Clearly, being back in a cubicle environment is not good for my health. I have had more colds this winter than I have in years. Currently, I'm home from work. Thank goodness for sick days. I haven't slept well for two nights now, but I think I have found a miracle drug, and hopefully will be back at work tomorrow. Conveniently, I will likely still sound like a monster is lodged in my throat, so no one can say I was just trying to get a long weekend.
The illness has definitely affected my running. Thumbs down.
In an effort to try to do more, to take advantage of what D.C. has to offer, I auditioned for, and was accepted into the Cathedral Choral Society. We rehearse and perform in the National Cathedral. It is a very cool experience.
And now, back to sitting on the couch and recuperating.
I had plans! Took a final on Tuesday, took Tuesday night from studying, then two solid days of studying for this last final, then done! Plans! Good plans!
Then I got food poisoning and didn't move from the couch yesterday. I did, however, watch Casablanca, Newsies, and multiple baby/birthing stories on TLC. Those things make me never want to have kids. Or maybe just never have it filmed. One or the other.
In another back Holidailies prompt, they asked "What's the one food it simply wouldn't be [your winter holiday of choice] without?" (Oh yeah, catching up on Holidailies? Also not going to happen. If I'm not careful, I'm gonna get kicked out.) I'm assuming the holiday mentioned is Christmas, but I can't think of any particular Christmas food that we always have. It varies every year, which is nice. If you would like something specific, a request can be made and you just might get it. But Thanksgiving means Grandma's dressing. It's amazing. I don't know what it is about it, but it's just incredible. So delicious (thankfully there is no organ meat in it anymore, at which point, it was not delicious but gross and who eats that stuff?). My mom has taken over the job of cooking it, and thankfully, it's not just a Grandma thing - Mom can make it just as good. Mmm... dressing. I believe I ate the leftovers of that for breakfast the day after Thanksgiving.
And now, many hours of studying, and maybe another catch-up entry tonight.
]]>I skipped my run this morning. Yesterday, when I went to bed, my throat was a little sore, and I was a tiny bit congested. I dosed myself with vitamin C and drank some tea and went to bed. But by 1:00, I was awake with an even worse sore throat and a cough.
I decided to take the nighttime cold medicine and sleep in, thus skipping my run. I'm feeling a little bit guilty about that, but seeing as I still feel pretty terrible, it's probably best that I not go running today. I don't have time to run on Thursday mornings, so I think I'll just turn Friday's 3.5 into a 4.5, and Saturday's 2.25 into a 3.5. That'll get me close to my weekly mileage.
And if I feel up to it tonight, I'll do some TurboJam. Maybe just the sculpting workout - I don't do enough sculpting, and it's not quite as taxing as the full workout, so it might be just what I need.
*sniffle* I get so whiny when I'm sick.