I didn't have one cold this winter. I think it's the first time in my life that's happened. I remember when I was little, four or five, not understanding what people meant when they said they had a cold. I thought that everyone sniffled and sneezed all winter long, every winter, like I did. I couldn't figure out what a post-nasal drip was until I was twenty, when I realized I'd had it all my life.
Alas, there is no escape. After spending a lovely Sunday afternoon reading diaries and updating my own, I started writing something else and slowly realized that my throat hurt.
A lot.
Within minutes -- minutes! -- my ears hurt and I started to sneeze. I've had the headache since Sunday too, but not a sinue headache, so I know it's not that. I stayed home from work on Monday, and came home early today. After about the dozenth nap, it's starting to move on, just a scratchy throat now. It's running its course.
Which is to say, I've got a cold, like everybody else.
What's really intriguing me is that I've got some time alone in the house, for a change. Funny, when both girls left for school in the fall, I didn't know what to do with all that time to myself, espcially since Hubs was working a million hours a week. Then he changed jobs, and now he's home every morning and leaves for work after I do, and boy, I miss that time alone in the house, which I've had now for years and years, even when the girls were home, since they got up later than I did. So then Hubs was always around for awhile; I never got used to that. And he teaches nights, but his schedule for the last few weeks (and all those snow-days) meant he's been home a lot then, too. Seems like I'm never here by myself anymore; I miss it somehow.
Anyway, he's back to teaching this week and I've been home sick, so here I am. Very .... relaxing.
Thinking lots about lorisor. Everybody keep good thoughts.
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