So .... I ended up going into work on Friday. Managed to make it the full 8 hours too. Only by spending all of lunch with my head on the break room table, and my 15 minute pm break too.
Even so, I was hacking out my lungs and made use of the mute button quite often so as to not make my callers listen in.
I really don't know what's up with my boss. Part of the reason I made myself go in on Friday was because she sounded so put out when I called in sick on Thursday. But then on Friday several times during the day she said if I needed to go home, to go home.
I really need to sit down with her and have a chat to see if there is something going on. I am wondering if she thinks I got sick *because* of helping out NE during his shoulder surgery. (I'm pretty sure it's allergy related - this is what happens almost every time I have a really bad allergy season. Which has been this year for sure.)
Ugh. Is it 2031 yet (so I can retire?)
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Then after work I came home and slept for a while, NE called and we talked for a bit, then I slept some more. Finally got up about 30 minutes before he came over.
He brought me a thermometer and and an icepack (for headache). When I took my temp, it was 102.7! So off we went to Urgent Care. It was so nice to have him with me.
Their thermometer read 103! They ruled out flu and pneumonia and said it was bronchitis. Great. Doctor gave me a scrip for antibiotics and sent me on my way.
We stopped at Walgreen's and NE went in and got my prescription - and a little extra, a Cadbury egg 
Took the first antibiotic around 9 pm Friday night and am already feeling much better - in fact, dare I say it, but my headache may be gone too!
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Gotta say it's frustrating to eat a pretty healthy diet (lots of fruit/veggies/whole wheat, little processed, etc. and recently very very little junkfood) and be getting this sick again. Plus pretty much all I drink is water. Once in awhile Rice Dream, and in a rare instance (like this week) juice. (Soda I go back and forth on - months and months where all I'll do is have a sip or two of NEs and maybe one or two bottles, and then times where I slip back into drinking it much more often. Currently on the rarely drink curve and hope to continue!)
Oh well, if I improve even more by tomorrow, I might even have the energy AND the desire to clean my place. It's in bad, bad, bad shape. 4 days of having the desire but having absolutely no energy .... doesn't make for a pretty sight.
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Bing must be in trouble, or may be in the process of fading out their rewards. When I joined and then up until 3 or 4 months ago, I was able to earn at least 40 points a day. Now only 25 points a day - which made reaching the 475 points needed for the SBs feel interminable. Today I found out that they've increased the price to 575!
I've changed my reward goal to the IHOP giftcard. I need to check if they're stackable, but a few months of those will get me a free meal at IHOP. (not that healthy I know, I know ... )
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On YouGov I'm up to 62k points - I have some good options of rewards, but I still think I want to wait for the $100 AGC (100k) because it's the only one that is penny to point value.
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I have been perfectly abysmal at entering my spending for at least two weeks in YNAB. I'll be able to enter stores and amounts, but will have to guess at what it was for.
For some reason I've gotten into the bad habit of throwing away a receipt as soon as I snap it for Receipt Hog (finally reached 1100 points, but am going on for a higher amount.) Anyway .. I really need to save those receipts until I've entered them in YNAB (mostly grocery type receipts, I don't buy much else.)
All of that to say, my categories are probably going to be a little off for March.
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Ok, so off to catch up with y'all!
Oops, I went back to try to edit the lengthiness and ended up adding length!
Updates ..
March 28th, 2015 at 05:22 pm
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CeeJay/SG - I didn't even mention the two horrible callers. The second of which called back at LEAST 12 times (I counted on the phone history, then he called a few more times) and asked EXACTLY the same questions. I spent most of 90 minutes dealing with his calls. Finally I asked my boss if I could log out so I could actually get something done - which by that point was just organizing the unfinished orders to be put away for the weekend. She came out at 4:28 and looked at me like she couldn't believe I hadn't made any more progress. I wanted to say - take a look at my call history - I've barely had 20 minutes of time off the phone this afternoon! Friday's are usually so much slower phone wise ...
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I'm going to slowly being doing some much needed housework, but otherwise am going to just try to rest (and hydrate of course!)
March 29th, 2015 at 03:47 pm 1427644076
Everyone gets sick, but being healthier might help you bounce back faster. OF course, rest and reducing stress is all a part of that.
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