Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Hope to get work soon so I can fly up to see these little monkeys before they get any bigger!

I’m giving my food poisoning the “evil eye”, much like this baby (worst excuse to share a silly video ever!):

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I have one dose of Cipro left, plus 2 additional days of Flagyl, which I may or may not take, depending on my lab results.

Well, Christmas is over, and I hate to admit it, but I’m kind of glad. It wasn’t a great one. Between food poisoning and the stress of that on my family, it pretty much sucked. Don’t get me wrong. Christmas morning was pretty pleasant. I loved the gifts I received, and I am pleased to report that my parents enjoyed the gifts I got for them. But honestly, I don’t remember being sicker in my life. Food poisoning is something I’ve heard people talk about, but until I’d experienced it first-hand, I really didn’t fully understand how bad it could be. It was grim. Just grim. I spent yesterday in the E.R., and they definitely got it right. The antibiotics are completely helping. The course of my illness bumped up against the limits of the home doc (i.e., dad), so we had to do the wait-forever thing to get the right kinds of tests done. Please tell me how people managed without antibiotics? HOW?!

Here’s a nice scene from Christmas Day with me and my parents engaging in pretty typical parallel play:

Here’s me last night:

By “Next”, I mean let’s move on to the next holiday… get some distance between now and this Christmas thing. How about it?

The longer title is really “Christmas Songs That Aren’t Christmas Songs (From Me) and Actual Christmas Songs (From Other Bloggers)”

From Me
(I listen to these year-round, and only when I hear them at Christmas do I remember that they are often called “Christmas songs”, although I’m not sure I agree. Still, WONDERFUL songs.)

Fairytale of New York by The Pogues with Kirsty MacColl:

River by Joni Mitchell:

Christmas Mixtapes (Thanks, other bloggers!):

• Hi-Fi Heart
• I Am Fuel, You Are Friends
• chrisdellavedova.com
• Football and Music
• Black Balloon
• The Leather Canary (There are a bunch of Xmas mixes here, so click around!)
• Caffeine Headache
• Random Thoughts of Nothingness
• Circles of Concrete
• Captain Obvious
• rbally
• To the Dogs Or Whoever
• Speed of Dark

My Old Neighborhood, Jamaica Plain (taken last week)