"You get one thing."
Mar. 18th, 2019 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseAlas, this year I didn't win the dice-roll on the flu shot—the strain making the rounds doesn't appear to have been covered by the vaccine. Roundabout the evening of the 8th, I started feeling some vague prickling in my throat; that night the fever set in. Unfortunately, by the time I got to the doctor (I miiiight have been in denial about it just being a bad cold) I was outside the effectiveness window for Tamiflu, but at least I got the diagnosis so I could clear my calendar.
I'm now firmly in the "you get to do one thing today" stage of recovery. Today it was yoga. I walked to the studio, took a class (resting during some of it), then picked up a couple of groceries. Rather than walk the mile-ish home, I waited a good ten minutes for a bus to take me five blocks. (One thing the flu always does is give me a lot of sympathy for folks who deal with chronic energy-sapping illnesses.) Got home, ate, and promptly went to sleep—for what I thought would be an hour, until Brian woke me up a good four hours later.
I'm not sorry I went; something they don't tell you about training/bodybuilding, but when you're used to regular exercise and then you're bedbound for a while, your body hurts. I feel miles better, physically, than I have for a good week now. But it also meant I wasn't able to make it to the film festival I've been helping friend of mine put on. Which kinda bums me out...I was looking forward to seeing her triumph. But sometimes that's how life works.
Tomorrow my one thing is probably going to be getting my hair done. Wednesday I'm teaching two classes, and I think I should just have the energy...
Still, I'm doing some things that are less energy-intensive, too. I've been catching up on some letters I owe to people. Luckily I ordered some adorable stationery recently (thanks for the rec,osprey_archer!) so that's been fun. I've also been working on my Giant WiP of Doom, though I'm sadly rather far behind...still, March is a long month, and I've been updating weekly rather than all in one chunk which gives me a little extra cushion. And people have been reading, and leaving comments! Which is, of course, the point, but given that it's an unfinished piece that's clearly going to be quite long, I wasn't certain what to expect. So hurrah for successful serialization! Now to see if I can keep the momentum going, especially as we start to get into the murkier middle depths...
I'm now firmly in the "you get to do one thing today" stage of recovery. Today it was yoga. I walked to the studio, took a class (resting during some of it), then picked up a couple of groceries. Rather than walk the mile-ish home, I waited a good ten minutes for a bus to take me five blocks. (One thing the flu always does is give me a lot of sympathy for folks who deal with chronic energy-sapping illnesses.) Got home, ate, and promptly went to sleep—for what I thought would be an hour, until Brian woke me up a good four hours later.
I'm not sorry I went; something they don't tell you about training/bodybuilding, but when you're used to regular exercise and then you're bedbound for a while, your body hurts. I feel miles better, physically, than I have for a good week now. But it also meant I wasn't able to make it to the film festival I've been helping friend of mine put on. Which kinda bums me out...I was looking forward to seeing her triumph. But sometimes that's how life works.
Tomorrow my one thing is probably going to be getting my hair done. Wednesday I'm teaching two classes, and I think I should just have the energy...
Still, I'm doing some things that are less energy-intensive, too. I've been catching up on some letters I owe to people. Luckily I ordered some adorable stationery recently (thanks for the rec,
osprey_archer!) so that's been fun. I've also been working on my Giant WiP of Doom, though I'm sadly rather far behind...still, March is a long month, and I've been updating weekly rather than all in one chunk which gives me a little extra cushion. And people have been reading, and leaving comments! Which is, of course, the point, but given that it's an unfinished piece that's clearly going to be quite long, I wasn't certain what to expect. So hurrah for successful serialization! Now to see if I can keep the momentum going, especially as we start to get into the murkier middle depths...
