Ahh, I think it’s safe to say I’m rid of the swine flu.  Hooray!  Except now I have a cold.  I’m getting a season’s worth of illness in the course of two weeks. 

… yes, I was a big baby for the last week.  H1N1 is a nasty flu to have.  I sweat more from the multiple, never-ending fevers than I ever do in hot yoga – and my body was way more sore than it ever is after running or lifting weights.

Good thing for roommates, friends and my mom!  I’ve never been checked up on so often, or had so much food dropped off to me.  Thank you to all of you!  And thanks for all the well wishes on the blog – it cheered me up.

I hadn’t eaten oats for days.  Canned peaches though?  I’m going to turn into one.  In the book I was reading, the one character said she thought of canned peaches as low brow food.  Piper obviously had never tasted them – she’d change her mind as soon as she bit into a cold, slightly metallic tasting peach from a can.  Bliss.

I Eat

Normalcy tastes delicious.  This was some apple pie oat bran.

Currently occupying space in my stomach is 1/2 c. oat bran + 1 1/2 c. water + 1 small Macintosh apple + vanilla + cinnamon + almonds + raisins + dried out almond butter.

I nuked the apple slices for about a minute before I mixed them with the oat bran.  The rest of the apple I threw on top.  It smelled like pie for breakfast. 

Raisins like to stick together.

I’ve been working from home this week, which means I’m always less than 20 seconds from the kitchen, which promotes constant eating.  I have no idea how some of you work-at-home girls do it – I’ve worn a path straight from the couch to the cupboard.

Back to the office tomorrow, though – yes!  And no, there’s not a hint of sarcasm there.  I’m looking forward to being there.

I worked and ate and apparently, forgot to take a picture of my pho noodle soup.  It was awesome!  Then I snacked all afternoon.  Must.  Reign.  In.  Snacking.

Did some more work in the afternoon, ventured out and spread my germs to people at the public library, and had a bowl of apple-cinnamon-curry chili when I got home with some homemade bread.  Both came out of the freezer – love those nights.  I’ll post the chili recipe soon.

I make ugly chili but it tastes good, for real.

And yep, that would be a Wheel of Fortune Word Seek on the table.  That’s the kind of fun thing I do when I’m sick, instead of blogging.  I figure it’s better for my brain than a colouring book. 

I Move

I am craving exercise.  I’m trying to be patient and let my body get over being sick, but I’m so antsy to get back to the gym.  So, to slowly ease myself back into not being the couch’s tumour, I’m going to do some yoga tonight from yogadownload.com.  Reading lots of bloggers’ posts about great runs, workouts and new exercises isn’t helping!  Patience, patience, patience…

Good to be back though!

Adi

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