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Another Sick Day and Alice in Wonderland on Blu-Ray

February 1, 2011 By Elizabeth

It started with Kaitlyn and a runny nose last Friday. By Sunday, Ryan had a heavy cough and I had a completely stuffed up nose. I kept Ryan home from school yesterday, and then again today when I heard him still coughing.

I hate being sick. I hate having to constantly blow my nose. I can’t find any hand sanitizer and I don’t have the car to go get some, so I wash my hands about 20 times a day which is making my hands dry.

Waaaahhh, poor me.

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So, there’s the blizzard coming. The news said to expect 40 mile an hour winds and 10 to 18 inches of snow. I had planned to go to the grocery store today to stock up in case we’re snowed in tomorrow, and then Chris’ coworker who drives carpool called in sick, so Chris had to take the car.

I checked the pantry – there’s a couple of big cans of soup, some diced tomatoes, and corn muffin mix. I’m sure I can do *something* with that. Chris is going to try to get to the store after work, I’m nervous about him driving in the first place but he can’t exactly call in sick because there might be a lot of snow AFTER work, you know? I’ll just be biting my nails until he pulls in the driveway.

Ryan and I are bundled under blankets, me with my box of tissues (and a steadily growing pile of crumpled up used ones, I should really get a wastebasket) and him trying to be a tough guy but really feeling pretty miserable, while Kaitlyn bops around the house. I can hear her in her room playing, making up some story for her My Little Ponies or something, she puts a smile on my face.

We’re watching the original Alice In Wonderland, it’s come out on Blu-Ray in a 60th anniversary edition. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment sent it to me for review, and do I recommend you buy it? HECK YES. The transfer looks amazing, every color is bright and vivid. There are two versions you can buy, one is the Blu-Ray + DVD combo pack that I got, it’s $19.99 on Amazon. The other adds a third Digital Copy disc and bumps the price up to $27.99. I was surprised by how much Ryan enjoyed it!

So that’s what’s going on around here. I don’t feel like getting up and doing anything, so I’m just going to keep writing blog posts. And if somebody could just send me a new nose to replace this leaking one, that would be great.

I’m sick and I might not be able to go to IZEAFest and that SUCKS

September 27, 2009 By Elizabeth

Cough & Cold Germs - Image by RobertFrancis via Flickr

Last Thursday morning, I heard Kaitlyn cough. Just a quick, dry cough, so I didn’t worry about it.

Then she came and sat on my lap and her nose was running. And she coughed that dry cough again.

You see where this is going, right?

Friday night my throat felt sore. I took two Tylenol and went to bed.

Yesterday I woke up with a dry, wheezy cough, a runny nose, plugged-up ears, and a sore throat.

There was some swearing.

I’m supposed to fly to Orlando on Thursday for IZEAFest. My plane ticket is paid for, I booked a car service to pick me and my roommate up from the airport, and I paid my roommate for my half of the room charge ahead of time.

I’ve been looking forward to this trip for months. Some of the biggest names in blogging are going to be there, plus a bunch of the people I’ve known since my PayPerPost days but have never met. There’s a trip to Busch Gardens, to Icebar, to SEAWORLD.

But I have to be responsible here. If there’s even a chance that I could still be coughing on that plane, spraying miniscule droplets of cold germs in a closed environment, it just would not be right of me to go. Besides the fact that I hardly have the energy for running around Busch Gardens and SeaWorld at this point. I spent all of yesterday on the couch under a blanket clutching tissues and Cloraseptic throat spray and Sudafed.

I should mention that I have chronic bronchitis, so the cough is not a surprise. Compared to previous years, this is actually a pretty mild case of it, knock on wood. For me, a simple cold can very easily turn into bronchitis. One of the boys probably brought it home from school, gave it to Kaitlyn who gave it to me.

I’m giving myself until Tuesday, and then if I’m still coughing, I’ll have to call my roommate and the car service and the airline. There is, however, one thing that would make not going to Orlando okay – Ryan’s birthday is next Friday. His THIRTEENTH birthday. I was going to miss it, which was okay with him, but if I’m here, I can wish him happy birthday in person on his special day.

I still wish I wasn’t sick though. Dang it.