Feeling much better than yesterday

Still sick, sore and coughing but feeling much better than yesterday.

I'm trying to get ready for the SAG awards, so I watched the Dark Knight again last night, with Cam this time who hadn't seen it, and was completely blown away by Heath Ledger's performance again.

Once again we're going to have some very tough choices to make, with House, Dexter and Mad Men all going up against each other. I've got about a week to make up my mind and catch a few more movies. I'd better hurry up and get completely well...

Quite miserable

I couldn't sleep last night. Annoyingly I also couldn't read or watch TV or play video games or any of the other things I normally do when I'm sleepless. I was exhausted and in a lot of pain from my surgery and I couldn't concentrate on anything.

I think I finally fell asleep around six and woke up a couple of times as my kids came and went, finally waking up for the day around 2:30, to discover I was in a shocking amount of pain. Not from the surgical site, which had been hurting yesterday, that is weirdly pretty much pain free, but from just about everywhere else. The sore throat from yesterday is worse, and I feel as though I've been strangled (yes, I've been strangled into unconsciousness by a crazy relative more than once so I do know what it's like). Thank God I'm now throwing up any more, I can only imagine what that would be like.

My neck is dreadfully sore, as are my arms, thighs, shoulders, back and ribs. I'm thinking some of that is from coughing so much but some of it is just mysterious. Now I'm quite dehydrated becacuse it hurts so much to swallow. Woe is me.

On the bright side Warner Bros was kind enough to send a copy of The Dark Knight for my consideration so Cam is brewing up a pot of tea and I'm going to try and drink that and watch the Joker and hopefully feel a little better.

History of lemonade

Here's an interesting piece about the history of lemonade.

The trade in lemon juice was quite considerable by 1104. We know from documents in the Cairo Geniza--records of the medieval Jewish community in Cairo from the tenth through thirteenth centuries--that bottles of lemon juice, qatarmizat, were made with lots of sugar and consumed locally and exported.

I tend to look up every little thing when I'm writing because I don't trust my brain. I would hate to write something and then find out that lemons were secretly developed by a lime grower in Florida in 1864...

In other words I had my surgery today and it went well. I'm in some pain and my throat is sore and irritated from throwing up a lot and having a tube down it but other than that so far so good. More details later.