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I’m sorry I’ve been absent and I have lots of email to answer, but I’m still sick. My head hurts like hell! The doctor on call from my doctor’s office didn’t advise going to the ER, he said I should ride it out instead. He also suggested trying different pain killers and that helped a lot. The one I was using wasn’t doing anything, but others make it almost go away as long as I keep taking them.

But I am so sick of being sick, and I am going so stir crazy I am almost out of my mind!! I am tempted to go to a movie or something, but I don’t feel quite up to it, I’m afraid I will make myself worse, or I’ll infect others with this horror.

So that’s my story. I’m mostly lying on the couch moaning. Here is a picture from happier days. This was at the end of my choir’s holiday performance, when the orchestra stood and John turned to face the audience to acknowledge the thunderous applause.

I think there’s a possibility it might be swine flu! But a mild case, at least so far. I’m going to go curl up now. And try to sleep.

I am SO glad I went out yesterday and went food shopping. Often I don’t have food in the house, I just go out when I get hungry. So I’m all set for staying inside and resting.

This is Buddy in the window, just minutes ago, practically live.

Happy Christmas Eve!!

You are pretty freaking gorgeous. I pulled out some Christmas books. The Dickens of course, and an old Mary Higgins Clarke Christmas story (every single one of her books is the exact same book written over and over and over and over again, someone will ignore someone else, someone else won’t remember some key thing, but have a vague sense that they are forgetting something, there’s two guys, the bad guy and the good guy who the heroine will get together with by the end).

North Carolina Karen sent me a picture of her birds in the snow. Which inspired me to take a picture of mine, but of course there was only one up there when I went to grab a shot.

First, the country birds!

And the city bird! You can see how my fort, which I took down after the snow, created a nice snow-free zone around the feeder!

Someone took a picture of us caroling at Paddy O’Reilly’s!! I took one look at this shot and decided to get a haircut. I need something that works better with wearing a hat all the time. The guys singing around me (the only people I could hear) had beautiful voices. Really beautiful.

Oh, before I forget, I keep meaning to post this. When I was looking up which subway to take to get to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine I saw that people actually reviewed churches and this one review for St. John’s was amusing:

St John the Divine Cathedral 1047 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025-1798
Poor performance – Sep 17, 2009
Beautiful Cathedral, but did not fulfill on promises. Material provided promised entry into heaven by following several simple rules. After obeying those rules, and consulting with third party experts, was assured that necessary conditions were not met and that, in fact, their advice would lead to damnation.