Saturday, March 04, 2006
Sick and tired...
So...this nagging "I think I'm gonna be sick" feeling I've had for the past few days has finally come to fruition...I am, actually, sick now. And of course the cramps had to set in on the same day.
It means that I can't go see Granddad, who is depressingly lacking in togetherness. He keeps thinking that taxes are due March 15th instead of April, and worrying like crazy about getting them done. I tried to tell him that if he could just get all his tax-related papers together the guy who does Mr. W's taxes can do his, and he won't even have to go anywhere, but it's so hard to explain anything to him these days. My mom helped him with his taxes last year (and by helped I mean basically did them for him) and it took her days and days... I'm not going to get roped into that, and I don't know enough about it to have a prayer of doing them right.
Anyway, while I was going through his papers looking for 1099's I found about $2600 worth of uncashed dividend checks (some from as far back as November) just sitting around on his desk...very discouraging. And the worst part is, he didn't tell me he needed me to take anything to the bank, so it didn't really occur to me, although I would have been happy to go. I went yesterday, of course, because you can't have thousands of dollars in checks just sitting around. But I won't be able to go back and look for more until I've recovered, of course, because when you're 89 any illnesses are serious, even coughs and colds.
Since I can't afford to take any time off work, I've decided to pamper myself today and tomorrow (I'm off until 5 pm tomorrow) in the hopes that I'll get better faster. With that in mind, I have stocked up on all the things a sick person needs:
It means that I can't go see Granddad, who is depressingly lacking in togetherness. He keeps thinking that taxes are due March 15th instead of April, and worrying like crazy about getting them done. I tried to tell him that if he could just get all his tax-related papers together the guy who does Mr. W's taxes can do his, and he won't even have to go anywhere, but it's so hard to explain anything to him these days. My mom helped him with his taxes last year (and by helped I mean basically did them for him) and it took her days and days... I'm not going to get roped into that, and I don't know enough about it to have a prayer of doing them right.
Anyway, while I was going through his papers looking for 1099's I found about $2600 worth of uncashed dividend checks (some from as far back as November) just sitting around on his desk...very discouraging. And the worst part is, he didn't tell me he needed me to take anything to the bank, so it didn't really occur to me, although I would have been happy to go. I went yesterday, of course, because you can't have thousands of dollars in checks just sitting around. But I won't be able to go back and look for more until I've recovered, of course, because when you're 89 any illnesses are serious, even coughs and colds.
Since I can't afford to take any time off work, I've decided to pamper myself today and tomorrow (I'm off until 5 pm tomorrow) in the hopes that I'll get better faster. With that in mind, I have stocked up on all the things a sick person needs:
- sleep
- chicken soup
- ginger ale (Canada dry, of course)
- vitamins
- cough drops
- Sudafed
- large quantities of light fiction (courtesy of the library)
- Girl Scout cookies
- chocolate pudding
I realize that those last two items are not, strictly speaking, things that I need, but I'm sick, dammit, and it's a great excuse to eat sweets. Also, chocolate helps cramps ;-)
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Get better soon!
It IS good to have all those things on hand. I remember thinking one flu-ish nightmare day I would soon die if I didn't have a ginger-ale.
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It IS good to have all those things on hand. I remember thinking one flu-ish nightmare day I would soon die if I didn't have a ginger-ale.
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