I took to my bed with the vapors...

.. but I ran out of clean underwear and had to get up today to do laundry.


I felt absolutely dreadful last Wed. and thought it was allergies and a reaction to the paint fumes. So I gave the entire house a thorough cleaning- vacuumed, dusted, laundered all the bedding and rugs, and bathed the dogs. All the while I thought I would die, but told myself I'd feel better once the house was cleaned and all the allergens sucked up into the vacuum. But in the middle of the day Mike came home sick and by Thursday I realized we had the flu. I'm assuming it's that damn Mexican flu because it is rampant here in Florida. Last count I heard, there have been 140 deaths from this nasty bug. We seem to be over the worse of it now, and Mike went back to work today. The plus side to having the flu- I lost 5 lbs. and Mike lost 8 because not only does this flu make you cough until you feel like your ribs are broke, muscles so sore in your neck you can barely hold your head up, and a pounding headache, it also plays havoc with your tummy.


Instead of dressing up as planned and going to the big Zombie Fest that was held downtown on Halloween night, we laid around praying the Grim Reaper would come get us. He didn't. So here I sit waiting for the load of laundry I'm doing to finish so I can shower, put on clean undies and jammies, make the bed up with clean bedding, and then I'm going back to bed. And Bella will be back to laying on her sheet at the foot of the bed.