Ridiculously Sick

[amberfocus]

I have been ridiculously sick for the past week, but the past three days have been nasty.  Every time I think I'm about to shake it off,  boom, back it comes.  The only thing I'm happy about at the moment is that soccer season is over and DH is home and I don't technically have to go anywhere until I feel like a normal human being again.  I've managed to write all of one chapter and get myself hooked on a TV show called Gossip Girl that I watched all 18 episodes of in the last three days.  Oh, it's an evil little show and I love it.  Nothing like rich, catty, back-stabbing, elitist teenagers being brought down to size over and over again as they shuffle for status.  It's like Cruel Intentions meets One Tree Hill with the angst of Buffy (but none of the plots) thrown in for good measure.  Definitely a guilty pleasure sort of thing.  Made being sick a lot easier to bear.

Even though I haven't written much or read hardly anything, I did manage to figure out how You're What? is going to end so I'm feeling a bit happy about that.  Seems I don't like flying without a net quite so much as I used to.  Doing outlines for the Better with You series kind of ruined me for winging it.  And I beta'd quite a bit because apparently I can still proofread while sick.  (Azriona, I sitll have yours to do, but the smut was lovely on first read-through!) 

Comments

[othermewriter.livejournal.com]

Awww Poor Dear!!! So sorry to hear your sick again it really does suck. Hope you get better real soon!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thanks. My husband seems to have caught it tonight. Which means I won't get to be as sick as I am. *sighs* I'd just really like to start keeping my food down. That'd be good.

[fishface44.livejournal.com]

I am wildly sorry to hear you have been ill. I had hoped that your(relatively) lengthy silence was just contemplation time, or end-of-school year activities, or even a joyful reunion with your DH! But No! Unfortunate Unexpected Illness is not any fun. Please take care!

And very exciting to hear you have the finish to You're What! mapped out! :)

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

We've got until the 16th of June still to go for school. We had a lot of snow days this winter. I have done some comtemplating, though. Still have to find the middle bits for You're What, but I'll get there now that I have a destination.

[absolutbritish.livejournal.com]

Poor you, I'm sorry to hear you've been sick! Get well soon!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[wiggiemomsi.livejournal.com]

Sending *chicken soup* and many, many, healing *hugs*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I wonder if I can talk my FIL into swinging by the Chinese place and bringing a big bowl of egg flower soup out with him when he comes out tomorrow. That always makes me feel so much better.

[kammgirl.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better. I am not feeling great today mtself.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope you don't catch what I have because it's nasty. Feel better yourself.

[angelfireeast.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm so sorry you're sick.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Is this the same thing as before? Possibly you went too fast too soon before? Lemon-grass and chili chicken soup is great for both sinuses and sore throats, in my experience.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Nope, that was totally different. This is stomach and intestinal and misery, but I can breathe and I'm not hacking my lungs out or having a jackhammer going off in my head. It's going around the school and I'm just glad the kids seem to still be well.

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Well, that sucks, and I don't need to tell you that. I suppose one of the advantages of those kinds of bugs is that it runs through you in a fairly defined amount of time. It's amazing the kids have avoided it.

[solarflar3.livejournal.com]

Poor you. Been sick myself this last week, had a horrible virus that made me vomit for England last weekend.

You have my sympathies.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds like what I have. I can't remember the last time food stayed down for more than a half an hour. I think it was Sunday. Thanks for the sympathy and I hope you are better now.

[ravenclaw-devil.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you're under the weather. Hope you feel better soon and thanks for the new chappie of "You're What?" - it was most excellent!!

Feel Better!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it and thanks.

[crimedoc1.livejournal.com]

Very sorry to hear that you're not feeling way. I'm sending many hugs and virtual homemade chicken soup with matzo balls (aka Jewish penicillin).

Hope you feel better VERY soon!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Soup is about the only thing that appeals to me at the moment.

[azriona.livejournal.com]

YAY!

Um, that was yay because of the smut, not because of the sick.

I am sorry you're sick - weren't you just sick a few weeks ago? Is this the same thing come back to haunt you? Or something else entirely?

Don't worry about the smut - runriggers has it too, and hasn't gotten to it yet (Part 4 has priority). wiggiemomsi will have to wait a little longer, that's all. :)

Do feel better soon, though. *hugs*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

That was like a sinus infection/bronchitis thing. This is a stomach thing. I've lost five pounds because I can't keep my food down. I can't wait for summer and a break from the germ factory that is my kids' school.

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

Poor thing! I know what that's like when you just can't seem to completely shake that sickness bug! *sends you cookies* (Since other people are sending you soup, I figured I'd cover the cookie angle. ;) ) Hope you're feeling much, much better soon! *hugs* ♥!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

No fun at all. Thanks.

[bluevolvic.livejournal.com]

:( I hope your're feeling better soon.

I never got a chance to watch 'Gossip Girl' I think it's still on here, but I've missed most of the series.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It had the finale on Monday, but I've got a friend who taped almost every episode and then I found the others online, so I did a marathon session. I much prefer watching tv that way, since I don't tend to watch a show as it airs, except Doctor Who and Torchwood.

[starrynights24.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I'm sorry to hear that you've been so poorly.

I was just thinking about you this morning while I was on my way to work, wondering if everything was okay.

Sending loads of good thoughts your way, to kick the crap out of whatever nasty it is you've picked up, so you can get better fast.

*hugs some more*

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I hope they work. I want to be healthy!

[belladoragirl.livejournal.com]

Hi. I'm a newer reader of your Doctor who fics. I adore them all so far. I couldn't help but giggle at the quote I used to make this icon, I hope you don't mind. I did credit you for the quote :-)

I hope you get better soon!
belladoragirl

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Don't mind at all. *giggles* And thanks.

[earlgreytea68.livejournal.com]

Oh, Gossip Girl! I'm completely addicted!

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

Isn't it delicious? By halfway through the second episode I got my husband hooked on it, too. It is so addictive!