Gah. Craptastic. I’m getting sick again. I woke up this morning to swollen glands in my neck, and now I can even feel them under my arms. I feel achy from head to toe and I’m running a low fever.
I have already had the flu once this season – and missed the flu shot because of it – so I really don’t need this right now. Plus, have you looked at my “schedule” lately? I have no time for illnesses! Shoo bug, shoo!
Note to self: If you set up rules and filters, be sure to check the folders where the filtered e-mails are going. There may be some in there that you want to read.
If you’ve requested access to the restricted posts within the past week or 10 days and have heard nothing back, I’m not ignoring you. I’m a dork and didn’t remember to check the folder I sorted the e-mails in to – so now there are several there waiting! Oops!
If you haven’t requested access yet – what are you waiting for? Really, I’m just hiding it from the evil search engines and people that I work with. If you’re not one of those, then come on in!
I don’t know when it first started, but over the past 5-10 years I have become the biggest sap. I cry at movies. I cry at things like Average Joe. I cry over different stories I read. Not big huge sobbing cry fests, just sappy misty moments with light tears. For awhile I was threatening to make CBS start paying for my Kleenex when I would watch “Touched by an Angel” every week and just blubber away. Then they did the spinoff show, and it was even worse. Is it when you become a parent? Or just something that has to do with age? Chuck pointed out this article about Mel Torme and it had me crying again. I just can’t imagine a better way to get in to the holiday spirit – how amazing.
It seems like the past few years I have really had a hard time getting in to the holiday spirit. I try, I really do. It’s just not there though – I don’t have it in me. This year I brought out the Christmas socks early, I have an adorable Starbuck’s Santa Mug that I use daily at work, and I’ve even been busy converting all of my Christmas CDs to mp3 format so I can listen to them all the time. Still no spirit for me. But I want it – I need to find it. I am tired of feeling like this. I think a big part of the problem is living someplace where we don’t get snow. It’s not exactly a “winter wonderland” when it’s in the mid-70s, you know?
What are some of your favorite Christmas songs or holiday CDs? I need something to put some jingle in my bell – maybe some new holiday music would help? Have any other suggestions?
Try not to faint from the shock, but I’ve actually started editing photos again so that I could update Pixelog. The silver lining in the insomnia cloud. Enjoy!