Numbered Post of Whine

[kennahijja]

Cut to spare you.

1. I have the most miserable cold in years :(. Stuffed nose, cough that sounds like an iron hammer, feeling as if someone had done me over with one, and being slightly spaced out without even having my favourite flu medicine that does that to me. Miserable enough to stay home from work yesterday, and today as well. Fortunately, my boss tends more towards recommending eccentric cold remedies than to complaining that I'm not there. But, adding insult to injury, it's been the most gorgeously sunny day in *ages* yesterday. Damn! I hate being sick!

2. Oh joy, today proved I'm not pregnant after all (not *bloody* likely, seriously!), after my period skipped last month. And here I hoped it'd be very early menopause...

3. My fic productivity is *abysmal*. It's not even that I don't *want* to write or have bunnies. Just when I come home I have absolutely no energy left to get creative, and on the weekends I mostly sleep.

4. And the Dragoncave site is down... *whimpers*.

Comments

[frantic-mice.livejournal.com]

That's happened to me, the NO PERIOD thinger and yes, suddenly I get all RELIGIOSITY! and try to remember if I received ANY visitations late at nite after a few drinks from liek Angels or at least blond men. BUT NOE! No visitations of any kind (thank goodness) it's just wonky plumbing. :))))))

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not even pimp!cane toting blond men, more's the pity. :)

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Rest well and remember that half a glorious day is night. Sometimes you just need to let yourself heal. There will be other days, and wonderful stormy nights, too. For now, get some sleep and feel better soon!

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Getting tons of sleep is the good part of it - the first time in ages :). Definitely better today than the last two days, but not well yet, unfortunately - which would be too much to expect, I realise.

*hugs for the good wishes*

[scrtkpr.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Thanks :).

[blue-braces.livejournal.com]

*sends you virtual chicken soup (veggie, if preferred)*

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Chicken it is, then :).

[featherxquill.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

*huggles back, with icon!love*

[pushdragon.livejournal.com]

*sends you amphetamines and big inspirational portrait of Lucius with full cane-and-sneer regalia*

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Dunno about the amphetamines, but the portrait is certainly *very* inspirational ;).

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

Zinc tablets, my dear! Boosts the immune system; it's the only thing that works for me. And sleep, lots and lots of sleep. *hugs*

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Lots of sleep is certainly involved, for the first time in ages... that almost makes up for the rest, I guess.

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Just when I come home I have absolutely no energy left to get creative, and on the weekends I mostly sleep.

Yes. I'm with you on that!

Hugs for the rest of it, which is just so crap and what an enormous waste of time it is being ill. I have a slight cold (nothing like yours) which I'm thumping with enormous doses of paracetamol whenever it rears its ugly head. So far I've suppressed it enough to keep going and possibly it'll go completely once I've had a good rest this weekend. I hope your horrible cold takes a fancy to mine and they run off into the sunset together!

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Well, on the upside, I'm getting enough sleep for a change :). I'm not very good at taking medication unless I'm almost out, but would *so* favour a whirlwind romance of our colds and suggest the Bahamas... Teneriffa... anywhere but here! :)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*smish* It's like buses. Everything bad always seems to come at once :(

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Ohyes... and then three of them at once ;).

[liriaen.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's the time of year for colds. *pets* Hope yours is gone soon.
Man, the period, srsly, it's a freakshow. Maybe you were really stressed last month, that sometimes makes it go poof!; has to do with Prolaktin levels, they're way high when one's under a lot of pressure. By the way, today, is also "Weltweiter Tag der Menopause", Deutscher Zweithaartag" and "Europäischer Tag der Depression" - three good reasons to go back to bed.

*hugs*

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Uh-oh, if I'd read this before getting up, I wouldn't have bothered ;). But then I'd not have gotten your card!!! Yay! And lovely sinister it is, not to mention that yes, there are *associations*! Lotsofthem :). Thank you so very much, love! The chestnut woods must have been lovely.

*hugs back*

[liriaen.livejournal.com]

*passes the grog* Oh wow, the transalpine maildonkey got there! :D Ngk, yes, there's quite a bit o' killin' on that particular lunette. It's really sweet! And so close to home, Cesare-wise, hehehe. I was somewhere between goosebumps and malicious cackle.

But some days, I swear. (Let's concentrate on Tag des Zweithaars, shall we? At least that doesn't concern us yet.)

I wish I were back in Orvieto on my ill-marked trail.

That cathedral? Seriously scary!

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Oh wow to the pictures. Both. Very different sort of wow, though :). It looks like an awesomely beautiful place!

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It is. And very ancient too. Orvieto comes from Urbs Vetus - it is the ancient Etruscan town of Volsinii, and has oodles of history.

[magic-at-mungos.livejournal.com]

My cold that was brewing doesn't sound as bad as yours but hot toddies cleared it up. Hot lemon, hone and rum/whiskey. Helps you sleep in any case.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

I tried the hot toddies... bought whisky for the first time in my life, tried to like 'em, failed, hoped for curification process, failed too... Damn! But it's a tad better now (or at least the cough is) and I'm out of meds, so I'll try it again tonight.

Until then, I go with your icon advice :).

[magic-at-mungos.livejournal.com]

Well that's a bit of a bugger really

[ejab62.livejournal.com]

You just rest now. Your writing will come back when your energy does.
Promise. *g*

Oh, and skipping a period or two. Been there. It sucks, yes.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Let's hope! Well, actually I'm not complaining about skipping periods, or nervous in *that* way... it's just weird.

[leni-jess.livejournal.com]

Hope all the evil clears out quickly. (Have to tell you that menopause is great - provided it drags no baggage with it.) Meanwhile, enjoy the lovely days you get. Autumn is drawing in. Winter has its sweets, but you have to rug up for them.

It sounds, actually, as if you could do with some serious rest.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much, and for the inspiring icon too. I'm pretty sure menopause will come with baggage... nothing ever comes to me without :(. And apart from it being cold season, I adore autumn... my favourite season!

[waterbird.livejournal.com]

I had that nasty cold two weeks ago and it completely knocked me out. Seems like no one is immune. Hope you are feeling better soon. *hugs*

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Though it's not even winter, dammit! It's too early for that sort of bullshit!

((hugs))

[annephoenix.livejournal.com]

1. I have broken my medial collateral ligament in my knee and am watching that gorgeous sunshine through the bay window in my living room. Trash is on TV, internet is getting boring ... I think I will throw myself out of the window.

2. Funnily enough I kept skipping periods when I lived in Edinburgh. I think the low level of light actually ruined my reproductive cycle.

3. Same here ... And I feel particularly pathetic about the lack of fic when I'm sitting on two wonderful betas ((((HUGS)))) and a broken knee so I'm not going anywhere ... and I STILL can't write! Of course, my Alex Rider "shitfic that gets loads of reviews" is as fun to write as ever. If only the rest of like could be this easy.

4. I have lost the will to live ...

Can't wait for my Tintagel holiday! You will feel better soon. I promise!!

Re: ((hugs))

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Ah, fuck! Poor thing! That sounds perfectly awful :(. Still, no throwing yourself out of the window! At best, it wouldn't improve your knee. At least wait until *after* Tintagel :).

I would blame it on the lack of light, but September isn't all that bad yet?

And well, you'll have to write AR, then. It's actually damn good, you know! And great fun!

You will feel better soon. I promise!! You too! Promise! :)

Poor thing...

[karaontai.livejournal.com]

... and you do not even have a child to blame most of it on. The cold, the no energy and of course the no period ;-). I am still fighting with mine: cold and child. Rest is best I heard. So take it easy, drink lots of hot fluids and sleep it away. As for the website: you know how that is: they are always down when one has spare time on ones hands >:-(...

Re: Poor thing...

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Nah, I only have myself to blame... first for not turning the heat on in time because I'm too cheap, and then for volunteering to go leafletting in the evening and half undressing when I got hot running up and down staircases, and not re-dressing when going outside again... Bad move.

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

Now, that's no good at all. *feeds you chicken soup and loads of vitamins*

XXX

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Wholeheartedly agreed! *noms*

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I'll see if I have time to make a sketch of (your version of) Lucius. After what everyone else has said, it's just about the only thing I can offer to make you feel better.

There must be something going around. If you ever lurk on my blog, you may have noticed that I have just survived a really scary crisis. Who knows, maybe you caught your cold from the London Stock Exchange? Or New York? They do say that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches cold, but I did not imagine it to be quite so literal.

Do look after yourself. And get lots of sleep. We're kinda short of geniuses these days.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Aw, no need to draw Lucius unless it's the culmination of what your muses were trying to get you to do for the past years :). I'll survive - the alternative is just too grim ;). Though considering that the financial crisis was one of the things that kept me stressed out before the cold hit, it might just as well have contributed :(.

Thanks for the good thoughts, though!

I only caught an allusion to something serious from your blog, so I'm just glad to hear that you say you *survived* it. That's good, isn't it?

[fpb.livejournal.com]

It's good considering the alternative. But I still must find a few hundred pounds from somewhere.

P.S.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I do not think that my eyebrows ever rose quite so fast as when you mentioned the possibility of pregnancy. Since, with all due respect, you are not the Blessed Virgin Mary, I have to assume there is something you did not tell us. Well, good luck anyway.

Re: P.S.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Wah! It was said with extreme irony, as in being a running gag between myself and Thea for exactly the reason you cite. As if! :)

[snorkackcatcher]

#3: Yeah, tell me about it ...

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Dunno... I only know that I have a very recent piece of yours on my to-read list for the title alone so your productivity can't have been all that bad?

[snorkackcatcher]

Hasn't been all that good, either -- I find myself opening up a document, typing a few words, and then just can't be bothered. Same for various LJ posts I never gor round to making. And most of what I have actually managed to do recently has been finishing off unfinished stuff, not anything new. Gah.