This is how my week has gone...

[NYPinTA]

Warning: not as funny as g_s's work woes.

Saturday- (which really, was last week, but… whatever.) I had to work. Normally I do not work on Saturdays but I agreed to come in and cover for someone. Plus the overtime was nice. So, I get up on that chilly morn, turn on the shower and stick my arm in to adjust the temperature of the shower if needed. A minute goes by… no hot water. I look at that handles to make sure I turned the rights ones…. (Sadly, that has happened before…). Yep, I did it right, but still no hot water. Frell. I can’t not take a shower, so I grit my teeth and hop in. That has got to be the fastest shower I have ever taken!!
I get out, dry my hair, trudge to work, watch helplessly as a woman falls down the stairs then spend the rest of the time reading a book and answering the phone. (yippee…)
Sunday- sleep in. Still no hot water.
Monday- My father’s car caught fire, so he takes my mothers, which in turn makes her ask me if she could have mine. So, that means I have to go in an hour early so that she isn’t late… again I say: yippee. Still, I have no hot water. The hot water fixer guy had a ‘commercial job’ to do and wouldn’t get free till midnight. What ever!
Tuesday- with still no hot water I have gotten used to heating water on the stove and again do it and attempt to wash my hair. I check the water before bringing it into the bathroom and it was fine. Then I dumped a cup full on my head, and it is scalding hot!! Luckily I have plenty of cold water, which I now soak my head with. Ouch!! I am envisioning all my hair falling out… and feeling stupid too.
Go to work, with a headache. And a toothache. I don’t think the water had anything to do with it, but it hurts nonetheless.
Wednesday- wake up with a sore throat, earache and my teeth still hurt. Not happy. But, I have hot water! This time when I say it, I mean it: yippee. Do my state taxes; discover I owe them money this year. Frell you Pataki!
Thursday: I think I have the flu. Can you get that from a cold shower? So now I sit hear, all achey and sucking on my 403rd strawberry halls cough drop.

[samati75]

Damn! Sorry about all that. Move to FL, we have no state taxes. I remember in Louisiana working for min wage, I owed the state over $80! What-ever! As for the cold? Move to FL, we don't have that either! ;)

~Samati, posting from 65F.

[Nicola]

Poor NYPinTA.

:hugz:

I know how it feels when nothing seems to go right. It has to get better soon (doesn't it?).

[recklesshumor]

Yep. No state taxes in Texas. Hmmm ... have you ever noticed that "taxes" and "Texas" have the same letters? What do the call that? A palandrome? Or is that where you get the same word, whether spelled backwards or forwards ... like "Bob"?

Anyway ... sorry about your sickness, NYP!

[NYPinTA]

Thanks all.
You know what the hardest part about being sick is? The number of times I have almost chocked on my cough drop reading g_s's office ranting posts... :rollin: Is that instant karma or what? Then I would end up as one of grinners weird story posts. :lol

[generic_screenname]

Sorry for making you almost die. But I would read grinner's post about it if you did.

[NYPinTA]

:lol Well now, that makes it all worth it then! :D

[generic_screenname]

I guess if I cared enough I could write a haiku. Aw, hell :hug:

sorry you are sick
and you have no hot water
and you owe money

[BlackThorn]

I'd say try Nevada, as we have no state taxes either, but the weather sucks here.

Sorry you had such a horrible week. Hope you feel better. You probably didn't get the flu from the cold showers, but they probably lowered your resistance, making you more susceptible to catching something.

:hug: and much tea, juice, and water. Now might be a good time to watch some Farscape. There's nothing like a good dose of "Coup By Clam" to make a person feel that their cold isn't so bad after all. :D

[KellEy.. "red"]

oh wow hon.. so sorry your week is going so badly... but since you put up about your week, i thought i'd share mine, too...


i'll start with monday...

Monday--- have the day off.. thought i would sleep in.. nope not happening.. i'm up by 8 and not feeling too good.. so i sit around the house for a bit.. then i decide i'll go for a walk... i live in louisiana, it's not supposed to be too cold.. ummm.. yeah... what-everrrr.. i step outside to find it's 35 degrees with the wind blowing me sideways.. oh well, i have things i need to go do.. get them done and come home..

Tuesday-- wake up to find i'm REALLY not feeling well, but i go to work anyways... put in 12 hours, come home for an hour and then go BACK to work for another 3 hours... by that night, i'm coughing up the bottom half of both of my lungs and can't breathe...

Wednesday--- head to work, sick as a dog but willing to push through.. my boss (who's also my mom) takes one look at me and forces me to call the doctor... i did.. i went.. i have asthmatic bronchitis.. only thing keeping me out of the hospital is the amount of steroids they have me on to keep my bronchial passages open... i come home and go to bed.. i slept 14 hours...

Thursday--- wake up at 11 am.. haven't done that in YEARS!!! feel like i've only had 4 hours of sleep instead of 14... medicine making me really dizzy and, apparently, my ulcer doesn't approve either... i'm hungry but everything tastes funny... oh.. and i have to go work a basketball game tonight... no choice as there's no one else who knows that all they have to do is hit 2 buttons to go to commercial and then back to play by play.. i don't think i'm coughing up the lower lobes of my lungs anymore.. then again, im not entirely sure i even HAVE lower lobes anymore...

oh and another thing... gotta love it when your 6 year old looks funny at you when you cough and tells you he thinks that seals from the circus have escaped and are now hiding underneath your chair....

so there's my week so far... don't you envy me soooo much? i knew you would... :aok:

[NYPinTA]

Hope you feel better.

I think I am now suffering from a menthol overdose! :rollin:

....(the colors... look at all the colors...)

[KellEy.. "red"]

LOL.. i know the feeling well..

maybe that's why everything tastes so funky... i have that perpetual menthol taste in my mouth at the moment.... and no amount of scope, ice breakers or altoids has helped...