{"id":2561,"date":"2017-09-17T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/17\/news-to-me\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T12:20:15","slug":"news-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/17\/news-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS TO ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today was meant to be a slug day, too, but I woke up super early in pain (AGAIN), same as last weekend, and couldn&#8217;t get comfortable or back to sleep for several hours. I&#8217;ve already been this past week to the doctor and gotten a time booked for an ultrasound (in 2 weeks) to have my gallbladder checked, since it happened last weekend and my brother yelled at me, but now I&#8217;m just hoping I don&#8217;t have an acute episode beforehand. URGH.<\/p>\n<p>So, when I finally DID get up, I showered and dressed, and then, thumbing my nose at both Megsie and Ozswede, I cleaned the toilets, the sinks and Windexed all the glass &#038; mirrors in the house. THEN I basically did nothing the rest of the day. Unless you count going to watch Karin&#8217;s soccer game IN THE RAIN. But then I took a nap. So&#8230; slug&#8230;ish.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. I got the confirmation results letter from the allergy clinic and it was addressed to &#8220;B\u00e4sta ELIZABETH SLAUGHTER EK!&#8221; which made me laugh. Very enthusiastic greeting, allergy nurse! I think all healthcare correspondence should start with your name in all caps, the fact that you are BEST and an exclamation point. It confirmed that I am allergic to birch (like crazy) but NOT allergic to cats or dogs. Which, wait, what? Does that mean I can get a cat? (barring my allergic husband, I mean) Or will I just redevelop cat-allergies if I do? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m continuing on the board of the AWC again for next year, because I&#8217;m ridiculous. But I figure if I DON&#8217;T, then there will be pretty much no reasons left to ever leave the house (apart from work, of course). I need to up my social game. With Martin gone and Karin basically treating home as a hotel\/restaurant when she deigns to spend a few hours here, I seem to be having more alone time than is really healthy for me. Maybe I should sign Anders and I up for a course or something. <\/p>\n<p>The AWC board elections are in a week but we already have a full slate of excellent nominees for the board, for which I&#8217;m really grateful. We even found an enthusiastic person to take over the Treasurer position, which had us all worried for awhile. We&#8217;ve had a slew of new members this past month and about a dozen people who have rejoined in response to my membership drive email to people who were deactivated by the former membership officer a year and a half ago. <\/p>\n<p>Choir did start 2 Thursdays ago, but the jury is still out on the new choir leader. She&#8217;s enthusiastic, but quite young and inexperienced. I don&#8217;t know if she&#8217;s up to dealing with the demands of this one, and we&#8217;ve had lots of people drop out, which is a bummer, though not totally unexpected. And while we DO have some new people, we have yet to mesh in any meaningful way. We&#8217;ll see. I&#8217;ll give it some time, but I&#8217;m already thinking that if it doesn&#8217;t make me as happy going as it did a year and a half ago, then it&#8217;s better to try to find another choir that DOES. I do not want to spend time doing things that don&#8217;t bring me joy, and while singing DOES, normally, there are other factors playing against it here. URGH.<\/p>\n<p>I went to watch Karin&#8217;s soccer game this afternoon. Karin had asked me and I said maybe, if it wasn&#8217;t raining. It was a lovely day all day UNTIL right before the game was supposed to start, then the skies went dark, opened up and let loose. Thunder, too! I waited a little bit but it didn&#8217;t see to want to quit, so finally I thought, oh what the hell, and I went anyway. I had just waterproofed my raincoat, after all. <\/p>\n<p>Good thing, too, since it poured ceaselessly throughout the game, even though the sun came out in the last half, too. Crazy fall weather. They lost 4-0 but played the second half pretty well, considering they were up against one of the best teams (Karin&#8217;s former teammates from Sandby) in the series. I haven&#8217;t been to watch Karin play in ages, (insert bad mom slap here), so it was nice to see her in action.<\/p>\n<p>I need another weekend, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was meant to be a slug day, too, but I woke up super early in pain (AGAIN), same as last weekend, and couldn&#8217;t get comfortable or back to sleep for several hours. I&#8217;ve already been this past week to the doctor and gotten a time booked for an ultrasound (in 2 weeks) to have my gallbladder checked, since it happened last weekend and my brother yelled at me, but now I&#8217;m just hoping I don&#8217;t have an acute episode beforehand. URGH. 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