Recovery...or not...

After two days of all over general yuckiness known as "the flu" I have to admit that I am grateful the vomiting and other nastiness has ended but I can't shake this fatigue. I'm at work right now and quickly regretting my decision to try to get some work done. My boss, just back from two weeks relaxing in Canada, walked into my office and said "You look like shit!" How's that for a "good morning"? But he's right, I do. I have large dark circles under my eyes. I am pale and feel...well, yucky...again.

I'm going to try to tough it out until noon and then go home and sleep some more. Noon seems an awful long time off though...

The flu...

I've got it. And it ain't pretty...

10 Things I have learned from having the flu...

1. Nothing you eat once you've had a Halls Menthol-Eucalyptus cough drop will ever taste the same again no matter how long ago you had the cough drop.

2. When you can't taste anything, cottage cheese is just an experiment in texture.

3. No amount of lotion can make your nose feel any better after you've blown it 100, 000 times.

4. Flamin' Hot Cheetohs really do clear your sinuses.

5. Robitussin cough syrup makes everything that comes out of your body smell like Robitussin cough syrup.

6. Maury Povich is a dick.

7. There's a limit to the amount of daytime television any one person can take before completely losing their mind.

8. Cats don't like it when you blow in their face.

9. Regular coke is the only thing you can taste when you have the flu and, therefore, truly is the elixir of the gods.

10. Making homemade chicken soup seems like a good idea at the time but you don't realize how off your sense of taste is until a day or two later when it comes back and you realize that you have basically created a salt saturated congealed mess of noodles and too much garlic.

I went to work today for two hours. That's all I could handle. Turns out there is a mini-epidemic of this flu going on. Fifteen other people were out today and I sent two more home before I left for the day. Everyone keeps saying "You should have gotten a flu shot!" Well, guess what! I did! In October... sheesh.

I'm going back to bed now.

I have the flu...

Just out of the blue...I was fine one minute and sick as a dog the next. So, I am home from work again which isn't such a good thing. Last week, I was stuck at home because of the weather... all this time off just means work is piling up for me when I get back. I probably shouldn't be worried about that now what with this fever and cough I have.

Actually, even though I'm feeling run over and dragged out, I think I'll get some reading done. Always a good thing.