Blech

I live but barely. Totally lost my voice and chest felt like I had an elephant on it. I am back to work today with no fever for the first day. Still don't really have a voice but I think I can make it through a (long) day. Totally behind and totally stressed and still feeling like crap sucks.

I Thought You Were Special - WW #45

If I Strep For You Will You Strep For Me?

It's official. Kidlet has strep throat. I tested negative for strep but my doc thinks that is not likely to last. She thinks I have a nasty bronchitis or maybe walking pneumonia. Have a 100+ temp and I feel like I have two bags of wet sand instead of lungs.

Either way both kidlet and I are on antibiotics and I am on a lovely codeine cough syrup cause I am coughing so hard it nearly makes me puke. We are both home tomorrow and I am keeping her tonight so we don't infect her dad and his girlfriend. If that happens we are all just going to keep swapping this crap around.

It was a LONG afternoon though. Took off at 1pm and got home at 6:30. I stopped off at the store and bought some leeks, potatoes and some good white Irish cheddar cheese and a loaf of french bread. Making a nice thick soup to have the next couple of days. No beer though cause no one wants to add yeast to a system on antibiotics. That and some Toll House cookies. The cheater kind that you just put on the pan and have at it cause I am not stupid enough to try to be all Betty Crocker when I am this sick.

Just had the soup and it was D-VINE. Now we are going to lay on the couch and relax. Side note, this cough syrup is obviously not the same codeine kind they give kids cause it has me highly stoned. And I don't get stoned all that easy.

Ooohh...look at the pretty colors!

Come On Get Down With The Sickness

Waiting for the doctors office to open today and then both kidlet and I are going in. Her throat started getting more sore yesterday and I am in bad shape. It seems like we get a day where it feels like we might be getting over it and then boom it hits again. Either way this has been going on way too long and the cough is killing me.

Golly Jeepers Where'd You Get Those Peepers

Yes I still live. I have been awful about blogging since I got ill mostly because I have just been swamped due to getting ill. Add that to school starting and the lingering tiredness (is that a word) that I have had and I just have just been too pooped to pop.

I did work Saturday...early in fact. Got there at like 5:45. Got kidlet, and then got a wild hair to go to the beach. We had already planned on going for the afternoon just to have chowder. But I got a cheap oceanview room in Rockaway for the night so we went and spent the weekend. It was lovely down there on Saturday and all spooky foggy Cornwall coasty on Sunday. Came back to town Sunday afternoon and my Dad came over to fix my closet rods and have Chinese and watch spooky movies with us. Mom is in Cali for a family party so he is batching it this week.

Now I have a cold/migraine. I think it is a cold. I have a fever and swollen glands and the head is killing me. On one side. So either it is both, or a bad reaction to having a migraine. I have not bounced back from that Norovirus as fast as I would like to have and with kidlet going to school and bringing home all sorts of new germs...just yippy. I pretty much want to sleep all the time still. So I am not screwing around with whatever this is. Tea and naps for me.

Oh confirmed my Halloween plans. I am SO fricking excited about this. If you have seen the Stephen King miniseries Rose Red then you will recognize this place.



Kidlet and I are driving up on Halloween morning and spending the night. We are going on a Halloween Night Candlelight Ghost Tour and staying in the Master's Suite for the night! Kidlet is beyond excited. Halloween is our favorite holiday hands down and to be able to go somewhere super spooky just rocks! Click the picture to go the castles website. And check back later for WW as I will a picture of the suite we are staying in!

I Almost Fell Into That Hole In Your Life

I am still home today, released to go back to work tomorrow. This was one very very nasty illness. I made it to Dead Fred's yesterday and got my shopping and school supply list covered, and then came home and passed out on the couch for another couple of hours. On the plus side I ate *TWO* meals yesterday and actually had coffee for the first time since Aug 26th. That is how sick I was.

Kidlet started Jr High today. 7th Grade. It was a cattle call outside the school today and it was just the 7th graders. 8th comes back and classes begin tomorrow. Today is a special orientation for the 7th gr kids. Kidlet is excited and a bit freaked over the 5 minutes between classes. Her school is fairly decent sized so I don't blame her. As per usual, she looks about 4 grades higher than her classmates. Heck last year they lost her pictures sending them around the district trying to figure out who this "student teacher" was cause they didn't get that she was a 6th grader. And that was before discovered eyeliner. Forget about it now.

178 bucks in fees, pictures, lunches etc. Fees for art class, home economics and shop. Did we have fees for regular classes, for god's sake? I know we had to buy supplies (fabric, woods, pastels) but these fees are on top of those. And I love supplying paper and pens and Kleenex for the entire school. I just know in 20 years time we are going to find out about wide scale embezzlement in the Oregon government. We have damn near the highest property taxes and state income taxes in the nation, not to mention a lottery, and our public schools suck ass. Hard.

I am picking up Miss Thang after school and we are going to eat and then to see The Zombinator's version of Halloween. I think I am finally up to it. I feel fairly human today thank goodness. Tomorrow, after I drop off Kidlet, I have to report to employee health at the frickin hospital and get cleared to go back to work. Then I get to turn around and go back to my office. That is retarded.

More coffee I think, it finally tastes good again. Glad to be back!

When You Only Got 100 Years To Live

Slacker post. Back from the doctor. Released to go back to work next Wednesday. Let's hope I am eating by then. I feel better, I just have no appetite and still get nauseated very easily and any "real" food makes me feel ill. So for now, it is still tea, broth, and yogurt if I am feeling jiggy.

Equally as whitebread as my diet is this post. Some of you have seen these ones going around. Bond and I are sympatico with our Marquezness =)

You're One Hundred Years of Solitude!

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Lonely and struggling, you've been around for a very long time.
Conflict has filled most of your life and torn apart nearly everyone you know. Yet there
is something majestic and even epic about your presence in the world. You love life all
the more for having seen its decimation. After all, it takes a village.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

Interesting but I am not really lonely. I mean I have my moments, but generally I am a misanthrope and really would be MOST unhappy to be surrounded by people. It makes me cranky. Hell I make myself cranky sometimes, so lonely I ain't!

You Are the Very Gay Tinky Winky!

Purple with a gay pride symbol... how could he not be gay? And that red purse is divalicious!

What Gay Childhood Icon Are You?

I wonder if I could get a hot date with Sen. Craig now?

Your Candy Heart Says "Get Real"

You're a bit of a cynic when it comes to love. You don't lose your head, and hardly anyone penetrates your heart. Your ideal Valentine's Day date: is all about the person you're seeing (with no mentions of v-day!) Your flirting style: honest and even slightly sarcastic What turns you off: romantic expectations and "greeting card" holidays Why you're hot: you don't just play hard to get - you are hard to get

What Does Your Candy Heart Say?

And it only took me until 35 to figure that out! I gotta admit I was expecting "Bite Me."

Your Inner European is Italian!

Passionate and colorful. You show the world what culture really is.

Who's Your Inner European?

Ciao Bella!

You Scored 90% Correct

You are an 80s expert You never confuse New Order with the Pet Shop Boys You know which classical musician Falco rocked When it comes to 80s music, you Just Can't Get Enough!

How Much Do You Know About 80s Music?

Who would confuse New Order with Pet Shop Boys?! Although a bit o' trivia. There is a band comprised of a New Order member, A Smith's member and has Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys as a guest singer on one of their biggest hits. And I have used a lyric for a blog post. Link back to anyone who gets it!

Bleh

Thanks for the well wishes folks. I think we can let Matt off the hook, it's a long story Desert. I had to head to my grandfathers on Saturday as he was totally ill with some gastro crap. Both ends if you get my drift and he is 87. I got there, they had signs up that "some" of their people had a gastro bug. Some = 20 not including Gramps. His room was digusting. I knew I was going to get it.

Ended up spending 5 hours in the ER yesterday cause throwing up blood is not fun. I was badly dehydrated. Got 2 units of IV fluids, hard core anti nausea drugs and morphine for the pain. They are ruling out a bunch of fun stuff. Norwalk (the cruise ship virus) salmonella, ecoli and other crap. The county health department is all over his assisted living like a wet rag. I am still sick today. Minute those anti nausea pills wear off, I am feeling it.

Hope everyone is well and I will try to get back soon.

Starr be sick

I will try to post Tuesday. Just sayin hey.

Oy

Nope. Not dead. Kidlet got sick last week and fell and broke her ass as well. She kindly passed the sinus bug on to moi. This post is set to self destruct in 10 seconds....


ie... this is a quickie, more to follow!