This is funny, I'm home from work again today but I had every intention of going in- even with the fucking snow storm still swirling about. I got up on time, downed my coffee, read the paper, cleaned off both the cars and then got a message from my boss saying that it was ok if I wanted to take another day to 'rest up' because it wasn't going to be busy due to the storm. Hell yah! At first I thought, well I'm up and ready to go so I might as well, then when I took an extra long time putting on my shoes and looking for my ipod I started to think about my decision. What am I stupid!, my boss actually called me and said I could have another sick day and it's Friday -so I called her back and told her I was going to accept her generous offer.
So here I sit again on the couch with my laptop appropriately on the lap and food network on the television. Oh, and looky there on the tv I see Giata... excellent. It's weird being home two days in a row; I just sit here all day doing nothing but it's great! I totally long for these days when I can just be- just do whatever the hell I want to do. I'm not bored at all, I actually feel inspired, motivated (which I rarely feel) and rested. I love hanging out and when you work 40 hrs a week you don't get much time to just hang, there's too much to do. I'm not sick enough to feel disoriented or fuzzy like Claire, just a little tired and not 100% right.
I have a six pack (well now it's a four pack) in my fridge. That's not odd but the bizarre thing is that it's been in there for close to 2 weeks. Two weeks! Six packs don't last in my fridge for longer than 2, 3 days. I can't wait to feel better so I can finish it off. I was just sitting here thinking about something zoe said in a comment. She was saying she didn't think people would actually like her if they met her. I don't get that, she seems very likable and might I add quite a popular blogger- as far as bloggers go. Strange the way people think sometimes, but stranger than that is that I think I could have this laptop on my lap for days on end. I'm pretty sure C. Love would eventually throw it across the room though if I were like this but not home sick from work.
I better do something productive like check my e-mail or maybe do some more Christmas shopping on line. Giata's off anyway... I'm glad she made my list, I still think it everytime I see her. She makes me feel better.
Evening update: Shit, rough night ahead. C.Love has just left the house to go to a party/fundraiser here and she looked and felt very 'hot' as I kissed her goodbye. Ok, now this sickness thing is getting on my nerves. I should have sucked it up and gone with her but I can't stop blowing my fucking nose! This is going to be hard, real hard- I'm always next to her.
10 comments:
I despise being sick-glad you are feeling better. Being home, when you are normally at work and not doing something productive does tend to induce guilt. I try like heck to fight it back.
I very much love when bloggers reveal themselves and quite often they are not as I'd pictured. by then, though, it doesn't matter.
Hope you continue to improve.
What a gift of getting an extra day off! Yeah, that was me last week - I was sick and I thought "If I can make it thru one more day at work then I'll be on Thanksgiving" then I thought "This is crazy! I have sick days, I'm going to take them when I need them!" So, I called in sick and had an extra day off before the holiday started.
Feel better, r.d. and thanks for the great words in my post comment! Someday we'll be polishing off a six pack from your fridge - count on it!
Happy Weekend Upon US!
An extra day off is totally cool! I can't wait until we have snow days!
I love seeing pics of bloggers. I get a sense of them, but don't really form a picture of them in brain, until I see an actual picture. Sometimes I'm a bit taken back, other times it just "fits". Like Zoe, I worry about whether or not those I know online would like me offline, once they got to know me in 3-D. It's just that insecure part of me...
I'm sorry that you're sick and that you didn't get to go with C. Love to the fundraiser. I've been single for so long that it would be odd always having a ready-made date. (Not that I'm opposed to that happening in the near or semi-near future, mind you.)
Feel better!
r.d -- i hope you are feeling better!!
I so need to take a "sick" day. I didn't take any sick days when I was sick for those 3 weeks, most of the worst of it fell over the weekends for me. While I'm so glad BP is finished with her Masters and we lots of time to do stuff together again, I miss having my time alone to do what I want. I think I need to take a day off, home alone, to just screw around by myself.
I don't know how to answer for my insecurity, and if I did, well I wouldn't be me. Yes I am me on my blog, but I'm the edited me. I mean just like everyone who blogs, I decide what people get to see of me, and I have no clue how others interpret what I write. I know many people would find it hard to believe, but I am kind of shy and introverted.
Holy crap, what a time to be sick. It would have killed me to not go to THAT fundraiser with my beloved.
Now, get working on that 6 pack. That beer isn't going to drink itself.
Only daughter,
I knoe what you mean, but no guilt this time! Maybe that's why it felt so good.
t2,
yes, such a gift and I'm so glad I came to my senses and grabbed it. Happy weekend to you too-
sassy,
I have no idea how you don't form images of people, that's impressive. I'm sure by the looks of things people would not only be drawn to in person as they are on line but would stick around for a while too!
Hey kel,
I'm sure you would get used to a ready made date in no time at all-it did suck not going but I managed.
Afunt,
Thank you, I feel better today- I slept until 12:30. But didn't go to bed until 1:30- so... see ya
zoe,
you should definately call in sick one of these days whether you're sick or not. I haven't actually been sick in years but I've taken 'sick' days because I just don't want to feel like I'm getting ripped off by not using them. This time it was for real though. If you need to talk about alone time come to me, I own that topic. Shit, it's been a struggle and I highly suggest working on getting some for yourself.
About your insecurities- we all have them, I'm just saying you don't need to but I know that's impossible. No answers necessary, I hear you. I'm sure a lot more bravery comes out in the blogs- it's easy.
Oh, C. Love came home empty handed... I even waited up.
Hope you're feeling better and sorry about the empty-handed thing.
:)
Thanks, on both accounts maggie-
I have nothing but sympathy - I'm a sneezy, drippy, foggy mess. And the worst part of all is that it's the holidays and everyone else is walking around and going to parties all rosy and happy and healthy and I'm sitting at home in a ball of germs like Typhoid Mary.
As for people's pictures - I always get a little thrown off...I always have a picture in my head of what people look like, and when it doesn't match, I really get disoriented. But it always fades pretty quickly :)
Sorry you had to miss the party and I hope you're well on your way to recovery...and polishing off that 6 pack :)
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