Yours truly is being forced to take half a day off. I'm incredibly ill today, for some reason. Wasn't well last night, but passed it off as just common stomach upset.
Had a bit of a rich dinner last night--my cherried chicken, with coucous flavoured with garlic and herbs, and some brussel sprouts. Figured my stomach just wasn't handling the rich food. With rising prices and lower pay checks, I can only do meals like this, maybe once or twice a week--if at all, so my stomach's not used to this stuff, any longer. I don't mean that I'm starving or anything, not at all--but low budgets mean cheaper and less nutritious meals, at least, here in America, they do. What one could by for 40 dollars (20 pounds), just a year or two ago, can now cost as much as 50 to 60 dollars today, depending where one shops/lives.
Anyway, last night I figured that a little of the ol' Pepto stuff (gah-I hate that stuff) would make things right.
Guess again. Concerned because the pain is near my kidney, so, even tho' can't afford it at all, it's back to the doctor's for me. I'll work night shift, tho', losing half a day's pay is bad enough, a whole day's pay would totally bankrupt my already near non-existent budget!
So, I have to be off, later today, to do stuff. Flame's sunning herself in the open window..she's taken to sleeping on my clean towels in the bathroom...great. Now I'll have cat hair on my face and body when I get out of the shower.
I had the two boys sleeping in my bed with me, most the night--they are big boys and it's a small bed and they take up a LOT of space! Not as much as Shamrock used to. My half-collie weighed nearly seventy pounds (we don't use "stone" over here, by the way), and sometimes I'd wake up of a morning, as she'd be stretched out beside me, with her head on my pillow, snoring away, just like a person would do. Thank heaven she didn't have fleas!
Here's a pic of Shamrock with my late mum, taken in our driveway at home, in the summer of 1979:
The picture quality is so poor, because I didn't have this roll of film developed until 2005! Still have some rolls in my photo box from the seventies, that have never been done...maybe someday..
