Bleh

I feel sick. Last night I was hungry when I got back home, and we had dinner, but I was still hungry. So I made myself more food, ate it, and was still hungry. So I drank a lot of water, and had some popsicles, but I was still hungry. At that point I just gave up and went to bed.

I woke up about an hour before my alarm this morning, so I drank some water while I was up and went back to bed. When I woke up for real, I was still thirsty, and then after drinking water and taking a shower, I started feeling nauseous.

The good news is that I don't have work today, so there's no real consequence of me being sick, besides that it's uncomfortable. Right now I'm drinking ginger ale, in the hope that it will make me better able to hydrate myself.

This is why I shouldn't go to bed hungry or thirsty. But I was so tired last night that it was hard to eat or drink! I just wanted sleep!
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In other news, last night started the 9 days of Av. There are a bunch of restrictions on what observant Jews can't do during this time period, including eating meat and drinking wine (except for on Shabbat or for a siyum) bathing (for pleasure, that is. You can bathe out of necessity for hygiene, but even then there are restrictions), wearing freshly laundered clothes/doing laundry (even if it's for after the 9 days), buying new clothes, playing or listening to music, and making new garments. There are other restrictions as well.

The ones that are really tricky for me are the bathing, making new garments, and eating meat, in that order.

Bathing I've pretty much decided to do as normal, though maybe using colder water than normal and trying to take a shorter shower. Though I shower when I wake up, so it takes a while when I'm not fully conscious.

Making new garments would include knitting. But I'm pretty sure the restriction is mostly on making them for Jews and making them for profit. If you're working on something that you know you're not going to finish in the 9 days, I don't think it's as problematic, nor is making something for charity. Or you could take "garment" literally, and thus could make dishcloths and blankets.

I've gotten heters (permission from Rabbis to do something that might otherwise be forbidden) before to knit/crochet. But I'm not 100% sure what the basis for those heters was. And a friend is in a similar situation, though she's in a place where the local rabbis are Chabad, and probably won't give her a heter. So I'm "psak-shopping" for the both of us now.

And after writing this, I still feel sick. :(

Feeling better

( short cut for the squeamish )

Now whatever it was that was bothering me is out of my system. So I feel better, and now I can actually make myself eat oyster crackers (Isn't it funny that a cracker meant for clam chowder is kosher with an OU dairy heksher?)

I was supposed to go through all of my clothes today, but I'm going to take it easy and just lie down and watch TV or read. Cause my stomach still hurts a bit in the aftermath.

Oh no, not again

( another LJ cut, same theme as before )

So yeah, major ow. And I was supposed to have an Orthodontist appointment today, but I had to cancel. I doubt they would appreciate me being sick in their office.