Absinthe, Please...

Sleeping eleven to sixteen hours a day (for, I believe, a five day stretch now) has left my dream tank empty...
Witness this gem:

I'm at a Phillies game with several family members and coworkers (ugh...the especially loathsome ones)...
We are not at the "real" stadium...we are at a crappy weed-ridden (weed, such as dandelions, crab grass...told you this was boring) ball field likely in Delaware county (no offense, just sayin)...
Halfway through the first inning, I realize we are not even watching the real Phillies...this is like a B team, all the players are totally unrecognizable, not even wearing the real uniform, playing against an equally unrecognizable team...I try to tell my family, but they just think I'm full of shit. "Oh yeah? Where's Werth? Where's Ibanez? Where's Lidge? How bout Utley?" I say...(rattling off all these names, how is beyond me, I know, I know, World Champions blah blah blah...I haven't seen a Phillies game since our fifth grade Safety Field Trip...no, we didn't wear our orange sashes)...
So, everyone is into this crappy game...the snacks are even crappy...we are sitting on crappy wooden splintery bleachers...
Most boring game ever.

I don't like baseball.
I had to sit through an entire baseball game...a faux-Phillies game at a crappy field somewhere in the middle of crappy Dreamworld with people I don't even like (I like Jeff & Max, obviously...but, the rest of them should stay at work where they belong).
In my dream.

What the??!

I got mail...

coolest, most thoughtful survival kit ever...
I love my friends!

awwwww

My friend, Liz, stopped by this morning with a venti iced green tea and her six day old baby boy.

The tea was refreshing and the baby was angelic.

Little Henry made my day.

krossed out

I can't look at the MAC calendar yet.
I was in bed til 4pm today...that's a record. Last time I was laid up like this was...
when I had an appendectomy (that was f-u-n)...
Following that surgery, my grandmom gave me a crisp one hundred dollar bill...that recovery fund accompanied me to Jamaica several weeks later & saw to it that my thirst for Red Stripe was more than quenched (among other island delights).

Not surprisingly, my dear friend Sara provided me with a fantastic Mediterranean spread last night complete with the. best. homemade. tabbouleh. EVER...
A quiet(ish) night spent at home with friends and (nerd alert!) Cranium wasn't what the doctor ordered, but cheered me up nonetheless.

As I said, it was 4pm when I finally got out of bed today, so mono or not, this girl is wide awake...
(maybe not wide awake so much as totally screwed up my already screwed up sleep cycle)...

One more item worth noting:
So, beer is now available at Wegman's (I know, right?!)...you mean, I can get Delirium? Or Sammy Smith (mmmm Oatmeal Stout mmmm)? Or La Chouffe at my supermarket??
A mere two aisles away from my beloved W bread and baklava?
Oh, yes I can, friends.
(when I am all better, of course)

Nighty night.

Reset

Instead of lamenting my waning fitness and growing waistline, I'm going to stock up on some books & magazines...a teammate whom I barely know has offered me a knitting demo (C3- Athletes Serving Athletes, indeed!)...I'm going to enjoy a quiet week at home and focus on getting better. I have empty sketch books, brand new markers, blank note cards, neglected DVDs (time to revisit Little Nicky and laugh my ass off?)...I have a fridge stocked with healthy, easy-to-prepare food (and a half gallon of Chocolate Quik!)...I have Apples to Apples and willing victims (Sara, are you out there?)...I have an itunes gift card from Christmas that I haven't had time to use (and a yearning for the not-so-new-anymore Yeah Yeah Yeahs)...I also have an enormous pile of clothing to be ironed (I'm sure ironing clothes isn't harmful to my spleen, right?)

This is what the doctor ordered (literally, in the form of bed rest) and it's all I can do.
Making the best of it...

Spreading the love

it's the kissing disease, right?

ultra-flattering photo courtesy of Therese Given, my lovely cousin

sunny thursday afternoon

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