Blah, Woohoo, FYI, and I don't know what.

First, we'll start with the blah: I'm sick. It started with a mild stomach ache on Sunday that I brushed off as being caused by the heaps o' fat I ate at Crapplebee's Saturday night. On Monday it was worse, accompanied by sore muscles, fatigue, a headache, and a scratchy throat. And by this morning there was no question that I had some sort of strange stomach bug. I even had a fever. :( I was up for a few hours this morning, but went back to bed around 10am and slept until after 3pm. When I finally got up I was so tired that all I could do was curl up in our recliner with water and a blanket. Then I fell asleep again around 7:30pm, and stayed that way until about 8:30pm.

I managed to stay awake through Eureka (thank god), and I managed to eat a little food, and now I think I might be feeling better. I say that I "think" I might be feeling better, because I haven't tried walking around or lying down flat recently. So far both of those things have proved to be a little uncomfortable. I'm so exhausted, and I feel like someone's used my torso as a punching bag all day. I didn't even TRY to do any housework, so naturally the kitchen is a wreck. Well, I haven't seen it yet, but Brett made dinner so I'm sure it's destroyed. I'm glad he made me food though, because I wouldn't have had the strength to do much more than open a pack of crackers or something.

Poor me!!! :(

Next, I'll move onto the woohoo: CHRIS AND SARAH ARE PREGGERS!!! Well, mostly Sarah is, I guess. She's due Feb 6th, so apparently she's been pregs for awhile and managed to keep it a secret. Chris said that he thinks mom knew when we were in Sunriver, but that Sarah kept denying it. :)

They don't want to know the sex in advance, so I'm calling it my niephew for now. I guess this means it's OUR turn to start having kids. We'll have been married for seven years this December, so I suppose it's about damn time.

My FYI is pretty short: I uploaded some new photos on Flickr. Well, the photos aren't exactly new, but I'm still trying to catch up with my backlog a little bit at a time, so they're from May/June, but they're new to my Flickr account, anyway.

The new sets I've created are:

Marindra's House 2007


Trip to Bend 06/2007


Light/Speed


The "I don't know what" part of this post's title was because I was unsure about what I would have left to say once I'd covered the blah, woohoo, and FYI parts. I guess I have nothing to say, really. Despite my gastrointestinal discomfort these past few days (or maybe because of it), I've spent a lot of time pouring through various issues of Cooks, Saveur, and Wine Spectator that we've had lying around. There have been so many tasty things I want to try (especially in this month's Saveur...drool), and it sucks that my stomach is so topsy-turvy right now. The article on Vladivostok alone almost made me want to cry because it made me SO HUNGRY. And I haven't finished it yet, but the avo article is pretty good so far too, and reminded me of Ai's "The Avocado" post. Saveur even mentions using avocado as a more affordable substitute for toro! :)

So...it's late, and I guess that's all I have to write for now. Except, oh - someone found my blog by searching for "cat in US which kills sick people in 2 hours." What's THAT about?!? They were from Saudi Arabia, if that helps. Is there some kind of urban legend about that? :O