I just want to admit that I lied today.
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I have a terribly sore throat. My left tonsil has decided to inflate to twice its size.
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Already, I am making headway. I've put the bedsheets in the dryer. And watered my plants.
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I have a headache, a backache, and swollen tonsils.
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Due to a confluence of freakish weather and constant activity, my body decided to crash. I noticed this, because I had gotten up this morning to do my daily activities.
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I tend to get ill during the winter holidays; not every year, but often enough that I'm no longer upset that it happens. I've spent a New Year dreaming feverishly in a guest bed, Christmas ruined by food poisoning, and countless holidays propped upright in bed.

I think that my immune system just gives up at around this time of year. After I got ( Read more... )

In a desparate attempt to get six loads of laundry done, I woke up this morning at 5:30. My brain was not quite ready to handle this transition, which is why I didn't do it very well. But this ungodly hour is the only time nobody else is using the washing machine downstairs, on the weekends at least, so I had to seize my oppportunity.

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Yup, I'll admit it: I haven't been to the gym in ages. I was starting to get pudgy around the midsection again, so I figured that I was probably losing muscle mass and putting on fat. Not a good tradeoff.

So today, I decided to get back on the wagon, so to speak. I showed up at the YMCA and Daneen gave me my towels, while commenting that she ( Read more... )

I just got back from Canadian Tire recently, where I had to buy a new combination lock. You see, I was rather absent-minded on Monday and left my lock just hanging off the gym locker. No doubt it got cut off or something.

Good thing I didn't leave my stuff sitting there. Although it would be kind of strange showing up to work in exercise ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning with a miserable voice and a sore throat. Oh great, I must have caught a cold from someone last night.

I looked in the fridge and noticed a tall jar of something labelled "Citrus Tea 柚子茶", which my parents left behind the last time they came up to visit. It has the look and texture of marmalade. In fact, it even tastes ( Read more... )