It’s a Monday, all right

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For about the fifth or sixth day in a row, I’ve woken with a headache.

It’s a combination of the weather (rainy), not being able to get out and walk every day due to said weather, a weekend spent partly in theatre seats and having to skip a scheduled massage.  My liver is not going to appreciate another day of painkillers, but yanno, life just doesn’t stop because I woke up in pain.

(Random: my kid just picked up my old iPhone and declared “apple”.  Um.)

The weekend consisted of this: a sick kid, seeing the last Harry Potter film and going to see Wicked.

And yes, I know that none of those things mesh well with having a sick kid.  Thankfully, we have family who are always happy to look after said kid, even when sick, to give us a needed break.

The kidlet woke up on Saturday morning with hives, which became steadily worse as the day went on.  Poor little dude didn’t understand what was going on, and was cranky as all get out.  He had a rough night on Saturday night, but turned the corner and the hives started getting better on Sunday.  This morning, he still has some,but they’re much smaller.  He has a cough and he’s still generally swollen, and I think a doctor’s visit will be needed today (thankfully, I already had one booked for myself – dealing with trying to get a doctor on the weekend was a headache that he wasn’t quite sick enough for).  At this stage, I’m thinking it’s a virus and not an allergy, but we’ll see what the doctor has to say.

Harry Potter was an enjoyable film.  It’s not my favourite of the film franchise (that goes to Order of the Phoenix) and I think more could have been made of some of the character deaths, to be honest.  Overall, I was left totally loving Snape as a character.  And we could totally have done without the epilogue, but it does wrap up the whole story well.

Wicked was terribly awesome.  I kind of wanted to bring the whole stage home   My sister and I treated my mother to a ticket (going to see muscials when they’re in town – which is fairly rarely in Perth – is kind of our thing).  It was nice to go to a matinee and see lots of kids enjoying themselves, too.  The performer who played Elphaba in the production here was holy-crap-amazing.  Though I could have done without the whole theatre getting far too excited when Bert Newton stepped on stage *insert eye roll here*.  It’s a great show, and I encourage people to go and see it if they can.  And I brought home a plush winged monkey for the kidlet (who thankfully napped for the husband most of the time I was gone).

This week I really want to get stuck into the writing again.  Today is probably going to be a mostly-lost day due to the needed doctor’s appointment, but I’ll do what I can

Mirrored from Stephanie Gunn.