Pass the tissues.

I'm sick. Here's a list of random things I've learned and/or done while I've been under the weather.

• I felt I was getting sick so, on Monday, I cleaned my house – just in case I needed to take a sick day later in the week.
• On Wednesday, when the fever hit, I was glad I had.
• Being sick sucks monkey balls.
• Hard.
• If I see, smell, taste or touch another thing resembling soup, I may scream.
• I called my doctor at 8 a.m. looking for an appointment. I walked down the street to his office (it's less than a block away). After he'd examined me, I bemoaned that he couldn't give me antibiotics because it was a virus. He said “I didn’t give you your sickness, I just diagnosed it.”
• My doctor’s kind of a jerk. It’s oddly comforting and makes me trust him. I think that’s why I keep going back to him.
• I went to the store to pick up some medicine and soup. Halfway through my trip, I started getting dizzy.
• Did I mention being sick sucks?
• I got home, took a dose of 'Tussin and went to sleep.
• For the last week, I've been eating soup.
• If I see, smell, taste, or touch another thing resembling soup, I may scream.
• Loudly.
• After I ate my 10th bowl of soup this week, I had a craving for brownies. So I made some.
• Halfway through the process, I rationonalized I might be too tired to cut the brownies once they were done.
• So I made brownie muffins.
• But I'm a bad baker, so I burnt the edges.
• The smell of burnt brownies never really leaves your house.
• And the smell of it can be quite nauseating when you're sick.
• But the brownies were still good.
• Mmmm, chocolate chunk.
• Taking a shower when you’re sick makes you feel better.
• For a while.
• Bad TV is addictive when you're sick.
• I wasted two hours of my life watching American Idol auditions.
• This morning, I went on an interview for a story I'm doing. I'd set it up sweeks ago and couldn't let the opportunity pass me by.
• So I pumped myself up full of drugs and interviewed my subjects for three hours.
• It was a good interview. But afterwards, I was tired.
• Working while you're sick - on a sick day - sucks pretty hard.
• I called my boss to tell her about my interview - she said half the office is showing the same symptoms I have. I got my virus from another one of my coworkers.
• I came home and dropped into the bed. I woke up four hours later, in time for Thursday night TV.
• Living alone when you're sick is pretty boring.
• I wish I could hear a bedtime story before I go to sleep when I'm sick.
• I'm going to work tomorrow.