SUCCESS!!!

[aearwen2]

 Thanks to jkahane, it seems I've finally licked the LJ-cut feature.  HTML tags I can do...  Had I known it was that easy, there would have been at least one less rant here.  There's an old adage that states: "Make certain your words are soft and sweet, for you may have to go back and eat them someday."  Shoulda listened, I shoulda...

<blushes in chagrin>

Now all I have to do is actually have something decent to use the danged thing ON...  

<cracks whip in frustration over recumbant and reluctant muse>

Personal updates:

Puppy with broken leg now sadly clumping about the apartment, complete with plastic cone to top off the canine indignities.  My little Bengal kitty has discovered the entertainment value of a small plastic Slinky - watching her try to pick it up with an extended claw the way she handles pens and pencils, only to get this thing that trails off and is thoroughly uncooperative, is laugh-riot hilarious!  All kids and kid's fiancees at work, so have the house to myself (I love Tuesdays and Thursdays!!)  Back door is open for sunny-day house-airing while the breeze isn't too brisk to kick up my coughing. 

Choir practice tonite will be interesting, we sing this amazing piece in Latin on Sunday - will be interesting to see what kind of comments we get.  Honestly never thought I'd ever be in the position of choir director/music arranger, but am finding it an interesting and actually fulfilling way to put all those many years of Mrs Marquardt's training to good use.  I should probably practice the piano more, if only my knee and back would let me practice the length of time I would want to put into such an effort.  But the back begins to burn at about 45 minutes out, so 2hr practice sessions are out - not to mention that after about 1 hr my right knee is getting stiff as a board. 

Getting old sucks.  The alternative, however, is worse.

Received my copy of A Gateway to Sindarin yesterday - gonna make certain my Elvish phrases are grammatically correct.  I love the look of the written language too - almost enough to begin to work on calligraphy again.  Looks like this language is harder than most others I've studied to date - rules on lenition alone enough to put me babbling in a corner! 

Back to my rat-killing, or writing, or piano practice, or language studies, or looking for the next anthem for choir to sing, or... something...

Anything but housework...

Comments

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

Getting old sucks. The alternative, however, is worse.

While this is certainly true, remember: Life is a sexually transmitted, terminal disease. :)

That said, what's this about a cough? :(

[aearwen2.livejournal.com]

I've had asthmatic bronchitis for years, probably because I was stupid as a young adult and smoked and then caught pneumonia a few times thereafter. Nowadays, all it takes is for me to be in a mild to strong draft for a while to get me wheezing and coughing. Pain in the butt, really...

How are YOU? I read you were under the weather yourself lately...

[jkahane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yeah, I know that feeling... Been there, done that, didn't get the t-shirt and all that.

To be honest, the doctor thought what I had might be pneumonia, but thank Goddess, the x-rays confirmed that it wasn't. Some sort of virus, so no antibiotic will knock it out; just have to live with and through it.

I survive.