today my body has entered the coughing phase of the common cold. fever is down to "normal" (i.e. under 99 degrees, but still higher than my usual 97.2). I'm seriously considering calling in sick to work tomorrow, largely because i HATE it when people come in sick to our completely airlocked work space and spread their ick (which is totally where i got this round of ick from.)

and a new spin on the sister love situation, last night i asked how josh was taking the situation, if he felt like he was punished as much as she has been. her response: "i know he's hurting as much as i am.. i haven't been able to talk to him since yesterday night. i called to tell him what happened[1]. we were both in tears.. >.< other than that, i dunno. "

Immediately my mind split in two directions: 1) he's REALLY good at emotional manipulation 2) he actually does love her as much as he says he does ("love" being her phrase, not mine. They were professing "love" after knowing each other all of a couple weeks)

If scenario #2 were true....then i'd feel really bad for my extremely non-friendly thoughts towards this guy. After a very troubled sleep (not troubled by this situation, but by coughing and general sickliness) i'm starting to think that she was crying so hard that she likely projected her own misery onto his uncomfortable silences.

[1] "what happened" was a school admin seeing the two of them canoodling on the library sofa and calling her mom. then parental blowup. blowup which clearly has not cut her off from phone or internet contact, so not nearly as severe as earlier blowups.

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I was one of those boring late bloomers who didn't date until i was 17 and didn't even consider having sex until college, so i have no personal reference for this outside of fiction.

and congrats Aims!!!!!

today my body has entered the coughing phase of the common cold.

Oh, man. I'm SO tired of coughing. My ribs hurt, and my throat hurts, and my chest hurts, just from the physical act of coughing so much. But I called Awesome Doctor this morning, and he called in a prescription cough suppressant for me, since the OTC one that he recommended last week obviously isn't helping.

My nose does not want to un-stuff, but the "12-hour" Zicam spray (NOT the zinc stuff that reportedly fried people's sense of smell; this one is an actual drug) worked for...5 hours. Which is better than yesterday.

And I am speeding my brains out on cold meds and exhausted because I can't sleep (due to the cold meds and also not being able to breathe). And Christmas is in...a week? Woo.

I am going to get a shower and go pick up the good cough suppressant, and swing by Sears to pick up a Christmas present I ordered online. I love being able to order online and pick it up at the store. AND I don't have to go in to the store; there's a place you just pull up, and someone comes out and takes your information, and then brings you the thing. That's awesome. WAY better than coughing.

Seska and erin_o, feel better soon.

sj, I'm glad you had the chance of margaritas with your mom.

Congrats, Aims!

Daniel did buy the truck we went out early this morning to check out. It felt solid to me. I'm envious, though. It's got a remote start key fob.

It's got a remote start key fob.

Oooooooh. That's like magic! ::envy::

Teppy, I hope you feel better soon, too.

This is our savior from the Mumbai/Jaipur train, Rakesh. [link]

oooh, prescripton cough syrup w/ codeine is, like, the BEST THING EVAH. Imagine sleeping! Without coughing! And when you wake up in the middle of the night coughing, all you have to do is swallow another dose and then back to magic land.

Hrm, wonder if i still have some of that around from the miserable ick 2 yrs ago.....

Yay, Aims!!

And boo hiss on all the sickliness visiting upon the Bitches. Back off, foul demons!

Including my own-- my sinuses hurt like a mother and I'm fighting off the beginnings of a migraine. But I got errands done this morning including mailing off a long-overdue package and finally buying wreaths for our front door because I couldn't find our fake ones.

At least the real ones are discounted now since we're only a week away from Christmas.