Plague.

Okay, so maybe that's a touch dramatic. But I'm still freaking sick.

I spent Wednesday in bed, mostly sleeping. During some lucid moments (i.e., in between dosages of codeine and night-time cold medicine) I knitted more of my snowflake lace socks. You know, I should knit while intoxicated on cold meds more often; I didn't knit nearly as tightly as I normally do. I ended up finishing Snowflake Lace sock #1 yesterday, but I think I need to pick up another ball to finish the other sock, since it looks like each sock takes about a ball and a half of yarn.

In other news, I am SO excited - Yaz is touring!!! Viva las '80s!



I have GOT to get tickets to see them when they hit NY in July. I had the luck of seeing Alison Moyet about 14 years ago when she toured for her HooDoo album - it was an all-acoustic show at The Academy and she encored with an acoustic version of Situation, quite possibly my all-time fave Yaz song. Her voice was incredible, so powerful and strong. It was a great show. I've seen Vince Clarke live a bunch of times, since I see Erasure every chance I get. But to think that I may get to see Yaz live is so exciting.

Today is one of those days where I feel like locking myself in my room with a lot of chips and salsa, a stack of Star Trek novels, and the Raiders of the Lost Ark trilogy on DVD. Plus a crapload of other sci-fi I've been in the mood to rewatch lately.

Just sayin'. Having said that, I think I will try and wrassle the kids down (one of them is sick, so my battle may be half won) and watch Raiders tonight. Is is me, or do kids have much less of an attention span these days? I wasn't much older than Will is when I saw Raiders in the theatre, and I was rapt. I can't even get through 20 minutes on DVD at home before I'm the only one left on the couch, saying, "What? What?" as they drift off to obviously more important things. I blame video games. Then again, I'm feeling very much like the old guy yelling at the kids to get off his lawn today. And for that, I blame this stupid cold.

Regardless, Indy and I have a date tonight. Belloq - we're coming for you.

I just heard from my Longing For Spring Swap partner this morning! Yay!! She (or he, it's a secret) sounds so cool already.

I also scoped out my super secret swap partner's blog and even looked her up on Ravelry. I have tons of ideas, none of which I want to mention here just in case I get found out. But it involves some Easter candy. And yarn.

So my heart broke last night, when Will had this racking chest cough that was killing him. I sat up with him in the living room, rubbing his back and trying to get him to stop panicking and sleep. We watched the pilot episode of Heroes and about the first 20 minutes of Ghostbusters before I finally heard him dozing. Poor baby. He's home today and I'm hoping my doctor can see him, because this cough is killing his chest.

Alex, on the other hand, is thankfully A-OK. In fact, when I was stumbling to bed last night after finally getting Will to sleep, I noticed he had switched DVDs and was looking through some books. It was almost midnight! The kid is a terminator.