The Eye of Kris

On Wednesday night, I started feeling dizzy and nauseous. My throat hurt. My head hurt. I had a fever. It was not good. I hardly slept that night - mostly tossing and turning in that fuzzy state where you can't separate reality from fiction. I hate that state.

Needless to say, I did not go to work on Thursday, and in fact did not even get out of bed much. By Thursday night I was feeling better, but I still had a slight fever so I stayed home from work on Friday as well. I don't want to be that guy who brings germs back into the office to share with everyone.

Last night I was pretty much back to normal so I got out of the house a little and we got some Christmas shopping done. I love and hate shopping for gifts at the same time. I like to give gifts, and I especially like it when I feel like I picked out just the right thing and the person loves the gift. I hate trying to figure out what that right thing is, though. It's rarely easy. Sometimes I know what I want to get for someone, but I can't find it or it's too expensive or something. Then there's the whole fair treatment thing where you don't want to spend twice as much on one niece or nephew as you do on another. Over all of that, of course, is the budget. Unfortunately, there's only so much we can spend on gifts. I wish we could just buy everyone whatever they would like, regardless of cost, but there's that whole feed-my-family thing...

Anyway - even though the past two days have felt somewhat like Saturday (although not exactly a fun Saturday), today is the real Saturday.

Side note - Mary just sent Owen to me with a post-it note requesting that I give him something to take back to her. We have our own household courier service!

So, what shall we do today? I have several things on a list that I would like to get done, but somehow, I don't feel like doing them. I need to run some wires underneath the house to add a network connection to a couple of rooms downstairs. Don't feel like doing that. I really need to pressure wash the back of our house, which is a lovely shade of green. Really don't feel like doing that. My desk is piled with mail and other papers that I need to organize and file. Nah, don't feel like doing that either. Man, I'm lazy today. No, I'm not lazy - I'm recovering...

I do have to go over my Sunday School lesson, whether I feel like it or not. That one has a deadline. I also need to make a few phone calls. This evening we are going to a birthday party up in Springfield, so I have some time limits on whatever I'm going to get done today. I guess I'd better get busy. I think I'll start by eating lunch.