When is this dumb cold going to go away? It's a pain being sick!

So, I've a change or two in my personal life. Good changes (I hope).

I'm excited about this next chapter and the extra spare time! I think I'm going to take advantage of some of additional time and binge watch some of my old favorite tv shows without any guilt and maybe enjoy the nice weather.

Crap, Brody Stevens... such a tortured person who only wanted to make people laugh, help folks and be a positive person. I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon in my old neighborhood, I think I’m going to wear my Brody shirt and try to spread some positive energy in his memory. Rest easy Brody.

I'm sad about Peter Tork. I saw him a couple of years ago with Mike and Mickey at the Pantages. I went to the concert with an amazingly gentle soul who was kind enough to plan a really nice evening for us. I was unwell that night and never really got the chance to properly say thank you. While Peter's voice was different than what I was used to or what I expected, it was a thrill hearing him perform again. I am grateful to have been able to go to that show.

If he's reading this, I want to say a heartfelt thank you to my companion that night. I thought about you when I heard the news and my cold, cold heart hurt.


The dreary weather seems appropriate.

I need a little comedy to snap me out of this. Either that or some NyQuil. Being sick AND sad is no good. A Dead Authors podcast should help.

I feel crappy. Came home from work after only about two hours. Does taking NyQuil during daylight hours count as day drinking? I've been trying to sleep, but not having too much luck. I hate being sick.

Well, no surprise, I went to the Doctor Who convention this past weekend, as I do every year around this time. Once again, I'm going to say that this might be my last year. It seems like it just hasn't been terribly good the last eight years or so. It's the only convention I go to now, so I guess it's hard for me to totally give it up.

John Barrowman, Katy Manning and Catherine Tate were amazing, but they aren't there the entire time! To be honest, I went to some panels Friday afternoon, went up to the room, had a cocktail and watched TV. Stayed in the room sort of late Saturday morning watching The Office, then went down for about four panels, had dinner then back up to the room for cocktails and TV while my friends went downstairs later. Sunday, I didn't even bother with panels, I packed my crap and went home while my friends stayed another night. I think this is the first convention I didn't buy anything. At all.

Our hotel room was terrible. The mattresses on the beds slid all over the place, the fitted sheets didn't stay on, the windows didn't open and were constantly covered with dripping water from condensation, the bathroom ceiling tiles didn't match well and were uneven, the TV kept blacking out, the cleaning folks came in the room when I'd put the "privacy please" sign out, parking wasn't adequate.... and that's not all! It wasn't like we were tearing the place up either. We are women over 40 eating junk food and watching tv when we're in a room, we're not Led Zepplin at the Riot House!!!

Topping everything else, I'm sick now! I don't know if it's a crummy cold or something I was once told about called "Con Crud". Either way, it sucks and I feel terrible. I've got antibiotics from my doctor and both NyQuil AND DayQuil. My evening plans are sorted!

Blah!

Interesting day today. Not much happened, so I got a lot done, both at work and at home. I'd been procrastinating doing some things, so it's nice to have them taken care of. I feel a wee bit lighter.

I recently went back and started reading Jerry Capeci's weekly column from 1996 to current day. So interesting! It's weird reading through knowing how things turn-out or reading and being surprised because things are different to how I remember. Well worth the annual subscription fee, at least it is for me!

I'm not sure why, but I feel really unsettled. I can't say that I'm unhappy, but (at least for the moment) I don't think I can say that I'm totally happy right now either. This especially sucks because I had a neat achievement at work and my boss is taking some of us out to lunch at a very nice restaurant in Beverly Hills Wednesday to celebrate and I'm going to have to fake it through the entire thing.

Ah well, not an insurmountable problem.

Start of a new, GREAT week, right?

Not a bad day today, but not the best day either. I was optimistic that it was going to be a great day, lol! it had such great potential too!!! Serves me right for expecting a Monday to be awesome, right? Ever the optimist, I'm hopeful tomorrow is a better and maybe a wee bit shorter.

I think I'll plan on going to bed early tonight....

I'm really loving the rain we're having. As I usually do when we have rain that lasts for a bit, I put on some Henry Mancini and just enjoyed everything.

I'm not really that interested in the Super Bowl (or is it SuperBowl?), but I did eat a bunch of wings I made in my air fryer.

I think I'm going to play some Art Pepper and enjoy what's left of this amazing Sunday night.