Good morning! Hi there!

I've been avoiding posting lately because I have been 1) tired of hearing myself complain and 2) trying to protect you, my loyal readers, from experiencing the "train wreck" direction this site has been taking lately. You know, where you don't want to look, but you can't not look. Where people checking back here to see what's been going on think "holy cow, is she still talking about that cough?"

'Cause really, that's my whole life these days: Do I wake up coughing? How long after I wake up does the coughing start? Do I cough only when I talk? or does it happen at other times as well? How long do I have to lay in bed, coughing, before I can fall asleep? How many times during the night do I wake up coughing? Again, how long does it take for me to fall back asleep because I can't stop coughing?

After a truly horrid weekend of not being able to sleep or eat because of the coughing, I went to see a doctor on Monday and she is of the opinion that I am suffering from something that is not pneumonia or allergies, but somewhere in between (possibly involving bronchitis). So she gave me antibiotics and cough medicine with codeine.

Codeine.

Now there's a drug that'll knock you on your ass. I thought I could take a teaspoon of this stuff and go to work as soon as I left the pharmacy. Um ... no. This stuff not only suppresses my cough, it suppresses me as well. I get to take two teaspoons before I go to bed at night, and even though I haven't taken any since last night around 10 p.m., I really don't think I'm up to operating any large machinery yet. Which is unfortunate, since I'm out of soup, bagels, and the only tea that doesn't need sugar.

I'll be better soon, I hope, and then I'll be back to talking about my boring-but-not-coughing life. In the meantime, I'll see what I can do about a redesign and some humorous links.