Minutiae

December so far has just ticked along and this week we're mid way through it.  Next week we hit our shortest day of the year - Solstice, and then we start the climb back out.  Tick, tick, tick, tick....

I survived my dental work last week and the site of the numbing injections are still what's bothering me the most.  Turns out that's common enough that studies have been done on it... go figure.  Muscle relaxants at bed time helped "unlock" the sore jaw and salt water swishes are hopefully dealing with the stab wounds... er, I mean "insertion point... uh... injuries".

I'm pretty sure the stress of it all actually ran me down enough that I caught a bug, or a bug got through because from about the next day on (so... Thursday til now?) I had one runny nostril and one runny eye and was extra tired.  

I upped my vitamin C and opened my windows for fresh air (thank you for the warmer days Mother Nature!) and put on my air purifiers just in case and I let myself rest (and yes, I avoided humans more than usual.... ahem.)

It's funny (to me), I mentioned the other day that it felt like I had forgotten how to deal with rain.  Well, seems like we've actually had another strange stretch of "dry" weather and some places are dealing with water droughts... I don't know.... The weather keeps shifting... predictions of snow turn into predictions of no precipitation at all... It was something like 9 degrees outside on Saturday but we'll maybe be in the negatives at night this week?  Weather... she can be moody sometimes after all.

I'm hoping that any lingering 'cold like' sort of symptoms are gone now (NO JINXING MYSELF).  I wasn't sick sick but I was miserable enough to feel whiny and unhappy about not feeling well. 

I've also been feeling like cleaning stuff this week, you know like sorting through closets and drawers to make sure things aren't just taking up space... Going through old paperwork and tidying that up too.  So when I've had a surge of energy I've tidied or sorted or cleaned and then rested when that was done.

Life continues to be life-y and I'm doing what I can when I can and we're tip toeing ever deeper into the time of year that can feel a little extra nutty... and I'm working to keep that nutty level low for myself.  Hope you're holding in too, you know?