It is a mystery

Finally tested not-positive on the covid test this morning, I was faintly positive on tuesday. I feel back to normal with some post-nasal drip that could be left over or it could be seasonal, can't really tell. Chest now feels fine and I've done some gentle heart rate increasing this week. 

I am going to shear tomorrow, however I rescheduled my solo shearing of terribly behaved sheep to next week and J called and asked if I wanted to do some sheep with him tomorrow. I will, because it's better to do a few and he can pick up the rest if I can't do many, than to deal with some really difficult sheep by myself. I'll take it easy, promise. 

I had to grab more covid tests this morning and just bought more food. I'm real annoyed that I haven't been able to make food I normally would, like granola and yogurt and cookies and have been forced to buy them since I haven't been willing to linger in the kitchen for long to make those more complicated things. Oatmeal and pasta, fine. But everything else takes more time. So I'm planning a baking day on sunday. Potential plans depending on how wild I want to get: lemon bars, boston cream pie, extra batch of pastry cream or ice cream, bread, granola, yogurt.

The weather has been absolutely glorious here, sunny, between 65 and 70F, sometimes with a little breeze, 50F at night. Wonderful weather. I've been sitting out on the porch reading a lot, doing some light yard work too. I need to hose down some work traps later today.  My plant babies that I started near the beginning of April are finally all sprouting. I've got a mix of flowers, vegetables and dye plants. The chickpeas are up and I think some of the flax is finally up, although I might need to replant it. Now that there's a fence around the garden, the deer should leave it alone even if the fence isn't an 8 foot fence. I didn't plant any peas, which I'll hopefully do this weekend and hope that the weather doesn't get too hot too fast. I want to pick up a load of compost from a local farm and spread it on the garden before all the plants that need transplanting go out. 

The house projects are piling up, so a hardware store run is looming. Gutters need cleaning out, screens need to be replaced, all sorts of things to be done. 

I think I am still running a fever, but I've eaten so many menthols that the thermometer no longer works or maybe the thermometer is broken. my cheeks still feel warm. I feel less head cold like, my eyeballs are no longer so hot and ouchie, but the lack of sleep is starting to be a problem. I was up for at least two hours in the middle of the night and I think it was my sore throat. I actually got up and found the vanilla ice cream in the freezer and ate some in the middle of the night. It's better now with application of apple juice but I wonder if it'll keep getting better.

my nose is running a lot less and while I'm starting to develop a little bit of a cough, my strategy of keeping my head tipped forward more or sitting leaning on my side to keep the post-nasal drip from being a huge problem has helped a lot to keep the cough from being worse. It's still mostly a dry cough which is great.

I've committed to napping today to make up for the lack of sleep. Already took one 30 min nap before lunch time. Trying to eat as much rice as I can to help my stomach fix itself which is either the soup I ate or the menthols things.

Part of the issue is that I'm stretching the tylenol doses out more in the hopes that I'm feeling better and being a little worried about the quantity I'm taking. I'm at 12 hours apart right now, but I've been taking a dose in the middle of the night to be able to fall back asleep.

minor gripe, my housemate has the run of the whole house, where I'm stuck in my room. The soundproofing between our rooms up and down is not good. Said housemate played some medium level music and was singing along yesterday, which I wouldn't normally mind, but I can't use headphones right now and she could do it literally anywhere in the house, but was doing it directly above me. *grumps*

Anyway, back to watching videos and napping. I might go outside later when it warms up a bit more.

doctor was like, why didn't you do a telehealth visit. me: I'm definitely not thinking clearly esp given it took me 20 mins to remember to take tylenol when I got home. couldn't figure out how to telehealth.

doc didn't recommend paxlovid for me since they said if I've been boostered and have no other complicating conditions, I shouldn't need it and they're seeing a lot of rebound. Explained it's headcold for the first few days, then coughing. They said to check back in if I had trouble breathing or things got worse and then they'd look into meds.

I got apple juice, sugar free menthol thingies and forgot to grab more rapid tests. I've got enough in the house to last three more tests if needed. I'm off work for the rest of the week if I want to be, need to text J and tell him I won't be shearing on friday. already told my parents it would be questionable about strawberry planting this weekend.

I guess I'm being forced to rest. I had a feeling I was going to get sick with something.

PCR test came back negative and the set of home rapid tests I took were also negative.

yay!

 Got my second covid shot on Saturday night. Either they move people through the line fast or no one goes in the late night slots because it was really quiet, even more than the time I went for my first shot. The downtown was much busier though, lots of people out and about.

I decided to get ice cream after the shot, and ended up chatting with the technician about ice cream. I drove up to our normal ice cream place and as it turns out, everyone gets ice cream at 8pm on saturdays instead of the normal times Jade and I get ice cream. I ended up stopping at Stewarts and getting some ice cream out of the freezer section. They have great ice cream. 

Didn't feel any side effects until about 10am yesterday. Then it was a mild fever and headache and slight itching in weird places. I had deliberately planned nothing for yesterday so I just read books and did a little spindle spinning when I felt good. Also spent most of the day on the balcony because the weather was super nice. Alternated laying around in bed. 

Had a minor upset stomach this morning but that may have been because I ate pizza and ice cream on saturday, then switched to soup on sunday. woke up in the middle of the night very hungry. Oh well.

I'm back to normal today just about, so that's cool. Maybe in two months or so I'll feel comfortable eating outside at a restaurant.