Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Feed and Water Twice Daily

Being sick sucks.

Sure, when you're a little kid, it's great; you get to skip school and lounge around all day while your mom brings you soup and ice cream, and if you can convince your brother that he's sick too, you have a Mario Kart buddy for the day.

But when you have no such people to bring you ice cream or play games with, and instead have big presentations to leaders the next day that you're not yet prepared for that you're trying to write up in bed with a fever in the 15 minutes you're able to keep yourself awake every few hours before the Nyquil kicks in once again...not so fun.

It also makes it hard to write blog posts evidently, as this is as far as I've gotten in a couple of hours ha.

I had high hopes that working in a chemical plant full of formulations that kill off plants and insects and anything else it touches would kill off the little teenie germs currently plaguing my body. Or at the very least, the neighboring plant next door that produces pharmaceuticals would have at least given some pleasant healthy side effects. But *apparently* Allegra is only for allergies and doesn't help fevers. Lame.

I'm going to have to fight this a different way. I'm thinking of choking down some chocolate chip banana muffins the roomie made in what I can only imagine was full anticipation of me being sick and lonely. But if you give a sick princess a chocolate chip banana muffin, she will want a glass of milk. If you give her a glass of milk, she'll want some medicine to take as well. If you give her medicine to take, she'll get drowsy and ask for a blankie. Once she's curled up with her blankie, she'll need a bedtime story. The bedtime story will send her off to sweet dreams of kitties and yoshis. And if you send her off to dreams... you're going to have to finish her presentation for her.

Good luck roomie ;)

2 comments:

  1. Does this presentation (1) have to be about stuff you actually do at your job and (2) make sense? Because if the answer is "no" to both of those things, I can probably whip you up something.

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  2. Also, Joe wondered if we should bring you anything, so you could have had someone bringing you soup and ice cream, but I didn't think food was agreeing with you super well, and also figured we have 3 half-eaten things of ice cream in our freezer. But I'm sorry if that would have made you feel better anyway!

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