Furzday Flu

Och its terrible to be stuck feeling like dogcrap under your dismal duvet at home when you could be out in the gorgeous South African sunshine enjoying the sun beams on your skin and soaking up the newly arrived summer.

The flu whacked me across the head like a plank yesterday. I couldn't focus at work, I kept resting my head down on my arms on my desk, I had a headache from hell and my back was on hell-fire.

I dragged myself off to Dr Frik (our family GP) last night to be told that I had the dreaded summer flu and ear-infection. (That explains the constant humming and falling about like a drunkard). I climbed into bed early last night glugging down my antibiotic (which looks like a horse pill) with two Compral and a med lemon.

Kaylin was also up during the night coughing and calling for or me. At 1am I climbed into the spare bed (which we still had up for my mum's visit) with a feverish and grumpy KK. I managed to break her fever by 3am this morning with 10mls of Calpol and a taking off her winter jammies and sponging her down with a damp cool face cloth.

But man do kids bounce back quickly but this morning she was jumping around in full Kaylin fashion asking to go to school to see her friends and play with them. So, I sent her to school with her cough medicine and all morning I've been waiting for the phone call to tell me to collect her - but nothing as yet. Wish I was a 3 year old again...

So here I lay unable to get up from the couch (everytime I stand up I'm dizzy and disoriented, I feel nausious and need to lay down again) I have read the latest marie claire cover to cover and have started folllowing a sweet little blog called www.whatkatiewore.com which was essentially started by Katie's boyfriend Joe Sinclair who promised to get more romantic and take a picture of Katie everyday for a year never wearing the same outfit. It has been going for 9 months already and they've been doing fabulously. Its blossomed into local discount designer clothing stores and charity shops sending her stuff to wear and post pix on the blog.

Check it out if you're a dedicated follower of fashion. She's got such a great sense of style and she's dead cute and he has some kewt stuff to say...

Gran was a Genius!

I read this morning that what we see depends mainly on what we look for.

What do you see?

This made me think about my post yesterday about feeling terribly ugly and old. Am I only looking for the fact that I'm heading towards forty rather rapidly and that when you're forty you're middle-aged and meant to look and feel old and ugly and get sick?

I'm not sure if this theory is completely convincing though. However, it has given me food for thought for the day.

Then I had some more advice this morning (from my boss, nog al) she said :

• Make sure you get your daily dose of fruit and veggies
• Take your vitamins and bump up your vitamin C so you don't get sick
• Get plenty of exercise because exercise builds the immune system
• Walk for at least an hour every day
• Go for a swim
• Take the stairs instead of the lift
• Wash your hands often or buy a tube of hand sanitizer
• Get lots of fresh air - open your windows
• Try to eliminate stress
• Get lots of sleep and rest

or

Take the doctor's approach...

Now think carefully about this...

When you go for a shot, what does the doc do first? They rub your arm with alcohol...

Why ??? Because Alcohol KILLS GERMS..

So...... I will walk to the bottle store (exercise), I will put lemon in my Savannah (fruit), Celery in my Bloody Mary (veggies), Drink it outdoors on the patio (fresh air), Tell jokes, laugh with friends (eliminate stress), Then pass out (rest)

The way I see it...

If you keep your alcohol levels up flu germs and old age can't get you!

Then I remember one of my gran's old sayings: 'A shot in the glass is better than one in the arse!'

Gran was a genius!