Sick Day

[qos]

Yesterday my boss strongly encouraged me to leave work early because I was snuffling and sneezing conspicuously. I slept moderately well thanks to two doses of Alka-Seltzer Plus Nighttime, but this morning my head was fuzzy and I was tired, and I thought The last thing I want is to get horrifically sick again -- so even though I am precariously low on sick time I am going to stay home today.

_storyteller_ was also feeling lousy, as was my daughter, so the three of us had a sick day together: going back to bed(s), then lazing around all day.

During the mid-day, I finished a book while _storyteller_ played Magic with my daughter, then he and I retired to the bedroom to snuggle and talk about the game that he will be running in a week or so, and about my character creation. Then we took a shower, and made dinner, and washed dishes. We had just settled down with our computers when we both confessed to a case of the munchies.

So we piled into his car -- with my daughter -- and drove up to Krispy Kreme. The daughter was in her footy jammies, I was in my pajama bottoms and one of his sweaters. I felt like I was back in college going on a study break. Now we've each had a doughnut and are going to be virtuous and go to bed (again) at a reasonable hour.

We will all report back to work and school tomorrow, but staying home today and relaxing together was really good for all of us.

And - dang it - everyone needs a spontaneous evening doughnut run every once in a while.

Comments

[princesca.livejournal.com]

Indeed - my mom used to take us on spontaneous ice cream runs when the moon was full, and huge, and low, and golden. We called that an 'Ice Cream Moon.' We still call it that, in fact.

A little decadent spontaneity is always good for the soul!

I'm sorry to hear you've been so under the weather. I'm sure it's the last thing you want to hear, but someone told me the other day that, unlike your blood supply, your lymph nodes, which help to spread antibodies, have no circulatory system other than your own body's exercise. Supposedly this is why, if you feel sick, but get up and keep moving around you feel better - though I'm more inclined to believe that's psychology. Either way, I believe rest is priority number one, so you're doing the right thing. Whenever I start to feel like I'm coming down with something, I usually take a pre-emptive day off, or half day, and that tends to nip it in the bud before it becomes a full-blown illness.

I hope you feel better soon!!

[qos.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the story about the ice cream moon -- that's wonderful.

I am feeling a bit better now: sniffling, but functional.