Well, I have survived SickFest 2006 with the help of my good friends Azithromycin, a magical antibiotic that has somehow not given me the yeasties (hallelujah!), and Novahistex DH, a magical cough syrup that is not only a cheerful red colour and very tasty, but full o’ codeine, so taking a dose is like drinking two glasses of red wine. Fabulous stuff, and I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n
My wee Suzuki Swift 95, however, may have done its last dance. I spoke to the mechanic, who sounded dejected about having to deliver this sort of awful news over the phone instead of in person where at least he could offer me a hanky. The car has a coolant leak, cracked CV shafts, a cracked timing belt, alternator belt and serpentine belt. To repair it will probably cost “thousands”, so I’m going to have it towed to the nearest Suzuki dealership and try to trade it in scrap or something, since I can’t really afford a new car right now. This means transferring my shiny new roadside assistance plan to my intrepid roommate, and cancelling my car insurance as well. So much for my suburban escape tool.<\/p>\n
Sigh. <\/p>\n
Looking forward to cousin K’s visit; she arrives tomorrow, but since I can’t pick her up at the airport, she’s taking off with some dude who has a car and lives in Guelph, and I won’t see her until Friday.<\/p>\n
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! Last night Justin and I celebrated (without actually, you know, *doing* anything, because we’re poor) our two-year anniversary. For a peek back at how our first date went, look here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I have survived SickFest 2006 with the help of my good friends Azithromycin, a magical antibiotic that has somehow not given me the yeasties (hallelujah!), and Novahistex DH, a magical cough syrup that is not only a cheerful red colour and very tasty, but full o’ codeine, so taking a dose is like drinking […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}