summer colds

I don't understand summer colds. You get colds in the winter because you stay inside with a bunch of people. In the summer you don't stay in as much so you're not suppose to get colds, yet every summer I get a cold. Sometimes they're quick and easy, other times they lay me out for days on end. This cold I've got this year I have been fighting for about a week or two. I'll get a little sick and then I'll get better. Some sneezing a little runny noise. I've been getting these symptoms at work, no big deal. I thought they might just be allergies. If they're allergies no biggie, I can live with a little sneezing and running noise at four am.

Today I woke up with a full blown cold though. I could feel my being all stuffy and my head was pounding, but I must go into work. I'm not very bright sometimes; I think that I need to go into work everyday. It doesn't matter if I feel like crap or not, at four am I always feel like crap. I did my job today, but I felt miserable the whole time. When I finally got home I took the last of our left over cold medicine. I don't think it's working. My noise is still going and I still have pressure in my head. A little later I took an allergy pill just to be on the safe side. No effect either. This is not looking good for me.

Why do we get summer colds? Is it because we go from such hot weather outside to freezing weather inside buildings? That might be the case, but my work is not air conditioned. We open all the bay doors and hope for a good breeze in the summer. My house isn't that cool. We keep the air at 76 degrees. Most days we leave the windows open till the house is in the 80's. My body is just weird. I get sick at the weirdest times, for example I get the flu usually in March or April after everyone else I know has had it in the early winter. I might just be stubborn. My body must be infected but battles much longer than it should so I get my sicknesses much later than everyone else. That's a reasonable answer.

The Nines

Life moves so fast that no one can stop it. I’ve tried to slow it down and stop it many times; the best I get is a headache. I’m no Hiro from Heroes. If time did move slower who would enjoy the small delights this world gives us. I’m not saying I would not want to stop time or travel back in and relive some of my greatest moments, but there are so many that we have yet to have. The future is so amazing and so many things we are going to be able to do. That brings us to the nines. What are the nines? Well the nines are the amount of days till I get married. Nine days left of my single life. Will I miss my single life after I’m married? Of course I’ll miss them, but being married to my love is so much better than single.

Nine Reason to get married
9. Don’t have to sleep alone
8. Someone to eat dinner with
7. No more trying to figure out who to date
6. Someone to hold your hand during the scary parts of the movie
5. Someone to see movies with
4. Your heart is no longer empty
3. No more cooking for one
2. A person to kiss and you know will kiss you back
1. No more waking up alone in the middle of the night scared that you’ll always be alone

I can’t help but think that marriage may have a lot of scary thing too. What happens when you start having kids? What if she gets sick of you in a year or two? Those things I can’t plan for. I have to be the best husband in the world and hope that my love likes it. I can’t tell the future, but it’s open for business and I want to buy some of it. I can’t wait to embrace the future. The present is so sensational and I love where I am, but I’m ready for the nines to be up and start the millions with the one.