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flambards divided!
Feb. 27th, 2004 01:13 amMy poor sweet Bald Artiste has a cold. I went over there and took care of him earlier this evening, since he is shockingly unprepared for this sort of thing... no soup, no fever reducer, no tea, no vitamin C. I made soup and Gypsy Cold Care tea, had him drink a glass of raspberry Emergen-C every few hours, put a wet washcloth on his forehead since he didn't have any tylenol and I didn't bring any with me. He didn't even have a big pan to make soup in, or a measuring cup! (and this guy has been living on his own for like ten years? Bachelors.)
We were smooching a lot Tuesday night, so I'm hoping I don't get whatever he has. Assuming that is the case, I'm taking him some DayQuil tomorrow (he skipped work Wednesday, went in today and stuck it through miserably and got run-down, and is now feeling sick enough to skip work again Friday). If I get sick, I will need the DayQuil too! We just sat around and watched Thursday night tv, the usual stuff. I need to remember to take my vitamins carefully in the next few days, and eat lots of vegetables and echinacea... I bet we have ocillococcinum, too, and I should take that if I start to feel really sickly.
I came home at 10 because it seemed like he needed to go to sleep & I didn't want to be annoying.
Before that? Well, hm, I helped the momster buy tickets to Jesus Gorefest 2004 online, then after she left for that, I gathered up the stuff I needed for the evening, stopped for a sandwich and hazelnut cappuccino, stopped at the library to pick up some books, and made it to T's house around sunset. I rented DVDs from the library which we did not watch yet - The Women and Plunkett and Macleane, both of which I've seen several times and liked, and the full series of... FLAMBARDS!
It's a show that was on Masterpiece Theater or something sometime in the 80s, adapted from a series of YA novels. They're about an Edwardian orphan girl who goes to live on her uncle's estate with her two cousins. The uncle and one of the sons are both really into outdoor sports, hunting, riding, that kind of thing, but the other son is completely obsessed with the new science of aviation, and the rest of the family treats him cruelly because of it. The girl is torn between each of the boys and their positive and negative characteristics, and how horrible it is that the uncle favors the one son and is harsh to the other. And then when they're older, World War 1 looms on the horizon! And there are marriages and babies and untimely deaths! I actually remember the whole plot (vaguely) but I won't give it away here. I was completely obsessed with this series in about 8th grade... it used to be on A&E in the very early morning, at like 6 or 7 AM, one episode per day. I'd tape them and then watch them when I got home from school. I also got the books from the school library and then eventually got them for xmas in paperback because I begged for them and a local shop happened to carry them, despite the fact that they were pretty obscure and difficult to find at the time.
Also: Oscar party Sunday night! Quote from T: "It's like my Super Bowl."
We were smooching a lot Tuesday night, so I'm hoping I don't get whatever he has. Assuming that is the case, I'm taking him some DayQuil tomorrow (he skipped work Wednesday, went in today and stuck it through miserably and got run-down, and is now feeling sick enough to skip work again Friday). If I get sick, I will need the DayQuil too! We just sat around and watched Thursday night tv, the usual stuff. I need to remember to take my vitamins carefully in the next few days, and eat lots of vegetables and echinacea... I bet we have ocillococcinum, too, and I should take that if I start to feel really sickly.
I came home at 10 because it seemed like he needed to go to sleep & I didn't want to be annoying.
Before that? Well, hm, I helped the momster buy tickets to Jesus Gorefest 2004 online, then after she left for that, I gathered up the stuff I needed for the evening, stopped for a sandwich and hazelnut cappuccino, stopped at the library to pick up some books, and made it to T's house around sunset. I rented DVDs from the library which we did not watch yet - The Women and Plunkett and Macleane, both of which I've seen several times and liked, and the full series of... FLAMBARDS!
It's a show that was on Masterpiece Theater or something sometime in the 80s, adapted from a series of YA novels. They're about an Edwardian orphan girl who goes to live on her uncle's estate with her two cousins. The uncle and one of the sons are both really into outdoor sports, hunting, riding, that kind of thing, but the other son is completely obsessed with the new science of aviation, and the rest of the family treats him cruelly because of it. The girl is torn between each of the boys and their positive and negative characteristics, and how horrible it is that the uncle favors the one son and is harsh to the other. And then when they're older, World War 1 looms on the horizon! And there are marriages and babies and untimely deaths! I actually remember the whole plot (vaguely) but I won't give it away here. I was completely obsessed with this series in about 8th grade... it used to be on A&E in the very early morning, at like 6 or 7 AM, one episode per day. I'd tape them and then watch them when I got home from school. I also got the books from the school library and then eventually got them for xmas in paperback because I begged for them and a local shop happened to carry them, despite the fact that they were pretty obscure and difficult to find at the time.
Also: Oscar party Sunday night! Quote from T: "It's like my Super Bowl."
