I believe the above to actually be a misnomer. This thing has to be a flu. It’s too damn strong and too damn stubborn to be just a cold. I’m convinced of this because the wife and I both got symptomatic on Friday of last week. It is now Wednesday and I feel the worst I have felt so far with this.
The funniest part about this is it makes me question my own resilience. You see, if this were a situation where I had to go in to work I would probably opt not to. The thought of having to drive in to work, put in the hours while enduring this just doesn’t add up in my head. Of course you and I both know that I have no job to go to as of yet so this is a moot point. Still, I wouldn’t be willing to go to work like this, yet I have gotten up of my own free will at 7:30 AM and I have gone to the grocery store. Definitely not the activities of someone so sick they wouldn’t go to work, right?
I have to admit though that the circumstances surrounding my outdoor journey are a little more then the need for some milk and the latest edition of the Weekly World Examiner News Enquirer (you see, they are all the same in my mind). Today is my wife’s birthday. Because I love my wife dearly there needs to be a cake today. I am going to make that cake. In order to make it, I need the ingredients. The ingredients are at (you guessed it) the grocery store.
Now this, in itself, reads damn funny because I am in not what one would call an experienced baker. Even with this knowledge (or lack there of as this case may be) I am actually endeavoring to make a two layer cake. I know nothing about it but have already successfully baked two nine inch pans filled with batter that have now become yellow golden goodness just waiting for cooling, frosting and decoration.
This is going to be interesting.
So, I must take my leave of you now and begin my journey onto the world wide web to find cake decorating tips. I also need to go buy a picture frame real quick as well as get in touch with the guy who has the screening tickets for Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back tonight (can’t even tell you how thrilled the wife is that I am dragging her to the screening on her birthday).
-WW
