Slow recovery

[galadhir]

Ugh! Still exhausted post Covid. I guess it's only around a fortnight since I got it - only a week since I tested negative, and I shouldn't start panicking yet, but I'm still so tired.

I did manage to go to a fireworks display on Saturday with my family, and that was great. Son came down from the boat to join us, and brought his washing to put through Daughter's washing machine and tumble dryer. There are washing facilities in his marina but they cost like £5 a load to wash and the same again to dry.

Anyway the fireworks were great - they were let off from behind a screen of trees, so there was a beautiful silhouette effect where the lights shone out between the branches. Lots of new coloured fireworks this year that I hadn't seen before. Particularly the peach ones with trails of golden sparkles. And they were set very well to the music.

The new dairy intolerance made festival food even more difficult than it normally is for this vegetarian. All the non meat options were of course with cheese. So I ended up with the old reliable portion of chips, but at least that was something.

I have discovered that soy milk is fine, so I can still have a soy milk hot chocolate when I go out. Result :)

Yesterday (Sunday) we did the charity shops in Cambridge and had a choose-your-own-ingredients poke bowl in the Hanaki Cafe. (Avocado, cucumber, edamame, chilli & ginger with sesame shoyu sauce and peanuts scattered on top.) I managed to find a long coat in my size in tartan wool fabric which is very cool - a little bit punk, a little bit eccentric weirdo - and was only £15, so that was also a result.

All that activity was too much for me and today I am flattened again. But I am damn well going to belly dancing this evening even if it kills me (or more likely even if it means I have to spend tomorrow in bed again.) There are only like 4 sessions left before the end of term and I am not missing any of them.

Comments

[evilwriter37]

Aw man, I’m sorry you’ve been sick! I currently have Covid for what feels like the millionth time. It sucks. I hope you feel better soon!

[galadhir]

Oh no! I hope you feel better soon too! It really does suck, particularly because we know that if people would only wear masks and stay outdoors so much of it could be avoided. Hope it goes fast for you!

[mistressofmuses]

Ugh, I'm sorry you're still so exhausted. :( I hope it gets better soon, though this is pretty well within the usual range of "worn out post-recovery" from any illness.

The fireworks sound nice! Glad you got to go!

The coat sounds neat, too.

I hope you get some rest around the belly dancing plans!

[galadhir]

Thanks! Yes, I did get to belly dancing and held up during the class and getting myself home, but of course today I feel like I was hit by a truck. Fortunately today I have the new Murderbot book to distract myself with :)

[mistressofmuses]

I'm glad you made it through the class, but I'm sorry you paid for it afterwards with the "hit by a truck" feeling.

I'm so excited for the new Murderbot! I haven't gotten it yet, but I'm very excited for that to be one of my next purchases when I can swing it!

[malinaldarose]

Sounds like a good weekend. I haven't seen a fireworks display in a while; the last one I did see, I actually stood in my front yard and watched it between houses. I'm not sure who was letting them off or why, but that was kind of nice.

[galadhir]

Yearly fireworks is a bonus of having Bonfire night as a holiday. The bigger displays were on the weekend closest to the 5th November, but there were several smaller ones on the weeks before and after. And usually even if you don't go to one, you can see fireworks in the sky from wherever you are all around the fifth