I'm being really bad today. Just a total sloth. Can't get myself to do anything.

[magical thyme]

My dogs are getting pissed at me. I can't blame them. Every so often they run over and try to wake me from my lethargy with wet kisses and lots of excitement. Then they give up and go back to bed to sleep some more.

I had good intentions today, and no reason not to get moving. I just don't want to. Haven't wanted to for weeks.

I'm enjoying my slothiness to much. I am a total sloth. Zero ambition. Going with the flow is one thing. Dead in the water is quite another, though...

[pinboy3niner]

1. I thought about going to the supermarket

But thinking about it wore me out.

[magical thyme]

3. I know that feeling too well.

I was thinking about that, too. But get up out of my chair?

I did finally get up to go take care of Dahli, so the boys had a half hour of running around the pasture. Now I know why my butt is plastered to the chair. I thought the wind had died down, but it just shifted direction. It's friggin' freezing out there, much colder than this morning. Gah. There was a slight melt and refreeze, so everything is glare ice again.

We'll head back out in an hour or so to put on her extra blanket and tuck her in. It's supposed to be low single digits tonight. I didn't believe it this morning. Now I believe it.

[eShirl]

2. maybe they want you to put on some favorite music and dance with them

[magical thyme]

4. YAY ME!!!!! refreshed by my outdoor journey, I stayed awake

long enough to complete another MLT course!

WooHoo!!!! I am 1 course away from completing my board re-certification requirements!!!!!

and now...back to the originally scheduled program...

[pinboy3niner]

8. Congratulations!

Now you deserve to kick back.

If you get bored, you could always do some photobombing...

[magical thyme]

9. I'm feeling really motivated to do just one more 2-point course

1 more course, and I'm finished. Just one more. I'm looking through them now, trying to pick one that looks "easy." These are the easiest looking ones...

blastoid variant of mantle cell leukemia
EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disorders in an immunocompromised host
Hematopoietic disorders associated with downs syndrome
lymphomatoid granulomatosis
malignant lymphoma with features of hyaline vascular

eeny, meeny, miny, moe...

But once I finish one more 2-pointer, I can re-certify for 3 years. That takes me past retirement age. This is it. Never ever again!

[pinboy3niner]

10. Those are the EASY ones? I'd be happy if I could PRONOUNCE them!

Good luck!

[magical thyme]

11. I DID IT!!!!! I'M DONE!!!! DONE!!! DONE!!!!

Transcripts printed -- they look very pretty and official. Done. I googled a couple diseases and determined that #2 and #4 would be similar topics. Down Syndrome I suspected would be the easiest, though I'm not sure why. I was afraid it would get into bone marrow biopsies, and I look at those and just see a bunch of stuff, lol. but it didn't. it was mostly genetic mutations and cell markers, clinical symptoms and cell morphology by description only, so I didn't have to recognize blebbing, whatever the fuck that is, lol.

Unpronounceable words is a big part of the game. That and then never-ending acronyms. On my earlier course, I got so confused I had to cntl find the acronym and follow it back to its first appearance because I had missed its actual name or forgot it before I finished the reading.


I'm DONE!!!!!! I'm getting D R U N K on Lavender Mead RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!!!

[magical thyme]

12. oh, and btw, I LOVE the Sloth photobomb. I think it may be the cutest photobomb I've seen! nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Me, too.

Of all the deadly sins, sloth is the one that I commit the most. A little gluttony now and then but the rest of them are too much work.

[magical thyme]

6. I wonder why the sloth has such a bad rep, when cats lay around snoozing about

23 1/2 hours out of a 24 hour day?

But yes, my slothdom helps save me from gluttony. I used to make big Sunday breakfasts, but now I usually just make my normal oatmeal/nuts/fruit because anything else is too much work and too much to think about...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. When cats do get around to moving,

they are pretty fast. Sloths are so slow and slothful even when they are awake that algae grows in their fur. That might explain it.

I have not found any algae growing on me. Yet.

[texanwitch]

13. That was me yesterday.

It was raining.

That was my excuse.

We all need days like that.

[magical thyme]

14. except that in the 11th hour I managed to do something.

big.

I had completed one course this afternoon. I was able to browbeat myself into completing a 2nd one. And tonight I finished the 3rd -- and final -- one. I've completed my continuing education credits required to re-certify in MLT. I had hoped to finish by the end of March, but was ready for it to take much longer. Instead, I got done 2 weeks early! And now I can party...or at least nap extra in coming weeks

[hibbing]

15. I've got a cold from the depths of hell

I have done nothing this weekend besides walk to the urgent care clinic to find out I only have a cold, I can't believe that is all it is and I didn't get a script, it has wiped me out. I did manage to walk for a cappuccino today and even the espresso didn't give me any energy.

Peace

[magical thyme]

16. have a nice hot ginger tea with honey and lemon

wrap your neck in a warm towel. Put warm compresses on your eyes. Eucalyptis oil on your nose. Bundle up. And rest, rest, rest.