New Year's Frustrations

The thing is, generally, I don't get sick. I'm not sure how much of it is due to a healthy immune system and how much to stubbornness, but whatever the reasoning behind them, the facts stand like this: In the past six years, I've only missed two days of work due to being sick, and until this week I hadn't been sick for multiple days since my senior year of high school, 1999.

Until this week.

Saturday morning I woke up with nasty sinus pain, but pushed through it and carried on with the plans I had for the day: watching the Seahawks game, then dinner with a friend. After that we went to a bar, then played some video games, and I got home early Sunday morning, by which time I wasn't sure if I was going to make it from my front door to the bedroom downstairs without passing out. From Sunday until this afternoon, I basically rotated between the bed and the couch, with occasional trips upstairs to refill my water bottle. I'm not sure what I've had - I've been calling it the Mongolian Death Cold - but it was nasty.

Anyway, the point is not that I've been sick. The point is that being sick has postponed my other plans, most of which fall under the broad heading of my New Year's Resolution: "Get My Shit Together." I am tired of feeling cluttered and confused and swamped. I want to finish organizing my office. I want to get back on a regular blogging schedule at Utata.org. I want to take more photos for the zoo, and for myself. But just when I've finally found the motivation and created the plans to do all this, I've been stuck lying around on the couch. It's REEEALLLY frustrating.

I've been feeling mostly better today, so we'll see how tomorrow goes - I have to take Spencer for his vet checkup, which will be amusing, because I've lost my voice. It'll be a good chance to get out of the house though, and it'll be something crossed off my to-do list when I'm done. Plus, feeling better will let me start taking my Adderall again, which will hopefully help me get things done, too. I guess New Year's Day is somewhat of an arbitrary time to make changes anyway, right? We'll just call tomorrow, maybe, New Year's Day (Observed). January 8, 2008 10:56 PM | TrackBack