Sick of being sick.....

I can't remember when it was that I slept through the night. Last Sunday? I do know that I've had enough Robitussin and cough drops, plus water and orange juice, to last me the rest of my natural life. And the weather has been so, so beautiful..... and here I am, as sick as if I've been in frigid sub-zero weather this past week. Oh well, this too shall pass.

I will be missing the yard sales this weekend....... I would love to get out there, but I'm just not feeling well enough for that. Come to think of it, I haven't gone anywhere since I picked my husband up at the airport on Monday evening. That was also the last day I got dressed (really dressed) and put on make-up and did my hair. This cold is just taking forever to get out of my system.

It's 4:40 in the morning as I'm typing. A few hours ago, I found a can of Chicken Noodle soup in the kitchen pantry. I'm not a fan of that soup, especially since I don't really like chicken, and the noodles in those canned soups have been sitting in the broth so long that they taste too water-logged. However, I do realize that chicken soup really does help to break up the congestion when you've got this kind of cold. So there I was at 1:30 this morning, draining just the broth from that soup, and saving the noodles in a separate little pot, just in case my husband wants them, or maybe Gracie. The broth, along with the amount of water you're supposed to add to it, filled up my large Barry Manilow mug........ I had simmered the broth to as hot as I could stand it, and I have to say that it was the best thing I'd had all day. So good that I went back and found another can of that soup in the pantry and did the same thing..... the pile of noodles in the little pot has grown--- they put precious little chicken in that soup, let me tell you. But the broth was good, and it's doing the job of breaking up this stuff that's clogging up my chest.

That second can of soup was the last one, so I'm going to ask my husband to drive up to Kroger later on this morning for more. Maybe he can find another low-salt brand of chicken broth, one without noodles. If I keep saving these noodles from cans of soup, I'll have enough to invite the neighbors over for dinner, and I know I'm not up to that. Yuck..... I wouldn't serve those for dinner anyway.

Our television and cable service was out all day today...... went out around noon-time, and didn't come back on till one o'clock this morning. The entire area was out...... when my husband called the cable company, they gave him some sort of vague reason, and an even more vague estimate as to when service would be restored. There was an Astros game that he wanted to watch tonight. As for me, in my sick state, I didn't know how I'd get through the night without the television for company. That's what I've been doing all these nights..... sleeping on and off (mostly off) in front of the television in the TV room. I've been watching all the cooking and decorating shows, and tonight there was a program with John Edward, that guy who claims to be able to receive messages from people "on the other side." I don't know if I believe in him or not. I guess I'd like to believe that he can do that, and he seems to be right on the mark with some of the people in his audience. Sometimes I believe him, and sometimes I think he's just "selling hope."

Hope. We all want to believe in that. I hope my friend up in NY has been released from the hospital. I hope she'll be comfortable at home. I hope her body will respond to the god-awful treatments she'll be getting.