May 15 2006
Allergic to the Heat?
Well I don’t even know what happened. Saturday I was fine. Kept busy - came into the office to let the air duct cleaners do their thing, ran a few errands, packed up some more stuff for my move, drank plenty of water and ate fairly well, though I did stick to comfort foods. By mid-afternoon I was completely wiped out. Then, Sunday morning I woke up feeling queasy. Food hurt my stomach, and my BMs hurt my toilet. I took Immodium, I drank Gatorade, but food still hurt, so I couldn’t eat much. Of course, when you get like that it’s a downward spiral. You feel icky so you don’t eat, then you don’t eat because you feel icky. I had to call out at the store yesterday, which I hate doing because not only do I lose money, there’s no one to replace me so my boss was all alone on a busy Sunday afternoon. I felt bad, but what can I do?
Today I feel better, but I need to get a decent amount of food in me to feel a lot better. I slept in today and came into the office around 3, only because I was the only one available to be here tonight for project appointments, which is seriously frowned upon by project company if anyone tries to cancel. At least I can sit down and a bathroom isn’t far away if I need it.
I’ve been trying to figure out what the heck caused this, and the only thing I can think of is the heat. I was pretty active on Saturday, and it was the first day it hit 100 here, so that’s gotta be it. With my upcoming move, I should make sure I have plenty of Gatorade on hand. I hate moving in the summer - next time I’ll make sure it’s cooler out.
In other news, Mad Scientist made a boo-boo with my paycheck today. I noticed that it was higher than usual so I looked some more to see if I had gotten a raise. No such luck. He added in the amount for my 401K instead of taking it out. Silly boy. He fixed it. As much as I’d like the extra money, it needs to go to my 401K and not my pocket - isn’t that the whole point of a 401K?
And oh yes, the flooding in New England. It’s affecting my family back there. My parent’s homes aren’t flooded and they won’t be unless they get another 10 inches of rain (on top of the 10 they already have). But my dad’s business is flooded. There’s no damage, it’s all in the yard but he has no access, which means he has pretty much no business. It’s happened before, so he knows the routine, but it’s still a pain in the behind. My niece and nephew, Messy J and Bubba, are surely enjoying their days off from school. I’ll have to try and get on the IM to talk to Bubba in the morning.
That’s about it for today, I’m just sitting here trying to recover from yesterday and hoping I get my strength and energy back for a major stock move at the store tomorrow night. And of course hoping that my family won’t have to use their swimming skills until they are swimming volutarily.
