As promised, here's a link to my thrill-a-minute translations journal, now that I've back-posted my whole 6 recent song translations:

Kanjigeek

Not a lot there, and updates will be rare, but you are welcome anyhow! I did one today just for Father's Day. I had forgotten just how much I loved digging through my various large and wieldy (also thick and well-used, though not hard-bound) Japanese dictionaries...

In other news... Went to see the Whiskey Bards perform last night, which was fabuloso, and spent some time with Steve this morning. Otherwise, cleaning and work were my weekend. One might expect that the house would look cleaner, but it really doesn't; on the bright side, certain of the back areas are much more organized and navigable.

SO Tuesday I started to develop a sore throat and felt feverish, but didn't stress over it much - sick I can work through. Wednesday morning my tonsils were looking infected, so I started thinking maybe I should go to urgent care after work.

Then when I was dropping off Maddie and Mark at daycare, I bent down to give Mark his 4th or 5th hug, and my back just went GIKKURI and I couldn't straighten up until I pushed myself up using the table. I could hardly walk.

I was hoping it might go away - once my back was supported in the car it didn't feel too bad - so I went on in to work. By noonish it was pretty clear that it wasn't going away, and furthermore while sitting in my computer chair wasn't that bad, I do a lot more moving around in my job than I had previously realized, which didn't feel good. So I signed out and went to urgent care around 1. Four hours later (holiday weeks are apparently pretty busy) I had my diagnosis: Strep throat AND a badly strained back.

So now I am at home. Someone from work is supposed to call me so I can talk them through what absolutely needs to be done TODAY, so I am sitting in my computer chair, but as soon as said call is over I will be dosing myself up with Vicodin (woo) and Flexeral (muscle relaxant) and lying down in bed with a couple of ice packs. I also have a script of an antibiotic I've never heard of. My throat is completely swollen all the way around, so I am hoping it starts kicking some strep butt pretty soon. I took the kids to their daytime places and am kid-free until 5, which is good because the Flexeral makes me pretty much completely unable to walk, and the Vicodin knocks me out.

As I am a language geek, my main thought right now is that the Japanese word for strained back, "gikkurigoshi." is wonderfully expressive of my current condition.

...also known as Nutcracker Week.

Don't expect to hear from me, except as I post auctions & such. (Still need to pay those bills. Blech.)

It has started out less than auspiciously, as a job I signed up for listed at 11:00 AM Tuesday - unloading the truck & setting up the theatre at the TCC - has somehow morphed into 8:00 AM Tuesday - exactly the time at whish I drop off the kids on THIS side of town. (My email response was of course courteous, but if I sign up for a job at 11:00 AM - which I have in writing - you sure as heck can't complain if I can't be there exactly at 8.) Despite this, I am looking forward to some fun time with tools - it's been a while since I've gotten to do tech work for the theatre!

I drop off lobby crafts on Monday; theatre setup Tuesday AM; rehearsals downtown Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings; performances Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, all of which (barring the school performance Friday AM) I am working at in some capacity. There have been a few minor injuries in the company ofer the past couple of weeks, so the dance situation is also fluid. Thank goodness Steve and Nancy are willing to rack up some childcare time in preparation for their anniversary trip next year! I am thinking I need to start buying out of the volunteer jobs, the earning potential of the time I am spending on this is greater than the buyout cost.

And yes, it is approaching 1:00 am, and yes, I need to sleep. Mark's ear is still infected and he needed some snuggles, and then I needed to reply to TRB emails. I was ready for bed at 8.

Oh, ysabet - would you and/or ickaimp be available to watch the Hoogerwerf and Wilde kids (sans Rachel) here on Sunday from, say, 11:30 am until 6 or 7? I would gladly treat you to dinner afterwards and/or provide other recompense, and we would all love to see you. Steve and Nancy were invited to go up to Phoenix for a certain store opening, and felt that having four kids in a machine shop was an unwise move.