It is the cold going around, ugh. But thank you ♥ And sleeping has been coming and going--it's still something I've had to be watching like an absolute hawk every freaking day. I'll be better (like 2am better) for a few days, then hit another 4-5am thing. I think the super late nights are fewer though. This past week I'd been noticing myself actually getting tired earlier and earlier each night, but then I came down with this stuff, and well that explained that. ^^;

The permanent LJ thing was offered...I forget when the last time was. I don't know if they've offered the option for several years now, definitely not since it was sold to whatever Russian group's in charge now. I think the time I opted in was maybe five-ish years back? I just know at the time I was working full-time and earning an okay amount, so the expense was something I was okay with, even if I still felt a bit silly for being so frivolous. Nowadays I'm glad I did, because I feel guilty about frivolous expenses a lot, and am trying to be careful about stuff.

The DW account for fic is a *great* idea though--especially since they don't have the history of freaking about about peoples' content like what's happened here. If you don't have a friend with codes, there's I think a community at DW where people share out the invite codes they have to offer, so you can get started easily.