Saturday, December 31, 2005

late evening

Happy New Year!

I can tell, it’s gonna be a good one.  For all of us.  Already, just today, I can breathe and go long periods without coughing.  I’m over the cold hump and it feels good.

Thursday, December 29, 2005

late evening

Yes, I’m 12

"Santa’s Magic Sack” from Hallmark.

evening

My Nose Is Running

...and I’d rather no one caught it for a few days.  If I didn’t have to touch another Kleenex (Puffs w/ Lotion!) for a long time, I’d be a very happy girl.  This cold is so much different from the last one, uh, last month.  This one is all about the nose running and the coughing.  No meds seem to help, even though I’m trying everything I can find in our bathroom cabinets.  Right now, I’m on Benadryl and cough syrup.  Yesterday was Tylenol Cold with some sort minty coating.  If I’m not going to suck on a pill, I don’t really need a fancy minty coating.  Sure, it was kind of pretty, but ultimately pointless.  And the cough syrup - the directions say to take 2 teaspoons.  If the maximum dosage is 2 teaspoons, then how come they give you a little cup with markings up to 4 teaspoons?  Cough syrup for you and someone you love, to share?

By the way, if you hate the taste of cough syrup like I do and you’re tempted to chase it with a swig of Gatorade...don’t.  It makes the Gatorade taste gross.  Just suck it up and suffer for the few minutes it takes for the nasty taste to go away, and THEN drink the Gatorade.  You’re welcome.

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

mid-morning

Penalty Minutes - Yum!

We went to a Wranglers game last night.  In general, kind of a boring game, plus I was in the throes of figuring out that I had a cold.  However, goalies fighting each other?  Awesome.  They only rolled around a little bit, but it was entertaining to watch them skate at each other from opposite ends of the rink, throwing their gloves off.  To see how the third period went, you need only look at the penalties from the box score:

3rd period - 8, LV, Bellemare, Thomas (Neiszner, Chris) 11:29. 9, SDG, Hildenbrand, Steve (Keyes, Richard, Moore, Grady) 16:51 (pp). Penalties - Limpright, Shawn, LV (tripping) 3:37; Shockey, Jonathon, SDG (roughing) 5:15; Shockey, Jonathon, SDG (fighting) 8:19; Limpright, Shawn, LV (fighting) 8:19; Lawson, Tom, SDG (fighting) 8:19; McKenna, Mike, LV (fighting) 8:19; Limpright, Shawn, LV (interference) 8:19; McKenna, Mike, LV (game misconduct) 8:19; Shockey, Jonathon, SDG (roughing) 8:19; Lawson, Tom, SDG (roughing) 8:19; Lawson, Tom, SDG (roughing) 8:19; Lawson, Tom, SDG (game misconduct) 8:19; Bennefield, Jesse, SDG (10-minute misconduct) 8:19; Lawson, Tom, SDG (unsportsmanlike conduct) 8:19; McKenna, Mike, LV (unsportsmanlike conduct) 8:19; Bellemare, Thomas, LV (tripping) 9:10; Green, Lee, LV (interference) 13:20; Green, Lee, LV (fighting) 15:45; McLeod, Cody, SDG (fighting) 15:45; Bellemare, Thomas, LV (cross-checking) 15:45; Bellemare, Thomas, LV (cross-checking) 15:45; Sleigher, Pierre-Luc, SDG (roughing) 15:45; Limpright, Shawn, LV (10-minute misconduct) 16:51; Clark,Darren, SDG (hooking) 18:54.

terribly early in the morning

I Protest!

Dammit, I’m sick again.  That’s twice in a one month period.  Not fair!