24 February 2009

09 February 2009

The Silver Lining

Last week was an absolute living hell. Since I work from home, my computer is essential. Hard drives crashing is always a really bad thing, but it's extra bad when you're already swamped that week and you can't do a thing about it. It was agonizing to do nothing during the same days that I had to upload three courses to go live on Thursday. Let's see how this can get worse. Migraine! Of course. Tuesday required mostly being in bed or falling down from dizziness. The vampiric fear of sunlight was starting to seriously impact me.

Wednesday improves with my data retrieved and the new hard drive installed. I stay up pretty late uploading all three courses only hours before they were going to be released. I'm assuming that the release of stress of that being done and the mega screen time is what brought the migraine back on full force with a head cold. Prescription decongestants and vicodin only took away the edge.

I still have the head cold with a lot of physical soreness of being in bed along with the sense that I may never catch up on work, but I think the only way to dig myself out of this hole is to find the silver lining in these rather dark clouds.
  1. I did baby myself enough to get strong enough to enjoy Wine Fest Friday night. I was exhausted after a mere five hours of being out, but I was thrilled to be with friends and actually able to taste wine, albeit not well.
  2. I got to get out on Sunday and enjoy a drive in my new car.
  3. My boss asked me to send her the more mundane work that I needed to get done so I can focus on my expertise of course development, at least temporarily so I can catch up.
  4. I finished my orientation at Walden for my PhD. I really hate orientations.
  5. Eric came home early tonight and brought me a potted orchid and my favourite crab dip.

So not back in great shape yet, but I'm optimistic.

02 February 2009