Yesterday was... interesting. It started off fairly unpleasant (that whole groggy thing :-S), but gradually got better over the day, and actually ended on quite a high note.

I was coughing a fair bit at work, so ended up going home to work in the afternoon for the second day in a row (*gasp*). It was a pretty cruisey afternoon, all things considered - enough to do to keep me going without having so much that I felt like I was overwhelmed. I kind of like days like that.


Stargating

In the evening, I had the lovely debxena and poing_critter over for the first Tuesday night Stargating we've been able to manage in a few weeks now. We're still working our way through early s10, and I had a treat with the wonderfully Ba'al-icious "Insiders" (and IMDB informs me that there's more of His Saffa-ness coming up in later episodes of the season as well - plus I know for a fact there's Continuum just waiting for me when I'm finished the series). I actually really enjoyed the three episodes we watched last night (dodgy astrophysics and dialogue-clangers aside) - there was a lot more of SG-1 functioning as the kind of team they used to be pre-s8 and occasional actual character development, and I'd forgotten just how much I've been missing that with the weird-ass spinoff-y kind of feel the show has had pretty much since the beginning of s9.


Cooking

Oh, and also? I had more adventures in cooking-land, and actually made a from-scratch dinner for the three of us (yes, the world as we know it may just have tilted on its axis or some other similarly mixed metaphor!). It was a pasta bake with pasta shells, garlic, fresh veges, tomatoes, frak-loads of cheese, munchy seeds, and some relish I picked up at the craft fair. The texture came out much better than the last one I did (less pasta and more wet stuff, plus all the cheese worked to enhance stickability, even if it made it quite a bit less healthy!) I think I would have liked to have used more relish-y stuff in it to make it a little tangier than it was, but both debxena and poing_critter pronounced it eminently edible and good, and since it was the first time I'd tried this cooking thing out on anyone other than Gryphon, I think I shall smile and be satisfied with this (also with the fact that I have, in fact, actually cooked or half-cooked something every single day since Friday, which, let me tell you, is pretty damned *amazing* in the Starfireverse!)


Meditating

And then I finished the evening by actually being all good and disciplined, and meditating (I should probably mention that I've done that every night since Saturday, and most nights over the past week, come to think of it). I've started re-visiting the inner garden that I created/discovered (take your pick) back when I was training with the FOI. It's changed a little since then (for a start, the "pavilions" for Earth and Fire have swapped places - Fire is now in the north towards the Equator, and Earth is in the south towards Antarctica; and secondly, the 'pavillions' aren't pavilions any more, but rather just... areas of the garden now... they still have specific things - objects and other etc's associated with them, but some of those have changed as well now). It's interesting exploring what's there now and noting the differences between what I see/experience and what I remember of the garden from back then. Plus, I had a sort-of-surprise visitor once I'd finished doing some of the work I'd come there to do, and had some good conversation with him about... well, a couple of things that I've been realising are internal issues for me that need sorting.


BCoD / Pholcodine Update

And I coughed much of the night but somehow managed to still wake up feeling better than I did yesterday. And with the addition of a caffeine tab, I was actual capable of boxing this morning - granted, not at any level that could be considered *good*; but hey, I made it there, which counts as a serious victory when compared to yesterday. I think it's fair to say that the Pholcodine *isn't* working nearly as well as the codeine did; but on the other hand, it's giving my system a break from the codeine, which is probably a good thing, and I think I'm better on it than nothing. Oh, and when I got this stuff from the chemist, the pharmacist mentioned another cough mixture that someone who had a similar cough to mine had had some relief from, and suggested if the Pholcodine didn't work, that I might want to try... so I figure I might give that a go as well, on the basis that if I try it and it doesn't work, that's $14 wasted; but if I don't try it and it does... well, you do the math...

So plan is to see if the chemist in the village has this other stuff when I go out for lunch. If so, I'll try swapping to that tonight and see what happens. If not, I'll have the Pholcodine again tonight, and then swap back to codeine tomorrow, in the hope that three days off it will be long enough for my system to reset and that I'll actually get a semi-decent night or two's sleep in because of the break. Yeah, I don't know if it'll work either, but it feels worth a shot. Either way, there's a planned way forward, which means that the constant dissolving into coughing at my desk is just that little bit less frustrating...

And now I really need to go get some lunch. Catch y'all later.

Hugs and blessings



Starfire

Tags: cooking, dvds, food, meditation, pholcodine, sg1, sleep
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