pshaw_raven | Entries tagged with sick

I just saw that I wrote an entire post last week and never sent it. I've deleted it now, but I feel a bit dense, LOL. We got home with head colds - probably head colds, anyway - and they seem to be relentless. I've been sick since the first of May. This sucks, I'm tired of being tired, and I'm annoyed that I'm missing the last few cool mornings until November. I'm used to being able to push myself, but I'm not sure what to push or in which direction. "Listen to your body"? The signals change every few hours. I just want this over with.

Anyway. The only thing I've felt much like doing besides reading is gaming. I'm almost through Environmental Station Alpha. I'm in the post-game where things get both more challenging and more unhinged. There's a spike maze that you get through by using your dash, and I haven't managed that yet. It's not quite as bad as the cannon challenge in Owlboy but it's testing my button mashing abilities.

I also bought a Kingdom Hearts bundle on sale, which apparently has the first two games and a set of ... is it DLC? There may actually be seven games here. Fox wanted this series as well, and I decided to get it when I found Disney hadn't made any dick moves like "family sharing disabled." I'm literally just starting out with this franchise, though I've been curious about it for ... omg two decades. I've made it to the Olympic Coliseum, and the Deep Jungle. I noticed I've been picking up special moves I can swap out, and I wonder if I'll earn move slots for those, and for equipment.

The Zucchini Singularity has begun here, and I have a grocery bag of squash to turn into bread, muffins, and stir fry. The cherry tomato plant in my garden that randomly started up Leeroy Jenkins style in a cinder block has flowers on it now. We've gotten almost three inches of rain this month, so the sand road is much better, which I would enjoy a great deal if I felt well enough to go for a run.

I managed to tidy up my writing space, so perhaps when my brain isn't clogged with mucus I can do some of that. Dhhieofjkdnjdkfslfl

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: The Wallflowers - One Headlight

I woke up this morning and I'm still coughing. Not as much, but enough, and I still feel sort of drained. Stiff, achey. You can't "make up" marathon training like trying to cram for an exam, it will backfire. At this point I'll need to wait until I feel decent, pick up the plan wherever I am now, and just trust my base training, adjust my goal, and remember I've done at least nine of these, I can do this one. Also my earlobe hurts, because my stretched lobe which has been healed for years now is infected? How? Why?

Since I don't have the brainpower or energy to do much else, I've been gaming. I did think up some short story to fit a prompt but haven't been able to write properly, though I feel like today's going to be a good day for that. I got back into Baldur's Gate 3, where I'd left off just ahead of a fight that a lot of people seemed to find very difficult and I was reluctant to engage in. I may have over-prepared because my allies did most of the fighting for me while my party took a few stray hits. I also wondered why I bothered wild-shaping for this, but I would probably spend the entire game running around as a bear if I could.

I completed Gourmand's food quest in Rain World and got his adorable ending. Gourmand has a few drawbacks but is really incredible for doing anything combat related. You can fall on stuff and kill it. You take significantly less damage yourself. You just get "exhausted" a lot. That unlocked slugpups, which should spawn into certain campaigns now, if you ever wanted to be a single parent slugcat. I didn't explore some of the new regions because getting around with Gourmand can be challenging compared to a more agile slugcat, but I got to roam around the Outer Expanse for a while ... because I was seriously lost. There's actually a terrific interactive map for this game but sometimes I try to not use it and just enjoy the organic exploration process.

So I may take today off training, then pick up tomorrow with a four miler and see how I feel. I mean, people complete marathons with zero training ... though I'm not sure why that's become a thing to do. Not to say that you can't, you just won't have a good day.

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: R.E.M. - Try Not To Breathe

My second Covid shot was either much better or much worse than my first one, depending on how I look at it. After the first one, I was in intense pain for about twelve hours, then I was fine. After this second one, I've felt like low-level ass for over twenty-four hours. I barely moved off the couch yesterday and I loathe myself for it - but I could simply not muster the energy to do anything. Today I have more energy but I also have muscle pain. The joint pain's gone now. For some reason, it's shooting pains in my abs and obliques - I would have said "stomach," but that implies pain like indigestion, and this is very specifically the skeletal muscles.

Fox also caught it pretty hard, he slept most of yesterday but seems to feel good today. So huzzah, we both survived our Fauci Ouchies.

I did manage to get a decent amount of reading done, though. I finished The Three Pillars of Zen, started A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, and I also started The Vegetarian Myth.

I read that they're going to be releasing an all-color edition of the Attack on Titan manga later this year or maybe next year. So, I need that. I like black and white art just fine but a full color edition would be slappin'.

Today's run is supposed to be a 40 minute tempo run, but given how rainy it is, I think I'll stay indoors and do that on the treadmill. Treadmill runs have their drawbacks, but I can lose myself in a podcast since I don't need to worry about environmental hazards. I've fallen behind on Old Gods of Appalachia, so between today's speed run and tomorrow's long one I should be able to catch up.

Current Mood: recovering

I very suddenly started feeling awful today. Specifically, I have a lot of aches and pains - joints, muscles, even my skin hurt for a while. I noticed I was weirdly sensitive last night when Fox put his hand on my knee and I tensed because it tickled. Anyway. I napped this morning for a couple of hours, but I still feel like I just ran a marathon while being chased by people hitting me with sticks. Nothing else is wrong, my temp's a little elevated, but not to Covid 19 levels, and I am not having any trouble breathing or anything. So I have no idea what I picked up or where.

Right now I'm just sitting on the couch derping out and looking at Reddit. Reddit can be awful, but I follow a lot of cute animal subs, biking and running, and photography ones so my feed is usually pretty nice. I just read an interesting post where the comments were all about good bike trails in Duval, and they recommended a 14-mile loop I have saved on AllTrails. They said the pavement is good and it's shaded most of the way, so sounds like it would be okay for a summer ride. Obviously I'm not doing any bike riding today. Meh.

We're supposed to be getting a lot of rain and storms, so I hoped somewhat it was just the barometer dropping and how that can make certain things hurt, but everything hurts - just not the things I'd have expected. I cracked my big toe a couple of years ago and it typically clicks when I walk in the morning, but it feels just fine. But my shoulders and spine feel like someone's been beating me with a wooden baseball bat.

The cats are also helpfully piling on me, since being weighted down by purring felines is obviously good therapy. (Actually it is, it's nice to have kitties.) I think I'm going to try taking a pain/fever reducer and dig around for ramen. Instant noodles are my go-to sick food, but I don't have much on hand right now. Pandemic panic buying sort of threw a wrench into my hurricane supply shopping. But I think I have some Japanese noodles stashed away from Jax Oriental. Sometimes they have really amazing instant noodles. That's where I found these Korean hot noodles I like that have a bomb-throwing fire-breathing chicken on the label. Yeah, they're that hot. A little hotter than what I want right now though.

I'm just kind of glad to notice that I'm hungry. If I still feel like eating, I'm not THAT sick. But we'll see how this goes.

Current Mood: sick

Last night wasn't much fun, but I feel much better this morning.

Taking some of that nighttime Tylenol stuff helped, too, but that always makes me have weird dreams. In one, they blocked off a big section of I-10 so everyone could have an Alice-style tea party, and there were giraffes. I was at a table with Fox and some other friends, and it pleased me to notice we were sitting on one of those painted roadway signs you can read from aircraft. You know, in this case the big shield that says I-10.

I still have some errands to run but I am going to try to take it easy today. No running, in other words. At most I will probably have a quiet yoga session when I get home. I might also make a pot of hummus pasta because I'm craving it all the time lately.

So, where's this awful weather we're supposed to be having?

Current Mood: drained
Current Music: John Mayer - No Such Thing

It may simply be the front passing through but I've felt progressively worse and worse as the day goes on. My skin hurts. Just, ick.

I managed to do a long run this morning, then we had supper early, and now I'm just sitting on the couch with cats piled on me feeling miserable. Of all the things I planned to do this evening the only thing I have done is make my grocery list and if I don't feel better tomorrow I'm not going out. I get the feeling I'm going to just read a bit and go to bed early.

UGH I HATE BEING SICK. I have stuff to DO. ARGHYGTUYBDUKCHDJ

Edit: I'm now shaking so hard I can barely use my laptop. I am taking ibuprofen or something and going the fuck to bed, fuck this. And whichever disease-ridden carrier monkey gave me this I will fight you when I am well again. Or in the next life, whichever. I am dying but I will fight you

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Music: Zero 7 - Warm Sound