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doctor’s note

health or lack thereof February 2nd, 2010 @ 8:44 pm

Is it sad that I feel like I need an excuse to give my Wii Fit for not using it so far this week? I feel like I should hit up my local CLSC and get a note so that it won’t judge me as harshly as it has been because it’ll be a few days since I have used it.

Dear Wii Fit,

Please excuse Cat from her daily workouts as she has one hell of a cold which has resulted in fever and now respiratory problems. She is not allowed to flail around on your balance board until further notice.

Signed,

A Doctor-type Person

The stupid Wii Fit judges you! It’s horrible! All I want to do is play Rhythm Kung-Fu over and over and yet the Fit feels the need to mock me and my overweight, unbalancedness every time I turn it on! Hmmph.

But none of that is going to happen right now. Monday I left work at noon with a fever and feeling like gravity was just pushing down on me with all its might. This morning I woke up, fever-free but I still felt really weary and then it got difficult to breathe. It feels like my left lung isn’t taking in any air. It is a very uncomfortable feeling. For part of the day I had this weird seal-bark sounding cough, which seems to be less seal-barky now and more dry. But I can’t really talk much without starting to hack. If I still have this pressure on my chest in the morning I guess I will actually drag myself to the CLSC and wait in a waiting room for hours only to be told I have a cold and to go back to work and have some soup or something. I don’t think they’ll give me a note to quell the wrath of my Wii.

Actually, it seems that whenever Shawn and I go look at historical things we get sick. It happened in 2006 when we went to visit Upper Canada Village and we both ended up with The Plague of Yore. And now? We went to see old paintings at the museum on Sunday and I have some sort of respiratory/hacking thing. Since Shawn mentioned he was starting to feel the gravity push thing this morning I wouldn’t be surprised if we both ended up with whatever the heck this is.

In other news… at 4:50pm this afternoon the sky was just so pretty I stepped out the front door on to the porch to try and snap some shots.

If I hadn’t been in my pyjamas I would have wandered out into the street to get a better photo of the sky over the houses. But alas, I was in my jammies and was feeling like crap with messy hair, too! So I did what I could from my balcony.

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you never really think about having to swallow until you can’t do it

health or lack thereof, pook house, the anomaly that is me March 2nd, 2008 @ 6:55 pm

Ugh.

I think I am sick.

And I know, you’re thinking “Cat, you’re always sick!” and generally I am, but since September 2006 (Edited to say, apparently LAST April I had a cold with a bad cough! I totally forgot about that so it musn’t have lasted that long! I saw a post about it when I was linking to the photo of the empty living room from last year. oops!) it has only been stomach (or migraine) related.

Everyone at work has been sharing this respiratory, sinus cold thing since the end of the summer. I have miraculously been immune to all those germs. Why? I have no idea. Maybe Fate felt sorry for me with all my fall apart intestinal problems. Who know.

The thing is I have not had a cold since the Plague of Yore after our trip to Upper Canada Village in September 2006. I can’t afford to get one NOW when I have my grandparents (in their 90s and susceptible to germs), my father (undergoing treatments and susceptible to germs) and an 18-month old niece coming to dinner on Sunday for my father’s 60th birthday. I can’t get all these people sick!

I also, apparently, can not spell susceptible according to all the underlines when I spell check.

I am seriously hoping that this pain in my neck and throat and left ear are mainly dust related. We still have a lot of dust from when our floors were re-varnished while away and though I have been cleaning it up at a snails pace, there is still considerable amounts. This weekend we moved a lot of things around, too. We got a nice new rug last weekend at IKEA (Swedish for ARRGGGHH! GET BETTER PARKING LOTS!) and this weekend we just bought two new funky lamps. Our little living room is slowing turning into a nice, lived-in place.

Oh! And guess what? ONE YEAR AGO TODAY!!!! We became home owners!

Damn, I totally distracted myself from the real reason for this post. Oops. I swear I can be distracted by air. I have the attention span of a radish.

The distraction did remind me that I need to charge my camera because it is dead and I would very much like to take a photo of our nifty new living room things. So I should bring the camera upstairs with me since I have not yet unpacked the charger from our suitcases. And oh, I need to finish unpacking our suitcases from the trip.

Blargh. Too much to do and I STILL can’t really swallow.

Ugh.

[EDIT: Managed to squeeze some life out of ye olde camera.]

It’s hard to get a good shot of the entire room the way the house is made… and you know, do you think I can get a decent shot of BOTH dogs if I tried? Hell, no! But try to take a photo of the living room and yell at them to get out of the way…?

Perfection. Silly doggies.

And just so you don’t think that our nice new floors are all scratched up… the bottom left corner of the second photo seems to have caught the edge of my cedar chest. It’s a family heirloom, my grandmother got it on her 21st birthday. Yes, the one who just turned 90. And on it is a book I have borrowed from Monkey. The nice new floors can be seen to the right of Annie. ;)

Meritt had a really good point in the comments… click HERE to see this room a year ago April. Heh.

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this week’s a bitch and so am i

health or lack thereof September 15th, 2006 @ 11:00 am

Between work and the cold and the aggrivated digestive problems (due to the huge amounts of distress last week) I have not been able to do anything fun. No blog posting (other than my little blurb about the awful shooting at Dawson College on Wednesday), no playing on neopets (much), no visiting and commenting on other blogs (except to bug Cindy-Lou because it’s in my nature, like breathing).

What a rough and sucky week. I am tired (not sleeping due to coughing all stupid night, and then when the coughing stops? my stomach revolts and I spend the rest of the time in the bathroom, fun stuff!) and I am sick and I really, really want time off. Like, a month or six.

I suppose it is just as well that I don’t have time to post anything since I don’t really have anything to say. The rest of the Upper Canada Village trip photos should be up this weekend, but other than that? Nada.

Situation with apartment/landlord not resolved. Don’t know what’s happening with that.

I am missing my grandfather’s 94th birthday dinner because Shawn and I are sick and the last thing we want to do is make HIM sick for his birthday. Happy birthday, Poppop, here are some Germs of Yore! (They are Germs of Yore because we got them while wandering around Upper Canada Village which is filled with yore and yesteryear and whatnot). Yeah, so not the best gift ever. His actual birthday is on the 19th (Tuesday). I’ll make sure we see him at some point next week when we’re hopefully better.

11:00 a.m. and I don’t want to be at work anymore. Break over. Work time, yo!

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