I left one thing out of Saturday's account: by the time I was done working in the yard Saturday, I had over 70 fresh mosquito bites. I counted them as I treated them. It was bad.
Sunday, July 8th
On Sunday, I had a headache. The crippling sort, that rather stops you doing anything else. The sort that interrupts your thinking. As a result, T-- and I didn't do much on Sunday. We went to church, and stayed for the fellowship with K-- and N-- and N--'s mom (who went home on Sunday). After that, we stopped by B-- and E--'s to get some speaker wire so I could finish up the work K-- and I had done on Saturday. We also hit Blockbuster while we were out and picked up three movies: Breach, which was surprisingly good, but pretty slow, as well as Happily N'Ever After from the makers of Shrek, and Gray Matters which has Heather Graham in it. So far, we've only watched Breach.
Anyway, we got home and T-- ran some errands while I watched AB. Then her friend Rebecca came over to crop. While they did that, I finished fixing the TV, and then vegged on the couch all afternoon. I played some Civ, but not much. Mostly I sat still with my eyes closed, because of the headache.
Then that evening was when we watched Breach. It ended at 9:45. I usually go for a walk at 9:00 so I can be in bed by 10:00, since I have to wake up at 6:00 on weekdays. It was late enough, and I felt awful enough, that I decided to skip my walk Sunday night. I didn't post on my blog here, either, so that's two resolutions broken Sunday.
Monday, July 9th
And both again on Monday. Really, my headache persisted through the day Monday. T-- got a lot done during the day, while I was at work. I, on the other hand, accomplished almost nothing at work, and then almost nothing when I got home. I'm pretty sure I have nothing to report for yesterday, except that I didn't walk, and I didn't do a blog post.
Tuesday, July 10th
This morning, I finally felt better. I had to wake up early, too, to finish an urgent project for work that I should have completed yesterday, except for the headache. That was also part of my excuse for not walking last night -- the importance of my being on time to work today. Anyway, I showed up early and worked hard, and finished a special project well before lunch. It ended up...creeping, so that the same project ended up taking my whole day, but I'd finished the part I was assigned by early in the morning.
I went to lunch with D-- and got to check out his new iPhone, which is really pretty cool. Then back to work and I spent the rest of the afternoon working on this project (which has nothing to do with my long-term responsibilities). It's the sort of project that has lots of little gaps throughout the day as I hand it off to other people to collaborate, so during those breaks I worked on Josh's story.
First I wrote up the Post Mortem discussion I'd been toying with since last week. Then I pulled out my Word document of the novel and cleaned up all the section breaks between blog posts, to make it look like an actual novel in structure. I thought that would be a week-long process, but I was able to finish it all this afternoon, which means my brief rewrite in the month of July is a lot more likely to actually make deadline.
Then I came home in time to watch T-- give away one of our kittens. That's a big deal. We've been advertising them for a while now without any takers. Now we just have two more to get rid of (and one to keep). We owe this one to Craigslist. Glad we thought to post there.
I also made chili for dinner, and helped T-- out by doing the day's dishes and taking out the trash. After that, I went for a walk with D-- (so, yes, I'm back on track), and then came home to write a blog post (so there's that, too). Overall, it was a really good day.
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