Last evening I started feeling a little crappy. Nothing too bad just lethargic and achy. Then came the night. Then came the chills and the shaking and the waking up Charlie with my tears because "i don't feel good." Good man got up and got me an extra blanket, some advil and then held me tight until my fever broke and I drifted back to my shark filled dreams. He didn't want to go to work but I insisted since he giving his first training seminar and I didn't think it was a good idea for him to not show up. He called his mom and she showed up (late) as I blazed off to the doctor early this morning. Can you believe that I now have an ear/throat infection? I know that I've had several in the last year or so but I really must protest that I'm too old for them. And getting sick a week after I just got well, right before my birthday... totally unacceptable.

The good news is that the advil seems to handle the pain quite nicely and my darling Charlie will be picking up my antibiotics from the pharmacy on the way home. I am mostly functional. Certainly well enough for my yearly birthday Jane Austen-a-thon, starting today with A&E's Pride & Prejudice. Just thinking about Elizabeth's Mr. Darcy and my very own Mr. Darcy makes me feel better. Oh yes, and I'm pretty sure there is ice cream involved. And corn dogs and tater tots and brownies. Hopefully sandwiched in between Emma, Sense & Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Becoming Jane . I know it's the same thing every year but it's one of the few things my Gemini nature lets be predictable and I love it so.

Son will return to school tomorrow and has his first playgroup on Thursday. Charlie is crazy busy at work and under a great deal of stress. Good stress as we like to say. I've still got part of my office and the master bathroom to unpack. And of course there is a birthday party in the works as well as some July 4th plans slowly coming together. My yearly accounting of my life and plans for the next year have taken some interesting turns and been given a new perspective. More to come so stop by tomorrow....