Now introducing...

Introducing Johnny Cash, singing "Ring of Fire". Okay, it's really me, but I can nearly hit those baritone notes. I have been fighting a virus for several weeks, seeing signs that never got worse...until it hit me one day and I knew I was a goner. Within two days I could barely speak without sounding something like Johnny Cash and a lifetime smoker. It made answering my phone at work difficult but I survived and even made it through Thursday before the fever hit. So, I stayed home Friday to watch movies and bond with the couch. Unfortunately my DVD player kicked the bucket since the last time I had rented DVD's so Friday, when I went to get more OTC drugs for my cold symptoms, I ended up buying a new DVD player. Figures. When it rains it pours, right? The movies were good and the drugs even better. It annoyed me that they no longer carried the Sudafed I preffered but, with the new legislation tracking pseudoephredine purchases, the pharmacy said they could no longer offer the same variety as they did previously. I found another product that was almost the same as my preferred one and got out of there. I made only one other stop - the grocery store - to buy some soup. (I've had a lot of soup cravings lately - maybe another sign?) The rest of this weekend has been spent in front of the television and a little bit in front of the computer. Fortunately this looks to be a short virus because I'm feeling much better and am even talking in my normal voice most of the time.

I'm not yet ready to give up the drugs though. LOL