I never wanted this to become a journal of Anne's Medical Issues but MY LANDS. I have EIGHT medical related appointments in five days. EIGHT. One of which just netted me a prescription of terrifyingly large pills (bigger than a dime, I shit you not). We don't think it is anything overly serious, though of course being me I have 327 unique complications that make my particular infection strange and complicating, and I go back in a week for a referral to a surgeon. A surgeon who will cut open my back by my spine, ACK. I am going to spend the next week pointedly NOT THINKING ABOUT THAT. (Translation: I am going to spend the next week worrying about and obsessing over the infection moving into my spine and/or the surgeon cutting into my spine and paralysing me. Fun!)
Onwards!
We got a light dusting of snow here in Chicago this morning with a promise of several inches over the next few days. I'm hoping the nice blanket of white (our first snow of the year) will do something to jump-start my Christmas spirit. I usually love the holidays, the pretty lights, the Christmas cookies, the music...but this year I just can't get into it. I have my shopping done and my presents wrapped, but I haven't bothered to put up the Christmas tree yet, and I don't think I will. If I take it out and put it up, that just means I have to take it down and put it away in a few weeks, and that is WORK. BAH HUMBUG. Maybe I need to go see another doctor, as I think my heart may be two sizes too small this year.
Lastly, to end on a more positive note, I have been really digging the vampire/supernatural books again. This is not a new obsession for me (see: reading Interview with a Vampire in junior high), but it had been dormant for almost a year, and it is nice to have it back. I just re-started reading the Dresden Files books with book six last week, and I fell in love with the series all over again. I think last year I may have OD'd on them a bit, reading the first five all in a row, but with a few months off I am all set to start plowing through them again. I'm just about to start the last book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, too, which is sad. I think the next one comes out in April or May of next year, and I'm not sure I have the patience for that. Thankfully with the Goodreads friending of Jonniker (who is made of awesome, and not just because of her taste in books or because she said we might be book soul mates), I should be able to find enough to read in the meantime.
