OMG, I am so sick. But I just got back from the doctor & am full of injected substances, so hopefully it won't devolve into one of those endless pneumonia sagas. Still, though--ow.

At the same time, it's so odd to have a disease that's acute & bound to actually go away with a little time & medication...it's almost like a vacation! :D A vacation with a lot of eardrum-blistering, & revolting coughing, & the feeling that my head's going to pop off. And total lack of voice. And fevers, can't forget those.

But still. In some perverse way, it's cheering me up--just by dint of being non-chronic. XD

On top of that, the contractor dudes have finished the weatherboarding on my garage, are mostly done rebuilding my back deck, & have made some progress on painting the bottom half of the house from this rather dreary hunter green (gag) to a nice deep gray with a hint of violet to it (to keep it from looking like Bondo -__-). It will look awesome once I get some perennials growing against it. I so love grey. (Yeah, quelle surprise.)

I still have nice dual-Softly-She-Walks pictures to post...one day...when my lungs quit trying to jump ship every time I cough. Maybe I'll spend some nice quiet time with PhotoShop!

On the doll front, I just got the most perfect black bob (sans fringe) in the mail on Friday. August-chan is the spitting image of Count D from Petshop of Horrors! ♥

I keep thinking that I hear people talking in the next room--which is a bad sign, as I live alone--or maybe the computer making some kind of racket...and then I realise, it's my LUNGS. >_< I woke myself up just now because I thought it was the freakin' doorbell. Gah!

Finally! My back surgery went very well, but I'm having this really annoying complication that's been hampering my recovery & scaring the bejeezus outta me. It's still not 100% that I'm not going to have to have another one of these surgeries pretty soon--but hopefully it's just nerve inflammation. I am so tired of sleeping at my parents' house (in their recliner) that I perhaps jumped the gun a bit and decided to return home a few days ago...kind of risky, and I can't pick up anything I might drop on the floor--but SUCH a relief to be home!! <3 Thanks all, for your kind thoughts, prayers, wishes, juju, etc. The outpouring of support I've received has been a huge comfort...back surgery is a real morale wrecker!!

And, of course, another huge morale booster manifested this afternoon, when I paid for a fullset Shiro Tachibana.^^ I would be turning cartwheels if I were allowed to make any sudden or strenuous movements--but my insides are doing cartwheels, anyway! AAANNND I'd already put in a preorder for Catsy before I had my surgery...who knows when she'll get here, but she's coming (tiny little Bast girl!!) Not to mention the arrival of Mirjam, my Boding Boding Alice, in late August. It's raining dollies! Oh, the photoshow backup!

I'm still going a bit slow, and my brain is saturated with Percocet, but it feels good to be returning to something like "normal."

I'm having surgery on my back today. Big surgery. Any spare "flawless neurosurgery/steady surgeon hands" juju you might have lying about, please send, pronto.

I'll talk to you guys later--whenever I can manage to make it back to my house again (it has steps in the sidewalk, which I can't traverse for a while).

*fret fret nerves nerves*

For some reason, the paper journal doesn't seem to be doing it for me right now. I just keep poking my pen through the pages. ( Health whinge alert. )