The Sickness Begins

And I am definitely sick now. I woke up this morning and thought that my stomach hurt because I was hungry. I barely got half way through a sandwich before I couldn't eat any more. It felt like I was going to throw up, but luckily my body has been nice enough to not reject anything. Yet.

So I took a nice long nap, woke up with a headache but feeling slightly better. I had some water and ginger ale, finished off my sandwich, and was beginning to feel a lot better, just a little drowsy. So I went out to dinner with my family.

My stomach hurts again. It's barely past 8 o'clock, and all I want to do is go to sleep. And I have to work at 8:30 in the morning tomorrow. I'm hoping I can get through the whole day, but I might have to leave halfway through if someone can take the rest of my shift.

The weird thing is, this happened last year close to the same time. If I start throwing up in the first week of February, I'm going to be freaked out. It'll be like Groundhog Day, but more like Groundhog Year...

Okay, it's past time that I stopped rambling. I'm going to bed. Hopefully a long sleep will leave me feeling better in the morning.

I'm not a people person

You know the people that really annoy me? People that get annoyed with sick people. Yes, I understand my coughing is annoying, but I didn't get sick just to get on your nerves. If I could be healthy, I would be. And when you're sick, sometimes you can't help but cough. Of course, now that I know it annoys you, and you have gotten on my nerves...

Ugh.

Okay, rant over.

Cold Season

Well, guess who's sick! I seems like this is just the average cold, but it's still very annoying. Yesterday I had to work an eight hour shift at work with a throat that felt like it had been clawed to ribbons. By the end of the night, my head was starting to hurt. Then this morning I woke up with a pounding headache, and as the day progressed, my sore throat kind of went away, but now my nose is snuffed up. I have to work another eight hour shift tomorrow, which I'm trying to find someone to fill. It's rather annoying, how often I fill other people's shifts when they call in sick, but the moment I need someone to take my shift, no one wants to do it. It's not even that they're busy. They just don't want to work.

I also have a friend's birthday party on Saturday, so hopefully I'll be well enough to actually enjoy that. It really sucks being sick. Even if I get to stay home from school and do nothing but watch Netflix, I still hate being sick.

Life Checkup

Sorry for not posting on Tuesday, I wasn't feeling well again. I keep getting better, to the point where I think whatever I have is over, then I wake up and suddenly the thought of food makes me gag. But once again, I'm able to eat again, so that's good. I guess it just comes in waves or something. How annoying.

Anywho, looks like I'm in a relationship now! Yay! But details are meant more for friends and family, so sorry, nothing much is going to be mentioned here.

Not much else has been happening in my life. School is good, except for the transit. Work is good, now that some frustrations have been alleviated by school. I'm working less, but that means I don't have as much responsibility.

Oh! My birthday is in less than a month. I'm getting a bunch of people together to go to a gaming bar. Anyone that knows me at all should know that I really don't drink, or go to bars, but this place is really cool. I'm also refraining from buying anything, because then I know that someone will have to return a present they bought for me. Unfortunately, that means that a lot of the cool stuff coming out in September I will have to wait for. I'm not a patient person...

Alright, enough rambling. Just wanted to check in and let everyone know I'm not dead and have not forgotten the blog.

Healthy!

This flu didn't even last a week. How nice. Maybe I am growing an immunity.

Anyway, a while ago I said I would post some pictures of my concrete poetry if I was able to get a picture. Well, my professor finally posted the pictures, so here they are!

Sorry, they're a little small and hard to read. Here is what each of them says,

Look at the world through my eyes, and see not the perfection, but the flaws of a broken world

That was a ventie decaf two thirds sweet no foam one and a half shot one ninety degree skinny peppermint mocha with whip

The body blamed the personality, the personality blamed the body, the heart was torn between the two while the mind started it all.

Sick...

Ugh, so right after I posted that I wasn't feeling well on Tuesday, I started throwing up. So yeah, flu number two! It might have been food poisoning, but I can't think of anything I would have eaten. Either way, I'm till not feeling great. I tried to go to school today, but I missed my first bus and gave up. I was planning on going just to hand in my homework and go back home, but I saved myself about three hours of transit. So yeah, I'm going to go take a nap now. I called in sick yesterday to work, but I have to work tomorrow, since no one can cover my shift.

De-Plagued

I am just about healthy! If you ignore the tissue currently stuffed up my nose to keep it from running... But yay! I can go back to working more! Except that our hours have bee cut because apparently we were expected to make a full weeks worth of profit in the last couple weeks, when there were several days that we were open for only eight hours, or not at all... Work.

But school is going to start on Thursday! I'll post an update then. I did go for my orientation on Friday though, and my god, that school is beautiful. Even the neighbourhood is nice, kind of reminds me of my old high school. I'm sure my excitement will wear off in a couple weeks, after making the two hour commute there and back several times.

On a similar note, my friend started her first year at post secondary this semester! So proud of her. I'm also going to be graduating from my second year and getting my associates of arts in creative writing. Progress!

And that's pretty much it. My brain is still kind of in sick mode. Now to watch some Netflix.

I Carry The Plague!

So I have the flu. It's why I didn't post yesterday, and why I'm keeping it short today. It started right as I woke up on New Years day, and got worse during work. It started with a bad headache, which has not abated since. I had a bit of a sore throat, but it went away after I had something to drink. The most annoying has been my stomach though. I've restricted my eating because I'm constantly afraid that I'm going to throw up. Today I had an orange for breakfast, a slice of pizza for lunch (which I actually had to force down) and a small salad for dinner. I've been drinking a lot of ginger ale the last few days, which is quite a feat, since I hate ginger ale. Something about the taste of ginger. And to top it off, it's been very difficult to find people to take my shifts at work, because a couple of my co-workers would rather have a day off than relieve me. Luckily, I also have some really great co-workers who were able to help, even if it was impossible for them to completely take my shifts.

And before anyone asks, I'm fairly certain this isn't a cold. Normally my colds come on gradually and I can feel them. They come in stages, like a stuffy nose one day, a sore throat the next, then climax for about a day before pretty much vanishing. What I have came on very suddenly, with the first two symptoms being a headache and a stomach ache. The runny nose came later, and the sore throat is gone, not to mention I've barely had to cough. Lately I've been very cold. Earlier today I was wearing a shirt, a sweater, a winter jacket and a very thick robe, and I was still cold. I don't handle the cold well... The thing is, I haven't had a flu in many years. The last time was probably when I was very young, still in elementary school. So I guess I should be happy this is the first one I've had in a long time.

Anyway, it's 7:30. I think I might go to bed now.