I am starting to feel really bad about not giving you ya’ll a chapter, but really, seriously — no, truly — until I go back and edit these are very hard to write and to make my life complete, I have whatever the kid had.
The good news is that it doesn’t seem to be norovirus — at least the younger kid has stopped upchucking. OTOH older kid fell yesterday and I don’t feel so good. I don’t seem to have a FULL version of it, but it’s still making it damn hard to concentrate for any real creative work, including writing the long overdue chapter.
If this changes by tomorrow, I shall post tomorrow. For now I’m going to do the cat box (yes, it IS a constant thing. Sorry. And then I think I’ll go nap, because it’s that kind of day.
Part of the “being sick less” resolution is to try to rest when I needed it so the crud doesn’t drag on.
Okay, that’s it. Head is empty and fuzzy. More later if I find brain.
According To Hoyt 
Feel better. Very soon.
LikeLike
Oh, no, sounds like you have what I got last spring!
I was flat out sick– and I’m never sick– for a full day, could only crawl out of bed to feed the girls, and felt like crud for the next week. Bucket was my friend.
I highly suggest broth, or some sort of tea that is…um… suitable. I think I drank a lot of plain old warm water with a little salt.
Two days seemed to be the incubation period with our ugh, at least that’s how long it took Duchess to get sick, and then Princess, and then my mom…..
LikeLike
Yea – yesterday was a bad headache and an upchuck. *sigh
LikeLike
We’ve had it since last weekend. My niece and nephew gave it to me. Reservoirs of pestilence.
LikeLike
About a decade ago, one of my nieces brought a norovirus-like illness to Thanksgiving. We still call her “Typhoid Mandy” on occasion.
LikeLike
Your health comes first. We’ll still be here when you’re feeling better.
LikeLike
So…Horde free-for-all?
In the comments, of course, no need to set Huns and Hoydens loose in the wild…yet.
LikeLike
yes, indeed.
LikeLike
But I the wild… and a free-for-all, or a free-all-you-can-iflict/take? I think I would prefer to save that for when Congress is in session. Or during an election… hmmm.
LikeLike
WordPress!!! I “prefer” the wild. WordPress likes to be a pain.
LikeLike
Please take the time to recover. The chapter will be better for being written when you’re feeling better.
LikeLike
–More later if I find brain.–
When you corner your brain, remember to approach it cautiously–
LikeLike
I always wear thick leather gloves.
LikeLike
Distract it with port! And chocolate! And macaroons! …ooh, chocolate macaroons.
LikeLike
Rum soaked cherries wrapped in macaroons dipped in chocolate…
Somebody grab the neural net, I hear rustling.
LikeLike
We have a garlic bread recipe from Justin Wilson that is guar-on-teed to cure what ails. Crusty baguette, split lengthwise, slathered with mix of massive quantities of butter, fresh Parmesan & crushed garlic with healthy grind of black pepper, wrapped in foil and baked til insides are melty. Dip in red wine as you eat.
The greatest challenge is to eat it slowly rather than devouring.
LikeLike
My recipe usually calls for added spaghetti with oregano, basil, lots of parsley, asiago cheese, and enough garlic to inoculate a whole village against vampires. *grin*
Of course, when we were little, gram used to does us with whiskey and honey then straight to bed when we had a cough. I still use that “cough syrup” today when I’m sick… *chuckle*
LikeLike
I’ve just finished eating (Chinese takeout), am full, and this is giving me cravings. And saliva.
I’m writing this down…
LikeLike
I read that as “I’ve just finished editing chinese takeout” :-P
We had chicken caesar salad, because Robert thought he could keep a small bowl down.
LikeLike
Fingers crossed, hoping he was right.
The obscure art of takeout editing. You must be initiated in the mysteries to even know what it means…
LikeLike
Of course, I now want to write a short story called Chinese Takeout — The Edits.
LikeLike
Want!
LikeLike
“Chinese Takeout” is the code name for an elite squad of Asian Snipers/Assassins.
LikeLike
All those misspelled words and peculiar grammatical forms on the menus they slip under your door? Code.
LikeLike
Just have a care what you order. They will deliver.
LikeLike
Yeah, but an hour later they have to kill you again.
LikeLike
Oh, I am SO glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that.
LikeLike
You.Are.A.Bad.Person. Think shame on yourself.
LikeLike
I live for those words….
LikeLike
Yeah. I have to up my game. Haven’t been called that in a while… ;-)
LikeLike
Unless served in a hollowed out bread loaf or a fried flour tortilla shell I do not recommend trying to keep a bowl of any size down.
LikeLike
You can’t keep a good bowl down!
Fortunately, that’s why there’s gravity… equally oppressing everything at 9.2 m/s^2…
LikeLike
Erm… I believe you mean 9.8 m/s^2
LikeLike
ONLY in this blog!
LikeLike
Unless she has what I was “enjoying” yesterday – vague aches and an all-day floating feeling without the benefit of recreational pharmaceuticals, all while trying to stay up on a step ladder removing decorations. It was closer to 9.2 m/s^2 for a few hours.
LikeLike
9.8, huh? Higher gravity would explain why I feel like I’m swimming through the air and my joints are hurting so much as I just try to do daily cleaning and exercises…
Or may be I’m really just not thinking clearly enough to put the correct gravitational pull, and it’s the incoming cold front. (Really! That wasn’t a slip up! I’m not an illegal alien! I’m a resident citizen of this planet, even if it is so small it really should be orbiting a gas giant!)
Thanks for the fact-checking, Wayne!
LikeLike
And make darn certain that its your brain and not some stray.
LikeLike
Not a lot of stray brains in my neighborhood …
LikeLike
I live near a school . . . you never know what’s going to come bopping down the street. Kids, opossums, foxes, coyotes, brains, things that go “oggaboogabooga” in the night . . .
LikeLike
I hear “stray brains”, and I think of this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050393/
LikeLike
And I think “Hans Delbruck”
LikeLike
And I think “Abby Someone. Abby Normal…”
LikeLike
Scrambled brains-n-eggs, together, served on a warmed flour tortilla with salsa…
LikeLike
Definitely approach cautiously. Remember, there are Bad Dudes taking up residence in there… ;-)
LikeLike
And when I hear “Bad Dudes”, I immediately ask myself… “Are you a Bad Enough Dude to save the President?
LikeLike
I won’t “push the Like button” for this. [Frown]
Sarah, please take care of yourself.
LikeLike
That sucks. I hope you feel better soon.
LikeLike
There once was a writer from Denver
Whose head felt like she went on a bender
She went right to bed
And slept like the dead
And that might her write even better
Feel Better Sarah!
(And yes, I know that Goldport isn’t actually Denver but it rhymed. Ish. Call it artistic license)
LikeLike
Thank you. No, I intend, eventually, to make it to Denver ;)
LikeLike
Sarah,
I hope for you and the kids to get well soon.
LikeLike
Ouch.
My cold has its moments of pain — the headaches are worse — but its only continuing effect is a nasty muzzy-headedness.
I don’t think I’d trade.
LikeLike
All of you people need to get better soon! Healthy thoughts.
And garlic.
And whiskey.
And sleep.
LikeLike
Garlic steeped in whiskey?
LikeLike
Ahhh…hmmm…dunno. Might have to research.
LikeLike
Gotta have the honey and lemon, or it doesn’t work as well, and you have both bad breath and a hangover.
LikeLike
You know, I think I’ve managed bad breath and a hangover without mixing good garlic and good whiskey.
So, is mixing garlic, honey, lemon and whiskey a sublime example of gastric chemistry? Or a perversion of nature and an assault on the buds befitting something “good for you”?
LikeLike
Greek Penicillin
One shot Metaxa (or brandy, or whiskey)
One generous splash lemon juice
One or two spoonfuls of honey (local is best)
One cup tea.
Mix together and drink while hot.
Get better soon.
LikeLike
Get better. And don’t worry about the free chapter. I, for one, would rather have the novels that we’ll have to pay for. :)
LikeLike
I am liking the notion of Sarah resting and getting better.
LikeLike
me too!
LikeLike