*gronk*

Well, drat.

I have a cold. I know it isn't allergies, because (a) it moved down to my throat last night (thank goodness, because I really hate colds in my ears) and (b) until Friday night I hadn't had anything like it, and everybody with allergies was already miserable.

I suspect I have a cold because work has been less insane lately. When the February/March cold came around, I was too busy to catch it. (I'm serious; that's how my immune system seems to work.)

In aid of getting rid of this cold, I'm making chicken soup with beans and veggies and enough garlic in it to repel vampires for three blocks in any direction.

music and plants

My tomato plants haven't died, my two pea plants are producing recognizable (although still teensy) peapods, and I'm deciding where to cut off my jade plant so as to replant the tops of it. One of the stalks has decided to start growing horizontally and seems to be putting out roots from the bottom of every horizontal segment, and I'm not quite sure what to do about that.

The last box of Cheerios I bought was giving away a free song from iTunes with the code you had to cut up the box to get at. It promised "1 in 10 gets 5 free songs", but I didn't think anything of that because I'm never the 1 in 10 that gets more free stuff. Well, today I was. So I downloaded 5 miscellaneous songs. This is the first time I've ever downloaded anything from iTunes, because although I think they've got a good idea and a good thing going, I don't really have the spare money to download songs all the time. (I was disappointed that they only seem to have a karaoke version of The Safety Dance, because that gets stuck in my head worse than anything else lately, and I wanted to get ahold of it so I could get it out.)