the school nurse sent me home

yesterday everyone was getting sick. i was getting really worn out from just sitting up, everything ached and realized that i should go home before this got any worse. It was a little after lunch when I drove home. I went to the grocery store before I got in bed and got some vitamens, some orange juice and some snacks. do you know that they make "immune defense" orange juice now? I was all dizzy and sleepy and brought a full cart into the 15 items or less line. but no one yelled at me. I got home, set up a sick bench full of fluids and medicines, and watched a little bit of a british sit-com on PBS before I fell asleep.

It feels really good to pamper yourself, before you get dreadfully ill. I usually am a big pile of snot before I'll give myself a half-day like that. I really think that it might have helped me curb this cold, maybe even chased it away. today is more fluids and cold ease (this amazing zinc stuff.) with 12 hours of sleep under my belt, i really fell like a new woman. i'm ready to eat all of the food at our office chirstmas party! I'm starving.

after the christmas party, today i'm off to buy some presents for the big guy. his birthday is on saturday. it must be dreadful to have a birthday a week away from christmas...i'm trying really hard to make sure he has a couple of nice things for both days. I'd tell you some of my ideas, but that would give it away.