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Pumpkin art

Meryl Yourish — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:00:10 +0000

Sarah carved eighteen (yes, eighteen) pumpkins. She does it every year. There are some awfully good pumpkins at the link. Me? I contributed the tea lights for some of them.

Awesome carving of a cat. Well, they’re all pretty good. The turtle eating a sandwich was Max’s request. He loves turtles. We didn’t ask him about the sandwich.

I am not having a pleasant flu

Meryl Yourish — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:45:38 +0000

Tamiflu notwithstanding, this flu sucks.

The last two nights I’ve had difficulty sleeping. Took hours to get to sleep, and then it was hot/cold/hot/cold/hot/cold all night long. I have my typical un-fever (96.3 when I last checked), and fever dreams all night. Really. My grandfather not recognizing me? That totally sucked.

Yes, I’m very, very, very crabby at the moment. I should find a way to get linked and let the morons in to comment. That’d give me fresh meat to chew on for a while.

Update: I’m not the only one not having a pleasant flu. Please note the age groups that are being hospitalized, and remember that if you are feeling flu symptoms, run, do not walk, to your local doctor. (Full post here. Via.)

Things chicken soup doesn’t work on

Meryl Yourish — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:11:34 +0000

H1N1.

Lucky for me, I have Tamiflu.

Lightly posting

Meryl Yourish — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:10:38 +0000

Hm, let’s see… spend an hour or two posting, or shower and meet up with Sarah and the kids?

Tough one.

Later, dudes.

The lightness of posting

Meryl Yourish — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:26:21 +0000

It’s a sinus infection. I have antibiotics and other things. But I have no energy to post.

And I have to say, Sarah is a great friend. I am extremly crabby when I’m sick, and she just lets me gripe on the phone and doesn’t complain. I realized today how extremely crabby I was just before dinner, and I called her while I was cooking and said, “Bitchy Meryl has been banished for the rest of the day.” She laughed. (I did apologize.)

I can feel the antibiotics working already. Maybe one more good night’s sleep will get me back to being mostly human.

Sniffly snark news briefs

Meryl Yourish — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:45:08 +0000

Colds make me stupid, but they don’t steal my snark.

Oh, wait. This one did.

Hooray for chicken soup

Meryl Yourish — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:40:01 +0000

If you have to have a cold, it’s good to have supplies for chicken soup on hand. I had a quart of frozen chicken broth from the last soup I made (I save it to add to stuffing, and haven’t made stuffing in ages). I had a can of Manischewitz condensed chicken soup. I had a package of matzo ball mix, and a bag of carrots. And I also had one and a half boneless chicken breasts that I put in the fridge instead of the freezer on Sunday, and had to cook or throw away.

An hour later, a very hearty chicken soup. And very tasty. Two containers of soup left over, plus a couple of matzo balls to put in the freezer for later.

Well, at least it isn’t the flu. A cold is annoying, but the flu would require someone else to cook for me.

Breaking the fast

Meryl Yourish — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:04:32 +0000

Boy, between Sarah’s family and me, we have three separate bacterial tracks going. Jake has H1N1. Nate has strep. And I picked up whatever took out the rabbi on Friday and Saturday (he was recovered enough for Yom Kippur, thankfully).

I had one container of home-made chicken soup left in my freezer. If I still feel crummy tomorrow, it’s out to the store for supplies, and fresh chicken soup for dinner.

Just a post before I go

Meryl Yourish — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:51:16 +0000

I was going to post something earlier, but then I decided to save it for later. And then I got in my car and turned the key in the ignition, heard a very loud crack, like you hear when a fuse blows in your house, and my car went, very softly, “Rrr, rrr, rrr.” So I called Triple-A and told them to send me the battery truck. Yep. It was the battery.

All I can say is, better now than this morning after shul. And better tonight than tomorrow, 45 minutes before shul. And definitely better now than on the way home from the Outer Banks last week.

Bought the battery from Triple-A, guy who came to check mine installed it, we chatted about the two gun tattoos on his arm and Yom Kippur (I told him that I really needed the car tomorrow, and he asked about the holiday).

That, and the dog ate my homework, is why no Caturday post today. I’ll try to find time tomorrow.

Oh, wait. Tig came out of the garage after Battery Guy left, and was cleaning his paws. Sure enough, he’d stepped in the white powder that got knocked off my battery. I swept up the rest and locked him out of the garage. Yeesh. Acid powder. That stuff can’t be good for him.

No swimming today

Meryl Yourish — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:50:29 +0000

The view from my balcony:

Rip tide

I think we will visit the Wright Brothers exhibit at Kitty Hawk today. And probably swim in the condo’s pool.