She's baaaack.. and scarier than ever

• I'm baaaack. Yeah as most of you know I've been really sick over the last week or so. Being sick sucks. It all started out with feeling feverish Thursday before last. I went home and slept it off, and went into work at Traffic that Friday feeling a bit under the weather but not so bad. By the time that four hour shift was over I felt like I'd been hit by a mack truck. I had to work here that night since I had agreed to fill in for one of the weekend guys. I was hoping to get a few hours of naptime then come on over here and rough it. Lying there on my bed things went from bad to worse. I know I had a fever because I had chills so bad I physically began to shake. I tried calling a few coworkers at the last minute but no one could cover for me, so I came in.
• Luckily I had the rest of the weekend off. I still felt semi-crappy on Sunday and left several voicemails for coworkers to cover me. One person called me back to let me know she couldn't cover, she had to work at her other job. Since no one else bothered to call, I dragged myself in here, expecting to sit half-dead in my chair for at least 6 1/2 hrs until my boss came in. After clocking in downstairs, I came in and discovered that my shift was indeed covered and I wasn't even made aware. I quickly left, went home and vegged out. I was kinda miffed that I got dressed, made a lunch and drove over here when I could have stayed home sleeping. Oh well. I am very fortunate that I somehow got the rest of the week off. Thank God for sick pay.
  
• See on Monday I started feeling a tad better but my voice sounded like Peter Brady when he hit puberty. Monday night the beginnings of a terrible ear infection started, and continued through Wednesday despite ear drops and plenty of Tylenol/Sudafed. (Note: I still went to my part-time gigs on Tues/Wed and Sat so give me credit. I'm a trooper.) So I am eternally grateful to the folks here at work for filling in for me all week, because I was sick as a dog and needed the down time. Oh yeah, in the midst of all this my *visitor* arrived on Thursday and that was a load of fun all weekend. Yay.
• I did have a little fun here and there. Spent the majority of my time in bed watching movies I've never gotten around to even opening. Also played a lot of Uno games with Cathy. Thursday morning things were semi-routine as I took the car to get maintenance at Toyota and did the grocery run. On Friday Cathy and I took a little road trip to Laganitas where Dad grew up (ages 10-17, he lived in San Francisco before then) and Samuel Taylor State Park where we annually camped as kids. Lots of fun times/memories. I think we may surprise Dad and swing by there after visiting Sebastopol. Saturday I worked, went walking, and took Dad/Michelle to dinner. Sunday I slept in, went walking again and did housework. So yup, back to the old routines.
  
• I'm back to 58 hours of work this week. I don't mind it, I was getting a serious case of cabin fever hanging around at home all the time. Okay, off to do some surveys or something.