I have achieved camp bed

Yay! My next step on the quest to reduce my camping footprint is here. My new twin-sized 9" mattress arrived just one day after I was notified it was being shipped. I do like Amazon. I hate the color of the thing, 'camo', but really appreciated that the box was covered with blurbs to support the National Forest Foundation, which I can join at a reduced cost since the mattress company donates money from each sale. And kindly packs in a membership form and info-paper with the mattress.

That's a feel-good kind of thing. For that, I'll forgive them the camo.

My day has been quiet. I ran errands for home & health (I was out of Sudafed and neti-pot solution as well as [gasp!] chicken noodle soup. Can't have that!) then collapsed back into bed. Then was up again, of course, because I took the Sudafed. You know, if I ever tried Meth, I'd die, judging from the effect of the diluted cold medicine. I'll keep that in mind for when I'm old and sucking my gums and sponging off of my kids...

Got a stew, or a soup, going on the stove. In true family style it's gonna be a blend of frozen-stuff-saved-for-soup and whatever is in the refrigerator that needs to be used. You know how it goes.

Arn and Opi travelled out to look at a prospective event site, one that I love, and met with the Autocrat and his assistant there. I wish I could have gone but I just didn't want to risk infecting anyone with what I've got. Except for the folks at the Sprint store, that is, who had to transfer my address/phone book from my old phone to my new one. But I sanitised my hands before I went in and didn't touch them directly or anything else in there. Arn and I spent part of yesterday combing the house for all of our old cell-phone equipment so we can donate it in one fell swoop to the local women's shelter.

Fun

This has been fun to look at: The Renaissance Kitchen. Illustrations from Scappi

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2009/03/renaissance-kitchen.html

Darn it

My temperature has risen two degrees since this morning. Darn it, I am really wanting to kick the sinus infection on my own and not have to resort to the "Urgent Care Clinic" process at my doctor's office. I'm gonna keep working on what I've been doing and hope that I'll turn the corner overnight - tomorrow being the deadline I set myself before going in for antibiotics.

Why, on God's Green Earth, do I get a sinus infection each and every time I get a cold or the flu? It is so aggravating!

(That was a rhetorical question.)

Atleast that meant that the folks who came over this evening for their Herald's Night are at little risk of catching what I have. We had a good meeting, if slightly disjointed thanks to my scatterbrain-ness and inability to think. My head has been pounding. Still, we all tried one of the lesson/tests on the Herald's resource page and laughed at ourselves about our scores. And I've got two deputy heralds now. And a plan for the next few weeks - we're going to inform people about heraldic wills and "blanket permission to conflict" to make the future easier on other folks wanting to register their Arms. :)