Teacup Café XLII

[Mari]

I guess, though it doesn't feel that way. It feels like a logical progression of steps.

[Earniel]

*cleans away the spiderwebs and listens to the echoes*

Anyone still here? How is everybody else?

I spent most of April being sick with random virusses and infections that really sapped my energy and meant I didn't get up to much apart from work. Blergh.

[Valandil]

Wondered what happened! We missed you. Good to have you back, and hope you feel better.

[Acalewia]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

*cleans away the spiderwebs and listens to the echoes*

Anyone still here? How is everybody else?

I spent most of April being sick with random virusses and infections that really sapped my energy and meant I didn't get up to much apart from work. Blergh.

Glad you're feeling better

[Mari]

And so April passed. Almost the end of the school year. I love my life, but it is hectic sometimes.
I'm glad you're feeling better Earn, but how is it possible you're getting ill so often?

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by Mari

I'm glad you're feeling better Earn, but how is it possible you're getting ill so often?

We've been having my sisters' kids a lot more over lately than we usually do. That way Sis and partner can work in their new house without three little attention seekers.

They're adorable, really, but apparently also often infectious. (As a teacher, this may sound familiar.) Every single time the kids visited me in April, it seemed they left me with some cold, virus, or other. And my old nemesis, the weird allergy, poked its ugly head up again too. Dunno what caused it but I spent a week with itchy bumps all over my hands. Doesn't do wonders for productivity of any kind, let me tell you that.

But, hout vasthouden, I seem to have weathered it for now.

[Mari]

Itchy bumps on your hands: have you been working with biotex perhaps? It gave me horrible bumps and it took quite a while for them to go away. I think in my case it was the biotex I used to get the wallpaper off the walls.

[Earniel]

No, but I had been gardening so a plant probably was the culprit. There's one I suspect, but it's a plant that I have been around for years so I'm weary but not quite convinced. Then again, my allergies have been changing since last year so it's tricky to determine what they all are right now. I mean, I could try handling the plant to see if it gives me an allergic reaction. But the itch was so, so bad, I'm not looking forward to experimenting quite as quickly.

But it's crazy, the moment an allergy pokes its head up, there are so many substances you will have touched and there only need to be one that gives you bumps.

[Mari]

Oh, that's annoying! The good news is that another annoying allergy may disappear, but not knowing what you get in return sucks.

[Valandil]

Happy Mothers' Day to all the Entwives with Entlings!

[Midge]

Thanks! I'm so glad we are still going.

I have been trying to learn about setting up web hosting lately. I've always known about website creation (like HTML/CSS) but never been able to figure out about the back end set up. So that's exciting.

I joined IRC. I feel like that is a rite of passage for techie peeps.

[The last sane person]

*A traveler opens the creaking front door, now sat upon rusty hinges, peeking in a world weary head into the unlit and disused Café. A hat and coat is draped upon a lonely hook, a table dusted and chair righted from the floor; a match struck, a candle lit and a bottle coated in time uncorked.* A toast, I propose, to the passage of time.

[Valandil]

Well Howdie!

[Acalewia]

Hey, y'all

[Valandil]

Oh wow - three Mooters posting within 30 minutes... it's like we're being over-run!

[Acalewia]

-dusts off the welcome sign-

[Mari]

*pops up behind the counter and busies herself making tea and pouring Sane a glass of something hardier*
How've you all been?

My husband and I are going to a themepark. I'm bringing a book. *sigh* I used to love roller coasters but then my internal balancing organ decided to quit.

[Acalewia]

Originally Posted by Mari

*pops up behind the counter and busies herself making tea and pouring Sane a glass of something hardier*
How've you all been?

My husband and I are going to a themepark. I'm bringing a book. *sigh* I used to love roller coasters but then my internal balancing organ decided to quit.

That sucks.

My husband and I are buying a house. We're closing in 8 days and my apartment currently looks like an episode of Hoarders because there is so many boxes lol

[Mari]

Oh wow, congrats on the house! Will you need to do a lot to it, or is it move in ready?

Good luck with all the packing and stuff.

[Acalewia]

Originally Posted by Mari

Oh wow, congrats on the house! Will you need to do a lot to it, or is it move in ready?

Good luck with all the packing and stuff.

Move in ready. The sellers replaced the roof and took care of the water damage caused from a leak in the roof.

We've been packing for the past month lol Once we sign the paperwork to make it ours, we can start moving in. We have the bathroom and most of the bedroom, living room and kitchen packed up.

I'm excited to move out of this damn apartment and not have to share walls with noisy neighbors