Might be the wet weather but my chest cough has resurfaced with a vengeance. When I breathe it sounds like someone frying bacon on a greasy pan. Spattering noises. I think I've ingested a lifetime supply of Dayquil, Halls, Tylenol cold and flu and no-name decongestant. I did a 10 day stint of antibiotics in late December with equally dismal results. Honestly no idea why it lingers, but it's getting really, really, really lame at this point. I'm a pretty poor houseguest in this condition.

Had a nice day yesterday, seeing some friends from the past (recent and not so-) Drove up to Nanaimo (in the SNOW lol, after all I was doing to AVOID that stuff) in my $36 rental car. Stopped in a few small towns along the way. Nice day overall. Had a built in GPS (okay, a 30 minute convo with my friend Mireille who piloted my driving via Google Earth via cell phone) Good times, thanks Mirelly!!

Today is do-nothing day. I confess I am addicted to overstimulation. I realize this now. First couple days in no high speed internet, no cell phone, no cable tv-land was hard. Now I can dig it. Takes a couple days to get the city life out of you.

And, to see how the vegan raw foodies live, I *tried* a piece of ... um, dried kale with some sort of non-cheese like stuff on it. 'Course after that I bought a stick of butter and some breakfast sausages and acknowledged that I couldn't do it =P My hats off to my sister who capably lives in two worlds -no THREE!- simultaneously making raw vegan, vegetarian AND a plain old meat and potatoes meals for everyone in her family, daily. Dunno I could do that. No, I know I couldn't. That's talent.