You Take the Good, You Take The Bad.
(you take them both and there you have....)
The BAD:
1. I have been sick for the last three days with NO END IN SIGHT. I'll get better for awhile. Today, for example, I managed to walk from Chatelet to Saint Michel to Les Invalides to Concorde and back to Chatelet. That is hours of walking, and I thought it meant I was on the road to recovery. Then I ate when I got home and I realized? NOT BETTER. I just spent the last two hours recovering from the four squares of chocolate that I ate.
2. Consider number 1. again and then add to this that I will spend my day on a seven-hour flight tomorrow. Toilets are small on airplanes, and occasionally they require stepping over people. Cabin pressure is not the best. No matter what the in-flight entertainment is, I hope I will not be made into a spectacle as I struggle to keep my irrational body in line.
3. Part of the plan for today was to go do the laundry. I don't like the idea of stranding The Boy with his own dirty clothes - and then adding 3/4 of my wardrobe to the pile. Yet, that is the situation we are facing.
4. I went to buy my brother-in-law's present today. I realize this is last minute, but he was the only person for whom I even knew what I wanted to buy. BUT I COULDN'T BUY THE PRESENT because of the rain. Hard to explain without giving away the gift idea (saved for next year, I suppose) but there you have it. I hate myself. So I only have two quasi-gifts ready. Another one of my quasi-gifts got lost at the bookstore. Great.
THE GOOD
(always end on a positive note)
1. Even though I am sick, I will soon be able to be sick in my parents' well-heated, comfortable home with cable television. It is FAR easier to be sick in those conditions than in my sixth-floor apartment. Also? I will have a dog there to keep me company.
2. Even though I will be in HELL on the flight if I suffer the same fate tomorrow as I did today, I am flying FIRST CLASS (for the second time!) so maybe I will be able to be uncomfortable in a more comfortable way than I would be in coach.
3. Even though I have no clean clothes, my parents have a washer and dryer IN THEIR HOUSE. Free international laundry service!
4. I have some excessively good news that I am just BURSTING to tell everyone here (no, I'm not having a baby) but I am going to wait to make the announcement until I can tell my parents face-to-face. It involves money and it makes me happy. You can start celebrating already. I don't mind.
*opens a bottle of champagne*
Sounds very exciting - can't wait to hear what it is!
A job? The lottery? Selling organs for cash? Ooh, I look forward to the answer!