A cold in the winter or a cold in the summer?

I should have said which sucks less, ha ha. I find that it doesn’t bother me as much when I am sick in the winter vs being sick in the summer.

At least in the winter,  there’s a reason,  it happens,  it’s cold and dreary out,  it’s going around,  you get a cold.  Put on warm jammies, get under the covers, have some warm soup and hot tea, box of tissues in hand and your set.  You also don’t question, you have a cold,  it’s winter, it happens.

Summer, you just get annoyed. It’s hot out,  you go from heat to A/C to heat and back and forth,  you get sick and annoyed, you do not want to be in bed in your jammies under the covers with hot soup and tea,  you want to be outside enjoying yourself.

Now you now my opinion,  what’s yours?

[I promise, this will not be a week’s worth of posts about having a cold,  this was just a random thought]

That translates simply to I have a cold.

I felt it coming on about a day or so ago and wasn’t site,  but last night I knew, especially since I was tired enough in the afternoon to take a nap, so I got some nyquil out and waited for it to take effect.

By 330 this morning,  I couldn’t figure out why I was still awake and when I went to the bathroom, I saw them sitting on the counter,  duh! I promptly took the two pills and feel asleep shortly after.

I spent the day in and out of consciousness and taking dayquil, until PSM came over, with some beautiful lilac colored roses to cheer me up, light the menorah and then take me to dinner, a little Chinese restaurant down the street from my apartment.

Now,  I am safely ensconced in my pjs, warm blankets and cats. I’m writing to you and then passing out.

Good night.

Couldn’t resist!

I’m about done for!

This will not be a long post as I am fading.  I took a nyquil and it’s doing the job?

My allergies have kicked in to high gear and my eye has been itching like crazy.  Tonight,  I may have rubbed to hard! It hurts!

Then there’s the bee sting. It itches and hurts at the same time.

So,  after a very nice dinner, we went back to the hotel,  I took a nyquil and now…zzzzzz

And how!

Today, I got stung by a bee! OUCH! I was on the beach starting to doze off and all of a sudden I felt a very sharp pinch, or sting, as it were and I waved away whatever had attacked me and when I sat up and looked, there was a stinger still in my arm. I promptly pulled it out, jumped in the water to get some cold water on it, then found the first aid station and they gave me an ice pack for it.

I didn’t have an allergic reaction, I’ve been stung by a bee before, it got very puffy around the puncture and eventually the swelling went down. Now it’s slightly raised and red around the area and tender. That’s all. I’m sure it will be fine tomorrow.

Personally, I like bumble bees, they’re cute and fuzzy and convert into really cool cars. Ha ha.

Now, I know you’re sitting there trying to figure out what a bee sting has to do with picking up knowledge. Haven’t you met me before? Now, to tie it all together.

I know it was a bee and not a wasp because of the stinger. Wasps do not have stingers. And the reason I know this is because on one leg of my flight to Hawaii, I watched Ian McKellen in Mr. Holmes. In this movie he plays an aging Sherlock Holmes who lives in a farmhouse with the housekeeper and her son and he keeps bees.

One day the boy gets stung and everyone thinks it’s the bees and he says it’s not, there were no stingers and bees leave stingers, wasps do not leave stingers. The boy was trying to figure out what was killing the bees and it was the wasps, so he tried to get rid of the wasps, unsuccessfully, but this I how I found out that I was stung by a bee.

I called my dad to tell him what happened and ask if he remembered that scene in the movie!

There you go wrapped up nicely.

Now, buzz off! Sorry, couldn’t resist! Tee hee hee.

Do you participate?

I am not a “Black Fridayer”, I have participated,  but I am not into it. This is all my opinion, not disparaging anyone who’s into it.

Once I went with JCT and her husband,  they are serious and hard core.  That was my first and last serious Black Friday outing. Last year I went to one local store with my sister and a friend for about 45 minutes,  hold yourself back.

Today,  there were no plans for Black Friday,  then I remembered that I needed something for a party tomorrow,  so we went to a mall in the area and it wasn’t awful, we made it out alive!

We went in,  found a few things and walked out and then back to the house.

Did you participate? What was your big find? Ready for next year?