Andi, I hope you are feeling even better and thanks so much for the kind thoughts. I, too, am immensely grateful for this community.

I was still feeling cold symptoms this morning, so neti'ed my nose and peroxided my ears. This process is usually awesome, but today it want very wrong.

I got so dizzy after the peroxide that I got very, very sick.

Whitefonting for the squeamy: I threw up so violently, I actually sprained my throat, not my neck, but the interior of my throat. It feels like I'm swallowing broken glass. You never notice how often you swallow in a day until it is outrageously painful.

My whole organizing day was lost!!

I'll need to take a Tylenol PM and hope I can get some healing sleep.

Not the best way to start the year, but I suppose it could have been much worse.

bonny, that sounds awful. I hope you and WS are both feeling much better soon.

Bonny, that sounds scary. I hope you are on the road to feeling better, quickly.

Yeah, I am definitely feeling considerably better than yesterday. Yesterday. Yesterday. That looks weird. Did I spell that correctly? Spelling and desire for chocolate gone. Plz send potato chips.

I'm with you, Andi. I can no longer day today. Off to bed, hoping for quick healing.

I'm hoping the ow stops and the zzz come quickly.

May tomorrow be better, WS and bonny.

I'm hoping the same. When I got up this morning, my leg was really painful, and it took me a minute to remember that I'd been mugged by a nurse practitioner yesterday. I'm feeling less discouraged now that I have more red blood cells to work with, but I'm walking like Festus on Gunsmoke.

Laura we listened on ESPN radio until it got bad and I turned it off. I'm not surprised by the loss but I was hopine for a better showing.

I also got to see Will's new glasses in person and they look so good on him. He looks a bit younger, definitely more modern. But the lenses are narrower than he's used to and bif ovals so he's having some trouble adjusting.

May tomorrow be better for all of us.

WS, bonny, Ginger, askye, others - much ~ma to you.

Thank you guys. I'm still in a bit of shock (or, actually, just getting to being in shock. I was very in control-organizing-comforting mode yesterday) and very sad for her. It's really a tragedy.

I was bad about practicing mindfulness/meditating in the past month (which is very stupid of me, giving my years of favoring stress and adrenaline rush as a lifestyle), so right now so many muscles are tense and hurt + stress headache. I really need to crave somehow into my brains that no matter how comforting the internets seem to be, half an hour of practice will be so much better.

Weekend preparations: who wants to come to dinner tonight? I'm making veggie borscht, antipasti with tahini dressing, and pasta with mangold and almond butter.

Also, I'm getting cats tomorrow. They were once roomie's cats, but the person who adopted them two years ago has health issues so now he's taking them back for a while.