update and rambling

Still unwell here, but slowly getting better. The quack gave me a script for antibiotics, but I didn’t get it filled.  He did say that if I could, I should hold off.  He’s been my doctor for over a decade, so he knows how many times I’ve been on antibiotics before, and that I have developed a fairly decent immunity to them.  So yeah, ixnay on the drugs.  This time.  I’d rather hold off until I get something really serious, like blood poisoning (which I’ve had before, incidentally, when an impacted wisdom tooth went horribly wrong).

I have managed to get a couple of things done today.  I dragged myself to the shops, and bought some food.  Stuff like salad, meat, you know, standard foodstuffs.  I even made a salad for dinner tonight, and SO cooked the meat on the BBQ.  It tastes so much better when barbequed.

I also put some more things on eBay.  Slowly but surely, I hope we’ll be getting rid of our excess clothes.  I can’t wait to have my wardrobe space back! Then I can fill it back up, with stuff that fits.   Heh heh heh…. I haven’t mentioned that part to SO yet.  I may wait a while before I do.

I got spoiled tonight After dinner, SO made me a real coffee (ie. with our coffee machine, not instant) and also gave me a glass of port.  Yum.  It’s a funny thing, both my brother and I are really happy drinkers.  We drink, we’re happy, we drink more, then we fall asleep.  SO and my friends all love it when I have a couple of drinks, because I’m an amusing lush.  It’s easy to see how I have alcoholics on both sides of my family.  That said, all the alcoholics, on both sides, tend to be nasty SOBs when drinking….. It’s an interesting conundrum.  Maybe if all alcoholics were happy drunks, my family would get along better. In fact, I can guarantee it.  I still have flashbacks to the first time SO met my mother’s side of the family.  It was Granny’s 90th birthday, and all my aunts and uncles and cousins went out to dinner at a posh restaurant in West Perth.  My uncle (mum’s brother) started a speech at the appropriate time of the evening, and my aunt (mum’s sister) stood up and abused him.  He argued back.  Fortunately, it didn’t end up with food being thrown.  But yes, not the best family occasion ever.  SO was amazed, and fascinated.  Luckily it didn’t scare him off.  A lesser man would have run.  SO chose to view it as free entertainment.