Off the Mark

I guess I should’ve known even earlier than I did this morning based on the 1st clue.

I took some NyQuil last night since I wanted to get some good sleep. NyQuil will generally make me sleep soundly for 5.5 to 6 hours and then wake me up a bit edgy; which is far better than 7-8 hours of tossing and turning and waking up exhausted. This morning I woke up 8 hours later when the alarm went off, after sleeping pretty well, and was “did not want to get out of bed” tired.

Drug myself out and got started on the morning. Had breakfast and then drank my coffee as I checked the internets. As it got closer and closer to time to hit the shower I just felt worse and worse. I emailed my cataloging boss and said I wasn’t coming in. I have a class this evening and another first thing in the morning tomorrow; not sure resting up will allow me to make them either, though.

I took myself back to bed (after 3 cups of coffee) and took a 3.5 hour nap. This is just not something I do. So, I am not just off, but honestly sick. Great!

I guess I’m going to have to give up on the whole Birthday Month thing. This one, for several reasons, is off to a horrible start.

But, on the brighter side—because there just has to be one, doesn’t there?—we are gettting several inches of snow right now! No, I’m not normally a snow lover but I can tolerate it in certain amounts. But it’s Birthday Month and I got ripped off last year. Here’s (most of) what I wrote as a comment on a friend’s blog this morning:

I’m definitely down for the bitter cold backing off, but I’m kinda stoked about the snow coming.

This being Birthday Month and the Midwest and the middle of winter, I finally resigned myself to the weather of my birth a couple years ago back in Normal. No use fighting winter in the Midwest. Now I just try and enjoy what it brings.

I felt completely ripped off last February cause we got no good winter storms! Put a bad damper on the whole Birthday Month experience last year. And seeing as this one is off to a sucky start, I’m wishin’ and a hopin’ for a massive snow storm! Snow, preferably cause ice and bitter cold sucks, but then it is February in the middle of winter in the Midwest. I’ll take what I get and just bundle my skinny little ass up a bit better.

Assuming I feel a bit better this afternoon, getting to class should be interesting. It’d be a whole lot more interesting, though, if I wasn’t sick. Oh well. With any luck I’ll be well before my actual birthday in a couple weeks.

Now I’m off to find some lunch. Cause if I ever get sick enough not to want to eat—which is, of course, a completely different thing than wanting to make it for yourself—then it’s time to go to the hospital.