Some Year

The end of the year was looking up until I capped off last night with a 102 degree fever and a stomache ache. Today I’m sitting around thinking about champagne I probably won’t be able to have and trying not to sit upright. You’ll have to exuse me because my brain’s a little fuzzy — I just spent an hour in my head trying to decide why Terminator 2 is still an enjoyable movie.

For all the bad things I slogged through this year, there was some considerable good as well. I quit some meds and got un-depressed; my boy learned to enjoy his first novel and we found he was good at math and writing, if not penmanship; went to Blogher and met a whole lot of wonderful people I knew only digitally; met super-dog Zeke (and that guy that cares care for him); and got engaged to Chef, whom I first loved when I was fourteen years old and never wanted to see thereafter until somebody gave me a stern talking-to two Christmases ago.

The best parts were, as always, the quietest ones.

Bonus: If you drink some champagne on my behalf, make sure you open it correctly.

9 Responses to “Some Year”


  1. 1 Sam Dec 31st, 2006 at 4:48 pm

    Hope you feel better.

    The best is yet to come. Congrats.

  2. 2 Auguste Dec 31st, 2006 at 5:39 pm

    my boy learned to enjoy his first novel

    Heh. Just because I’m thinking lazily today, and not because of any suspicions I actually harbored, I was like “Jesus, Chef just read his first novel?”

  3. 3 PD Dec 31st, 2006 at 7:28 pm

    I read it as he wrote his first novel, and the novel somehow included math.

  4. 4 Anne Jan 1st, 2007 at 2:06 am

    (Auguste, me too.)

    Happy 2007, soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. Chef!

  5. 5 Roxanne Jan 1st, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    You’re not alone. We’ve had the same plague. Get well soon and Happy New Year.

  6. 6 Lauren Jan 1st, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    I’m not a Mrs. Gah.

  7. 7 Marked Hoosier Jan 2nd, 2007 at 9:49 pm

    You like Ma’am better?

  8. 8 Comandante Agi Jan 3rd, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    Sucks being sick on New Year’s Eve, eh? I was on vacation yet stuck in the hotel room with a fever and strep throat on the big day. Hope you’re feeling better now.

  9. 9 Linnaeus Jan 3rd, 2007 at 8:33 pm

    I wasn’t sick on New Year’s Eve, but I did get “played” a bit at the party I was at, which bothered me almost as much.

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