For most of last week, Liz and I were both mostly just recuperating from Covid. Not much of anything, other than a lot of coughing and a lot of sitting in bed, resting.
This week, we started to get a bit more energy. We’re still coughing more than makes sense, but have been going about doing a little house work over the holidays.
Liz broke out the new bunny tunnel that we got as a gift, from Katie and Tim. Hugo was pretty wary at first, but eventually wandered in and got to exploring.
Tonight, I posted up my list for my ten best days from 2023. Had a lot of contenders, but feel pretty good about what made the cut.
Consider this an invitation to explore the last year. And to explore the last twenty years, if you’re so inclined.
“If you return to love
The sky thick with sleepin’ doves
And the spider’s dirty web
Catch a ghost”
On arriving home, I heard the familiar sound of a grinder wheel. Curious, I headed into the basement – and saw Liz, standing next to some clamps with her trusty helmet on.
We brought a few things to share. And also got to sample some Armagnac that Katie and Tim picked up, while they were in southern France earlier this year.
I’ve been pulling items off the pantry shelf, whenever I go into the kitchen. And smelling things like coffee beans, trying to sense if I can pick up any aroma at all. Sometimes it’s nothing, sometimes I think I catch a whiff of something. But it’s hard to tell if it’s an actual smell I’m able to detect, or if it’s the memory of a smell.
This seems appropriate.
An early joint gift: a sampler of “sherry bombs.” I figured this was something we could try out together. Funny enough, we were already familiar with a few of these: Arran as well as Auchentoshan.
Ah, dang.
This year though, with Liz getting Covid (for the first time), and me starting not to feel great… we were trying to see if our situations improved before Christmas rolled around.
We’ve been working out the math, trying to figure out whether Liz is still in the infectious stage. How many days has she been sick, how many days have I been sick. And so on.
My cough has gotten more frequent/annoying, but not necessarily worse. It seems unlikely that I somehow dodged Covid, being next to and around Liz these last few days. But, so far so good.
So it now seems that I’m also sick. What I have so far though is what seems like a light cold – a slight runny nose, a slight cough. No fever to speak of, nothing else besides this.
“So it goes, though no one knows you
like they used to do
Have a drink the sky is sinking
toward a deeper blue”
Liz has been feeling under the weather since Friday. A few days ago, before our return to Chicago, Liz took a Covid test and was negative.
Tonight though, with her symptoms increasing in strength… she took another test, and came up positive.