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It always happens..I have all these wonderful plans for the long weekend. I have a stack of books on my bedside, just waiting to be read. Instead…I spent the entire weekend in bed, sick. My hubby and nine year old son had symptoms of a cold earlier in the week. My hubby had gone out the night before his symptoms appeared and I blamed it on a hangover (sorry baby!). Ok, I can admit it…I was wrong. Unless hangovers are contagious, he really was sick that day.

Ok, back to me . The symptoms started Friday while I was at work. Tingly nose, itchy throat. We’d done a lot of cleaning around the office so I assumed that my allergies were just reacting. At lunch that day, I took my son to his school’s Open House. I put on a happy face, but my head was throbbing. Luckily the powers that be decided to close the office early that day in honor of the Labor Day weekend.

I get home around 3:30 and I can barely see to drive, my headache is so bad. The normal allergy/sinus meds weren’t kicking in. I drank some coffee, and that seemed to alleviate the pain for the time being.

Hubby and I had plans to take our nine year old to the mall to do some final back to school shopping. I was able to get through that relatively easily, but by the time we got home it hit me. I lost all energy and crashed.

I woke up the next morning at 6 am, thanks to our three year old son. That’s when the coughing began. I coughed so much I thought my ribs would crack. The coughing lasted all weekend, and finally, after an entire 3 day weekend of drinking the all-powerful, cure-all Robitussin, I’m finally starting to feel normal again.

The downside of the meds was waking up, wide awake, at 3 am. I got a lot of quality reading done in those early hours! I finished Inside Out Girl, Sweetsmoke, and Chelsea Cain’s newest, Sweetheart. I’ve started Woman of a Thousand Secrets and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (for the Sci-Fi Lit class I’m taking). Look for my reviews of these books (ok maybe not Frankenstein) later this week.

Ok, this was meant to be a short little message explaining my absence but as usual I started rambling . I hope everyone has a good week, and I’m sending out a special prayer to all those affected by Gustav. Also, there’s still time to enter the giveaway for a Tess Gerritsen book!