The Christmas Cold
In the middle of the night last night, I noticed my nose feeling a bit stuffy...and realized sometime this afternoon that I received *another* unexpected gift this year....
A Christmas Cold!
Well, it's better than the Christmas Strep Throat (got that in 2004) or the New Year's Eve Flu (got that in 2005)....
And I had my 2 yr physica today--said I'm perfectly healthy.
Well, with the exception of the Christmas Cold.
I have no idea how I got it--it's not like the year I got strep, when some obviously very ill customer breathed all over us in the store. And I guess my immune system was stressed out enough so that I was the one who got it.
The New Year's Eve flu was kind of a fluke. I wasn't working retail at the time, so I haven't a clue as to where I picked that one up.
Same thing with this year's cold. I haven't really spent any considerable time around "other people"--with the exception of several long chats with Tim at the video store, a couple of chats with the landlady about the ice, and with a neighbor who's moving.
It's probably just the weather. Would be nice if it stayed snowy and cold, but it's been raining quite a bit, and getting up in the 40's or so--which, compared to the teens, is pretty balmy and doesn't really require wearing wool....but certainly makes an icy mess of all the leftover snow...
Then again, maybe it was all that last-minute running around. I kind of enjoy last-minute Christmas Eve running around. There's something fun about those dwindling minutes, when you know that, eventually, there will be absolutely no place to go because *everything* will be closed! That's such a rarity nowadays--used to be pretty common when I was growing up though, when there were "blue laws" and stores had to close on sundays...
Ah, those were the days: ten channels on tv and stores closed on sundays...
but I digress....
I spent the holiday with Steady Eddie, even though our relationship's a bit dubious right now. Neither one of us can figure out what we want for the rest of our lives, but we kinda know we're on different paths. He couldn't think of living in A City, and I can't think of living up on The Mountain.
It's your typacle City Mouse/Country Mouse dichotomy. It's just easier to deal with when you're friends....
So, we kinda think we're just each other's best friends...less of a "couple" kind of thing, although we still think of doing lots of stuff together...
Yes, it's kinda weird. I watch a lot of folks, and there are lots of women who have these close women friends that they're always calling and whatnot. I was never really like that all that much with girl-friends after high school. It's not that I don't have women friends--but we're not in each other's pockets so much. I can always call Steady Eddie--not the way I can call my girl-friends, whose lives seem to be more complicated than they were when we were singletons together....
Adult relationships are far more complicated than pop culture gives credit. I wish we'd see more of the complicated adult relationships and less of the happily-ever-after fairy tales that really aren't all that real anyway....
It kind of makes ya wonder "what if I don't have that happy marriage and beautiful children...then what??"
Yes, that's got nothing to do with the Christmas Cold, other than that I wonder where I picked the darned thing up in the first place...
Don't think it'll put any particular damper on New Year's Eve this year. Usually, Steady Eddie and I go out for a fancy dinner, then stroll a bit around Northampton, if it's not freezing cold and snowy. It's kind of fun to see what other people are up to, maybe have a drink at one of the bars or something....
But I wasn't feeling like doing that this year anyway. My plan as to cook up a bunch of appetizers, open up a bottle (or two) of a nice chardonnay, and just enjoy the peace....
There's part of me, though, that would like to get dressed up a bit....
but maybe it's not all that important this year.
I certainly don't want to go out and spread my cold germs among the populace. And if I have a cold, I"m certainly NOT going to want to do ANY walking around...
So, maybe it's saving the sparkly tank top for another occasion--or making an occasion--to wear it.
And just taking the time to get over the Christmas Cold....
benadryl, anyone??
A Christmas Cold!
Well, it's better than the Christmas Strep Throat (got that in 2004) or the New Year's Eve Flu (got that in 2005)....
And I had my 2 yr physica today--said I'm perfectly healthy.
Well, with the exception of the Christmas Cold.
I have no idea how I got it--it's not like the year I got strep, when some obviously very ill customer breathed all over us in the store. And I guess my immune system was stressed out enough so that I was the one who got it.
The New Year's Eve flu was kind of a fluke. I wasn't working retail at the time, so I haven't a clue as to where I picked that one up.
Same thing with this year's cold. I haven't really spent any considerable time around "other people"--with the exception of several long chats with Tim at the video store, a couple of chats with the landlady about the ice, and with a neighbor who's moving.
It's probably just the weather. Would be nice if it stayed snowy and cold, but it's been raining quite a bit, and getting up in the 40's or so--which, compared to the teens, is pretty balmy and doesn't really require wearing wool....but certainly makes an icy mess of all the leftover snow...
Then again, maybe it was all that last-minute running around. I kind of enjoy last-minute Christmas Eve running around. There's something fun about those dwindling minutes, when you know that, eventually, there will be absolutely no place to go because *everything* will be closed! That's such a rarity nowadays--used to be pretty common when I was growing up though, when there were "blue laws" and stores had to close on sundays...
Ah, those were the days: ten channels on tv and stores closed on sundays...
but I digress....
I spent the holiday with Steady Eddie, even though our relationship's a bit dubious right now. Neither one of us can figure out what we want for the rest of our lives, but we kinda know we're on different paths. He couldn't think of living in A City, and I can't think of living up on The Mountain.
It's your typacle City Mouse/Country Mouse dichotomy. It's just easier to deal with when you're friends....
So, we kinda think we're just each other's best friends...less of a "couple" kind of thing, although we still think of doing lots of stuff together...
Yes, it's kinda weird. I watch a lot of folks, and there are lots of women who have these close women friends that they're always calling and whatnot. I was never really like that all that much with girl-friends after high school. It's not that I don't have women friends--but we're not in each other's pockets so much. I can always call Steady Eddie--not the way I can call my girl-friends, whose lives seem to be more complicated than they were when we were singletons together....
Adult relationships are far more complicated than pop culture gives credit. I wish we'd see more of the complicated adult relationships and less of the happily-ever-after fairy tales that really aren't all that real anyway....
It kind of makes ya wonder "what if I don't have that happy marriage and beautiful children...then what??"
Yes, that's got nothing to do with the Christmas Cold, other than that I wonder where I picked the darned thing up in the first place...
Don't think it'll put any particular damper on New Year's Eve this year. Usually, Steady Eddie and I go out for a fancy dinner, then stroll a bit around Northampton, if it's not freezing cold and snowy. It's kind of fun to see what other people are up to, maybe have a drink at one of the bars or something....
But I wasn't feeling like doing that this year anyway. My plan as to cook up a bunch of appetizers, open up a bottle (or two) of a nice chardonnay, and just enjoy the peace....
There's part of me, though, that would like to get dressed up a bit....
but maybe it's not all that important this year.
I certainly don't want to go out and spread my cold germs among the populace. And if I have a cold, I"m certainly NOT going to want to do ANY walking around...
So, maybe it's saving the sparkly tank top for another occasion--or making an occasion--to wear it.
And just taking the time to get over the Christmas Cold....
benadryl, anyone??
posted by Tish Grier at 12:54 AM
3 Comments:
I fear you have the nastiness that's running roughshod over the entire Northeast. I'm in the throes of it now, and it's taking a lot more than Benadryl to keep this thing down to a dull roar. Afrin, Nasonex, Tussionex, Sudafed, Mucinex, Zithromax and and two hot showers a day, and I can almost breathe. :(
The same bug is up in the Northwest. I'm fighting it, too.
well, it sounds like cold misery loves company :-) I thought I was getting better yesterday (saturday) but I'm finding that, today, I'm pretty much the same. And have mucho laundry to do before the snowstorm! yes, we're expecting 4-9 inches. oh. shovelling. joy.
I'd move to Miami, but I'd probably end up complaining about the heat...
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