I'm sick :(

Yes, this winter cold has gotten the better of me it seems, as much as I hate to admit it.

I'm in my bed at the moment and I'm definitely not feeling well.

Last night I left my little plugin heater going by my bedside and while it made the air toasty warm, it also caused the air to be extremely dry which resulted in irritation to my poor little throat as I slept under the warm blankets. This is a problem because I simply must have a heater on or I shall freeze, but at the same time, the heater caused my throat to get irritated. This morning when I woke up, my throat was swollen feeling and my sinuses were a wreck. Standing by a freezing cold door at work with the wind whipping at me with every customer's entry definitely didn't help either. By nightfall, my left ear felt like a whale was sitting on my ear drum and my lymph gland under my left jaw felt as if it'd been beaten by a baseball bat.  I'm currently a little stopped up, but mostly it's my poor, throbbing throat that is the source of most of my misery.


I bought a warm humidifier at work today and it's sitting by my bedside so hopefully that will help my dry throat tonight. My nasal passages burn like fire when I inhale and they are mostly swollen shut. I was blowing fresh blood out from my nose as I showered this evening in an attempt to unclog all the shit stuck inside.

Needless to say, I'm miserable but I am sure it will pass. It is a cold like any other really. I just hate, hate HATE winter! I'm fine and fucking dandy during the spring, summer and fall. Winter comes and I'm a frail, pathetic wimp all of a sudden. I even have been taking over 8,000%  vitamin C daily for over the last month and it seems to have not done a thing to aid my immune system :(


I had some Jack Daniels Whiskey stored away for when I get sick and I did three shots tonight. I've never been drunk and I've always been curious how much alcohol it would actually take to get me to that state, but I've never found out.

I asked my (former alcoholic) mother how many shots of whiskey it would most likely take to intoxicate someone who doesn't ever drink (like me).

She said she wasn't sure about how many shots because she always drank it by the bottle.

Despite how physically miserable I am, that answer did make me laugh.

She's right, she did finish it by the bottle.

I don't see how people drink such nasty stuff though, really. That shit tastes like, well, shit. It's horrible! I threw back those shots and just grit my teeth because it tasted so vile. Really now! HOW do people drink that stuff? If I was not sick, I'd surely not drink that crap voluntarily.

Still, my mom says I may have inherited my father's high tolerance for alcohol because I'm not tipsy at all from what I can tell. I've been dizzy all day thanks to my slight ear ache, so I certainly can't say that any dizziness I might feel would be as a result of the alcohol - I feel just as sober as I was before.


Well, I'll shut up now and try to get some rest. It's annoying having to try and sleep with this stopped up nose and I can only pray that it doesn't develop further into a chest cold.