Notes from Snot City

Okay, that just sounded gross. Ewwwwwww. But hey, it's the truth!!!! I had a great week training last week, even lost two pounds. Yeah I know, two pounds!!!! And then Friday came. I woke up feeling odd. I chalked it up to the bag of pork rinds I ate the night before (I know, no comments peeps!). By noon I realized that it was more than pork rinds and promptly removed myself from work. By 3 I was flat on my back. By 5 I had a fever, horrible stomach pain and thought I was going to die. After sleeping for ages, I woke up Saturday morning totally congested. I have no idea what happened. At least my fever had gone. So now it's Sunday - I'm still a wee bit woozy and out of it. Sigh...just when everything is going so well.

Of course, getting on the scale this morning and seeing myself down a few pounds was a highlight. Knowing that it was due to dehydration and being ill, not so great. I even had to cancel on PT twice! He must think I'm a big old weakling. And I booked a bike for spinning and didn't even make it there! Blah. I hate being sick. Yeah flu! On further research, ala Google, there is no such thing as 24-hour flu. Ha! Should I have gotten the flu shot? Every year I ask myself this question. I'm not convinced that I should vaccinate myself like crazy though. Heck, it didn't work out so well in I Am Legend, now did it? Sure I work with kids. But I generally don't miss more than 3 to 4 days of work due to illness in a year -- if that even. And roomy got the flu shot and now she has what I had too. So is there any reason to get it? I want more compelling evidence.

So, this week -- I doubt that I'm going to have any amazing workouts, to be honest. I'm still not 100% and definitely still weak, sore and tired. Sigh. So another week of recovery. I'm glad I haven't truly started my 10k training yet! I'm not exactly when I'm going to get going on that -- I'd like to start before spring break (because I have other things to do over spring break!!!!!) but that break will certainly mess up my training. I suppose I should sit down and have a think about this when I'm not so muddle headed.

In other news, my computer has now decided it would be fun to boot me off the internet every hour on the hour. Yeah, nice right? I'm planning on getting a new computer with my tax refund, should it ever appear. That and fix my car which is still leaking something. Luckily it's not oil! Unluckily, I'm not sure what it is leaking nor can I afford to get it looked at until that pesky tax refund shows up. Grrrrrrrrrrr. The joys of always being broke and being crap with money.

Okay, it's back in bed with me!

FGS