It’s nice when warming up at the gym made me dizzy and tired. Kind of reminded me just why I took almost two weeks off. At least I was finally able to sleep all night and I think I’m getting back to normal. Of course I doubt I’m going to feel very good at the gym for a while.

My mom’s home from Japan! I took her out to dinner and had ONE BEER and after getting home I just plain fell asleep. I guess I’m probably not completely well yet, but I should have known that already after going through a coughing fit this morning and then getting quite dizzy because of it. Oh, well.

This is my blog, this is an account of my cold. A tedious and repetitious account because IT JUST WON’T GO AWAY.

The sad part is that it’s probably one of the more interesting things that’s happened lately. When the only phone call you get during the day is a junk FAX, there really isn’t all that much to talk about.

I was actually going to try going to the gym tonight but I got home and though I’d just rest for a teensy bit and and then a hour later I was waking up remembering how I called the doctor’s office this morning to ask just how long a guy should be coughing before he made an appointment to have a MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL tell him things about his (lack of) health. But I’m thinking the people who work in doctors offices are tired of hearing about the swine ‘flu and the bird ‘flu and other types of ‘flu that are POTENTIALLY LETHAL and really would just like a chance to sit in the office with nobody sick bothering them so they could just work on their Facebook updates all day long and deal with the usual OLD PEOPLE who don’t have anything contagious and lethal to worry about. YES YOU CHICKEN SHITS, I’M TALKING ABOUT YOU. I’m sure they don’t need me to come in and whine about how I’ve been sick for over a f*cking week and how I can’t sleep real well or eat or even go to the gym since I’ve been sick because that takes away from their Amazon shopping sprees, but come on, THAT’S WHAT WE PAY YOU FOR.

I mean my life isn’t going the way I want it to. I just want to go to work and surf some gossip sites and watch some YouTube videos but holy hell, not only am I still a little sick but THERE’S ACTUALLY WORK TO DO and it’s cutting into my online slacking time.

See what happens when I don’t get to go to the gym? I get a little stir crazy. Though in all honesty I know that I’m still not feeling well enough to go in. Whatever.

My mom comes back from Japan tomorrow (she’s probably getting on the plane right now) and I sure as hell don’t want to give this cold to her. It ought to be gone by then, right?

I thought I should get to sleep early last night because if I didn’t make it into work they might fire my ass for abandoning my post or something but as the evening wore on my stomach made those grumbling noises that mean if I tried to go to sleep I’d be getting up at some point and running for the bathroom. I didn’t actually make it to sleep until almost midnight and even then I tossed and turned and had ridiculous nightmares. The nightmare would wake me up, go to the bathroom, and realize I was incredibly uncomfortable and needed a drink of water. This repeated a bunch of times. Heck, I weighed 159 lbs this morning.

So I was continually thirsty today, and through no scientific proof I decided it was probably just a lack of fat in my stomach, giving me an excuse to try Slabtown Barbecue. They’re expensive, the portions are small, but it was all very tasty. Heck, most of the time I eat way too much at a barbecue joint so it’s probably just as well that I didn’t get huge slabs of meat. I’m feeling better already.

See what happens when I take the day off from the gym? I really take the day off from the gym.

So I’ve been pretty darn sick lately. Monday I stayed home from work because of a splitting headache. Tuesday I went to workbut Tuesday night I found myself shivering under the covers (using all 3 comforters I use in the wintertime) so I figured I should probably stay home on Wednesday (the day my new laptop was being delivered, coincidentally). Thursday I spent most of the day in bed passed out and getting up for more than five minutes at a time would make me shiver and break out into a cold sweat. Friday I was weak, but feeling better, and today I was in bed until the afternoon. I’m hoping this wonderful yo-yo ride is going to end soon but at least tomorrow should be an up day.

Fortunately my sister comes over and leaves her crap here most Saturdays when she goes running and she offered to do some shopping for me. There really isn’t that much food in the house. I told her I wanted Skippy and tortillas so I could be lazy and at least have something to eat. She also got me a Trader Joe’s burrito, which I didn’t think I could eat because I had a hard time with a tiny cup of yogurt earlier in the day but that thing tasted delicious. I think my appetite is coming back and I’m hoping I feel better tomorrow (and the next day). We’ll see.

She also brought over Thuy’s amineko that they think looks like me.

I still wasn’t feeling great today, but there’s too much work to do at work. It would be so much more pleasant if I could just be left alone there. Been fairly busy with no let-up in sight.

My laptop is supposed to arrive tomorrow. I’m sure I won’t have that much to say about it after I get it. You know how it is. It’s going to be just like the one I have now, just faster. I might have been happier if I just stuck to this one and got an iPad, but nah, I made my decision.

One of these days I’m going to slip up and talk about a sick day when I wasn’t really sick. I just figure if I can sleep over nine hours (something I can’t do anymore when I’m not sick or even hung over) then I’m sick. I woke up with a sinus headache and got up to go to work. Even got partially dressed when I realized I just felt awful and went back to bed until 11AM. I took some Advil around 1PM-ish, and that made my headache go away but just revealed a backache. I did go out to lunch, thinking that would be my meal for the day, but that upset my digestive system. With that list of symptoms I’m pretty sure I’m sick. Not deathly ill, but surely under the weather.

That didn’t cut down on the volume of work I have to do, which is mainly chasing down information from people who don’t respond to email. It’s just as quick to get verbal responses when I find people.

Oh, and my meal for the day was at Tasty and Sons, where I had the Philly Cheesesteak. I wasn’t too excited about it, but they smoke their own meat and add mushrooms that just made it smell and taste that much better than I expected. I sure hope I retained some of the nutritive value.

I went to see The Losers with Jeff today and I’ve been hearing for days that it’s a bad movie. I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised with a silly but entertaining movie. Lots of explosions and similar nonsense. Didn’t take itself too seriously, either.

Other than that I don’t have much to say about today. Spent most of the day at a Chip Conrad seminar where he didn’t do all that much to beat us up, but I still feel pretty banged up. He showed us things that were just different enough that it got me good and tired. That and laundry and there’s my whole day.