Just So You Know

I'm not sick.

Just in case you were wondering.

Okay, so I spent my Day of Freedom yesterday knocked out with a migraine. And now I've got a sore throat, and no voice. And I've been driving myself hard enough, and under enough stress, that my immune system probably has all the strength of wet tissue paper.

But I'm not sick.

Because I refuse to be. I don't have the time or the inclination to deal with being sick right now. I have a wedding to go to in less than a week, and a week off work that I have been desperately looking forward to, and the last thing I need right now is to spend it coughing and sleeping.

So. Time to start in with the multivitamins, hot tea, and determination. At least this week is blessedly commitment-free, other than work and packing.

Thinking healthy thoughts....

Also.....

I know I've been grumbling here a lot about how I've been overscheduled, overcommitted, underslept, stressed, and exhausted lately, with all of the projects I've been working on. And I wanted to state, for the record -

I still had a blast. And I'd do it all again, in a heartbeat.

Admittedly, if I had my druthers, I'd do it again at a time when I wasn't also dealing with a car accident, tax woes, and another major life crisis, but none of that was the fault of any of the people involved in the fun stuff. The Babydolls shows were a blast, the LARP I helped run was amazingly fun as always, and in all they were worth every minute of work and prep that went into them.

And on a similar note -

I am incredibly grateful for my friends. Everyone who wasn't involved in the projects in question, whose patience and compassion and general ability to be there when I needed a hand, or a shoulder to lean on, or who put up with my at-best-sporadic presence during all of this.

I am also incredibly grateful for having the world's best husband. I can't describe how amazingly supportive he has been - from pitching in as a stage hand to taking over making dinner and running the house for the past two weeks to just being wherever I needed him a minute before I knew I did, with a mug of tea or a hug or the right words to make everything better.

Most of all, I am grateful beyond measure for having the kind of friends who ask me to be part of crazy things like this. Dancing, performing, writing, you name it - without them, my life would be boring and flat and uneventful as a flyover state. And given a choice between that and the hectic chaos that I have right now.... that's really no choice at all.