Recovering

Sunday, 4:21 pm

By Kate

Mar

01

2009

Yes, Kate is still among the living. I wasn’t sure for a few days, though. There is a vicious stomach virus making the rounds in these parts and it clobbered me a good one. Not the usual 24 hour type—oh nooo. This one lingers. The first day you hardly know what’s hit you and you drag all your blankets and pillow into the bathroom because there’s just no point in leaving, the second day you think you’re gonna die, the third day you wish you had, the fourth day you think maybe it’s a good thing you didn’t, but you’re not entirely convinced. By the fifth day you’re hungry enough to eat the wallboard off the walls, but you’re still incredibly queasy. By the sixth day, you’re almost back to normal. That’s where I am today. It has been a long week.

I am catching up on household details today and battening down the hatches for the snow storm. We haven’t had any snow for a while, so I guess we’re due. I’d really rather not, though. Since March is coming in like a lion, it had darned well better go out like a lamb and stay that way. We’ve earned a lovely warm spring and I want one. Truly. Winter can leave now. Goodbye winter....