The Kid seems to think that she has pnuemonia. She says her ribs hurt and she thinks she has a fever and that she's not feeling well at all. She wanted me to take her to the doctor.

Now when I had pnuemonia, years ago when she was just a baby a few months old, I slept for three days almost straight. The only reason I got up during that time was to go to the bathroom, get something to drink and then pass out again. When I moved I was in pain, when I breathed I was in pain and this morning she was moving around fine. She jumped to pull her jeans up and was almost crying because I wasn't going to let her stay home.

They changed our medical insurance to the point that if I take her to a place like Immediate or Urgent Care I'd have to pay a co-pay of 35 dollars. If I can avoid going to the doctor for any reason at this point in time, I will.

So, I sent her to school. She has to read a speech about drugs over the PA system today. I am sure that if she is feeling extremely bad, and has a fever, the teacher will send her to the nurse's office and they will take her temperature. ( I don't have a thermometer in the house due to 4 being lost over the years because the Kid likes to take her temperature constantly. )

So I will sit at work and see if I get a phone call. If I get a phone call then in turn I will call my mother because she is currently off of work to go and get her. Hopefully she'll be at home and can do so. I really can't afford to miss work. I still have time that I can use but the whole point of the matter is that there isn't anyone to cover me. And the new girl hasn't fully been trained on the front desk yet and is still having issues learning the phones ( Which isn't a training or learning issue, the phones are just complicated and a pain in the ass. )

Well. I am gonna get off of here. I am ready for work and I want to warm up the car. Psha.. as if that really warms up the car. Laters.

Ok, so the head cold is trying really hard to defeat me. I didn't sleep at all Monday night but I still went to work on Tuesday. I spent the day drugged up through the day, out of it, with the Boss and Gang in the office. And of course, no one will send you home.

So Tuesday night I didn't sleep either. I called off Wednesday because I refused to suffer and get clients sick. I slept last night but still felt pretty awful today so I called off again. Slowly I am starting to feel back to normal and I'm hoping it's just not a lapse.

I wrote a note on the site for my courses to the professors that I have been suffering from a head cold and the medicine I'm on makes me loopy and tired.

I think I'm gonna stop at the store tomorrow and pick up some vitamin c supplements, you know those new chewy things they have. I think they'll help the Kid and I stay healthy for the winter. I don't know. I'll see.

Waiting patiently for January to come around.... ok ok.. attempting to wait patiently. It just seems pretty far away. Waiting.. waiting... ok, I'm off.

I refuse to be sick in January. I think Mother Nature heard me say that or saw me type it or something. Perhaps she read my mind and is trying to keep me sick. I don't know. I really hate being sick. I even bought orange juice to have vitamin c kill whatever is trying to survive.

I had Monday and Tuesday off, so I only have a three day week but it seems to be much worse than a full five. November is the busiest month for our office. I just think it's insane about how people can be so needy. They call 5 or 6 times a day all week long. We had someone call yesterday and leave a voice mail and in the message they told the agent that she didn't have to call back. That person called in today bitching because the agent didn't call him back. Whatever.

Walking into work caused me to have chest pains this morning. I'm not even 30 and I'm having chest pains walking into the office. I swear the place is covered in a big black cloud full of gremlins who are just waiting to ruin our day. On top of that it's cursed. I've got to get my resume out.

I'm in my fourth week of courses starting today. I don't have any assignments due until tomorrow but I want to start working on them anyway. The problem is that I am exhausted. I think I might take a couple of advil to help take away the pressure on my sinuses and see if it helps.

Well, Velvet is requiring that I use both hands to pet her. I must go and obey,,, Laters.

So I've been under the weather the last couple of days. The Little Lady has officially turned 13. She got to have two parties, a party with friends - two who spent the night - and a party with the family last night. Saturday I felt as though I may be getting a head cold, so I started medicating that day. My father always said that if you feel the tickle, get the medicine before it becomes worse.

So I think I prevented it from getting any worse since I am not feeling all that horrible now. Yesterday I spent most of the day in and out of bed - mainly I wanted covered in blankets after taking medication to sweat - I swear by it. I had a hot shower, frosted the Little Lady's cake and felt a lot better. Today I took some more medicine, different because we ran out of the other stuff, and it has been keeping me from doing more than coughing here and there.

I hate being sick. There's also some issue going on with my left leg lately. I think I am going to have to start using the computer at the table. I can't figure out why, but every now and then my knee and slightly above and below will simply start killing me. I get up, I walk around and all is well until I sit down again, then the pain returns. I know it's nothing serious because it doesn't happen every time I sit down, it only happens if I remain sitting for too long.

Anyway. I think I'm getting old. Or the "cold" and damp weather is getting to me.

Things I did to annoy the Little Lady on her birthday:

1) I jumped up and down repeatedly on her bed in order to wake her at 930am after she stayed up until her time of birth - 1237am. (Hey, she got plenty of sleep in my opinion!)

2) Sent the Honey in an hour after I jumped up and down on the bed to do the same - I think he was yelling earthquake or something while I had been singing horrible renditions of the birthday song.

3) During my intial visit to the bed of the Little Lady I commenced tickle torture as well. Usually the phrase "I love tickle torture" is the key to making me stop, but it was null and void this time around. She's 13 I won't get to tickle her anymore for much longer. . . .

4) Made my usual sarcastic comments when she walks into those silly traps the entire time her friends were here. I don't feel the need to be anyone other than myself when her friends are here, that makes me the cool mom.

The Little Lady made a very interesting video. I may have to talk her into letting me post it on here... mwahahaha...

Or I could post it on here without her knowing.. *evil laughter*

It will get posted. It will! Laters.

I love my daughter but she is still sick! Her coughing is driving me insane. She has daytime and nighttime medicine and they are both supposed to work on her coughing but it seems that it takes forever for them to kick in. I don't know what to do anymore. I don't have any honey, but I have Green Tea that has honey in it. I don't find it very flavorful, but I am not much of a honey person.

My father (bless his soul) used to call this 'barking at the moon' because I, like my daughter, would cough all night long, no matter the medicine. I remember once I had a fever that my parents couldn't get to go down and my father said forget this and started chopping up onions. My mom looked at him funny when he asked her to go get him a pair of his long socks. He shoved the chopped onions into his socks, put them on my feet and somehow, I have no clue, this brought down the fever.

Any home remedies for barking at the moon? Please?

The worst illness experience ever is waking up at 3 in the morning with a migraine. Moving causes pain, not moving causes pain, the glimpse of a sliver of the kitchen night light is even unberable. I almost thought I had more than just a migraine because I was hot one moment and cold the next, I couldn't get into a position to make the pain go away and even waited an hour and a half for Excedrin Migraine to kick in before taking a no-name medication.

I was kind enough to move from the bedroom to the couch, still experiencing hot and cold flashes and writhing because I couldn't stop moving due to being hot, then cold, and I didn't want to wake up my Honey. I finally wet down a wash cloth with cold water and put that over my eyes and wrapped up in a blanket. There is no telling how good it felt to be able to cool off my head and still be warm. I've never had those issues during a migraine before, but things do change. Let's hope I can remember it if I have another (here's to hoping I never experience that again, yet I know I will).

I hate having a migraine. Even if I haven't eaten in hours I still end up getting sick in the bathroom, which makes my head hurt worse and that makes me want to cry, which I can't do because that will also make my head hurt ten times worse than being sick. So yesterday I could barely eat even though I hadn't gotten sick for hours. There was still some residue of the headache left but I didn't want to take anything unless it was going to get worse. I ate some cereal and a slice of bacon in the evening. I haven't eaten yet today but I have been able to hold down my coffee. That is a good sign. I was able to drink tea, milk and juice, in small amounts and spread over a few hours. I think that kept the migraine from coming back.

Today I have been struggling with LinkWorth and I don't know what the issue is. I have all kinds of keywords on both blogs approved for sale at extremely cheap prices yet I don't know how to go any farther than that. I suppose I have to wait for advertisers to say 'oh, hey I want to buy that keyword' and then it'll go from there. Otherwise, I have no clue and their FAQ isn't any help and neither is their support group through the ticket section. I am thinking of actually emailing the person who created the thing and say 'hey, could YOU take a minute and tell me what needs to be done for this, this and that?' and see what happens. Not knowing what I'm doing, and their help seeming very vague to me, makes me feel incompetent. I don't like feeling incompetent. I've actually debated on deleting the account, removing what I have here and starting all over again, not that I think I would learn anything new or figure it out any better, but it would be a fresh start and maybe I'd have some sort of revelation. Since I haven't had one yet I highly doubt it.

Well I am going to find something to eat. It is almost noon but I think a bowl of cereal will do me just fine after all of the nasty feeling I went through with my stomach yesterday. Laters.