My offline life has been pretty chaotic lately, so I haven’t been blogging much. My husband started a new job, I’ve been looking for work, and to top it all off I’m recovering from a TDaP shot (that’s tetanus, diptheria, and pertussis, which used to be a childhood thing, but I guess they decided I needed a booster for all three). My left shoulder, where I got the shot, is achy and sore. What I don’t understand is that my right shoulder is also achy and sore. What is this, a sympathy strike?
It’s occurred to me that if my shoulder hurts this much from a vaccine, how much worse would the pain be if I actually had tetanus? How awful would be be to actually die from this?
Anyway, as a side effect of the vaccine (my body, after all, thinks it’s fighting off mild versions of three different diseases) I’ve been tired and out of it the last few days. The first sentence of this post almost read “I haven’t been online much” — but I have. I’ve been giving my brain a break with some new additions to the Cheezburger empire: Wedinator, which features some of the most eye-watering dresses you’ve ever seen; Poorly Dressed, which mocks fashion victims from all walks of life (including fashion runways); and Ugliest Tattoos, which features, well, some really bad tattoos. Yeah, I’m enabling you to waste time. What can I say, I’m a bad person.
If you want some ADHD commiseration, check out Terry Matlen’s most recent blog post — her house is undergoing major renovation, and in the midst of the chaos she managed to forget Passover. I haven’t forgotten a major holiday (yet) but I have come close to forgetting my own birthday.