It’s been a rough last few weeks since returning from my weekend in Southern California, mainly because of a flu or something like it that simply would not completely go away. It has finally fully resolved itself, although I’m still taking the daily Claritin®-D and the Mucinex® to be on the safe side.  Being ill has completely messed up my normal wake/sleep cycles, and usually the only way to reset it is to do an all-nighter and then force myself to bed at a “normal” hour at the end of the night.

I’m both looking forward and not looking forward to Thanksgiving this year—or even to the holidays in general, for that matter. I enjoy the holiday atmosphere, and will especially get to enjoy it in places like Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and Busch Gardens Tampa, but I will be spending the holidays—for the most part—alone. Just like I did last year. 

What I am looking forward to is Vee’s visit to here in Florida in a few (hopefully short) months. Not having to be alone, but being with someone I love dearly, is the closest thing to heaven for me.

Many a reader on this site may also know Heather Armstrong, a.k.a. Dooce, who was fired from her job for blogging, and then later La Petite Anglaise, who befell the same end over a year or so ago.

As of Friday the 15th of February, add Ches Pazienza to the list. Ches was a Senior Producer at CNN, until on Friday he, too, got dooced for writing a personal blog apparently without the “permission” of CNN.