Our first fall cold front is coming through Houston in the next few days. Our highs will be in the low 80s next week.
Yeah, the end of September and the expected high for today is 90. And people wonder why I grumble at times about how much I hate Houston? Thank goodness, summer is almost finally over!
I noticed it as soon as I woke up this morning. I don’t feel like someone is sitting on my chest, squishing all the air out of me. My throat isn’t sore, and my glands don’t feel swollen and painful. I can breathe freely through my nose. My sinuses don’t feel like they are trying to explode. My ears don’t crackle every time I swollow. My head doesn’t ache with the dull pain of a sinus headache.
It’s a birthday miracle! I feel well for the first time in 2 weeks! Wheeeeee!!! I feel like doing a happy dance around the room to celebrate!
I’m soooo tired of getting spam. I get a lot of spam. Tons of spam. Sometimes a hundred messages a day of spam. SpamAssassin gets some of them, but not all. Thunderbird flags some of them, but not all. That leaves me spending a lot of time deleting spam. I hate spam.
I’m considering giving Knowspam.net a try, but I would love some feedback first. Anyone KnowSpam? Love it? Hate it? Used it for a day and threw it away? Used it forever and can’t live without it? Tell me what you think… Help save me from the killer spam!
Awww… I want some Hello Kitty checks!
I think I figured out the melancholy mood earlier. In years past, my birthday has either fallen on a weekend, so I’ve been surrounded by family and friends, or on a weekday, and I’ve been at work with co-workers, making lunch plans with them or with friends in downtown, and so forth. This year, I’m home alone. On top of that, I was waiting for the air conditioner man to come and fix the plugged drain so our AC wasn’t overflowing in to the overflow system and draining outside. I had no idea how much that was going to cost, but bills on your birthday are generally no fun. (It wasn’t that bad though. Yeah!)
Also, throughout the year we have done Tiara Happy Hours for birthdays, and while I was originally going to plan one, the timing just wasn’t right – last weekend was booked, and this coming weekend is full too. Bah.
Maybe I just need to get together with the rest of my Birthday Equinox girls (Emily’s is March 27, Sara’s is June 27, I’m September 27, and LT’s is December 27) and do some sort of spiritual birthday chant or something. I think if we chant the right way we can control the weather or something like that. (Maybe we need to put it to good use and help Florida?)
Anyways, going to lunch with my Mom was a nice treat, and it was absolutely delicious. Jason will be home from school soon, and later we’ll go out for dinner when Mike gets home. All in all, a good day.
Thank you so much to everyone for your well wishes, e-mails, virtual chocolates and so forth – they truly have brightened up my day! Mwah! You guys rock! I refuse to start this year off sounding like a big whiner, and you have helped turn that around! Thank you, thank you, thank you!