Dread Pirate Alice

So…

Here’s an update on the progress of this cold… Last night I celebrated my birthday with a Chicken Sandwich purchased at the little burger stand at the corner by my bus stop. Nice ladies work there, it’s woman owned so I like supporting them when I can. They have good cheese for the cheese fries too.

But anyway, I watched Gilmore Girls and then played back the episode of Enterprise I recorded last week but never watched. Then I decided to soak in the tub to help myself relax before bed. I took a hit of the NyQuil Cough to help quiet the hacking and…

I was in bed by 10:30. At approx. 4am dude up stairs starts blasting his stereo. It was so loud I thought there was a speaker in my livingroom. 4am is also the approx time when the NyQuil should start wearing off. So not only am I hearing loud thumping music, but I’m also hacking up a lung. Thanks a lot dude…

I’m just so tired and worn out that I can barely drag my ass out of the bed for another hit of NyQuil much less actually go up stairs and yell at dude for being so stupid. Who on earth thinks that playing music at top volume at 4am on a TUESDAY is the smart thing to do??

But after an hour he shut the thing off and I was able to finally fall asleep again. But come 8am and time to rise I was still dragging my ass.

Ugh… I can’t wait for the day to actually sleep all night.

BAH!

It’s my birthday and I’m sick… I’ve got the runny nose, cough, sore throat, headache thing going on. I tried to get to sleep early last night. Not a chance…I was laying there tired, but unable to fall asleep from about 8:30pm until midnight. Coughing, sniffling tossing, turning it was the pits. I got up, found the cough syrup, it expired in April of 01. No surprise, it’s the nasty pukalicious stuff, that’s why there was still practically a whole bottle of it.

The boy is sick too. So we’ve postponed the lunch celebration until Friday. I sat at my desk for lunch and had a “Hostess Scary Cake” as my birthday treat. (it’s a hostess cupcake but with orange frosting and brown sprinkles. the pacakge says it has “s’cream filling”).

So…yeah, here I sit, at my desk. Blowing my nose, sucking down NyQuil and wishing I was at home in bed…

happy frickin’ birthday to me….