Urban wildlife

We had a bunny in our front yard this morning! It ran off as soon as my car backed out of the garage, and I saw its tail flashing as it ran.

I'm surprised it was out and about in the neighborhood this late - we're a block away from a middle school, so there's lots of traffic in the morning (and at 3:30 PM!), and there's a bus stop for older kids waiting for the school bus 7 or 8 houses away, so lots of walking around the sidewalks at the time.

The finches are back, the males sporting deep red plumage, and the mourning doves and bluejays are active. I haven't seen any killdeer yet, but I hope to.

The tollway that's going in on the other side of the housing development makes me happy and sad - happy that we'll be getting a grocery store and other necessities of urban life much closer to us, but sad that it's going through the prairie south of us, so much of the wildlife will be moving away and other urban wildlife moving in.

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And today is the first glorious pain-free day I've had since my headache started, so that makes eleven days, beating my previous record (when detoxing from caffeine) of ten days of migraine in a row.

As most of mine are, it wasn't bad pain, just mild relentless pressure and pain that could be beaten down to almost gone by various drugs or by eating, but which came back once the meds wore off or I got hungry again. (I guess that means it's not technically relentless, then?) At any rate, I finally recalled my doc's diagnosis from last year that she thinks some of my migraines are triggered by tension headaches and that I was to take a muscle relaxer before bed when needed. Night before last, I took one and it seemed to partially work - for the first part of teh day the pressure was slight although it came back after dinner. I took another one last night, and ... glory of glories at the moment I have no pain.* Woo!



* Well, in my head at least. I'm on day 3 of standing at my desk instead of sitting, and the rest of my body has various aches and pains from being forced to do things its not used to. The past 2 days I've stood for about 5 hours during the day - sitting down for short periods for breaks and lunch - and I've got more work done than I did in the past 2 weeks. Might just be the change, because change always makes me work better for a while, but I'll take it.

P.S.: http://www.fitbolt.com/ A desktop or browser app that periodically pops up a window with a stretch or a quick exercise you can do in your office. I've been liking it so far. :)

The Official Timeline of the Avengers.

For those of you interested in Avengers fic writing, as my f-list appears to have exploded in Avengers squee. (I assume it's useful, but I'm on my phone right now and the text is not easily read.)

http://i.imgur.com/61GmV.jpg