class down in Northside in a couple weeks. This would have required me to get up at an indecent hour of the morning to either battle Atlanta rush hour traffic all the way there, or a smaller portion of rush hour traffic in order to take the Marta train there and arrive by 9 am, and then the reverse home. This has been cancelled in favor of either a virtual class in smaller chunks over a longer time (my preference) or another face to face class HERE rather than there sometime in August. I am MUCH relieved.

The bad: A couple nights ago I had what sure looks like a migraine in retrospect - I earnestly pray to whoever may give a damn that I never have that again. I came home from work and became unconcious as quickly as possible, then spent most of the next day feeling like I had a hangover worthy of a five day drunk. Gahhhhhh. Much better now, though, but some people have these regularly and still function? I'm cringing considering it. I do wish I had some idea what caused it, and it's a damn good thing it happened when it did and not last night, or I'd never have gotten through today which has been insanely busy until now.

The silly: Dayna has laryngitis, or at least sounds like it. She seems perfectly healthy otherwise and not at all in distress, but now we have a little black kitty imperiously demanding attention with a sound like a broken noisemaker (you know, the kind you grab by the handle and whirl around to make a grinding clicking noise) so ACat will hopefully have called the vet today to ask if we should be concerned.

The sillier: telynor is borrowing my car this week, so she's driving me to work and picking me up most evenings. This morning we were leaving the apartment complex and happened to drive by an enormous mulcher on a truck - I don't remember the company name, something or other Mulchers. We have a running gag about how much I love to mulch people who deserve it (hey, It's a short list, and I'm ecologically minded!) so as we came up on it we both cracked grins, then I pressed my face up on the window as we passed like a fascinated puppy, crooning "Mulcher! It's a MULCHER!" and getting veeeery strange looks from one of the men using it to, well, mulch some sort of reddish wood stuff and leave piles around for the landscaping. Telynor was in near hysterics, and we kept riffing off it for a good five minutes - Night of the Living Mulcher, Dawn of the Mulchers (the sequel), and all sorts of classic C horror movie titles.

Laughter's a lovely way to start the day, and she's a lovely person to be able to laugh with. :)

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[maedbh7.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they moved your training class; I know you were concerned. And yes, laughter is a very good thing :) How old is Dayna? Chat with a Doc about the migraine; Jim has two sisters who get them regularly, and there are meds one can take both to control their onset, and to diminish their impact. *hugs&smooches* -H...

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Well, this is the first I've gotten since I was 20 or so, so if it happens again I'll tell the doctor but otherwise just chalk it up to "It happened". If I didn't get them at the end of last year, which was INSANELY stressful, I think they're likely to remain uncommon for me. Dayna is about 5 or 6, Rob says. *smoooochie!*

[folkmew.livejournal.com]

Laughter's a lovely way to start the day, and she's a lovely person to be able to laugh with. :)

Yes yes! I miss laughing with her. Well - and you actually come to that.
I do remember that Telynor and I managed to ramp ourselves up quite nicely at times - the "bobble headed dog" for example, or "Sometimes we get drunk and then we go a-reaping"... Best not to ask. (grin)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Oh, but I'm asking, I'm asking! *G* (Doesn't she have a marvelously infectious laugh?)

The Mulch Files

[annonynous.livejournal.com]

Starring Mulcher and Silly? :)

"a week long training class... has been cancelled in favor of either a virtual class
in smaller chunks over a longer time (my preference) or another face to face class
HERE rather than there sometime in August. I am MUCH relieved."

I can imagine! Let's hear it for making your life much easier. Is this for the new
tax software that will replace the old version you're using?

"I had what sure looks like a migraine in retrospect... Gahhhhhh. Much better now, though"

Yeah, they can be rough. Chosen One used to get them. I've never had "the pleasure".
Just as an FYI, my hospital's on-line medical dictionary says -
'An often familial symptom complex of periodic attacks of vascular headache,
usually temporal and unilateral in onset, commonly associated with irritability,
nausea, vomiting, constipation or diarrhoea and often photophobia, attacks are
preceded by constriction of the cranial arteries, usually with resultant prodromal
[means pertaining to an early or premonitory symptom of a condition]
sensory (especially ocular) symptoms and commence with the vasodilation that follows.

Origin: Gr. Hemikrania = an affection of half of the head'

I'm not sure what all that means, but the Origin: bit falls into my "You learn something
new every day, if you're lucky" category. :) One thing I do know - most over-the-counter
pain meds, even extra strength ones, don't do doodly for migraines. Sleep or a nap was
probably the best course. I seem to recall that they can be period related.

"Dayna... imperiously demanding attention with a sound like a broken noisemaker"

Aww. Poor kitty. But that's really weird, ya know! How's she doing now?

Doctor Which