Eff this being sick already!

So, I woke up today, and I was on the couch - which is like my permanent butt holder -  after about an hour and a half I fell asleep for a while.  I woke up with a very runny nose.  Consequently, my throat is sore again most likely from ye olde post nasal drip.

Anyhoo, I figured, I needed to start studying for my foodsafety certification, that I should have already taken by now.  So, you know, it's all about bacteria, viruses, chemical and physical contaminants in food and stuff.  So, of course, I took a break and I needed to clean.  So, I cleaned the metal drawer under the oven and the dreaded lazy daisy cabinet.  Both kinda gross.  The metal drawer had mold.  The lazy daisy cabinet had lots of insect carcasses, including a fairly large roach!  Yuk!  Hopefully, the tenting of the house knocked all that shit out.  Although if the spiders repopulated as fast as they did, other insects could also.

So, after that, I needed to take care of some business.  I went to Home Depot - by myself, not a good thing.  The problem with shopping by myself is that I get easily sidetracked, and without someone make me stay the course, I just wander the aisles daydreaming about all kinds of stuff that we need.  The problem with shopping by myself while in a cold/flu haze, is, I'm even more unfocused than usual.

I found a white resin patio table - $69.  Where the Christmas decorations had been last week.  We could have used that table on New Year's Eve.  So, anyway, we could use the IKEA table for a computer table, and get the patio table.  Unfortunately, I didn't have my phone to consult with the FP, and it was probably too much trouble to ask someone to get me the table from up on high.

I also found some bookshelves - Martha Stewart brand, of course.  I didn't know if they would fit in the corner that I was thinking they would go, and once again I didn't have a phone to consult with the significant other.  They were probably too heavy for me to carry anyway.

I did find some of the stuff I needed.  But not all of it.  I always feel like a dumb ass wandering around these home improvement stores.  It reminds me of when I worked at Ben N Jerry's, and the dumb looks that people had trying to process all the flavors.  Man, that used to bug me.  "Do you have New York Super Fudge Crunch?"  "Yes."  "I don't see it on the board."  "It's right there at the bottom."  "Oh!  There's so many flavors it's hard to read it all!"

The most exciting thing I found, was the shower adapter to hold the shower head.  So, at least one bathroom is in working order for now.  Although, the cold water handle in the sink is leaking water.  That will have to be looked at, at some point.

Anyway, I set up the favorite channels on the remote control the other day, and I set up the DVR to record some shows.  So, now I'm going to watch the end of Modern Family!

Still Sick

Fuck.  I hate being sick.  I feel so useless.  Especially now.  I'm not working, which is useless enough, but to be sick too?  The FP has been taking care of me, making lunch and dinner, getting me beverages and Nyquil (which I'm about to take again after I write this.)

It's like I want to do stuff, like work around the house, but I know that may just prolong my illness. Do you ever get sick and feel like it's never going to go away?  That's how I felt the one time I got the mysterious illness that the FP got a week after me.  The fullblown symptoms were with me for 2 weeks. It was like an awful flu, complete with these surging headaches that felt like... lightning.  I always wonder if that was something serious that should have been looked at by a doctor?

Anyway, I'm going to drink more Nyquil and hope to wake up bright eyed and bushy tailed tomorrow.  Speaking of bushy tail, I haven't brushed my hair in a couple of days.  It's going to be a nightmare to get all the knots out.  Between the knots and the heat rash, I'm so ready to get rid of this hair.

The only problem with chopping my hair off, is I don't know if I can pull it off this time.  You gotta have lots of confidence when going from long ass hair to really really short boycut.  People treat short haired girls different, some of it positive, some of it negative.

Anyhoo, I need to do stuff tomorrow, so I better be in the proper frame of mind to do it.  Like at one point today, I was filling out an online application for a job, but I got dizzy and I kept misspelling things and I couldn't focus.  So, I had to stop filling out the application.  It looks bad when one turns in an application with lots of retarded, sorry, mentally challenged, misspellings.

So, that's me, signing off.  I know, only two days into the new year and I'm already shirking on my resolution to keep the  blog humorous and less whiny!

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