still sick… I’ll be sick forever, it seems
Yep. All symptoms are much better, but I have deep exhaustion that I can’t shake. On Christmas Eve I had a bit of energy so I made a quick batch of gingerbread cookies and we ran out to get a little Christmas tree (luckily Home Depot still had a few) but then I was so exhausted that I had to go back to bed and didn’t manage to decorate it at all. It’s still sitting there in its stand, waiting…
On Christmas I stayed in bed all day, just completely exhausted. Yesterday I felt a little bit better but I stayed in bed all day anyway, just listing to podcasts and audiobooks and music with my eyes closed, mostly, and playing on my iPad a bit.
I’m tired of the cycle of feeling a bit better, getting up to do stuff, then having a bad relapse. I’m just going to stay in bed till I’m SURE that I’m a lot better.
I think that my throat finally feels completely normal this morning! So that was a 25-day sore throat. A world record?
Still coughing of course. But I slept straight through the night.
Here’s what I’ve been listening to:
DJ Riko’s Christmas Mixes. We love these SO MUCH. Some of my favs are 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2014 but they’re all good!
http://djriko.com/mixmases.htm
Wives and Daughters — Elizabeth Klett’s solo version
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever — my recording, scroll down to December 2012
The Warden — Jessica Louise’s solo recording
A Christmas Carol — my solo recording
Plus random episodes of This American Life and of course The Archers every day.
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December 27th, 2014 at 2:19 pm
You poor thing. I’ve heard that the actual, true blue flu can keep one down for a good 6 weeks or so. You’re wise to take it easy. Might want to rule out that pneumonia isn’t settling in as well. Were I able, I’d decorate your tree and string some lights around for you. Just a haphazard placing of those lights can do wonders for a dreary shelf.
I’ve not listened to “The Warden”, but searching for a particular reader led me to the next one in that series, “Barchester Towers”, which I thoroughly enjoyed; great ensemble, that one.
Another satisfying time waster for the ipad is “Spider Solitaire”. Of the vast choices, I like the one put out by MobilityWare.
http://www.mobilityware.com/phoneApps/spidersolitaire.php
They offer a FreeCell version too, which I can’t get for my 1st Gen ipad (not cool). But I found it by another maker and have been playing it for a couple of weeks, and so require easy deals (they say that of the million or so combinations, all but 5 or so are winnable!) and all the solutions can be found online since each deal is numbered.
Have you discovered the British police procedural series “Scott & Bailey”? It’s sooo good! If you haven’t and you’re up for binge watching, check it out (my local PBS station is showing it, but I think you should be able to stream it from other sources). Be sure to start at the beginning of the series.
December 27th, 2014 at 8:01 pm
So sorry you’re still feeling lousy!
I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your recording of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, which I finished listening to on December 24th. It’s probably my very favoritest book EVER about Christmas. We found it, I think, in my elementary school library when I was probably in third grade. My mom looked for it in bookstores for literally years, and I think it finally came back into print and she got it for me for Christmas when I was in seventh grade. It’s a book with a lot of great memories attached to it, so it was wonderful to listen to your recording of it. Thank you so much for making it!
December 31st, 2014 at 3:08 am
Wed 31.12.2014
Hey Kayray,
May God Bless you to get better soon and I hope you had a blessed Christmas and that 2015 will be a blessing for you too.
:)
Chrisentiae