To Whom It May Concern...

Please excuse Deb from writing a post today. She has been sick in bed all day. She has a cold and nothing to take for it.

Thank you.

The return of the Restitis...

So, I know it's only been a short while since I did a blog on this, but (to quote all the cliche horror movie sequels EVER) IT'S BACK...As soon as we returned from Ontario, took pictures and worked and unpacked an all of that, I finally get my first REAL day off of the summer, and what happens? The Return of Restitis. Blah. I know I'll get better, but it makes it hard to want to do all those fun things Summer dictates we do, like taking a book and reading on the beach, or grocery shopping. So if you're the praying type, pray I get better quickly, and if you're in the area, I like yummy chicken noodle soup I don't have to make out of whatever pathetic ingredients I have in my house at the time (currently lots of onions, frozen corn and spaghetti noodles), oh yeah, and anything sweet. I've been craving sweet things, ice cream, cookies, chocolate, pie, cheesecake, ice cream. Thank goodness I'm not in the mood to go grocery shopping... But hey, I'm still on line. Good for me. I'd pat myself on the back, but ugh...so much energy.

G'night y'all.

Restitis

I'm discovering that I have a certain disease - I actually think it's a pretty common disease. It's called restitis (my term), which, of course means that I'm allergic to rest. Here's two examples. This Spring Break I didn't want to teach the Friday before it - which I'm sure is a common phenomena. I was feeling a LITTLE tired & under the weather, but nothing to miss school over, but I decided to ask for the day off on Friday anyway - why not - what's the worst a little extra sleep can do? Well - I got SO sick that I could barely talk on Friday - and remained sick for most of the holiday, recovering just in time for school to be back in session. Now, at the time I was pregnant and not super excited about taking extra pills and drugs to stay remotely ok, so I suffered big time.

It's the end of the year. Now, the year doesn't end the same way it does in March where you're Teaching, then OFF and then Teaching again. No, the end of the year DRAGS on, due to being finished teaching two weeks before school is officially over, which means rather than getting full blown sick right off, I've been suffering with a runny nose, a sore throat, coughing and more bit by bit, piece by piece as the week goes on. It means I'm not being terribly effective or efficient because I'm not feeling great - and it means I'm not being super happy about going TO work, but don't really have a reason to call in "sniffling". I'm hoping that I get over this before July - because if this is all just leading up to something worse once school's officially over - I won't be too happy.

Ah well. Otherwise Life is Good. and since I've known about restitis for some time, I was kind of expecting it and I'm glad it's not worse this year.

Enjoy your day!