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And Don’t Call Me Buttercup!

Posted on January 20, 2017 by mohawkvalleygirl

I’m taking a Blogger’s Sick Day. Anybody who doesn’t care to here anybody else complain, STOP READING NOW!!! Don’t tell me to suck it up, buttercup. I sucked it up all day at work. I am THROUGH sucking it up and I am going to whine if I feel like it!

Well, that made me feel a little better. Now I’ll try to write some semblance of a blog post.

I have had a migraine for two days now. It was worse today, especially the nausea. But I tried to keep working. I succeeded somewhat. I was kind of hoping it would magically vanish when my workday was done. Sometimes headaches do. That is a phenomenon many people have noticed. This one did not. However, I managed to drive home without mishap, and now I am writing a boring blog post before taking a very hot shower and lying down.

One thing I am happy about is that I do not have rehearsal tonight for Steel Magnolias (remember? the play I’m in at Ilion Little Theatre). It is instead the night for the theatre group’s monthly dinner meeting. I am sorry to miss the meeting, but I must confess, not too sorry. For one reason, everybody brings really good food and I always eat too much. That is not good for my weight loss goals.

Oh dear, I feel I should make a concluding paragraph and I am quite blank. And I really want to get to that hot shower. Damn! But anybody who wants to whine about it, please feel free. I won’t tell you to suck it up.

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No New Leaf

Posted on July 14, 2016 by mohawkvalleygirl

So Sunday I declared Monday would be New Leaf Monday, and it turned out to be the same damn leaf after all. Then I had a Tired Tuesday but hoped for better. Then today I had a migraine which at times reached nightmare proportions (but only at times, so I’ve got that going for me). Is it a Wuss-out Wednesday? I think instead I’ll call it a Blogger’s Sick Day. Fellow migraine sufferers will understand.

I won’t give an hour by hour recap of my day’s suffering (although I enjoy doing that on occasion). I will share one frustration. I finished an article for Mohawk Valley Living magazine yesterday, but I had two attractions to write about. I managed to begin my second article while at word today. I looked up a couple of things online just now, but I don’t think I can finish it. This is what I get for waiting for deadline week to write these things. What is my problem? I guess I need to try for another New Leaf Monday.

So there I was, logged on to WordPress, wanting to make my blog post but feeling quite brain dead, and doing what I usually do in that case which is read other people’s blogs. I came across a post titled “Writing A Post Before The End Of The Day” at hachland.com, a pretty fun blog and I don’t just say it because it is written by a cousin of mine. I thought, “Perfect! This is just where I’m at.”

Hmmm…. Kind of an interesting post. But I thought I’d better stop procrastinating and write my own. So I did. Such as it is.

Maybe I could go for New Leaf Thursday instead.

Non-Sequitur Sick Day

Posted on October 9, 2015 by mohawkvalleygirl

On the brighter side, I haven’t had a headache in a long time. On the darker side, there’s Darth Vader.

I am attempting to write my blog post while on a break at work, so that I merely have to type it in later, when I will be pressed for time if not brain power. I am a little pressed for brain power now, in case you hadn’t noticed. Unable to come up with anything of substance, I fall back on trying to be funny.

I’ve always tried to be funny. It’s fun, it sometimes gets you friends, and it can cover up a load of insecurities. Of course there are those times when the humor falls flat or you get accused of trying too hard or being inappropriate. Nobody’s perfect.

My headache is getting worse.

That is when I stopped writing and went back to work. I felt fairly bad-ass for powering through a migraine. At least, I felt that I was bad-ass, which is not quite the same thing. What I actually felt like was Westley in The Princess Bride after Count Ruger has sucked five years of his life out of him on that torture machine (I’m just going to assume we’ve all seen that movie numerous times and and quote all the best lines).

Full disclosure: I am in fact NOT pressed for time right now as was earlier predicted, because I called the director of the play I am stage managing (Lunch Hour at Ilion Little Theatre) and told her I was ill. So it is a stage manager’s sick day as well as a blogger’s sick day.

It ought to be Non-Sequitur Thursday. Unfortunately, except for that lame Darth Vader joke in the first paragraph, I’m afraid I’m kind of… sequential. Not consequential, mind you. However, as a consequence of my migraine, I’m going to go sit on the couch and relax. Hope to see you on Lame Post Friday. Have fun storming the castle!

Not About My Aches and Lame

Posted on October 25, 2014 by mohawkvalleygirl

People who complain about their aches and pains are tiresome. However, today is Lame Post Friday and I can do whatever I want.

I suppose that is not exactly true. If I want to be strictly accurate, I would say I can post whatever I want to post. Oh, all right, that much is true every day. Never mind, let’s get on with today’s post so I can get back to enjoying my Friday.

Hmm, does that make this an ironic post: I will complain about my aches and pains then get back to enjoying myself? That might call for some half-baked philosophy to answer. Can we truly enjoy ourselves through pain? Does overcoming pain enhance or detract from our enjoyment? In short, does pain make us better people or is that just a rationalization we use to help us feel better about the pain?

What brought all this on was that my day of enjoyment with my dear husband has been overshadowed by a migraine. It started out as a sinus twinge when I woke up. I had some coffee and hoped for the best. Breakfast at Crazy Otto’s Diner kind of sort of helped. Then we took Tabby for a walk in the cold wind and the pain got worse.

Undaunted, I picked up my notebook and the map I had printed off the computer, and we set out. Butternut Barn Primitives and Dyn’s Cider Mill. My headache felt a little worse. I got some hot cider at Dyn’s. Sipping it helped. Fly Creek Cider Mill, Rustic Ridge Winery. The headache returned as soon as I had finished the cider. I resolutely ignored it and managed to enjoy the Mill and the Winery.

As we drove home the headache got worse and turned into a full-blown migraine with light sensitivity and upset stomach. When we got home I aet a few corn chips, so as not to have an empty stomach, and took some Migraine Relief and a nap. Getting up from the nap and asking Steven to make some coffee (Pumpkin Spice!), my headache seems to be dissipating. Again, I hope for the best.

I intend to write blog posts about each stop on the trip as well as the trip itself. Right now, this is my post. Thank you for playing.

Mohawk Valley Girl