Kate, I swear to dog, that one reason I am buying my house? I DON'T EVER WANT TO MOVE AGAIN.

Ahem. But hot damn, I am glad you found a place you love. The horrors of moving will quickly be forgotten once you're all nestled in.

Congrats and good luck, Kate!

Okay, Hermione is cute.

Ginger, it's in East Nashville, near the southern tip of Shelby Park. It seems like a really nice, quiet neighborhood within walking distance of 5 Points, plus we love the park.

javachik, oh yeah, I know what you mean! I wish I knew we wouldn't be moving again for a while. I mean, it's possible we could be in this house for years, but it's also possible that M will get a job back in the Northeast next year and we'll be moving again. I'm betting (and hoping) it'll be at least another couple years, though.

Thanks, Jesse! I'm looking forward to unpacking and decorating and arranging everything just so. That's the best part about moving (the worst part being pretty much everything else).

So I'm stuck in the basement with a stomach bug. Which is okay, because I suppose I'd rather be in the basement with a stomach bug than running around outside doing camp stuff in 95 degree temperatures.

So anyway, I found this game. Do you think it will improve my spatial perception issues? It has very soothing music, anyway.

Oh, man, Kate. I feel you on the move thing. But congrats on the house! You can do it!

So now I know to move my car onto the sidewalk in a storm like that (but not right in front of my house, because there was water flooding into my yard). I gotta say, it was freaky to see a visible CURRENT in the streets, all rushing away from the river. I saw a manhole cover popped out and flipped over. I was totally doing that thing you're not supposed to do, which is drive in moving water.

Silly me, thinking it only flooded here during hurricanes.

The rain is finally tapering off, so I'll head out and do those errands in a bit, including buying rain boots. If Fleurty Girl isn't all sold out, that is.

I am great at giving medical advice ("What, 2 benadryl? And a little codeine? With bourbon? SURRRE!"), but not great at deciding what to do about my own ill health.

It's been 7 days since I went to the doctor; she prescribed a Z-pak for my sinus infection. With the Z-pak you take pills for 5 days but the antibiotic stays in your system for 10-12 days (it's a weird half-life thing that disturbs me if I think about it too long). So I have 7 days' equivalent, at this point, of antibiotics in me.

I don't feel worse. I also can't say I feel better. I feel somewhat less bad. I am really tired all the time, and my head is still stuffy (mostly clear stuff, woo).

My ears seem much, much better; I have 3 more days of ear drops for them.

So, since the Z-pak is supposed to be the equivalent of 10 days of treatment, and I'm only on day 7, and I *do* feel less bad (just not what I would call "better"), I'm thinking I should wait until day 10 before I call the doctor back.

If I were worse, I'd have been on the phone this morning. I'm just...marginally less bad.

Also, several people have told me that when they've taken the Z-pak, it has wiped them out big time, in the extremely-tired-for-DAYS sense. So maybe that has something to do with me not feeling robustly healthy.

So, since I apparently cannot give myself health advice, anyone care to weigh in? Should I wait until day 10 and see how I feel before calling the doctor back? Like I said, I don't feel *worse,* and I do feel somewhat less-bad. Which I guess is technically improvement. Or, okay, actual improvement.

If I had 10 days' worth of actual pills, and all other things were the same (i.e., me not feeling worse but only somewhat less bad) I don't think I'd even consider calling the doctor until I was done taking them.

So I guess I have my answer -- but I really WOULD appreciate any advice/thoughts/voodoo curses.

Catching up on the Zoya conversation: the Infamous BlueJay came over last night and handed me a bottle of Zoya "Jem". Daaaamn, that is a pretty sparkly deep burgundy, and I need matching lipstick.

Tep, the last time I had to do a Z-Pak, it left me feeling exhausted for days. In your shoes, I would wait to call the doctor.

smonster, yikes, that sounds scary! I hope you can get your car dried out quickly.

Steph, I would probably wait too, if I were in your situation. If the antibiotics are still in your system, the doctor probably wouldn't put you on anything else until they ran their course anyway, right? That would be my assumption, at least.

That said, I'm sorry you're not feeling much better! It must be extremely frustrating to be charting these tiny improvements instead of being able to say, definitively, "Okay, I'm all better now!"