Steroids are amazing

After I told my doctor the Imitrex didn't help my last migraine at all and it lasted for almost three days, he called in a prescription for a stronger steroid that I'll be on for two weeks instead of five days.  I don't know if that's what finally broke me out of my migraine, but after 72 hours of suffering, I took the pill and my migraine had disappeared within a couple of hours.

So last night I stayed up till 3 am reading on my Nook.  Wasn't tired.  The only reason I stopped reading was because my Nook battery died.  And then, even then, I kept waking up all night.  I guess that's what happens when you sleep all day.  =P

And today!  I went to work and made up two hours of time that otherwise would have come out of my PTO allowance.  I already had to take a floating holiday for Friday to recover from this migraine, and Monday was a paid holiday too, so I only worked 24 hours this week, haha.  I have about 50 hours of PTO and 1 floating holiday left to use; was hoping to save them all up for a vacation but I'm going to bite the bullet and use them for sick time if I have to.

Today!  I:

-Watched one of the discs of Season 1 of Friends (I'm rewatching the whole series, slowly)
-Made yakisoba for dinner, plus chopped and froze enough vegetables to make it again soon
-Tidied the living room and the kitchen.  This is a huge deal, because there has been out-of-place stuff there for months!
-Dishes are almost done (they were done earlier, but then I started cooking)
-Laundry is almost done (in fact all the clothes are done, I just have a sweater to wash on delicate.)
-Cat litter is scooped.

Wow, I haven't had a day like this in a long time.  My legs are actually sore from running around the house the last two hours - does that say anything about my activity levels lately?

Joe will be home any minute and he will come home to hot dinner!  I am so proud to be able to serve him!  And then after dinner he'll play games and I'll read my Nook.

Books

(There, I broke up the monotony of one of my blog posts)

 I'm reading "Unbroken."  It's a WWII story of a guy, Louie Zamperini, who gets an Olympic medal in track, and then gets drafted into the Air Force for the war.  And then he gets stranded at sea for 37 days, I think..and now at this point of the book he's a POW in Japan and I'm only half done with it!!  It has some war pictures too, making it all more real.  It took me about half an hour to get into it, and now I am absolutely riveted and couldn't stop thinking about it all day.  I wasn't sure how many actual pages it was, since I read on my Nook.  Yeah, on Amazon it's 500 pages.  I'm over halfway done, mostly from reading yesterday!

I also read "The Help."  Amazing book that made me tear up more than once.  Just when I think I've read enough about black perspectives in the South in the '50s (I feel like that was all I read in American literature), I get another one that stuns me.  It's about black maids in the '50s, right around the time Martin Luther King Jr. made his speech.  The other thing I like about it is, it talks about cleaning, and these women seriously mopped these huge houses every single day, and would spent hours ironing a complicated piece of clothing, and make the dinner and watch the kids...it was crazy.  It's historical fiction and a really easy read.

And I read a book about Living Well with Migraine Disease.  Somewhat informative but very repetitive toward the end.  I wanted to tell the author, "I read the first half of the book.  Don't think I'm stupid and repeat everything just in case I wasn't paying attention."

I read The Book of Tea by Okakura Kazumo (I think?)  Very philosophical about tea and how it shapes our cultures, and how our cultures shape it.  Some good quotes, but probably wouldn't read again.

And I read Chosen by Ted Dekker.  I think it's meant for teens, but it still had me reading deep into it.  I think it's related to another series he has, the Circle series for adults, but in that one apparently there's a time gap, and he wrote these books for teens to fill in the gap.  I didn't know that when I got it, but I'll still finish the book.  Fiction is supposed to be entertaining and teen books are easy reading!

So I'm still wasting time but I don't feel like I'm wasting it.  I can pull myself away from a book.  I realize when I'm tired and need to sleep, when I'm reading a book.  Overall, my time is much healthier.

Oh and one more brag


Edit: scrolling down I see I left this hanging but I don't know what I was going to type.  Must have gotten distracted!