The sniffles and sore throat started to set in on Friday but by Sunday it was a full blown illness. I managed to get it together enough to do some grocery shopping in the morning (so keen where we to get to Costco that we ended up waiting outside the door for 10 minutes for it to open). We also made a trip to Best Buy because they were having a sale on GPS systems. Hubby picked up a fancy system which was nearly $200 off. It's AWESOME. Talks to you and everything. Very nice and will come in handy for his trip in a few weeks.

Other than that, I managed to catch up on a bit of reading, watched a few more movies and finished the day with Buckley's and Masterpiece Theater. Still feeling god awful today but hopefully I'll get better instead of worse as the day goes on. I'd like to have the energy to finish "Lady Vengeance" which I started yesterday afternoon but had to turn off when MT started at 9PM. I'm thinking I may have to buy this film because so far, it's FANTASTIC.

I did well yesterday, I really did.

Came home from school at 10:20. Made something to eat, talked to a few people online. Made lunch, cleaned up and went to bed at 11:20 (hurray!) unfortunately, coughing fits kept me awake until 1:20 when I finally got up and decided to sit on the couch since sitting seemed to stop the coughing. It worked and I slept through to the alarm.

I have to pick up some drugs tonight to get a good night sleep. Otherwise, I'll be sleeping on the couch again and two nights sleeping sitting up isn't exactly ideal.

If anyone can recommend anything for a cough, please do. I'm suffering here. Badly.

I'm feeling a little under the weather today. I don't know why either. I did NOTHING yesterday. Seriously, I cleaned in the morning right after I got up and when D left, I curled up on the couch with a couple of movies. I feel asleep 10 minutes into Brick and not because it was bad either. When I did wake up again a few hours later, I re-watched that, prepared the stuff for dinner. BBQ'd, ate, cleaned up, watched the hocked game and then went to bed at 10 which is unheard of for me. But this morning, I woke up with a bit of a cold sweat and I'm not feeling quite 100%. I was planning on going to the movies tonight but I think I'm going to go home, eat and curl up in bed with another DVD.

This is kind of fun. I took think link from someone's blog (sorry, can't remember who's). It's called "The Gender Genie" and you basically post a snippet of a blog entry (or any type of writing), it analyzes it and determines if you're male or female. Go figure, I'm a guy.

Oh, yes I do. My moronic, yet darn entertaining, trip to the Park Theater on Sunday morning in the pounding rain didn't do me well and by the time I got home last night, I was in full cold/flu mode. The nightmarish illness that had me on my back a few weeks ago appears to be back, in a much more manageable and low key way but none the less, I'm feeling awful today.

I'm heading home at lunch and leaving the 4 people that RSVP'd to the movie tonight on their own. Hopefully a few will still go out and enjoy the film. In the meantime, I'm going to go home to get some more sleep and at some point before 10PM tonight, I have to complete the editing on my English paper so that I can send it off to the prof.

I should have known better than to head out in that weather but I really wanted to see the film. Thankfully it was good. Not enough to warrant illness but that's life.

For the first time in a few years, the flu has knocked me on my ass and I spent 10 hours in bed yesterday, sleeping on and off. At least it appears that the cause of the virus has been tracked back and though it makes me feel better, it isn't helping the illness go away any faster. I'm still achy and gross but at least I'm here today.

Will be back for regular programming tomorrow.

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sign at an Arby's in North Bend, Washington

This looks as bad as I feel (though I'm not quite this cute):


I was so cold last night I couldn't stop shaking. After 20 minutes of not being able to get warm, I had to pull the other quilt over me and eventually I did fall asleep thanks, in part, to the best drugs. Ever.

I'm at work but I'm going to try to leave early. I'm freezing (although I'm wearing tights under my pants and a long sleeved shirt) and my back is sore and I'm occasionally getting shaky again. Ugh. I feel gross. Hopefully the drugs I took this morning will kick in soon.

I had planned to update this thing over the holidays but it just never happened. Between being sick over Christmas and trying to catch up on movies that I had sitting around the house, I managed to get very little of anything else done including a disastrous New Years eve that consisted of D waking me up at midnight so I could ring in the New Year with him. What a lovely man. He was so sweet and understanding at my being to sick to do anything other than sleep. I'm feeling a little better today (no choice considering I had to come into work) but other than that, it was a fantastic holiday full of food, drink, family and fun. Santa was much too good to me this year again and I can't help but feel spoiled by all the goodies that I'm not sure I really deserved.

As per last year, I didn't make any resolutions but thinking on it a bit longer yesterday, I've decided to put more effort into school, the movie site and friends. That's the extent of my resolution.

I can barely talk - every time I do I break into coughing fits and it was REALLY painful watching Little Miss Sunshine Saturday night. Every laugh = more coughing. Other than that, I'm back into the regular swing of things. And tonight is the night for the much anticipated Notes on a Scandal preview screening. I know some of the winners but others are total newcomers and I'm really looking forward to meeting everyone and maybe finding out how they discovered the site. WOOHOO! I know. I know. I should be going home to rest but I HAVE to be there (especially considering that I have everyone's tickets!)!

I hope everyone had a fantastic holiday and all the best for 2007!

It's been a great week for attracting new readers (hi folks...nice to have you on board the Marina boat) but that's been the only good thing this week. I've been feeling kinda gross all week and this morning I woke up feeling disgusting. My nose is plugged up and my head feels like the drain backed up into it. I'm having a hard time concentrating, I have a slow and quiet continuous pounding in my upper neck and I feel groggy (like I've had 10 too many beers). I was going to head home after work but I'm just not sure I'm up to going home and moping around so I'm still planning on attending the Friday geekout but we'll see. Anything could happen between now and 6PM.

The only other truly great joy I had today was picking the picture for the KFF (Keanu Friday Find for the new ones of the bunch). I've been saving this picture for either my birthday or a big holiday but today has been such a crappy day I needed something to cheer me up so, here we go. I don't usually post them this big but hey, it's my blog and I wanna see it BIG. Wiccachicky...you may want to be sitting for this one...

I hope everyone manages to have a great weekend. I'm planning to load myself up with drugs on Sunday if I'm still not feeling well. As for tomorrow...I must remain alert. I have a hot date with some girl friends, Pink Floyd, lasers and (if all goes well) some of BC's best MJ.