Happy birthday to me

[darkemeralds]

Hi everyone. It's my birthday! Which, after 57 previous ones, isn't all that big a deal. But I took the day off work, had acupuncture, went out to breakfast-for-lunch, got my nails done, and came home in the very cold December evening to eat really rather a lot of French chocolate.

I was dreadfully sick last week--like bedridden-and-housebound for six days, miss-Thanksgiving-dinner level sick. It was mostly just the worst cold in the world, I think. At the nadir of it I ruptured an eardrum and had conjunctivitis in both eyes, so I was half-deaf and half-blind and it was generally awful. (Bragg's raw apple cider vinegar, diluted on a cotton pad and wiped along the lower lid, stings like hell but makes short work of the pinkeye, by the way.)

Long story short, I'm a million percent better now, though still a bit hearing impaired in the one ear. Back to breathing, sleeping, and riding my bike.


Birthday nails

Hardly any job left in my life now:

Retirement countdown

Comments

[ruric]

Belated happies!

Glad you're feeling better after the unholy trifecta you managed last week. I've been languishing on my couch with a cold from hell too - but at least I missed the busted ear drum and conjunctivitis. Never heard of the cider vinegar cure either but will remember it for next time *G*

Also on the plus side - shiny nails are very shiny and seasonal - also 25 day to FREEDOM! Which is a hell of a big bang start to 2014 *G*

[darkemeralds]

I saw your late-night tweets re the cold (so much sympathy) and the new phone (what'dja get?).

Thank you for the birthday and retirement wishes. On the vinegar: the key is to dilute. Just bear it in mind. I stuck a drop of the stuff in my eye straight from the bottle and that was a shock.