January: The Monday of the year.

Let me start by saying I'm sorry for my large amount of complaining in my last post.   As you've noticed I don't handle being sick very well...  I get a serious case of the man cold no matter what ails me.  I'm learning my lesson though.  Unfortunately I'm learning it the hard way, seeing as I'm sick AGAIN for the second time in a month.  Not cool immune system, not cool.  This time it's just a cold, not death trying to claim me asr his own.  Oh well... It's best I learn how to function when I'm not feeling well seeing as I want to have babies in the {not so distant} future and in order to have a baby, you have to be sick/uncomfortable for almost a year.  And no, that was not a hint at me being pregnant, just that I'm not quite as terrified at the idea of being a mom as I used to be.

Anyway, lets move on to how much I dislike January.  I loathe it.  First off, it's cruelly cold.  In November and December the cold is exciting because Christmas is around the bend and everyone wants snow for Christmas.  When January hits, it's just cold... with NO excitement.  Blah!  If you're outside of Utah and thinking that I'm just exaggerating, let me give you an example of what I'm talking about.  Last week, as I was leaving for work I managed to steal a gander at the temperature outside.  It was 0. ZERO PEOPLE!  It was not any degrees! I don't know about you, but I'm ready to up and move somewhere tropical.

Secondly, I don't like January because I always have hard time adjusting to getting my dates right.  There are still days where I catch myself putting a 12 and the end of my dates.  It makes me feel ditsy and loserly.

Lastly, well not lastly but I won't ramble on and on, Christmas is 12 months away.  Just that thought alone is enough to make me sad.

Luckily Steve and I have a hot cocomotion to help us through the brutally cold days, and Maggee to lift our spirits.   Here's a little dose of cute.  Hopefully it will brighten your January.

Sicky Sicky/Complaining post

I really don't make a good couch potato.  I've been so sick this last week, maybe even the sickest I've ever been, and I'm going crazy.  My brother is in town with his family from Texas and I've seen them maybe twice. Ah!  Just when I think I'm starting to feel better my body throws something else at me.  

I usually have a pristine immune system but it seems to have vanished last week. Seriously, it usually never lets any bugs through and on the off chance it does, it's usually just a mild tummy ache.

However as I sit here with Bronchitis and Pink Eye and a really mean virus, I can't help but think I did something to upset my immune system.

I'm also convinced we need Netflix.  Steve and I don't have cable or Netflix or anything like that.  Mainly because we don't watch TV very often and also because we're kind of cheap.  However, after sitting on my butt for a week watching awful actors (the Kristin Stewart type of awful) and weird series on Hulu, I'm willing to fork over $8 a month for some better entertainment.

I'm also really grateful for heated houses.  There's a reason I was born when I was and not as a pioneer, well a few actually.  First off, as you can tell, I don't handle being sick with patience and grace.  I'm kind of a baby when it comes to not feeling well and two, I don't think I would have made it 10 miles on the plains.  Especially if it were cold.

Although being sick sucks, I found a silver lining.  Since I've been so sick and haven't been able to eat anything other than banana's, cup of noodles and popsicles, I've lost weight.  I worked off all my holiday weight sitting on the couch doing nothing.  Not exactly my first choice for a diet, but I'll take it anyway.

So to sum it up, not a good couch potato, immune system hates me, we'll probably be getting Netflix, I would have died as a pioneer and I've lost weight.