death to tonsils

[magicicada]

ok, it was tonsilitis and i really should have gone to the doc tuesday, but i was feeling so much better. well, now with judicious applications of antibiotics and 'magic mouthwash' i can actually swallow without too much pain. my appetite is even back. this is the second time in two years i have gotten this, if i get it again, i'm going to ask a doc if it's true that they don't remove tonsils any more. i think this set has had it. it is quite rare for me to lose my appetite when i'm sick, but i was lucky this time that i did, because all i ate yesterday was half a bagel (minus sylvia's portion), ice cream, about half of a megamuffin and a very small amount of stir fry. this morning i woke up *hungry* yea! sylvia and i went out and observed the remnants of snow. i wasn't really feeling up to doing anything with it, especially as the snow has been sleeted on and is now melting. however, when ms sylvia wakes up from her nap, we're all going to go to the lake and watch the snow melt.

In other news, I received my first rejection letter :p. a very small part of me is happy to have gotten this over with, but larger parts of me are going, eh, mormons, what do they know? i jest, but the publication is a sci-fi magazine, with a mailing address in Provo, and a email address of byu.edu. i think i'm going to resubmit it to asimov's just for the sheer perversity of the idea. the poem has a fairly rigid form so there's not too much tweaking i can do to it. it's not my best work, but it's decent enough that i think it could eventually find a home somewhere. this was my submission for february so it made it back in record time. their listed response time is 4 months. hmm, must add expenses category for my submission page to account for postage there and back.

i am still waiting to find out what is happening with january's submission, but that was to a contest and its deadline is not until March 1st. must remind myself over and over - the odds for contests are not good. i keep telling myself that i'll feel better when i know, but the fact is that i'd really like to win.

the big problem is that i haven't been writing enough. aside from the usual procrastination, i have identified a few snags in the process. the job does take away energy. this is a problem that i'm just going to have to learn to live with. unless i become independently wealthy, there will always be things that i have to do. second problem, i got sick and it took me a while to realize just how much of my energy that was draining. objective two is to stay well and not put pressure on myself when i have no energy. the third snag is a combo of lack of exercise and vitamins. i finally ran out of prenatals and have been majorly procrastinating about buying either more prenatals or a multivitamin. it seems that the vitamins were helping me and even more than i thought. i do not have as much energy without them. the last snag is exercise. sylvia and i need to go on more walks. it's true that a walk for me is a stroller ride for sylvia, but it still does both of us a lot of good.

we're getting into the season that i'm going to be able to work more and more in my garden and i would like to see if sylvia can be a 'helper' on some level, even if it's just staying out of the way and not hurting herself while i dig in the dirt. we shall see. meanwhile, i need to get the fishtanks up to snuff. today is the fish club workshop and i just haven't been feeling good enough to even think about attending. it's very sad, but even if i weren't working tomorrow and could go to the auction, i wouldn't have anywhere to put new fish.

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[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

i'm lazy and don't feel like editing. the above should read 2nd time in 5 years, not two years that i've gotten tonsilitis. it still sucks.