Things I’ve realised this past week:
- Being sick really sucks.
- Cold and flu tablets are useless except for the sweet, sweet codeine in them. The decongestant aspect is a filthy lie.
- I’m completely useless as a person when my sleeping schedule gets messed up.
- Blocked sinuses are awful in a number of ways.
- Coughing until you feel like you’re going to vomit makes it easier to blow your nose and subsequently breathe for a while.
- I didn’t realise how much I take breathing for granted until trying to breathe through my nose felt like I was suffocating slowly.
- Eating while having to mouth-breathe makes me look like I don’t know how to chew with my mouth closed. It was that or suffocate, I made an executive decision!
Things to do now that I’m over the worst of it:
- Clear the piles of tissues from around my desk.
- Soak all my angry piercings and try and get them happy again.
- Organise the piles of clothes and get them put away or washed.
- Vacuum the floors and clean the kitchen.
- Make the phone calls I’ve been avoiding while I sounded like death warmed up.
- Start getting up at a regular time every day.
- Use up these ripe bananas in some sort of awesome banana bread recipe.
It’s been a rough weekend, but it’s over now. I’m feeling (slightly) better than I have lately, so I have to get back on top of the housework and other projects I’ve got going on. Now I just have to make sure I don’t push myself too hard to get everything done now that I don’t want to just sleep all day; I don’t want to get myself sick again by being impatient.
Scout’s been following me everywhere lately, which is cute but also worrying. What does she know that I don’t? She looks pretty cute here, though.