How Do You FEEL Now?

[Red Cat Jenny]

Awful...*hack* *wheeze* my head, my nose, ugh...   I think even my hair hurts!    I have such a cold and I have to get up at 3AM for work.....damn.    *sneeeeze!

*Heats up a bit o Tea w' Honey and lemon and just a shot of rum*

Doctors orders, dear drink up.

Smiles gratefully at Doc and takes the cup warming her hands on it.."perfect..thank ye !"

Thanks to Lady B as well!

[Hester]

Mildly and pleasantly drunk ... Spent the evening watching contraband DVDs of the BBC's new Robin Hood series (thanks to a very kind "source"), while drinking a concoction of pear cider and cassis that I think I'll call "Kir William".

Jenny, love, have you tried a hot buttered rum for that cold?

[Hmmm... maybe I'll make myself a nightcap for medicinal reasons!]

Cheers, Hester ... who, knock wood, seems to have fewer colds now that she eats lots of fresh fruit and uses hand sanitizer on the subway

[Red Cat Jenny]

Aye hot buttered rum and a sick day on the couch'll do it fer me. Perhaps Hester will lend me some of her magic sanitizer

Thanks for th thoughts!

[Patrick Hand]

I'm just getting over 5 days of the flu..... spent the time doped up on Nyquil and tucked in bed......

Today is the first day that I've felt human... I just wish the human I was feeling....... nah.... never mind........

See... I better.....

[Red-Handed Jill]

feel right now?

still rather numb, and will be for quite awhile i think.do have some things to keep me busy like - in the local production of beauty and the beast, have ren faire auditions next month and improv classes starting in march. the boys will be getting grief counseling at school, so they should be alright too. i figure if i keep busy, i'll stay okay.

It is said that hard work is the novacaine of the soul. And are you able to get any counseling for yourself?

[lady snow]

i'm trying to find a bereavement group in my area. i know there is one here, just have to find it.

[Hester]

My condolences to you, Lady Snow. I am very sorry for your loss.

Sincerely, Hester

[Hester]

Perhaps Hester will lend me some of her magic sanitizer

Oh, bugger -- the hand sanitizer didn't work (I guess I wasn't diligent enough) and neither did touching wood (oh -- maybe that's where I picked up the germs)!

Came down with a cold last night. It started with a wicked sore throat that really hurt when I swallowed. Yikes! I have a singing recital on Monday (and my rehearsal version was crap enough while I was healthy)!

Happily, today the pain in my throat has died down and I just seem to have a mild cold. My husband will credit the Cold F/X he shovelled into me:

http://www.cold-fx.com/

"Official immune enhancer of the NHL!" [Didn't seem to help the poor Habs, though. They succumbed to gastroentiritis last week.]

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Montr...3257321-cp.html

Wow, glad I've only got a cold!

I'm spending a day in my flannel nightie with magazines [the belated July/August 2006 edition of No Quarter just fell through the mailslot today], a Robin Hood porn (ahem "romance") novel, tea with honey, more Cold F/X, lots of Vitamin C, hot soup, and of course...

Hot Buttered Rum

... purely fer medicinal reasons, savvy!

Feeling a bit agitated though, 'cause yesterday I saw a gown at the consignment shop around the corner that I think I could alter into a Regency style for Queen Charlotte's Ball next week

http://www.claviersbaroques.com/QueenCharl.../CBQCBB2007.htm

... maybe if I'm well enough this afternoon, I'll pop out and buy it before anyone else snaps it up.

Cheers, Hester

[Rumba Rue]

I still have my cold, it's taking a long time to go away. It has lessened quite a bit. Boats is really sick now.

We both tried taking the Zicam (the chewable cinnamon ones), and it worked for a bit on me, but I was so far into the cold by the time I started taking it, it was rather a mute point to do so. Usually a cold will do me in for about two weeks solid. Funny thing, this is the first really major cold I've had in a couple of years now.

[Red Cat Jenny]

zzzzzzzz * "hmm? tired...*yawn.. very tired..zzzzzzzzzz

[Red-Handed Jill]

Rumba - try Gypsy Cold Care tea. You can find it in most supermarkets. Works great on colds - I've introduced it to many people and every one of them swears by it now. If drink it right when you're starting to feel sick, you don't get sick. If you're already sick, it not only shortens the duration, but it lessens the symptoms considerably (particularly the coughing.)

[Hester]

Warm and cozy, although slightly ridiculous, fashion-wise.

I'm wearing my baby pink jolly roger hoodie sweatshirt, over my blue flannel nightgown patterned with butterflies, over top of a pair of flannel pyjama bottoms - bright red with black silk-screened moose motifs! On my feet, I have fuzzy pink house socks and carmel-coloured corduroy slippers.

This is the uniform of the house-bound fighting off a cold.

I shall look for Jill's suggested Gypsy Cold Care tea next time I'm out shopping. (Although, alas, being an inveterate tea-drinker who knows those shelves well, I suspect it's a "not available in Canada" brand).

Despite my cold taking a bit of a turn for the worse today, I'm feeling quite relieved, as I was well enough yesterday to sing at my class recital. My airplane drugs conquered the shakes I get from stage fright, and I even seemed to synch up tempo-wise with the mystifying jazz accompanist.

Cheers, Hester

[Red-Handed Jill]

Hester - the Canadian version is called Cold Formula. It's made by Traditional Medicinals, the same company that does Gypsy Cold Care. It looks like the same product in different packaging.

[Rumba Rue]

I've never heard of that brand of tea, nor have I seen it.

Oh well, I'm almost over the cold now.

[Hester]

Hester - the Canadian version is called Cold Formula. It's made by Traditional Medicinals, the same company that does Gypsy Cold Care. It looks like the same product in different packaging.

Thanks, Jill:

I know the Traditional Medicinals brand well, as I try to keep their PMS tea on hand. I've never tried their Cold Formula tea though, but I'll definitely pick some up next time I'm out shopping.

I'm feeling equivocal today. I'd really like to go to my dance group tonight, although this cold is dragging on. If I slather myself in hand sanitizer before each dance, my partners should be safe enough. But I'm concerned that all that aerobic activity will drive the infection deeper into my respiratory tract and delay my recovery even further ... and I want to be totally well for the ball on Saturday (more dancing).

Decisions, decisions...

Oh sigh, Hester

[Asukaru]

I'm happy but I'm tired. I started a new job in December right before the holidays, and I've been on overtime schedule ever since.

[The Doctor]

Giddy! Excited! Positively goofy with anticipation!

All my projects for work are complete, I just got a FANTASTIC review from my boss, and vacation starts TOMORROW!!

[Cpt Sophia M Eisley]

Sounds like a great way to segue into vacation. Enjoy, and safe journey to you sir!

I'm excited for the weekend. Not anything out of the ordinary going on. I just look forward to a little more sleep, and time with my friends.

[Yersinia Pestis]

Well, let’s see. . . Nasal congestion and pressure in me face. Me throat feels like I gargled with gravel, a general feeling of malaise, and a little achy. I am treating it with a little Jack Daniels and coke.

[Red Cat Jenny]

Vertical

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[LadyBarbossa]

Today.... completely in the dumps.

I'm suppose to be at class right now but I'm not. Not really sick.. just so deep in the dumps with so many issues right now... I can't think, I can't stand, I can't do much other than type and the desire to talk.

No Lady B today, folks. That wicked and wild, fun-loving lady is just totally gone right now. Yeah... THAT deep in the dumps.

Here's my plight... as I am tired of having SO many struggle in life that it barely gets me anywhere, with little success. Honestly, I am SO tired of hearing freakin' success stories... especially those stories where someone's been helped by others. Makes me utterly sick.

Why am I in the dumps? Please, folks... just... allow me my chance to groan, moan and b***h... nothings worse than someone who rolls their eyes and says "that person needs to stop complaining and just do something". Kinda hard to not complain cause that often leads you to thinking and finding better ways, etc.

Anyway... My situation... well, few know of this...

I've returned to college (yeah, great for me) so I can have a pretty decent career... to be a Stable manager, horse trainer and breeder. Aye. I LOVE my classes! So much it usually invigorates me and I look forward to every day. But... since I started classes 2 weeks ago... I've had little drive. Very little fun. And VERY little invigoration.

My plight... Well... I've no vehicle. it's dead. Transmission busted. No money to fix it. Tough enough getting a job, but for some reason jobs around here are harder if you are over 25 and in College. I'm not the only one who's finding it's impossible to have a decent job let alone any job when you are over 25 and in college. I have 2 classmates who are like that... actually, 3. It sucks. We SO want and need the money. But... it's not happening. How to remedy it? :::Shrugs::: I've almost given up on Cedar Rapids. pit of a town that it's becoming... don't waste your time here.

So.. no money to fix a vehicle or get it. Despite friends and family are "searching" for a vehicle... nothing's come up yet. Which is a MAJOR hinderance cause... I have classes in different buildings. Not... granted, in the summer or spring or fall... aye, no trouble walking back and forth.... but it's the winter... with 7 inches of snow on the ground that I'd have to trudge through... the cold weather wrecks havoc on these lungs with if any of ya remember... I got a severe case of Inflamatory Pnuemonitis last year and I finally didn't recover from it until May. I got the IP in Late Feb of last year. Long time to recover. I finally got over lung issues but Oct. Long time. So, walking back and forth between buildings with no walkways, in cold temps, and nigh 50+ lbs of equipment (as I have to carry it with me cause there is no place to put it)... it's a major problem. I had it always in my jeep.

The bus is completely out of the picture cause of the equipment I have to haul around ( and hate hauling it around cause it bothers my back and shoulders and neck).... and mainly the time... the buses only run from 6am to 6pm... some of my classes start at 6am and some end well after 6pm... not gonna work.

Too much time inbetween classes and not much to do. Comp rooms are taken during those times by other classes...

I've been having to rely upon my parents ((major groan)) for transportation. Now, that's a hinderance unto itself! Cause... they are not always the most reliable and towards me, the most communicative people in the world. ALWAYS butting heads with them.

No money, no vehicle, no place other than staying with my parents (which I hate)... practically no freedom. Nothings worse for me than having no freedom!

I feel horrible enough that I haven't a job, no income, no money to support myself... I'm trying to go to college to have a better life... but can't really do anything cause I am so very much hampered.

My comp is being a pain... again butting heads with mom, sis is having it VERY rough now, too. Dad couldn't give a crap... etc.

Why is it when you try and try but God beats the living shyte down and out of you... all I want is to have a place of my own, have a good working vehicle I don't have to worry too much about, be able to enjoy what I am doing without troubles I can't fix, be able to eat and drink without wondering when I will eat and what there is to eat... and oh, that hope of one day having a family of my own... still seems so very, very far away cause life just seems to beat me down more and more.

I honestly and tired of struggling. I'm tired of having both of my feet in quicksand and unable to get out. Tired of trying option after option only to find it's not possible with me... but hearing success story after success story that just makes me sick. happy for those folks, but where is my chance without being beaten down?

I just needed to vent. I'm tired, I'm having a VERY bad day. The only thing I have at the moment... well, sort of, only THINGS I have are my hopes and dreams that all this will just go away and I'll have a better life... that I graduate from college (never been able to get through college before without any major trouble of some sort)... and of course a certain Gentleman who makes me smile even when I'm down and out. I can't praise him enough for being the light of my life. But... with all this crap and bad luck that surrounds me... I don't want to be a huge burden to him.

I feel as though God has abandoned me. I'm tired of trying every option without going out to the streets to beg or whore myself out or other crimes... I'm tired of the struggles that go no where. I don't mind struggles that actually get me somewhere.. but it's the struggles that I get no where that just push me into the ground exhausted.

I'm SO tired of people telling me what they don't want to hear.... which to me is the reality of life. How else do things change if people don't bark out their lives, if people don't b***h and complain... hell, the American Rev War happened cause people complained... ditto with Labor laws... people tried and tried... most didn't get any where... some were successful at it.... but events don't happen cause people are quiet.

I'm still working on how to dig myself out of this hole. Hard struggle, so hard that it's beaten me down. As I have explained. I haven't much strength to get out of bed. Depressed? hell yeah. I know I am. I admit it... I'm no perfect person. I have my fair share of Opps moments and various other moments. That's also reason why I cherish the good moments and the fun times like spending time with my nephew at Ryan's steakhouse or any of the Rev War or pirate events... or even talking to my special gent each night. Things that give me hope and keep me trying. Things that make those memories and life worth living.

But ... when does it become less of a major struggle with the options and possibilities? Not looking to win the lotto... I'm more a realist, folks, I gave up on the lotto ages ago. I just want to be able to get a job that won't conflict and people won't look at me odd. I'm an honest person. If businesses don't like the honesty and sincerety... if they don't see me as their perfect slave... they don't deserve my time and effort I put into being loyal... am I THAT screwed up that I may as well give up? Am I more of a problem to people than I am a joy? Am I not what people what?

Cause frankly to me, I don't give a damn about people or businesses trying to make me into something I am not. Trying to tell me to do what other folks do, be a cloned copy it seems, etc... The way they work may not work so well with me cause I just may have a better way to do things that works for me and not anyone else.

Read if you like, I don't expect any of you to reply... I just needed to get this BS off my chest.

I'm just tired... I'm very depressed today... And just trying to figure out what now. What am I going to do?

Be thankful, all, for what you have. Cause, granted things can be taken away in an instant... fire, accident, etc... but, worry is when you have no insurance, you haven't a job and can't get one, can't get any support, physically, mentally, financially, spiritually... it's when you really have nothing to lose but also have nothing to gain... it's when you have nothing and you are still living that is truly when things are at their worst... and they never seem to get better no matter what you try to do.

If you feel that way... you have nothing to lose, but finding it's impossible to gain... and stuck in that quicksand unable to move.... At least you can say something. And thank you for the Pub... such fine folks here who are fun beyond measure. Speak up here, especially in this thread. If nothing you can do but to provide a virtual hug and understanding, maybe a word or two of empathy and sympathy... then, hey... all is not lost. Hope is always the last to die. I still have my hope... I just wish things would stop being such a struggle that I can't win.

I'm off to lay down. I've sick to my stomach and have a headache. Aye... again, that down today.

I just want things to get better. I just want a decent vehicle... some income while I am at school, and to have a place of my own away from family without conflicts... and no conflicts I can't handle. Too much turmoil in my life already and the same applies with so many I know of. An Instructor's hubby has terminal lung cancer.. .my aunt has breast cancer and it's not good... my sister had surgery to remove a mass in her mouth hopefully that's the end of that... my grandma is not doing well as she had another heartattack last week... everything is just chaotic right now.

Again, only thing stable is this wonderful man I so adore and love.

2007... not a lucky year so far. I hope it gets better soon.

I'd say God help me... but at the moment, I don't think God is around.

[Christine]

2007... not a lucky year so far. I hope it gets better soon.

Sorry about things not going well for you Lady B. But I also agree how 2007 so far has not been a good year. I already knew it wouldn't be some time back around September. Since then I've been right. Each month getting worse than the last. I just take one day at a time and see what happens. That helps a little bit, keeps me from becoming even more depressed than now.

Well, Lady B, here's hoping 2007 gets better because if things continue the way they're going......well, let's just hope things get better soon. :)

[LadyBarbossa]

2007... not a lucky year so far. I hope it gets better soon.

Sorry about things not going well for you Lady B. But I also agree how 2007 so far has not been a good year. I already knew it wouldn't be some time back around September. Since then I've been right. Each month getting worse than the last. I just take one day at a time and see what happens. That helps a little bit, keeps me from becoming even more depressed than now.

Well, Lady B, here's hoping 2007 gets better because if things continue the way they're going......well, let's just hope things get better soon. :)

Amen, Christine.

I keep hoping it gets better for not only myself.. but others. sister, classmates, friend... even those here on the Pub who are struggling.

Though 7 was suppose to be a lucky number?

Aye.. I hear ya. Trying to take one day one step at a time.

But... today is my depressive day. I just haven't the drive today to do anything really other than seek a shoulder to cry on. To vent...

Hope things will get better soon for ya, too, hun. Nothings worse than when there is no light at the end of the tunnel.

[Iron Bess]

Lady B... all this is today.

Tomorrow may be differnt... it may be a little more of the same.

The one sure thing is that things change. Most often not as fast as we might like...

Holding you in m'thought's m'dear. Crowded as they are, there is always room for a friend.

[Red-Handed Jill]

The best advice I can give you is "fake it 'til you make it". Sometimes you have to just go through the motions for awhile and wait for the situation to change. I've found that doing something before I have a chance to think about it (as in just getting out of bed, some mornings) goes a long way.

This too, shall pass.