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Jen isn't quite sure when she lost her mind, but it is probably documented here on Meditatio. She blogs because the world needs her snark at all hours of the night... and she probably can't sleep anyway.

Prayer Request

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Do me a favor:

Please pray that my asthma problems and the nausea abate so that I don’t end up in the ER or admitted to the hospital tonight.Â? I’ve been having problems all day with breathing and dizziness and nausea.

Thanks

Gah!

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I thought that my loopiness from yesterday would be gone today.Â? Umm… no.Â? I took 2 Benadryl last night to fight the nasty itchy feeling in my face from allergies and smoke from the Skyland Fire in East Glacier which made me wake up in no shape to drive myself to the doctor today.Â? (I feel like someone is taking my head, shaking it like a snow globe, and putting it back on.)Â? Apparently, all the Benadryl from last week is still in my system and I have at least another day of being completely useless to anyone.Â? (I had to have someone drive me into town to give Jon spare keys last night when his set got locked in the car.)Â? I also have a raging sinus infection among other things and my doctor thinks that the ER doc in Kalispell was a moron for telling me that I wasn’t allergic.Â? (I am so getting a recommendation to an allergist in Great Falls to get everything straightened out with my allergies and asthma and to find out WHAT venom stings I’m allergic to so that I know whether or not I actually need an Epi-Pen.)

Oh yes… did I mention that they’re doing road construction in town so that driving anywhere and parking on Main Street is a freaking mess (as well as the town reeking of tar and asphalt)?Â? And that it was in the 90’s again (it’s been in the high 80’s and upwards for a months now with no break)?

Then I get home and find out that the local hospital entered the wrong amount for a payment and caused a snowball of things to mess up my bank account.Â? (I was on the phone for 45 minutes with my bank fixing it.)Â? Oh yes… I also have a stomach that is rejecting everything put in it so I’m incredibly nauseous and in pain while doing this.

The rest of the day has followed suit.Â? I have an itchy face again, it’s bloody hot, there’s smoke from the Skyland fire (meaning that opening windows is not an option), and I’m just incredibly uncomfortable.Â? The heat is so bad that I have liquid streaming down my face and my stomach — we’re talking going through shirts because they get so nasty from the sweat and of course… we have no freaking A/C (apparently we don’t *NEED* it here — uh huh… right…) so there’s not exactly much that can be done.

Today is soooooo fired!!!! This Benadryl had better get itself the heck out of my system so I can actually *TAKE* my antibiotics and a decongestant tomorrow.

Blogathon 2007 Redux: The Good, the Bad, and What I’ll Do Differently Next Year

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So I’m sort of awake still and figure I can probably redux things OK.

The Good
-raising $270 (at this point) for International Justice Mission
-getting to hang out with lovely people again who I unfortunately only get to see during the ‘thon
-meeting awesome people like Lauren (one of my monitees — I always wind up meeting at least one really excellent person every year and she’s this year’s person)
-my awesome husband Jon bringing me Subway for lunch
-cats hanging out with me
-dancing the Timewarp at 3 a.m.
-my cheerleaders
-my monitor team: the bSpies who posted lots of cat macros
-getting to go to sleep right after I finished (and not having tons of phone calls to wake me up)
-being able to help out with Potterthon

The Bad
-the flippin’ heat
-the smoke outside which means that I can’t open windows to air out my study
-some of my monitored sites breaking my browser
-feeling completely punch drunk right now
-the nastily uncomfortable chair that is my computer chair

What I’ll Do Differently Next Year
-different charity (I love IJM to pieces but I switch charities every year)
-different computer chair!!!
-not be part of multiple group weblogs (it was fun but really hard when I had multiple entries due) or if I am, I’ll have entries going in on each site and saved until they have to be posted
-put my monitored sites into a bookmark group so that I can go surf and hang out without having to deal with the surfing frame
-have a cooler up here with cold drinks so that I don’t have to walk down two floors to the kitchen (then again… it was good exercise)
-print out my schedule so I don’t have to have MS Excel open
-create my Napster playlist and find some way of saving it so I don’t have to re-create it if my Napster freezes
-have a list of artists I want to check out so I have new music during the ‘thon
-keep mIRC open more so I can participate in more of the chat (oh yes… I’ll also have instructions to give my monitees on how to get in if they ask)

I will definitely participate again and I’ll monitor again as well.Â? (Monitoring means that I get to hang out with a group of people and be a cheerleader and find out about new and wonderful sites and people.)

Blogathon Done

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So I’ve been done for about 10 hours now and asleep for 8 hours of that.Â? I’m still not fully “here” as I’m mixing up consonants and not walking well.Â? (I banished the husband creature downstairs for laughing at me.)Â? My redux will be up tomorrow.

Meanwhile… if you’d still like to sponsor me, go here.