Tag Archives: illness

01/8/12

{Project 365.8} I Would Die Without Kleenex

Day 3 of my debilitating illness! It’s getting better though, thankfully. And, I felt okay enough to venture out of the house today. With my portable Kleenex in my purse, that is. I pretty much always have a need for tissues because I also suffer from irritating allergies. Anyway, we headed to the Fashion Show Mall on the Strip because 1) David wanted to buy extremely silly looking running shoes with webbed toes (I think they look hysterical but whatever) and 2) I really, desperately needed a haircut. Which I got! It was horribly expensive by my standards, I normally can’t even convince myself to drop $25 on something like this… let alone $70! Holy moly. Really, it cost that much because they just don’t give you the option of not getting the extras like having your hair washed and then styled after the haircut, which I normally skip to shave the price down. Since we’ve only been here a little over a month, I haven’t found a place to have my hair cut yet, so since I really needed my split ends trimmed off before they killed me (things like this bother me to the extreme because I’m a hair purist), I decided to just go. It turned out well, all the split ends are gone and the layers that had grown out have been cut back in again. She totally gave me the Kate formerly-Middleton haircut, which I found amusing, but is perfectly okay because I happen to enjoy Kate formerly-Middleton. My hair will never look as awesomely effortless as hers does, despite the fact that my hair actually does take 0 effort to achieve, but c’est la vie.

Anyway, I have to go to bed early because of that wretched Doctor’s appt tomorrow, so I have to get going :((((( BOO. We’ll see how my harrowing medical adventure goes tomorrow. Cry cry cry cry cry.

01/7/12

{Project 365.7} I Bore of Being Ill

I slept until 1:00pm today — so shameful! I am sad to announce that the Tylenol I took last night had absolutely no effect on me whatsoever. I stayed up super late reading (and finishing) Entwined by Heather Dixon and then working on a chapter I’ve been stuck on for days now. I only realized what time it was when David poked head through the bedroom door, half asleep, and told me it was 5am. Thus admonished, I went to bed and unsuccessfully tried to fall asleep for about another hour. As you may or may not know, it can be hard to fall asleep if you can’t breathe through your nose and have to keep sneezing/reaching for a Kleenex every 5 minutes. Thus immersed in misery, I sniffled and wheezed until I finally managed to sleep. Woke up with an aching neck and a nose that still refused to function properly. This time I reverted back to Mucinex… so far it has at least helped me breathe better.

I’m sitting in my papasan chair by the windows in our living room, listening to the wind howling outside. You’d seriously think there was a hurricane going on, it’s that loud and alarming. Yet, the sun is shining (beginning to set now, actually, since dark comes astonishingly early here in Nevada) and there’s no sign of a torrential downpour anywhere. It just sounds like it. I have no idea if it’s cold or not, since I haven’t been bothered to check on my phone for the weather, but David did mention on Monday that we were going to have a drop in temperature this weekend. I hate being cold. It’s going to be fun walking the dog this evening T-T

Wow, I am being really boring today. LOL.

Later, we’re planning to watch Inception again since we bought it on sale from Amazon during the holiday season. For some reason, we never bought it before then, even though we both thought the movie was amazing. Of course, we have no idea what to have for dinner since we still haven’t gone grocery shopping and the house is sort of devoid of food. Well, we have snack food… but nothing to really make a meal out of. A common dilemma. I said I was going to cook more this year as part of my (nebulous) New Year’s resolution, but so far I haven’t ventured out to buy ingredients in order to try my hand at anything. I really need to do that. We can’t just continue eating the way we ate in college, halphazardly and without any kind of nutritional value at all. It’s just sort of hard when we’re limited in what we eat by how picky we are, lol. Neither of us is fond of vegetables, we are NOT adventurous eaters, and we tend to order the same things over and over again in restaurants: chicken, chicken fried steak, french fries, mashed potatoes, et al etc. So it’s really a challenge to come up with things to learn how to cook, when essentially it would be the same menu over and over again unless we expanded our horizons a little bit T-T

Change is hard to initiate, that’s for sure. One change I would like is for this bout of illness to pass, because I grow weary of being attached to my box of Kleenex at the hip. I hope I’m right in surmising that I’ll feel more motivated to pursue activities like cooking and making the bed when I’m not feeling like crap. Ugh.

01/6/12

{Project 365.6} I Pray to the Tylenol Gods

Still sick, if you can’t surmise that from the title and today’s photo. I woke up at the horrific hour of 6:00am, largely because I couldn’t breathe. I spent the next few hours blowing my nose and feeling very sad. LOL. I felt better after taking a shower, then fell asleep again for part of the afternoon. Being ill is an extremely unpleasant situation to be in. Hopefully I’ll feel better than this tomorrow… I took two of these Tylenol caplets about an hour ago, not that they’ve done anything for me yet at all. My nose is still running, which the front of this box says it’s supposed to alleviate. Lies! I would’ve gone for the Sudafed instead, but we were at Target and apparently those have to be bought from the pharmacy, which was closed by then. Thus, here I am, still feeling congested and irritable and sick.

I did buy a Toblerone though. If the Tylenol doesn’t decide to kick in ever, at least I have chocolate T-T

01/5/12

{Project 365.5} I Receive An Unwelcome Gift

“What’s mine is yours,” is an incredibly generous phrase, and when applied to something like marriage, is an even more generous idea. However, I wish it hadn’t applied to the achy-sore-throat-congestion-cold-flu ailment that David’s been dealing with for the past week or so, because it has now passed to me. Call me crazy, but I prefer to be given things like books, Toblerone, and coupons for free Shutterfly photo books. The sore throat stage began in the wee hours of the morning, progressing throughout the entire day except for the brief intervals when I was drinking hot cocoa (heat always makes my throat feel better) and when I had mac and cheese for dinner. Since David’s bout of sickness began with a persistent sore throat, I can expect to be achy and miserable for the next few days as it runs its course. Blah. I am seldom sick. Perpetually cold, afflicted with constant allergies, but not flat out ill. (The funny thing is that I have a doctor’s appointment on Monday.)

Anyway, despite beginning to feel like a train wreck, I spent the majority of today finishing up the Novel Insights website and forums. I think they turned out pretty legit, if you ask me. Being done a day early had me excited enough to take a picture of my monitor to show off my handiwork. I also finally bought The Dovekeepers today, which I am thoroughly looking forward to, and it will be fun to discuss the book with the others. This book was one of my own nominations to the list so I’m thrilled that we’re reading it, naturally, but I would’ve ended up reading it anyway even if it hadn’t been chosen. I downloaded the sample chapter on iBooks a while ago and fell in love with it. Except, I had just ordered Chris Bohjalian’s The Night Strangers and I felt bad about buying another book for about $18, since it’s still in hardcover. I have a Nook now so it took all of 2 seconds to download it, which is just about the most awesome thing about an e-reader. That and how portable it is. And my adorable pink leather case.

Best thing about today: I got an e-mail inviting me to take the exam for a job with the State of Nevada, presumably working at the College of Southern Nevada. It’s an admin assist position, which is yet again deviating from my career field, and not even in HR (my second, random career field that I ended up in somehow), but I need to be gainfully employed so I’m really hoping to get it. The exam is super early in the morning next week on the 18th. I actually have stuff to do between this week and the next; doctor on Monday, Clark County Reads orientation on Thursday, “Teaching As A Second Career” at the AFRC on Tuesday, and then this exam on Wednesday. Weird… I haven’t had much reason to be out of the house on my own since we got here, haha. Do I still remember how to drive…??? (You’d think I would hop into my car and go wandering over to the plethora of shopping centers nearby, but I always talk myself out of it because not going out means not spending any money… presumably…)

Well, I’m sure about this: I need my hair trimmed SOOOOOO BAD.  It’s getting to be horrible. It’s in the “blah” stage when it’s grown out beyond the length it should have, essentially running amok, and now it’s super long and also useless. That’s right — useless. I am the laziest person when it comes to my hair, which means my hair-related activities last about 10 minutes max and involve no more than two products. Three if I decide I need to use my flatiron that day. I need hair that just magically happens. Unfortunately, I am not a Disney princess. So I think I’ll have to go get it cut soon, maybe when I’m not feeling so yucky anymore. Hopefully being sick doesn’t last long. Ugh.

P.S. Beauty and the Beast in 3D starting January 12!!! And it’s even better because they’re playing Rapunzel and Flynn’s wedding (Tangled) before the movie starts!!!!!! I would go just to see that part. This is how much of a Tangled devotee I have become. LOL.