Friday, January 14, 2005  10:44 pm  <|>
<204> Out of Commission: So I've been super sick all day... actually for the last 3 days before this too, but today I finally had to stay home from work. I woke up in time to go, but being that I almost went home sick yesterday and I felt about 10 times worst today, if that was possible, I figured staying home was one of my only options. I had things at work that needed to be done though, so I was going to go in in the afternoon to take just a half day, but it turned out that I could get done what I needed from home. Working from home is great - the brokers at work do it all the time, but usually someone like me can't do it. But why not? I have access to my work email and got the files I needed from someone there. We can have remote access to our desktops, but mine isn't set up for that since I usually don't have any need to use it. Basically we had artwork for an ad due today, so it just needed to be done... especially because I'm planning on taking Monday off as my floating holiday. We each get one of a select group of holidays off each year and since it's Dan's birthday tomorrow and he wanted to take off on Monday I decided to join him in the day. Should be nice, but I just hope I'm feeling better enough by then to enjoy it.

Being sick sucks - plain and simple. I haven't really been sick with a bad cold in awhile. I was sick for a couple of days right after Christmas, so I don't know if this was something just laying around until then or something different. Everyone at work was sick the week after New Year's, so I'm probably just now getting a late case of it. Today really sucked though... I couldn't even bring myself to turn on the TV until 6:30 tonight because my head hurt so bad from my sinuses. So I basically laid around all day doing NOTHING or trying to make my head stop hurting... well besides using the computer for work, but I was laying with my eyes closed between checking my work account for the certain emails I had to wait for for approval... it was really bad. I did take a nice shower this afternoon that cleared a lot of my sinuses out... at least some of the pressure when away enough for me to slightly function. And I resorted to taking Tylenol Cold again.. the last couple doses I had of it, even though it made me feel so weird the last time. I started feeling it a little bit, but it also did make me feel better some. Dan picked me up Claritin-D afterwork, which my doctor suggested, so we'll see if that helps further. My head still hurts slightly now, but otherwise I can breath clear at least.

So with my day wasted, I doubt I'll do much more with my night. After Dan got home, we watched one of my Christmas presents from him, Inyuasha: Affections Across Time (the first movie)... it was pretty good, animated differently so I wasn't used to it. I really want to see the second one though, that one looks really good. He's napping next to me now... so cute. He had such a long day, not getting home from work and things until after 8pm. I've been staying at work late a lot more lately too these last few weeks. Things have really been getting busy, which is good really, but it can just wear you down a little bit. I guess my getting sick didn't help, but at least I have been able to keep up. I have a lot more responsibility there then I did when I started... I'm actually going through a job description change/review soon I think... maybe they'll decide that I deserve a nice big raise ;) We'll see... it's not something to count on, but it sure would really help!

So I guess there isn't much else going on... I'm pretty much next to useless right now. The last few days just coming home and resting or playing video games, today doing even less than that... hopefully I'll start feeling better tomorrow and I can at least be a little productive over the weekend. Tomorrow we're going out to dinner for Dan's birthday and I'm not sure what else. We didn't really plan anything, but I think Dan would prefer to paint or something and I want him to have his day just how he wants it, so I'm just going to go with the flow. That might be all I can do anyway, judging by how I'm feeling right now. So I'd better go resume my resting... until later!