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Monday, September 7, 2009

Flu Rantings

I suppose it's been a sort of hiatus from blogging. School started and although there were pictures taken none were posted. I can hear the collective sigh of dismay from the blogging community. I mean really, isn't that what blogging is about? To post pictures and tell the goings on in our lives? Yeah, I stink at it. I've just been SOOO BUSY. And I really can't blame it on the flu either, though I blamed the flu this last week for all things miserable. I truly haven't been that sick since I was a kid!

It was beyond miserable. And we're all still suffering from the head cold. It's the germ that just keeps on giving!

I decided that NyQuil is the Lord's tonic. It enabled me to actually get OFF the couch one day last week. I would walk from my bed to the couch in the morning. I think there's some inner dialect we tell ourselves that if we could join the land of the living, even if it's in body only, that somehow we're going to feel better. It doesn't usually work, but it enables other people to wait on you better:) I guess there is one perk to being sick. lol

Unfortunately, NyQuil and all products with the 'Quil' name started making me feel funny. Could it be the alcohol? Honestly, if it was, I really have no idea why kids want to take the stuff to get high, or whatever they do. NyQuil has become like bologna and root beer floats for me now- once they've been puked, they don't go down the pipe anymore. Not without some serious food aversion. So however much I think NyQuil has a tremendous product out there, I will no longer be taking it, unless under some serious derision.

Thankfully we're all pretty much on the mend. That germy held on for dear life, but it was just no match for my white blood cells. (We all come from good stock my dears:) However, I think germy's mucous buddies are still having a party. How come that's the worst part of a sickness? Not only do you get sick, but you can't even get better nice and clean, and without the aid of a like, a MILLION tissues.

*sigh*

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