This may be TMI, so please skip ahead to the third paragraph if you don’t want to see a little ranting. First, I usually don’t have huge issues with PMS, but there’s one cycle out of every year or so where it’s so bad that I wish I didn’t have to deal with me, so I can only assume others feel the same. The past few days has been one of those times. Good news is that my husband is away on a business trip, so he’s spared the worst of it. The bad news is that my husband is on a business trip, and this is the longest we’ve been apart in the 11 years we’ve been married. I miss him, and I’m very weepy. In fact, typing that is making me want to cry again. This sucks. The migraines that had vanished almost completely over the last 3 years are also back with a vengeance, so I’m doing the rounds of “migraine specialists” again, and that’s a real joy too.

Then today, Aly, Zin, and I decided we’d do a little photo shoot in my Photosphere. I’ve decided that I don’t have a gift for group photography, and we’re all 3 dealing with PMS. We muddled through anyway with a few ruffled feathers here and there, and we ended things well. I signed out and tried to open the bitmaps in Photoshop like I always do, and all the files are 0 bytes. We have no photos. This has happened to me a few times before but never on a whole series of images. I have 37 empty bitmaps. Does anyone know why this might happen? I’d like to avoid it in the future if possible.

Now that is all out of my system for a bit, and I can focus on the happy things that have gone on this week. I promise there’s been some good stuff. Rosie and her guy Armin are engaged now, and while that doesn’t really affect me so much, I’m always happy to see my friends happy and being treated so well. In Tiny Empires news, I’m now a Marquise thanks to Aly and Zin, who both spent more time in SL this week than I did. That’s a fun first. Thanks to Elusyve for sending me a congratulatory IM because that’s how I found out about the promotion. My subjects need to work on communication, I guess. And I also won an honorable mention prize in the Photosphere contest I mentioned a few entries ago! The theme was “freak show” so I dressed as an SL interpretation of crazy cat lady with me in my neko ears surrounded by some of the drakelets that I’ve been hatching lately.

The best news however is that I had a really fun date with my husband in SL last night. While he was eating Chinese food in his hotel room, and I was eating Chinese food here at home, we explored Pillow Talk a bit to check out the seasonal items.

We then went from sweet date out in the country to dressing up as members of the U.S. Army and playing I Am Legend: Survival. Both date activities had their charms, and I scored major points with the husband by sharing the game. He’s a huge fan of the original novel and the two movie adaptations that are already out, and we’re looking forward to the new movie as well. I’m sure we’ll be back to the game even after he’s home again, and he’ll be home tomorrow evening! /me cheers!