i would like to say that i have not been here
very much lately
because i won the lottery
and have been
busy buying myself a gravel pit
and a candy store all of my own...

but the truth is
the stupid flu found me last tuesday
and is just barely letting me
out of it's feverish hacking grasp now...

a couple of realizations while sick:

being sick as an adult sucks. nothing stops...the clock keeps ticking, the to do list keeps growing
popsicles are still awesome
listening to an audio book is a great way to distract yourself from a pounding headache...especially when that audio book is the graveyard book by neil gaiman...read by neil gaiman! now...i should explain here that i didn't actually have the audio book and so was listening to it on youtube and, because i was drifting in and out of sleep and slightly feverish, i didn't realize until HOURS into it, that the sequence of youtube videos was not in the correct order...and yet, i was still totally enthralled in the book! :) i am totally putting this (and every other book by neil gaiman on my list of things to read).
i think i must seriously be a 9 year old when sick...i had thought the graveyard book was the one thing that i listened to that wasn't for kids...but i just realized as i searched for the link, that it IS a kid's book. i also listened to "how to train your dragon"...watched the first season of the muppets...watched kung fu panda (jack black never disappoints) and minions and the flintstones...
and, as sucky it was that S. caught my flu a couple of days later, i can say for sure that if i had to be sick with anybody...i'm glad that it's with him. :)

but the real truth is
catching the flu sucks
but it definitely makes you realize
how easy it is to take
life, and your health,
for granted...
it's always good to have a little reminder.
{but next time, flu, maybe just remind me for
a day or 3....i don't really need a 7 day lesson...}