stephanie is: 
sick…
well, it shouldn’t surprise me that after working one day in an office i get a cold. the last one i had i think was over a year ago when i babysat. and before that, not since i had an office job. back then i’d catch everything people would pass around the office. i seem to have a crappy immune system. ah well. the cold has not yet become overwhelmingly snotty so i can deal. i have just had a bad sore throat, lots of aches, and (after convincing my damn ear thermometer to stop saying “ER. 4”) a temperature just under 100°.
my only adventure of the day began at 8:30pm when i realized i didn’t have enough dog food for dinner. the dogs dinner – not mine, durrh. the pet store closes at 9pm so off i went. i got saw a bumpy yellow football in the dog toy aisle. it said “hi stephanie, buy me for poopoo dog.” i said “okay ball, i will.” i picked out a green feather wand for the cats since they snapped their old wand to little bits.
the 20lb bag of dog chow got quite heavy while i stood in line, woozy from my cold, watching the manager catch a loose bird someone was returning with a fish net. i gave india her new ball when i got home. she is in love with it. she left it only long enough to eat.
for dinner i cooked black bean burgers since that was just about all we have. afterwards i took a long bath and finished the book i was reading. it was the last of the 4 earth’s children books i had borrowed from my dad. next i read the newest one that i got for $15 from the bulk grocery. i would normally wait for paperback to avoid costly hardbacks, but it was near half-price and those books are crack for me. i will be sad when i finish it. she needs to write the final novel faster this time. but at least it had been long enough that i could read the first 4 books again and nearly feel i was reading them for the first time.
i think i need to go get in bed. i feel like deep fried ass, yes. but i need a large glass of ice water first.
i avoided mosqito bites all summer thanks to my bug repellant, but yesterday the mosquitos mocked me and bit me three times on the two inches of foot i had bare when i got the mail. damn you mosquitos! i am sensative to bug bites so they are now HUGE, but at least they are on my foot and not my legs where they would leave purple marks for months. sheesh.
*thud*