mistressofmuses | Happy Valentine's Day! Or happy Wednesday!

Valentine's Day is usually pretty mellow for us.

I got Alex a plastic horse, a plushie and some candy. He got me a fancy mug I'd admired, a plushie, and a box of candy. <3

For dinner we got carryout from the Indian restaurant near us. It was delicious as always, but the butter chicken was spicier than usual! It was still very good, but hotter than I expected. (Honestly... still probably barely inching into "medium" heat; I'm just a wimp, and usually it's very mild.) We also got samosas and garlic naan.

Now we're watching a pretty average-quality Tubi-original horror movie.

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I am not thrilled that my cough got quite a bit worse last night. It's been fairly steadily improving, but last night it woke me several times and kept me up. This morning also had that hint-of-hint-of infection flavor to it for the first time in a couple weeks. I don't want the original bronchitis to be having a resurgence, and I also don't want some opportunistic secondary infection. No thanks!

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Yesterday I got my NaMoPaiMo model primed... which revealed seams that I missed sanding off. So tonight I tried to file those down, and if possible I'll try to get it reprimed in the bathroom tonight, so I can actually start working on it tomorrow. Only halfway through the month! It's fine!
(I'd rather prime it outside, which we were able to do yesterday, but I won't have any warm-enough daylight hours outside of work for another week, and that definitely won't leave me time to finish. So cardboard box in the bathroom it may have to be. Or maybe Alex will have a chance to do it during the day.)

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Writing is still not happening. I feel like a bird hitting a window.

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Dreading Saturday at work. Really terrible new class procedure that we have to do, and it'll be the first time we're closing a series with it. I DO have help, fortunately, but I am not looking forward to it.

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Sunday night might be going over to Taylor's again. They get a lot of comp time for being on-call, so are able to take periodic time off and will sync their ability to get a three-day weekend with my regular days off. Looking forward to it!

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Sorry the cough is still sucking. I hope you both just continue to get better.

Thank you! I hope so too.

Sounds like a nice V-Day haul! (I'm also a wimp! My sister one time got mild wings and I was eating them, thinking they were spicier than usual. Finally I said something and she did a 'haha, I was caught out' laugh because she'd ordered the medium ones instead. I could absolutely tell. *g*)

Boo cough!

I hope Saturday goes well.

It was very nice! Lol, that sounds like something that'd happen with me. "This is definitely spicier than usual!" "...yeah, it's medium. I didn't think you'd notice."
Though tbf, "medium" can be so variable... Sometimes that's barely a zing and is exactly my preference, and sometimes it leaves me flailing for a drink, ha.

Very boo on the cough, though it seems to be improving again, so hopefully it was a very temporary setback.

Thank you. I'm hoping I'm overpreparing for the Saturday nonsense. I DO have extra help, and so maybe it'll be way easier than anticipated!

Sounds like a good Valentine's Day! My sister and I stayed in, hung out in our rooms, and I roasted a Cornish hen for us to split (we have two, but our appetites shrunk so much that we could share one, have plenty, and there was still a little bit leftover, and that was after Darji got her little bowl of it), cornbread dressing, and sautéed cabbage and onions. She read in her room, and I continued my rewatch of Hannibal (series) - appropriate for a holiday involving hearts.

That sucks that you're still dealing with the cough and possibly a new infection. I may have asked you this before, but have you tried to sleep elevated? Like prop your pillows up and have a back pillow (if you have one) and sleep sort of sitting up? Whenever I've had those months-long coughs, that's one of the only things that keeps the coughs from keeping me awake all night.

It was a pretty good day! (Or at least the evening was, post-work, ha.)

Sounds like you had a nice night too! Nice meal, mellow evening.

I am just. so. tired. of. coughing. Ugh! It does seem to be back to where it was before it got worse, so hopefully that was a one-off weirdness. I have been trying to sleep a little upright, with an extra pillow or blanket under my head and upper back, but it almost always winds up on the floor partway through the night. I move around pretty often to stay comfortable, and the steeper angle hurts my lower back when I inevitably try to roll onto my side.

I get that so much. When I used to get The Cough™ at least once a year, it would last for a month, at least, sometimes longer (sometimes a month but I'd get it twice a year), I would practically drink Nyquil (generic), and it wouldn't do hardly fuck-all, esp at night. But I started making myself sleep at least semi-upright, and I didn't used to like or be able to sleep on my back at all, and this was similar enough to sleeping on my back that I fought it. However, when I actually got restful nights of sleep, I learned to make myself do it to where now I can. The lower back thing is definitely an issue, but can you use Icy Hot? You could always put that on your lower back before you go to sleep, sleep at least semi-upright or mostly upright, and that should help your lower back. The restful sleep actually seems to help the cough go the fuck away faster.

The way coughs are always the thing that lingers is just the worst! Especially when you KNOW it's going to be a month or six weeks or more of it.

I'm mostly not taking meds anymore, because it's not constant enough to really seem to make a difference. I was doing generic nyquil and the px cough syrup at night, and generic dayquil and generic cough syrup during the day (because the px stuff made me too dizzy for daytime use). It'd *feel* like it was doing fuck-all... and then it would wear off, and I'd realize that shit, that WAS it helping!

I often wake up on my back, but have a very hard time falling asleep on my back. Icy hot does help a very little bit, but the worst of the pain is in the lumbar disks themselves, and it just doesn't reach far enough to hit them. (It'd probably also help if the dogs weren't flopping around so much all night - I wind up adjusting to sleep around them, lol.) At least it's down to only a few fits per night that keep me awake for any length of time... Though that's still frustrating. Good sleep really is the best way to get better!

(Honestly... still probably barely inching into "medium" heat; I'm just a wimp, and usually it's very mild.)

I sure know that feeling!

And I'm sorry about the frustrating things. :( Go AWAY, cough! *hugs*

I wish I had more heat tolerance! My dad is from New Mexico, and hot green chile is a staple of the region... but I've always been wimpy about it.

And ugh, thank you. The cough seems to be back to where it was before the "relapse", so hopefully that was just a strange blip. *hugs*

Happy Valentine's Day! Or happy Wednesday!

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