That'd do it.

Picked up a virus somewhere, probably brought in by hubby. He's off at a conference right now, but just texted me that he has "the flu" as well (though whether he's been officially diagnosed as the flu or if he's using that term, I don't know). Well, I've been down sick since Tuesday. Tried to go to two followup appointments yesterday but I called and rescheduled them and instead went to the normal doctor to make sure what I had wasn't something like swine flu. Nope, "just" a virus, but still... drained, weak, dizzy, can't eat much without a stomach reaction of some sort...

On the plus side, I did laundry, took the trash out, got the mail, cleaned litterboxes, made several phone calls (including a stressful one to insurance) and did some general easy picking up of things around the house. Not a whole lot, any of it, and that was spread over the last 3 days. I know I'm getting into my cycle with hormones where I just can't sit still, and the weather is alternating between sleepy weather and "WANT OUTSIDE!!!" beautiful weather as the seasons change. Rather an odd thing to be both antsy and tired at once.

Heh, I'm down with a stomach bug and a virus and I still feel better than I sometimes do on a bad CFS day. Go figure.

Sending in stuff now to insurance to hopefully support the disability claim. I'd like to have disability pay until the specialist *does* release me to return to work, after all... Cross your fingers that this is enough.

On a totally unrelated note.... addicted to a new author. Well, he's not that new to the writing scene but an author I hadn't read before. Jim Butcher. He writes both the Dresden Files (private eye dealing in magic, the fight of white magic vs dark magic, good series) and the Codex Alera (Furies of Calderon, pure fantasy along the lines of some of my other favorite authors. Really reminds me of a cross between Mercedes Lackey and Raymond Feist with a touch of Katherine Kerr.). I really like his writing style. I'm on book 2 of Codex and once I finish that I'll read book 2 of Dresden. Dresden Files is written in first person with a dark theme but a lot of dry, sarcastic humor that makes me laugh. Codex Alera is purely fantasy in third person where the 'magic' comes from something akin to elementals, called 'Furies'. And Butcher writes very smoothly. He's one of the types of authors I like to study to improve my own writing.