sick

I would like to state, that for the first time since I was hired, I have missed a day of work. Not because I called out. No, but because they sent me home with a fever and stomach cramps.

Friday, I rolled out of bed at 8 o'clock feeling downright awful when I was supposed to be at a meeting at 8. I got there by 8:15. After the meeting, I went back home and crawled back into bed. At 2 I decided I needed to shower. I crawled back into bed after that and shivered somewhere between waking and sleeping until 3:40 when I forced myself back up to put work cloths on and get to work by 4. I was late by 4 minutes mostly because of morons on the road. By 5, Jessica sent me home. Actually, she forced me out.

No matter, I was home by 5:20, back in my pj's and back in bed by 5:30. The cat demanded attention that I was in no mood to give but I let her in to sleep on my bed. I huddled around a pillow in bed with the cat laying on my legs until the housemates declared it was time to eat. I ate, drank some tea, and then went back to bed to sleep from 8:30ish until around 11 this morning. I forced myself to the grocery store at 2 to pick up ingredients for soup (which I forgot half of) and now I'm back in bed with the chills.

Do I feel better? No, not really. I drank some orange juice (love me some vitamin c), ate some soup, and now I'm feeling tired again. And this is the most pathetic post I've written in quite a while.