She's On Phi-Er

I'm waiting for Brett to pick me up from work, and I didn't bring my knitting so don't really have much to do...I don't feel like I really have time to reply to emails, plus my hotmail's been acting up today, so I'm not really interested in going back in, I tried to eat this zone bar thingy I brought to eat for my snack but it's hurting my throat so I stopped, so now I'm writing this. It's been almost a week since I first got sick, and this is my first day back at work. It's as lame as work usually is, but not too much lamer, which is good. I'm not to that stage of the flu yet where you have that worthless dry cough that chokes you and makes your eyes tear but doesn't get anything up, and I'm past the stage where I have no voice and am little more than a dripping pile of germs, so it's been alright. Just some sniffles, throat clearing, lots of the healthy expectorating coughs...if you can use expectorating as a verb...or an adverb or however I used it, and dizziness, aching sinuses, and watery eyes. It's all good. But my throat burning got the one line of that country song stuck in my head...the only line I know...and THAT sucks. "She's on fire." Only in my head it's with an increasingly twangy accent, as I mentally mock the countryness (which I KNOW isn't a word) and try to make having it stuck in there slightly more entertaining than it would otherwise be. Right. So I don't like this post, but I'll submit it, because Brett is probably about to be here, and I get to go back home! Woo!!! :)

Ugh.

I feel terrible.



I asked for yesterday off from work so I could meet Mike's new baby, and we got some baby stuff and a book for Mike and everything, and then Wednesday night I started to feel sick, and just kept feeling worse and worse until I realized I must have the flu. Needless to say, I had to bow out on the trip, and I still haven't met my new nephew. Now it's day three, and I don't feel better AT ALL, and we're thinking it's The Actual Flu, rather than just a cold that we refer to as "the flu." I stayed home sick today and felt like shit the whole time. I've been lying in front of the tv all day switching back and forth between E! and Comedy Central, because anything more substantial makes me feel nauseated. Words cannot express how bad I feel. I did take some time out to finish up the kitty slideshow though, so that's one semi-productive thing I did today. Oh, and this post...that's a good thing too. And Brett and I are about to go to Blockbuster to see if they have The Hebrew Hammer because I'm tired of watching all the crap that's on tv right now but I don't have the energy to do much else.