It Finally Caught Me

...in its nasty, nasty snare: I am home sick today. I slept until two pm, in little fits, waking up every hour, registering the cats around me, the weight of blankets and the additional weight of the sickness, enveloping me in a cloud of dizziness and fever. Crawled out of bed after two, took shower, stuffed something in my belly, checked email, typing up this post. Now back to bed again.
AND on top of all this, the heater unit broke in the house: blows cold air when it supposes to blow warm (even though I can hear the furnace kicking in just fine)...repairmen expected tomorrow. Blarg. Good thing it is 70 degrees outside, otherwise this illness would be compounded with some additional freeze damage as well.