Busy, busy, busy!

Hi! Remember me? Your friendly neighborhood wordsmith? Whew,I’ve really been putting on the miles these past few days. How, you ask? Well, have a seat, grab a coffee, sit back, and enjoy the tales of my most recent endeavors!

Since Tuesday or Wednesday, I’ve been dealing with a major cold. Still dealing with it, in fact. Conked out, drugged up, you name it. Miserable times. I slept, and when I wasn’t sleeping I was in a fog and coughing up my shoes. So, for the most part the week was a “let’s do nothing and feel miserable” kind of week.

Jump forward to Saturday. Patti works with a local nonprofit called Institute for Environmental Solutions (check them out at www.i4es.org). They partner up with the local power utility, Xcel Energy, for their Day of Service. Since I’m not too shabby behind a camera, I agreed weeks ago to shoot photos of the event for IES. Well, Friday night I was questionable. Saturday, as you probably guessed, I was out there with my camera, snapping happily away as volunteers worked to clean up a stretch of land where IES has planted trees and plants to help shore up and beautify the area as well as help educate children. 403 photos later, and I’m feeling pretty good. Get home, transfer photos to my computer, run out of hard drive space (!), buy an external, transfer more files, and finally go to bed as the transfers work their magic. Sunday, I spent the day taking it easy, editing photos and such.

Now, as many of you probably know, I have very bad knees. Two months ago I had surgery on my right knee, and I’ve had two surgeries on the left knee. So it’s no surprise that my knees were very mad at me for Saturday’s hours of shooting. I’m used to it, hence my plan to take it easy on Sunday. Also, you remember that cold I was dealing with all week? Yeah, I knew I wasn’t completely done with that as well. So, that’s Sunday.

Monday I’m doing various appointments in the morning, return home, and I’m not sure what exactly hit me but all of a sudden I’m half asleep. Not drowsy, not worn out, I mean eyes half closed, head lolling around, me forgetting what I’m doing. I’m out of it. I pull together somewhat and go about my evening. Tuesday morning rolls around like a steamroller on a fresh pile of asphalt. Except I’m the asphalt and head congestion is the steamroller. Not cool. I’ve managed to clear up somewhat by now, but that tickle of sinus pressure is starting to build and my eyes are starting to ache. (Sidebar here: How do eyes ache? I mean, it’s a hollow ball filled with jelly and lenses. Seriously, WTF?) So, looks liek another day devoted to photo editing. I’m disappointed as I had hoped to drive M to campus downtown, then park somewhere and do a little street photography. Maybe later this week.

Okay, time to go get doped up, or whatever NyQuil Daytime does to you. At least it’s minty and cool. Cheers!