Fast, postponed

Been checking my mail compulsively all week. It doesn't help that I haven't been able to make as many phone calls as I would like because I've been sick and losing my voice. I had a health-fast planned for this weekend. Which means not only no eating, but a bunch of activities non-stop all weekend so I would be too busy to think about being hungry.

Well, that got canceled due to my cold. The sore throat went away pronto, but it was clear I was losing my voice when giving directions to large groups of middle school students, and by Wednesday I devleoped a cough. I stayed home Thursday to rest and drink white horehound tea (good for coughs but bitterly nasty to taste). I figured it would fix me right up, and for the most part it did. In fact for most of the week I 'd come home from the office around five and read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire until nine and go to bed. It was a beautiful existence if you don't count coughing up nastiness into a hanky. (Goblet of Fire, by the way - !!! I get the feeling there are dark and dangerous times ahead.)

Anyway I figured by now I'd be fine and in the day time I am, it just nights that involve a lot of hacking, and sweating. I'm annoyed that it's just a minor cold, but I wish it would hurry up and either go away or kill me. It's tough not to have the energy to do the things you want. No high school production of Suessical, no charity knitting event, and certainly midnight movie of Princess Mononoke at the Fargo theater.

I still managed to go out to dinner with fellow VISTA Natasha, and see Concordia's production of Joseph on Friday night, and still got my hair cut and devoted last night to dying my hair with henna and watching Spanglish, rented from the library. So that means the movie of the weekend is Spanglish, and as there was no fasting the recipe of the weekend is Spinach Lasagna from the 11th edition paperback of the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, page 745 I believe.

Stay tuned for the details of planning my families Thanksgiving. There's more I could write about now, but I'm trying to keep it brief.