I hope you are feeling much better today! Sending hugs your way! Get plenty or rest and drink that OJ. This might be a good time for you to rewatch Star Wars and get plenty of R&R.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Thanks, everyone. This just makes my heart go out to anyone who's contracted the even worse H1N1 flu strain. What I've had has been a cakewalk compared to what they have had to go through.
No more fever, for which I am thankful. I managed to drag my sorry self into work today and somehow made it through -- but not without being all drugged up. Right now I'm still fighting the lingering effects of the virus and possible secondary stuff -- my lungs feel like they're full of bristles. I think I need to turn in early tonight.
(That was my old drink back in the day. Haven't had any Stoli -- or any other vodka -- in close to 20 years. Stoli and Tropicana, a match made in Heaven.)
I've been listening to/reading some good books lately. Just got through Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax. A lot of food for thought there on why too many of our young men are turning out as underachievers and slackers. There are a lot of things in our modern environment -- physiological, mental, emotional, cultural and spiritual -- contributing to the diminishment in raising real men. A definite call to arms for all parents of boys.
I'm also listening to the audio version of Cloud and Townsend's Boundaries, which I skimmed over a couple of years ago. Some good stuff there too.
I am doing much better. (Still got the chest congestion though -- when will this crud go away, I don't know.)
I am flat, flat broke right now, so no fun stuff for us that takes any money. Fortunately after all the rain last week this weekend's weather was absolutely gorgeous -- and going outdoors doesn't really cost anything.
The boys and I got out with S8's cub scout den and went to a state educational forest -- we had a presentation by a forest service ranger and then had a nice hike, helping to groom the trails as we went.
We also lost our Internet this weekend. It's amazing how my two S's now get so much of their entertainment via the Web -- Hulu and Boxee mostly -- and without an IP connection we all seemed a bit lost. But last evening we caught the Looney Tunes / Merry Melody marathon on cable. We were all busting our guts laughing at these classic animated cartoons. I consider this just one good effort by me to help cultivate my two S's properly on the finer things in life -- like Bugs and Daffy. LOL.
Get some more rest.
