So last week after we helped our friends move, Will almost immediately came down with a gnarly cold (which he named Ferret Flu because the friends own three ferrets and, you know, the whole swine flu-stravaganza).  I have been doing my best to not catch it because my Mom is coming down at the end of the week for an early birthday celebration (darn my birthday for being on a Tuesday this year) and I do not want to be sick when she gets here.

Of course, in spite of my best efforts I have spent the last couple of days feeling super snuffly. I can’t quite tell if it is Will’s ferret flu or if it is just seasonal allergies now that the weather is finally warm and the plants seem to be shooting pollen and other crap off of themselves with blaster rockets.  Either way, my nose it has been runny and I’ve had that vague “is it actually this hot or am I running a fever?” temperature (for the record, it was 90% actually that hot this weekend).  So, this morning I took a Sudafed.  And then later on this afternoon I took another Sudafed and an hour after the second Sudafed I took a Zicam (which made me drool like a teething baby while it dissolved).  My nose immediately cleared up and I got kind of a nice medicine head buzz and when Will got home?  I gave him a big hug and said “I have taken two Sudafed and a Zicam.  I’m telling you this in case I have accidentally overmedicated myself and I end up passing out so that you can tell the doctors ‘she had two sudafed and a zicam.’” (remember, medicine head! floaty! nice! not quite in charge of all of my faculties!)

This would have been funny enough but not fifteen minutes later, I got up off the couch to check on something and my foot got caught on Will’s laptop’s power cord and I took a nose dive straight for the coffee table.  I managed to catch myself before I banged the crap out of my skull and turned to look at Will, who was clutching at his laptop and looking at me with an expression somewhere between irritation and fear.

“Which were you more worried about?” I asked. “Me or the laptop?”

“The la……………I’m not sure.”

Awesome.