See these blossoms? They make me sick. Or rather, they signal the beginning of a season where I have to watch myself. Take lots of Allegra, wash my hands a lot, nag J to switch out the air filter. What should be a carefree season turns into a season of prevention. Makes me feel like the boy in a bubble.
Once the pollen dusts everything in sight with its familiar yellow glow, it’s almost a sure bet I’ll get a sinus infection. This time around, however, the flu was the culprit. As you can see, what should have been about a 5 days break from the blog almost turned into a full two weeks!
Being sick is the pits and I’m not one who bounces back quickly. Once I get sick, I’m down for the count. I’ll be in bed the whole week. The house will look like what the hurricane left behind. It’s even worse when J is sick, too, like he was this past week.
That’s how we ended our friends’ trips. We said goodbye to most of them before the symptoms hit hard. However, I dropped Garrett off at M.A.R.T.A., hoping desperately that I wasn’t sending my friend home with a little something extra.
As I mentioned, things fall apart when I get sick. I forget to pay bills. We end up with no groceries in the house. (Or rather, we end up with a bunch of mismatched food items. Dry Cheerios with brown rice, anyone?) I’m not working, so we’re short my income. (Life of a contractor.) I fall waaaay off the wagon with my list.
But I’m back! And I’ve updated that list you see so prominently on my blog. I changed a few things, such as #9. Anyone who has visited me knows that this will never happen. Cleaning my desk off once a week was highly idealistic. However, once a month is certainly not too much to ask. Especially since I could combine it with the scanning of the home documents. I can call it a “clean and organize” day.
As for others? I got a real hair style…check #20! Bought a tumbler and shot…check #37. Add to #19, #36, #41…woohoo! I’m not keeping up with everything, but I’m also not doing so bad…and that’s good.
Next week I’ll be picking up with the 90 Features in 90 Days posts again. I’ll be posting these on a Monday/Wednesday/Friday schedule. Every day turned out to be too much of a stress for me and left me neglecting things I should pay better attention to. A girl’s got to have priorities, right?
So am I completely better? No, but at least I don’t feel like my only option is to become one with my bed all day again. Oh and my tummy is reminding me that I haven’t eaten anything but crackers and orange juice in a week. So I’m off to find something to eat downstairs…hopefully something other than the dry Cheerios and brown rice.
So glad to hear you are starting to feel better! I hope that continues. And I hope allergy season isn’t too bad this year. :)
Very glad to hear you’re feeling better! We’ve been a sick house for over 3 weeks now (all are better now, though, for the moment!), so I feel your pain. Life stops when I get sick too, since I am the mom, bill payer, grocery shopper, chief bottle washer and pretty much everything else, too. Lovely to have all that catching up to do after you finally feel human, huh?