i'm in a migraine still in the glow of aura that hit me last night at the end of maddow.. after facing my fear & getting the flu shot last month i hoped i'd fare better this season, but i'm a recluse & don't have much immunity to the germpool of humanity i suppose? i went to halloween comicfest & the fall library booksale on saturday, https://friendlyghost.typepad.com/photos/i_love_portland/library-sale-2018.html which is like my xmas, & immediately started getting symptoms.. it waxed & waned & i thought it was that shot fighting off something.. there were some kids there.. i used to like children, but now i think of them as loud germs & avoid them wherever i go.. lol but when my voice went from my usual joni mitchell's 'it's coming on xmas they're cutting down trees they're putting up reindeer & singing songs of joy & peace i wish i had a river i could skate away on..' way down to cat stevens' 'miles from nowhere guess i'll take my time oh yeah..' oh yeah, i am Sick. is it a mini flu? some new opportunistic virus that spotted me out & about? well the aura caught me by surprise causing dropout in my vision & making others look picassoesque, & i couldn't understand half of what the guys were saying to me, i have to just say 'i'm sorry, i just don't know at all what you mean' & that's if my words come out correctly.. migraine aura is neurological & weird, whoever knows what strange words will come out of my mouth when i try to communicate, for a control freak that's very disconcerting & anxiety producing. i've literally spent hours before trying to focus on communicating one thought only to fail & not even remember what it was later.. so anyway, the pain slammed in & was with me all night, here this a.m. & i hope not going to be another marathon like last year's? it's been nice & cold & rainy here in portland, we've even had some hail, & i plan on staying in my blanket nest with snug back in mr dad's spaceroom playing darksouls 2 today (again).. hey i may be a weenie in the real world, but i still one-shotted the lookingglass king yesterday.. https://friendlyghost.typepad.com/photos/friendlyghoststuff/dark-souls-2-undead-purgatory-6.html so i will be securing gumbyland over the weekend to hopefully solve the problem of incompatibility with my blogs now that typepad has gone secure.. i've been painting so there's new art where i always tend to tuck it, toward the end of the ghost gallery quarantine area, & that's the best way to access it all anyway.. with laptop or pc you can even hear the new suspirium track along with my midwinter album there: http://brensgumbyland.com/midwinter.html (this link probably won't work yet, but just go to gumbyland for now..) i'm not a happy ghost today.. p.s. at least the guys are fine..

good old nick & snick!