This Is The Day Before That

My favorite line from Ray Perone is, "You know how you feel the day before you get sick? Well, this is the day before that."

I feel like I am coming down with the flu. The last time I got the flu, I remember feeling terrible for a week and then it just hit me and I could not get out of bed for days. I know everybody says they don't have time to get sick, but I hate to say it, I don't have time to get sick. I never call in sick to work, so I have plenty of time to take, but I, like everyone else, am way too busy to be laid up for days. I think it is just the stress of 'burning the candle at both ends' that is starting to catch up with me. I try so hard to stay healthy. I eat healthy, though my mom will tell me I don't eat enough, I am pretty active between making an arse out of myself and doing pilates, and I take a good multi-vitamin. I also make it a point to get eight hours of sleep whenever I can. I am hoping that the congestion I feel in my neck and the tenderness in my glands are just my silly wisdom teeth giving me trouble.

My sinuses are awesome. My dad turned me on to this stuff called Sinucleanse. All it is, is a plastic tea pot looking thing and some saline solution. You use the pot to pour in one nostril and let it flow out of the other, then repeat on the other side. Once you get the hang of it and keep the solution from running down your throat, the effects are amazing! Millions of people in India cannot be wrong, eh? Now, I just need a candle and some cheese cloth to clean out my ears.

I have spent the majority of the evening doing homework and I have to say, my cat Merlin is wonderful. He has his own chair and he sits next to me at the computer. When I am finished writing, he proof-reads my papers. His criticisms are hard to take sometimes and I wish he would stop marking my work with red pen, but he is 'old-school' that way. Plus, I hate turning in papers with kitty litter on them, but what can I do? The cat is a genius, or so he tells me.

What else? Oh yeah, Valentines day to me is a silly excuse for the retail and candy industry to bounce back from slow sales in January. I do not need to use a cutesy, red, heart holiday as an excuse to do something special for or with my dude. I did buy him a card, blank inside of course, and a candle (it was 50% off), but that is all, since "Spamalot" tickets are a gift from me to both of us. (Actually, if he could not go, I was going to use the extra seat as a place to put my coat.) I am kidding! I am cold, but I am not that cold. I would try to sell the extra ticket or find a date when I got to New York. What he does not know, is that I plan on paying for the entire trip.