Tuesday, April 7, 2009

In Sickness and in Health



I'm sick.  It sucks to be sick.  My head feels like it's not attached to my body.  My right ear makes its own sounds and dare I say,  my runny nose runs the risk of running right off  my face. 

If feeling the way I do, I could accomplish:
  • Showering and making myself presentable
  • Driving downtown for a meeting with Tourism Charlottetown where I solicited (read begged) donations for Special Olympics PEI (I was successful btw)
  • Shopping for a creative Easter-themed craft for my visit with my "little sister"
  • Making a gourmet lunch (okay, maybe a hot dog doesn't count as gourmet, but when you're not feeling well comfort is comfort - whether it's food or a kleenex)
  • Visiting said "little sister" Victoria where for an hour we decorated Easter Egg shaped cookies with very stale candies and icing that was too thin.  Too bad I didn't read the instructions before I went, otherwise our icing might have actually turned out better and the candies would have actually stuck to the cookies, rather than slide off.  
  • Gassing up the Cranberry Cruiser in what would elsewhere be known as a hurricane, but here on PEI it's just a little wind & rain
  • Talking to my one PEI friend to wish her a happy birthday and listen to her lamentations on the limitations of her not-so-good boss
  • Spending an hour writing more letters to various island businesses soliciting auction items 
  • Creating home-made sauce for tonight's dinner of chicken Florentine
  • Studying chapters 6 & 7 in preparation for tomorrow's Business Communication double-header
  • Daydreaming about a job that allowed me to write all day long
...then imagine what I could do if I actually felt better?

I shudder to think.  Or is that the fever?