They gave me drugs.............

It took a little while but the drugs finally kicked in. I won't bore anyone with all the ugly details. But, let me tell you, I didn't do this sick thing lightly. I went for the whole shabang. Infections from head to toe. I've leaned my lesson. Next year, I have to drink more at the St. Pat's Day Parade. No more restraint for me. Restraint is what got me into this mess. So, from now on, I'm back to living that old adage----A true Irish lass is not drunk if she can hold onto a blade of grass and not fall off the face of the world. So, it's back to business as usual. It was all so horrible--I completely missed St. Patrick's Day. Well, I did give it the old Irish girl try. My hair was green, I dressed in my St. Patrick's Day finest, wore green eye shadow, eye liner and mascara. And, I dragged myself to the office. My day consisted of coughing on everyone, moaning quite a lot, wrapping myself in an old sweater and sitting at my desk saying swear words. Then, I went home, threw myself on the couch, heaped blankets on top of me, coughed my head off and said more swear words. From then on, things went pretty much the same for the next 5 days. Although I did manage to drag myself to the doctor's office. What ever happened to house calls or just calling in prescriptions? The whole thing...from the first cough until I felt human enough to take a shower...... was absolutely brutal. It was bad enough I missed one of my favorite nights to go out in the whole damn year. But, then, I didn't make even Easter baskets for my kids! So, that meant, I didn't get to hide them and make them go and look for them. And, we didn't dye eggs. And, I didn't put up my Easter decorations. And, no Easter bonnet or new Easter shoes. Bad. Bad. Bad. Essentially, I just coughed and bitched my way through two holidays and the first day of Spring. But, that's all behind me now. I'm back. And, I have an entirely new illness. It's called BATHING SUITITIS. So far it's been pretty similar to my most recent illness.......I'm swearing a lot. I need drugs. If not drugs.....maybe a change in the bathing suit fashion. Probably drugs.

Stay tuned.......