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| our Christmas card this year. |
My Christmas was very low key. Christmas Eve consisted of going to the in-laws' for their annual Christmas Eve party. Normally, there are close to 50 people there drinking way too much top shelf alcohol, eating way too much sandwich platters and eventually crowding around the piano for carols, or even worse, going door to door in the neighborhood. This year's was very tame, not too many people showed up and one couple had to head to the ER! The joke in the family is it's not a party until Don has a heart attack. Horrible joke, but kind of true! Thankfully he'll be fine.
Christmas morning we drove to my parents house in Bremerton to open family gifts and then we were supposed to go to my cousin's house in Port Orchard for brunch...well, plans got changed at the last second because the whole family was plagued by the stomach flu! So, again, we had a quiet day at my parent's house and my aunts and uncles came over for our potluck brunch. Soo good! I need to have my uncle write down his recipe for ham. Ah-mazing! (the secret is apparently ginger ale..who woulda thunk it?!)
On New Year's Eve, I was very low key. Read a book and passed out by 10ish..Jan 1st consisted of Hubs and I driving down to Portland to do some tax-free shopping. We didn't pick up many great deals, but do you know what I got?! A cold!! Walked out of the mall on Tuesday night and thought, "woah, my throat hurts. Weird!" Woke up on Wednesday with no voice, but decided to go to work anyway. Worst idea ever. I was dying at my desk. Couldn't talk, chills, fever. You name it. I went home, got into jammies, took some NyQuil with Vitamin C (awesome stuff, lemme tell ya), and zonked out. Woke up on Thursday, sent a text to my boss saying I was staying home. Went back to sleep and didn't get up until 4:30pm. Felt good until about 10 then started with headaches, sneezing, coughing, chills. Took more meds and went to bed. Woke up Friday, still not good. My voice was going in and out. Hubs had the day off so he took care of me (very demanding murse!). Drank a lot of high vitamin C smoothie drinks this weekend. I'm feeling better - no more chills, headaches. Still coughing and running/stuffed up nose.. My voice is also still kind of hit or miss, but I definitely think I can manage work tomorrow. Thank goodness, I was starting to go stircrazy at home. I am not a good stay-cation person. I hate being at home with nothing to do. And no, I don't want to clean if I can help it.
It is almost time for kick off. I best be off. Goooo Seahawks!
Much love,
-b-
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