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Hubby got it first, then he so thoughtfully passed it along to me.

A summer cold.

Lovely.

So, we're both home, him since Monday, me since yesterday.

Yuck.

So, I caught Hubby's cold, which means I've now missed two days of work--unpaid, since my new sick time doesn't come until my anniversary date which is January 30.

This sucks big time.

Another suckage is that I cannot find any reasonably priced airline tickets to Florida in February or March. So if we want to go to Ft. Lauderdale, we will have to drive, I suppose. Or not go at all, which is more likely, since trying to make that trip in three days is nigh on impossible.

Since I won't have any new vacation time loaded until June, I would have to use personal time to go to Florida (which I don't mind doing) but I would have to find an airline ticket we can afford.

I hate being so damned poor.

Okay, back to the sofa.

Next year, no matter what I'm finding a way to get a flu shot. I wasn't able to get one this year (because of a shortage--thanks) and now I've been sick TWICE. This last time was so bad I just wanted to die. I'm still coughing a bit but I have to go back to work tomorrow because I missed 3 1/2 days last week and I hate using my time up so early in the fecking year.

So, last week I basically laid on the couch suffering and watching daytime tv. I read a little, but mostly I just moaned, coughed and tried to breathe. No writing got done because my head was filled up with aches and goo. I really couldn't think, at all. Ugh.

I hate being sick.

So, I really have nothing new to report...except I've seen a cool trailer for "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and I cannot wait to see the movie! I have to admit, I was not really looking forward to the movie, after all, how could they ever top the brilliance and sheer campiness of the BBC series? But the trailer http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/ugo/ugo/film/trailers/hitchhikersguide_02.wvx really gives me some hope.

The Acadamy Award program is on tonight and I'll probably watch out of habit more than anything else, but I haven't seen any of the nominated films, so I don't have any emotional investment in the show. I'm more curious to see how Chris Rock does as the host. I love Chris Rock and I hope the powers that be don't "gag" him for the show. It'll be interesting, to say the least.

And I can't wait til Tuesday---The Amazing Race begins again! EEEEE! And they have Boston Rob and Amber from Survivor All Stars...which, I know some folks disagree, but I am looking forward to seeing how they do. I really like those two and I hope they hang around for a while.

I'm thinking of entering Sycophant Hex's Spring Faire Festival http://www.sycophanthex.com/ in both the gen and the pwp catagories. I've already got an idea for a couple of things...naughty, natch.