Right. So this is the first time I'm changing the page this year. This is mainly because 2005 started off much differently than I had imagined. I assumed my first entry would be some weird tirade of 400 other things I don't like about Orlando, because I was leaving for there on the 4th. I had the 3rd off from work, so Boyfriend and I spent the day together and went out to dinner since I would be gone all week.
After dinner we went home to play Monopoly, because as I mentioned earlier, we are the most exciting people you know. I noticed that while talking all sorts of insane Monopoly trash, my throat started to hurt a little. I drank a bottle of water while schooling Boyfriend in Tecmo Bowl, but my throat just kept feeling worse. So I finished packing my bags for my morning flight and went to bed.
When I woke up the first time (seriously drank way too much water) I realized that it was getting bad, so I took my temperature- a little high, but not a fever. On each subsequent awakening though, it went up a degree or two. And then I couldn't swallow at all. So I had to wake Boyfriend up at 6:45 and insist he check my throat for the tell-tale white patches of strep. Following taking apart the bedside lamp for medical lighting purposes, he confirmed that it looked like strep. (Based on what I told him strep looked like, of course. He is not a doctor, not do I portray him as one on the internet.)
Anyway, I had to cancel my flight, since strep is super-contagious. It would have been a little irresponsible to hang out with a hundred families on their way to Disneyworld in a small area with recirculated air.
That would kind of just been a crappy story, except that it happens every 5-6 months. Not the flight canceling, but the strep. I had strep the day I bought my house. My employee ID is a picture of me holding a coffee cup full of warm salt water that I'm about to gargle, because I have strep. I went from never getting it as a child to having it 2-3 times a year as an adult.
The reason you just had to read several paragraphs about me having strep throat is twofold. First, I couldn't think of anything to talk about yet today. Second, it's sort of a goodbye letter to my tonsils. They are being removed in four days, since they have turned on me late in life. This move should prevent me needing to set aside 5-6 days of vacation that I usually end up taking because I'm too contagious to go to work. Granted, I have to take a week off work in the first month of the year for recovery, but it's an investment in less sick days later. Plus, the tonsil doctor didn't even examine me. He looked at the strep history in my chart and just told me to proceed to the scheduling office- my tonsils never had a chance.
Thank you for reading way too much about my throat. I will proceed to the movie reviews now:
Nemo and I went to see A Very Long Engagement. I really liked this movie. It had subtitles, so if you are unable to read English or understand French, I don't recommend it. But if you can do either of those things, I think it is well worth your time. However, fair warning, there are not a bunch of hot men in this movie. Most of the men are French soldiers, and they are at war, so hotness is not a priority.
Boyfriend and I had Road to Perdition from Netflix, so we put that in after several games of Tetris 2. I am unsure how I feel about this movie because no one was hot, and I stopped watching it after one hour. It may have improved after that first hour. I suppose Bruce Willis could have shown up and smirked suggestively a few times. Or Omar Epps could have had a bit part where he just sat there looking pensive... But I just couldn't stick with the movie. Pre-Netflix, I hardly ever stopped watching movies partway through, they always had to be finished. Now, any movie that begins to bore me gets stopped and tossed in the mail so I can have a new one. Another fabulous service designed to decrease my attention span.
I need to close this with a question....On Friday I left work at 2:15 PM. In my purse was a bottle of Visine for Contacts, still with the plasitc security seal. Evidently, it fell out on my way to the car, because when I pulled into my parking spot this morning at 8:30 AM it was on the ground, frozen solid. But still with the security seal intact. My question is this, and it is not on the Visine FAQ page: When the drops have thawed and returned to room temperature, can I use them? It does say to store them at a set range of temperatures in a cool, dry place; not at 10 degrees in a parking lot- but are there rules about the drops having a weekend fling as a solid? If they promise not to do it again?
Let me know.
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