imaginarycircus

I had an allergy attack in the middle of the night and was up for several hours coughing my head off and waiting for benadryl to kick in. So I slept crazy hours--from like 4:30am to 2:30pm. Ugh. The most productive thing I've done since then is to run to the corner and buy milk so I could have coffee. David borrowed my laptop for something at his Buddhist group (they were livestreaming their meditation) and I read my flist on his iPad for a while.

I am in a fair amount of pain so I decided not to go to the gym today. I have to ease into it. My normal approach is to force myself to do things and that doesn't work for me right now. I have an appointment with a trainer tomorrow and I don't want to be in a world of pain then.

I'm going to meet lilaia for a drink soon. I'll be limiting myself to one drink though because of the personal trainer in the morning. I should really be drinking a bunch of water right now. *sets coffee down*

I woke up writing a story in my head, but it sounded too much like a Paul Bowles rip off. How very odd. I should reread his short stories. Strangely the only thing I seem to want to read now is nonfiction. I almost never want to read nonfiction, never mind ONLY nonfic. I'm working my way through Bill Bryson's "Mother Tongue" and rereading David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster."

So my birthday is turning into a three day celebration. \o/ I'm going to be 40 on the 17th. OMG. FORTY?!

Next Saturday we're going to do fondue and have a beer tasting with flourish and ladyofthelog who are also having birthdays next week. I suspect that silencegolden (who has a January birthday too!), lilaia (who is also a Capricorn) and paper_tzipporah will also be there.

Sunday my in-laws will are going to take us to Craigie on Main, which is my favorite restaurant in the Boston area.

Monday (which is my actual birthday) my mother-in-law is taking me to the fancy bra store where they fit you and then out for lunch. Then we're meeting a whole slew of my favorite people at a local bistro for dinner and drinks. :D BECAUSE OMG 40!

I'm going to make a poll later on about what to have with the fondue and what sort of cake to make because I love to see what people like.