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Dawn Felagund ([personal profile] dawn_felagund) wrote2006-03-07 01:47 pm
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I Feel Old

Yesterday, my sister-in-law was admitted to the hospital and had a golf-ball sized abscess removed. Bobby just called me and said that she's home now and doing much better, but it's been a worry-filled morning. It's one of those situations where I wanted to call my inlaws and find out but know that--as Erin was only taken into surgery at 11:30 last night--they probably were asleep or didn't want to be otherwise bothered solely to ease my troubled mind.

In other health-related news, Dawn Felagund officially feels old. My cough persists; I wasn't aware that I'd taken up smoking as a habit, but I sure have a smoker's cough. And I slept like crap again last night, although I can't blame the muses this time. The muses were actually being nice to me, keeping me company when I couldn't sleep but leaving me alone when I'd start to drift off. *pets muses*

My right hip has been bothering me for weeks now, and it's a lazy-man injury. It only hurts when I sit or lay down for a long time, which is fine, except I have to sit at work and lay down to sleep. Anyway, it was gone for a good half-week, but I woke up this morning to find that it was back with a vengeance, worse than ever before. Usually, it goes away after I limp around for a few minutes. I just stood up to get a paper out of the fax, and it elicited a sharp pain and went all weak, nearly dumping me on my ass. Well, stupid-lazy-man hip, I have news for you: You are skating tomorrow. I don't care how badly it hurts. I'll limp around in the meantime. But you are skating.

I'm going to make a pretty sight, limping on my skates and hacking like an old lady.

I even considered calling out of work today. But I was persuaded--and this is bad--by the fact that I was three pages from finishing a beta for Jenni and I needed to work on this week's AMC posting, and both things were saved on my hard drive at work. So, yes, I came to work to work on fan fiction.

On a completely unrelated note, one of my original characters--not from Silmfic--is begging me for his own LJ. He insists that he will use it judiciously and seems to honestly believe that it would be good for me as a writer to waste my time writing in his LJ as well as mine. He also swears that he will keep it friend-locked. I don't know....

(Why do I feel like a parent with a hyper teenager, "Please please please let me get my bellybutton pierced?!" Gah. And he is a teenager. An part-Elven teenager. *glares at Meryth*)

Well, I haven't decided. He'll probably keep me awake at night until I say yes but I'm not giving in just yet.

[identity profile] kaikias.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
What, is the Lung Lurgi going around your area as well? Half of New York seems to be hacking up a collective lung these past few days, myself included. I blame the weather, I think.

[identity profile] juno-magic.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
My muses say they would like to meet Meryth... so would a host of my original characters...

[identity profile] juno-magic.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Elentar is sniggering.

Don't encourage any resident original half-elves on my side of the ocean!

[identity profile] isil-elensar.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
My cough persists; I wasn't aware that I'd taken up smoking as a habit, but I sure have a smoker's cough.

I had bronchitis really bad one year, and once I got better, I still had the cough. But eventually, it turned out that the cough is actually part of my allergies. Instead of sneezing and that lot, I cough. I sound worse than a smoker, and I don't smoke!

When it gets bad, the people at work start cracking jokes. It's funny really... ;-)

[identity profile] tarion-anarore.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Eep! I hope your sister is ok! Surgery is Teh Suck.

Ick, sickness. I think I'm getting over my cold...*crosses fingers and knock on wood*
*will send Fingon and tea*

So, yes, I came to work to work on fan fiction.

LOL!! Ohhh Dawn...

On a completely unrelated note, one of my original characters--not from Silmfic--is begging me for his own LJ.

Hehehehe!! Do it!! Kind of like when I contemplated doing a journal for one of my muses - except I had to turn mine in, so ended up nixing the idea...

[identity profile] tarion-anarore.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
*willl freshen up and put on something other than long skirt and scary boots* ;^D

Lol!!

He's really giving me a I-told-you-so look right now. Thanks. ;)

Hehe, you're welcome!! ;P

It's probably a good thing my muses aren't quite back...Don't want to give them any ideas!!!

[identity profile] tarion-anarore.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*Knew it was a mistake to mention that*

Of course you wouldn't...
*Hides computer so muses can't read about Meryth's LJ*

[identity profile] tarion-anarore.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
*Covers muses eyes* You are evol!!

...My muses are now complaining that they can't be friended without having an LJ...

[identity profile] tarion-anarore.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Argh! You!!

[identity profile] digdigil.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
ROFL! Meryth sounds like a live-wire! I hope some of him rubs off on Talban because he needs some youthful exuberance to show. He's just tired right now - he'll be OK once he gets some sleep!

LOL! I can't believe you went to work for fanfic!! Well, yes, maybe I can.

Just be careful when you're skating so that you don't do yourself an injury. (This is Jenni-the-Mom talking here.)

Old? Please! You're too young to know 'old'!

On a serious note, I am sorry about your sister-in-law but it's good that she got the abscess removed. I hope that her recovery will be quick.

[identity profile] digdigil.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
And some ass. Oooh, yess! Talban needs him some ass. Male - female - he doesn't care at this point. And he does need sleep badly!

At first I thought that it was FELAGUND who was bugging you for his own LJ! But if it's Meryth and you're going to give him one, then Talban wants one too!

Your sister-in-law is only 19? Gods, that is my oldest son's age (he'll be 19 in April) and I just cannot imagine anything like that happening to him! That's way too young! I sincerely hope that it's just a lipoma or something benign!

[identity profile] meryth.livejournal.com 2006-03-07 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
*psst* Talban!

[livejournal.com profile] talban isn't taken either....

(Don't tell the handlers.)