re-living

yes, i am re-living. I lifted this term from the new "zombie" book called Handling the Undead, where all the corpses in Stockholm come back to life and go to their respective homes and scare everyone (worst summary ever). Anyway i'm not so much a walking talking exhumated corpse as I am living my life free of the oppressive shackles of the flu. My boyfriend had a chest infection AND the flu, and then of course living and breathing in his heady flu musk every day and night meant i too got the flu. It was... the most... miserable week of my life. Everyday we would wake up around 11 or 12 and slowly get up arguing over who needed a shower first. We spent much of the week bickering about who was more sick, who needed the better blanket on the couch, which movies to watch, and we conversed about many topics of interest such as "how can you be cold? i'm burning up!!" and "i know i need to drink the cough syrup but it makes me want to vom". ah, it was bliss. i also enjoyed being too drained of energy / feverish to attend my friend's birthday party. that was the best. actually the best part was, that when the flu passed i got a common cold and the mucus thing started happening and the itchy nose and watery eyes. this topped it off. god i hate being sick.

of course there was a point in all this when we both thought it might be the dreaded swine flu. the swiney swiney swine flu that is eating this fine country like a cancer. The doctor didn't even test us, so if his "professional" (haha i didn't even realise i had done that, what a bitch) opinion that the symptoms dont appear to be swine flu related was wrong.... everyone i know is doomed. to have swine flu. hahaha. not funny.

so now i'm back at work, looking at the 2 night-time cold/flu capsules i have left hoping that tomorrow i will feel amazing because one more lothargic day pretending to be well and happy is going to make me crack. the real happy jade within me is aching to come out and do something creative or even energetic, but the sick jade still wants to nap anywhere and everywhere. fingers crossed for a decent blog entry soon.