Flowers won't bloom without the rain

I am a good girl, for I have written an article for Mosaic Minds, cooked dinner, did laundry, cleaned up in the kitchen, and played with icons, and all after working a long day! (Okay, so that last thing about the icons is not really all that productive, as such, but I have been meaning to do it and I wanted to, so it counts.) Maybe I'll even remember to change the darned things now and then.. or.. well, not. However, I was hit with a bit of inspiration, and I thought I would post this entry with the result--feel free to steal it and use it for your own! I imagine that MM staff will be the only ones who consider doing this, but you never know. [Here's the easy way. Go to the User Pictures page, and enter the following URL into the "From URL" box: http://www.livejournal.com/userpic/28834736/477291 .. No downloading necessary!] I can't believe I never thought of that before. (And the lovely logo, by the way, was designed by the ever-talented reebert, of course.)

Speaking of Mosaic Minds, if you would like to write a feature article this month, you still can. Relativity. Submission guidelines. Technically, the deadline is past, but a couple more days will still be fine. We go live on May 1.

Anyway, moving right along, I would just like to say.. with some trepidation.. that I am feeling pretty good today, even though I only slept about four hours last night. I wanted to make sure I wrote that while I have the chance, because I am seriously appreciating my health a little more these days, and I also feel like I should make it up to everyone for complaining about how terrible I felt. My cold is gone, my rash is (almost) gone, my cough is (almost) gone. My head is no longer dull all the time. I pulled out of my stupor yesterday afternoon and looked around my house, and I have been busy ever since. I am excited about doing things again, and about getting my house cleaned up and a few projects off my to-do list. (I have a post half-written on this, but I didn't have time to finish it last night.) I'm not even feeling angsty about going to work tomorrow even though it's a Wednesday (I don't like Wednesdays) of the week I always hate because I have to work an hour longer than normal every day. It's springtime! Things are going pretty well! Life sucks so much less when you don't feel like crap all the time! It's really neat!

So anyway, I told my husband a few minutes ago that we should go downstairs in six minutes and do the kitchen thing--M is going to do the last of the dishes and I'm going to make a bunch of ham sandwiches for the picnic we're having at work tomorrow. He questioned me as to why we were going in six minutes--I said that it was just an estimate on how much longer it would take to finish this post. Now my time is up, so I have to go. Good night, shmoos all around!