Ahhh ... AHHH ... CHOOOOOO!!!!!!
Obviously I'm sick. I've had a cold for about three weeks. Sniffy nose and miserable. Now, I've caught another cold that includes huge sneezes every other minute. Stuffy nose, watery eyes. FUN.
This cold has left me even more unmotivated than I usually am--which is pretty pathetic.
In this haze of tissues, the one thing that drives me crazy is that people need to give an opinion about what's really wrong. Because it's absolutely polite to say to someone who just told you they were miserable for the past two days that they really don't have a cold. It's the flu. Or, it's allergies. Of course you know my body better than me. I've only had it for 26 years.
But let me tell you, it's a cold--it feels like every other cold I've had. And unless you have a medical degree and you have checked me over, you don't know. Come a little closer, tell me again, and I'll sneeze on you.
It's one of those colds that if I could remove my nose from my face until it was back to working order, I would.
A nice little touch to my cold today is the sudden dip in temperatures. We received the first taste of fall today--complete with 40 mile-an-hour winds. The weird thing about these winds is they are truly gusts. It can be calm one moment and then, like right now, they bloom up out of nowhere and look like they could rip the trees out of ground. Even those two ginormous pine trees in my backyard. I think they may have even lost a couple of limbs. I'd go out and look, but it's 47 degrees out, and I'm not that curious.
I just finished My Sister's Keeper. Something you should try to avoid when you have a cold? Crying. Man. I did not see that coming. Not the crying. This book has been great and captivating, but hard. It hits too close to home and it wasn't something I could breeze through without fighting serious bouts of depression. But the ending. Wow.
Get the book. Read it. Make sure you have tissues. Then go hug your kids, and your parents.
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