| How i Spent My Spring Break **cough cough, hack hack |
[Apr. 10th, 2005|02:58 pm] |
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i am finally coming back from my bout with pneumonia. Mega-YUCK. SUXDONUTZ. Pneumonia sucks the galactic weenie. Ahem. <clears throat> That's better.
Well! My spring break started back in March, when i headed west to visit my artist client and good buddy, Lisa Snellings-Clark. i neglected to dig my camera out of my carry-on and because of that, i did not get any photos of the Grand Canyon from about 35,000 ft. But it was one of the most incredible things i've ever seen. Must go!
Lisa lives in Palm Springs, which is a patch of desert surrounded by these really cool mountains. Being at her house reminded me of one of my relatives' houses in Colombia, because you could look out her back porch and see this huge mountain. But it looked more like Hawaii. Here's a photo of the "volcano" from her back yard:
One day we got in her car and drove around, taking photos of the clouds, and the mountains, green for the first time in many years due to unusually heavy spring rains this year. i guess i'll have to make a little photo album cause i took loads of photos, but here's one complete with palm trees :-)
i did get into the studio (toys! toys! TOYS!!!!!) and i even made a little sculpture. Lisa offered to cast it for me, and make a bunch for me to paint :-)
Being on Eastern time in CA made it easy for me to get up before sunrise (okay stop laughing). So i snapped a photo of the sunrise over the mountains from her back porch.
This time, on my flight back, i had my camera at the ready. So of course, it was cloudy, and we took a more southerly track which did not go near the Grand Canyon. So i had to content myself with photos of clouds from about 36,000 ft. Heh.
Home on Friday night. Home on Saturday, where we invited ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rono64 and cartoonmayhem and their family over for a farewell dinner since they were making their run for the border the next day.
Off to my sister's for Easter on Sunday. Oh and it was my BD so daecabhir brought the best chocolate cake in the universe for dessert. Yummmmmmmmm. Rain and nasty traffic made us late coming home, and vandaluna and her ubergeek wunderkind were waiting for us, having driven all day from FL to visit for a week.
Lots of fun and running around. We went to Nordstrom, to discover they were celebrating Breast Cancer Week, i think. Cause several of their mannequins were giving themselves breast exams....
Thursday we went up to the farm, and vandaluna was finally able to meet *my* baby! Yay! Of course, they refused to come to the gate, even when i went into the field after them. Only when vandaluna and yuri_kadako walked along the fence to get closer, did they get interested and start walking up to the gate. We had handfuls of baby carrots, which were gratefully accepted and rapidly consumed, hehe. Ravyn and Gallant hung around the longest, of course. They were very well behaved.
Here Ravyn is giving yuri_kadako the eye:
And here Gallant tries to get a baby carrot by poking his very long snout through the bars of the gate:
Thursday evening we had an early dinner with a friend of mine and her kids, at Ledo's in Frederick. Good pizza and much fun was had. But i started to feel not good that night, running a temperature so i went to bed before midnight (!!!!) in the hopes of staving off a virus. The cough arrived the next day, and i tried to rest as much as i could, cause we were hitting the road to Roanoke for gaming weekend. And, aside from being tired, i felt okay.........
Til Saturday night when the chills and fever arrived. Dammit. Spent an hour or two on the couch under blankets and running a fever on Saturday night. Sunday morning, i felt a little better, and played some games, but when the afternoon rolled around, i started feeling crappy again. And i got a weird taste in my mouth, that wouldn't go away. For the whole four-hour ride home of course. When i got home, i was finally able to cough up some of the crud, and to my surprise, it was the color of watery hot cocoa. NOT GOOD. Called the doc Monday morning, and when the nurse heard my symptoms, she gave me an immediate appt. So i got myself together and headed down the road. The doc said it was either a bad bronchitis, or early pneumonia. Gave me some antibiotics, told me to continue with the expectorant i was already taking, and sent me home.
Since then i've been home, where i ran a fever more or less constantly for a couple more days. And had a lot of pain breathing. Kinda like if you run too fast or too long, then it hurts to inhale or exhale. Except, it hurt to take anything more than a shallow breath. That is *finally* going away. The cough is still here, but i'm no longer coughing up stuff the color of your basic garden slug, ick.
Sheesh i hate being sick. |
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