On my way to work this morning I caught my reflection in a shop window , I looked awful, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m exhausted, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four days into the new year and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m only on my second day back at work and \u00c2\u00a0I look like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been dragged through an hedge backwards.<\/p>\n
I am ill, I have had the beginnings of a cold since some time mid October and finally broke on December 27th leaving me a snotty wretched mess for most of the new year celebrations and is still dragging on. \u00c2\u00a0I had no time to be ill. What with the new job and commute to get used to, the being a Mom and a cook and all round domestic goddess* \u00c2\u00a0and then that Christmas thing right in the middle of it all.<\/p>\n
Christmas the time of good will to all men. The time off to relax and just enjoy each others company. Christmas the time my brother chose to declare to the whole family I was a fat slut across the dinner table \u00c2\u00a0(no really<\/em>), the time my sister ends up with I returned to work to hear of glorious tales of Christmas afternoon beach walks, mad uncles playing charades and country get away’s. and all I had to share is a runny nose, annoying cough, slightly depressing tales of a half hearted family get together and a desperate need for more sleep.<\/p>\n I knew it was sleep I craved when I got off the train this morning I looked at the tracks and thought \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I could use that pile of gravel as a pillow\u00e2\u20ac\u009d while my inner monologue was telling me that the train on the platform 4b is heading straight back to Wolverhampton, so go on, get on it no one will miss you for just one day. But I didn’t I continued on my not so merry way convinced the walk into Digbeth\u00c2\u00a0would\u00c2\u00a0clear my head and I’d feel better after a hot Lemsip.<\/p>\n It didn’t and all the cup full of liquid\u00c2\u00a0paracetamol\u00c2\u00a0succeeded\u00c2\u00a0in was giving me something to cough into. Thankfully I have a pretty awesome boss and when he arrived this morning to find a\u00c2\u00a0sniffling\u00c2\u00a0mess choking at the desk \u00c2\u00a0he said I could just go home – just like that – “You don’t need to be here” and I don’t know who was more relieved when he dropped me off at the train station,\u00c2\u00a0me as I could, you know, go home, or the him as he didn’t have to listen to my self pitying sighs and hacking cough all day.<\/p>\n So now here I am just before 7pm sitting in the arm chair I haven’t left since getting here shortly before 2, waiting for my dinner, central heating on as I just can’t get warm, tissues on one side, lemsip on the other smelling of Boots own brand vapour rub and feeling sorry for\u00c2\u00a0myself.\u00c2\u00a0Christmas a distant memory\u00c2\u00a0other than the rack full of wine we were too ill to drink, trying not to annoy James too much as he attempts to get some work done at the desk behind me, wanting to sleep but exploding in\u00c2\u00a0coughing\u00c2\u00a0fits every time I lie down, limping into 2012 in the most lacklustre style!<\/p>\n Happy New Year!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n *I am only a part time cook and cleaner James does his fair share around the house too but for the purposes of this post and gaining the most amount of sympathy possible I do it all myself<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On my way to work this morning I caught my reflection in a shop window , I looked awful, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m exhausted, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s four days into the new year and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m only on my second day back at work and \u00c2\u00a0I look like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been dragged through an hedge backwards. I am ill, I have had … Continue reading Starting the year with a sniff<\/span> hypochondria<\/s><\/em> an ear infection at the emergency doctors with me in tow , James gets man<\/s><\/em>flu \u00c2\u00a0after playing a \u00c2\u00a0gig, the time for present shopping, food shopping, medicine shopping, gift wrapping, visiting relations, forced merriment and \u00c2\u00a0no time to look after myself so just make myself steadily worse.<\/p>\n