{"id":318,"date":"2009-01-22T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-01-22T13:30:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T21:30:15","slug":"its-about-that-time-of-year-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/its-about-that-time-of-year-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s About that Time of Year, is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Jeremy came home with a bit of a cough about a week ago, and then it seemed to spread to Siah and then the girls started coughing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I figured that it would pass in a few days and all would be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Well, either it was a wicked little bug with some severe staying power or it just weakened our immune systems just enough for it&#8217;s friend &#8220;THE ALMIGHTY NASTY POWERFUL COLD&#8221; to move on in.<\/p>\n<p>My mother-in-law was down for the count yesterday, but whatever she&#8217;s got is different from what I&#8217;ve got.\u00c2\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t think that I could have picked it up that fast from her anyway&#8230;.you know with incubating periods and all&#8230;.the little buggers have got to have some time to spawn&#8230;.or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I&#8217;m full of snot and I have a bit of a cough but it&#8217;s mostly just in my throat&#8230;..there is no real chest involvement going on over here&#8230;..just lots and lots and lots of snot.<\/p>\n<p>YUCK!<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m pounding back the Vitamin C and drinking an entire ocean load of hot lemon water and if I feel like partying it up real hard, we might throw a little homeopathic remedy or two around &#8211; you know, just to keep it interesting.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is&#8230;..I really am supposed to be working today.\u00c2\u00a0 I got stuff to do and books to cook and well, I&#8217;m just trying to figure out what is really important and what I can just put off for another day.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh so much fun!<\/p>\n<p>What I want from you &#8211; my dear sweet Internet friends &#8211; is your best cough\/cold remedy.<\/p>\n<p>You know, the one that you use when you feel like crap?\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe it&#8217;s the one that crazy Aunt Maude started pushing on your family 60 years ago and no one can explain why or how, but it really does work?\u00c2\u00a0 Or the one that Uncle Harry brought home from the war and claims that it saved him and an entire Amy Hospital from dying?\u00c2\u00a0 Or the one that your best friends mother uses and you have to avoid the house for 3 days because it smells so bad &#8211; but she claims it really works?<\/p>\n<p>Ya know&#8230;..just help a girl out over here and in return&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a cruddy first morning picture of me just crawled outta bed, no make up, one snot drip away from needing a fresh tissue&#8230;..I&#8217;m feeling really yummy here.<center><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319\" title=\"sick\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sick.jpg?resize=475%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sick\" width=\"475\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sick.jpg?w=475&amp;ssl=1 475w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/sick.jpg?resize=285%2C300&amp;ssl=1 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 85vw, 475px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Jeremy came home with a bit of a cough about a week ago, and then it seemed to spread to Siah and then the girls started coughing&#8230; I figured that it would pass in a few days and all would be fine. Well, either it was a wicked little bug with some severe staying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/its-about-that-time-of-year-is-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s About that Time of Year, is it?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}