Under The Weather
I feel like death warmed over. I don't understand how I can daily ingest more vitamins and minerals than any 20 people I know, yet I've somehow gotten sick.
I could feel it coming on yesterday when I woke up. The itchy, scratchy nose and that hollow feeling in my head. By the time I got home from the Meat Packer I felt utterly exhausted. When we went to bed I was freezing, then I woke up around midnight sweating and overheating. I moved to the couch for a few hours and then back into bed around 3 AM. So not only am I sick, but I barely got any quality sleep.
I'm sneezing, my nose still feels all itchy and I have a general pressure in my head. My throat feels scratchy too. This could not be a worse time for this since the Sparrow's mother is spending the weekend starting tomorrow. The house hasn't been cleaned. It is a wreck. And I am somehow supposed to find the energy to make it presentable. How?
I am remembering last year when I was sick for almost a month and I dread reliving that. It was the whole catalyst behind changing my eating habits and what prompted us to buy the juicer. 365 days later, juicing every day and yet here I am potentially back in the same spot. I am sure it didn't help that I had a Pepsi yesterday at the Meat Packer. I was so overwhelmed there, running around nonstop the entire time I was on site. People were basically lining up to have me help them with stuff, so I was being pulled in every direction. And a bunch of Slate people were there on top of it.
Mrs. Slate was talking to me briefly and basically inferred that a year from now they would "have to see" how things are going regarding our services for the company. Her goal is to replace every workstation in the building with their equipment. And if that is done I just cannot imagine they'd want me around. For what? Rebooting the wireless network once a month and ordering monitors from Amazon? Plus they are going to have one of their I.T. people on site every Thursday going forward.
I feel too gross to even really care right now about it.
I have a task I need to get done in the next two days for them. An SSL VPN certificate renewal. It is not a difficult thing, but I just never remember the process and the Dummy has shown me how to do it every time. But he always makes me nervous when he helps because he doesn't really know what he's doing and I am afraid he'll fuck something up. Again, it is not a difficult task. I just do it so infrequently I am not confident in the process. If it wasn't for that, I might just be on the couch right now.
Dr. Berg on YouTube talks about the healing power of cloves, so I did try some clove water last night. Though I was way off on the ratio of water so I am sure it was completely ineffective. I'd try anything right now though. Every year we talk about making this fire cider stuff we've seen recipes for, but like so much, it's just never gotten done.
On an unrelated side note, I feel like I spend 80% of my week these days doing laundry. It used to be Mondays and that was it. But, lately I start on Sundays if we are home, then do more Monday and then half the time the baskets sit up here unfolded for a day or two or three, because it is such a pain in the ass to fold. Because I was late getting home last night the Sparrow took it upon himself to fold the three baskets that were sitting there since Monday. It's all put away, and yet now I am doing two more loads of towels. It just never ends.
I need to get out and feed the birds, but that cat has been sticking around on the back porch and I'd hate to scare him off when it is so cold. But, the squirrels seem crazed this morning so I'll need to soon. Lest they tear down the feeders in protest.
I just do not know how I am going to make it through this day.
I could feel it coming on yesterday when I woke up. The itchy, scratchy nose and that hollow feeling in my head. By the time I got home from the Meat Packer I felt utterly exhausted. When we went to bed I was freezing, then I woke up around midnight sweating and overheating. I moved to the couch for a few hours and then back into bed around 3 AM. So not only am I sick, but I barely got any quality sleep.
I'm sneezing, my nose still feels all itchy and I have a general pressure in my head. My throat feels scratchy too. This could not be a worse time for this since the Sparrow's mother is spending the weekend starting tomorrow. The house hasn't been cleaned. It is a wreck. And I am somehow supposed to find the energy to make it presentable. How?
I am remembering last year when I was sick for almost a month and I dread reliving that. It was the whole catalyst behind changing my eating habits and what prompted us to buy the juicer. 365 days later, juicing every day and yet here I am potentially back in the same spot. I am sure it didn't help that I had a Pepsi yesterday at the Meat Packer. I was so overwhelmed there, running around nonstop the entire time I was on site. People were basically lining up to have me help them with stuff, so I was being pulled in every direction. And a bunch of Slate people were there on top of it.
Mrs. Slate was talking to me briefly and basically inferred that a year from now they would "have to see" how things are going regarding our services for the company. Her goal is to replace every workstation in the building with their equipment. And if that is done I just cannot imagine they'd want me around. For what? Rebooting the wireless network once a month and ordering monitors from Amazon? Plus they are going to have one of their I.T. people on site every Thursday going forward.
I feel too gross to even really care right now about it.
I have a task I need to get done in the next two days for them. An SSL VPN certificate renewal. It is not a difficult thing, but I just never remember the process and the Dummy has shown me how to do it every time. But he always makes me nervous when he helps because he doesn't really know what he's doing and I am afraid he'll fuck something up. Again, it is not a difficult task. I just do it so infrequently I am not confident in the process. If it wasn't for that, I might just be on the couch right now.
Dr. Berg on YouTube talks about the healing power of cloves, so I did try some clove water last night. Though I was way off on the ratio of water so I am sure it was completely ineffective. I'd try anything right now though. Every year we talk about making this fire cider stuff we've seen recipes for, but like so much, it's just never gotten done.
On an unrelated side note, I feel like I spend 80% of my week these days doing laundry. It used to be Mondays and that was it. But, lately I start on Sundays if we are home, then do more Monday and then half the time the baskets sit up here unfolded for a day or two or three, because it is such a pain in the ass to fold. Because I was late getting home last night the Sparrow took it upon himself to fold the three baskets that were sitting there since Monday. It's all put away, and yet now I am doing two more loads of towels. It just never ends.
I need to get out and feed the birds, but that cat has been sticking around on the back porch and I'd hate to scare him off when it is so cold. But, the squirrels seem crazed this morning so I'll need to soon. Lest they tear down the feeders in protest.
I just do not know how I am going to make it through this day.