Normally I do okay with a cold.  I don’t like it, but don’t exhibit signs of a man cold.  But today…well…things are different.

I’m back from a vacation and I get a cold.  It starts off as a hacking cough.   A tickle that drives me batty.  I can’t help that cough even through I try.  I drink tons of water.  I suck on strepsils.  But no, it has to get worse and move to my nose.  So today I woke up full of snot, couching and lovely projectile sneezes.  As you can imagine, I’m quite the pretty picture in my fuzzy pajamas sitting on the couch.  Red, sore nose…dark circles under the eyes…hair all bed-heady and not in a sexy sort of way.  Yeah.  Hell.

But I could deal with those things.  It wasn’t going to be fun, but doable.  I have my computer, day-time t.v. and I’m still on vacation, even if I do have some work to do.  But then I got hit with my period.  And it’s a doozy.  Cramps and the works.  So now I am pure misery.  Wah!  I feel like shite, I look like shite and I’m not pregnant despite what seemed to be some good signs.  I want my mommy. 

I know that all of this will pass in a day or so (crossing fingers)…but right now, having a chick cold sucks the big one.