migraine

i had a migraine headache yesterday. i haven’t had one since i was a kid. it sucked, although i know it was not nearly as bad as it could have been. i started getting cranky and headachey around 4 pm at work, came home, laid down and fell asleep for about an hour. brittney came over and we went for a walk; then i ate some soup and vegetables for dinner, and watched a little tv. right after i was done eating i started feeling much worse, and pretty soon i couldn’t stand to watch or listen to the tv anymore. i put on my pajamas, put a sleep mask over my eyes, and went to bed. this was about 9 pm. i just laid there, hoping the aleve would start working, for probably an hour before i managed to fall asleep. even though the room was dark, i could still somehow feel light leaking in the corners of my eyes, so that is why i dug out doc’s satin sleep mask — the kind that is filled with little bits of something like lavendar or barley grains — and it seemed to help a little.

i felt fine this morning, and most of the day. right now my head just feels a little weird and pressurey, but it’s not exactly pain.

and i’m really not complaining… i feel lucky to only have had this one, in comparison with doc’s cluster experiences and my brother, who does get frequent full-blown migraines.

the other day, as i was going through my milk crate where i keep office supplies and, apparently, a bunch of other old crap that i no longer need, i came across an old notebook. most of the notes had to do with work from 1997, but i found a couple of interesting pages. on one i made a note about a computer that i wanted for work, to replace the PowerMac 6100/60 that I had:

Power Mac 7500/100
16 Meg RAM
1 GB Hard Drive (twice as big as my current drive)
CD-Rom drive
can possibly transfer some RAM from this 6100/60 to the new machine?
Computer Corner price: $2049
15″ monitor: $385
17″ monitor: [this was blank]

i think i ended up with the 7500 and a 17″ monitor to boot.

on another page in the notebook, i had a note to myself to call kathryn, and a drawing of what the x-ray looked like when i broke my toe in 1999: