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This Sucks

So on Tuesday I started feeling wrong.
On Wednesday it was 50/50 between calling in sick and going to work. I went to work and made it through without dying.
Thursday was the start of the four day weekend and I was sick. Thanksgiving plans needed a last minute rewrite.
Friday I was sick. We had movie date plans but had to scrap them.
Saturday I was sick. We had to miss the Dead Relatives Tour. I was better in the late afternoon and we went to a movie and to dinner. I thought I was improving.
Sunday I was sick. Again. I developed a five alarm cough that felt like it was ripping my chest open with each instance. Jen starts a new job today (woohoo! Go get ’em babie, you’re the best!) and needed a good night sleep. She wasn’t getting that due to my coughing so I went down cellar to try to sleep. I didn’t.
Today is Monday, the first day back after the long weekend. I’m still coughing and sniffling a little, but I am well enough to go to work.

Figures, huh?

I need to wish the best of luck to my wife who is starting a new job today.
I also need for you, me, and everyone else to direct all of your happy thoughts (red head vibes from me) to a certain short person. He knows who he is. Best of luck to him today as well. Everything will go perfectly.

The Subtleties of Beerfest

Have you seen the movie Beerfest?

Did you notice that in the scene that takes place in the men’s room near the end when Fink figures out the answer to Das Boot that all of their faces are turning yellow?

Brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant.

Still Sick (and an in depth Deathly Hallows review)

We are now entering day number 123586723413 of this particular cold.

I might have exaggerated, but only slightly.

I felt a lot better yesterday afternoon. Well enough to try sneaking out to see the new Harry Potter movie. Here is my Deathly Hallows Part 1 review:

AAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! Now I have to wait until summer to see the rest of this awesome story? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There. That sums up my response to the entire movie. There were a few minor discrepancies from the book. Hedwig is much much nobler in her big scene. The whole Harry and Hermione dancing scene seems to have a lot of book>movie purists up in arms, but I thought it was a nice way to show them trying (and failing) to break the tension when things were at their darkest. It was definitely slicker than some retarded montage would have been. I think the scene at the Ministry was done perfectly. I think the second visit to the Malfoy’s was also done perfectly… especially the way it ended… if you’ve read the book you know what I mean, right? They way the Malfoy scene ends? Get it? I also think they split the story at the perfect spot. Things are impossibly dark for our heroes, and things are looking bright indeed for our villains.

Nicely done.

Now that I’ve said all of that, I will return to my box of Puffs Plus tissues, and my bag of Cherry Halls cough drops.

Good day.

DRT

Today is our annual Dead Relatives Tour. That is a very insensitive way to describe a family event where a whole slew of us get together to visit the graves of my mother’s parents, and my father’s mother, brother, aunts and uncles. After paying our respects at the grave sites we all go out to lunch together and spend the better part of a day just being a big extended family.

The festivities are well underway, and Jen and I are sitting on the couch missing it. Damn you, cold virus! I am so disappointing in my immune system right now. We had plans for the first three days of our four day weekend and my cold has 86’d them all.

It’s not that bad though, I have spent the whole weekend with my lovely wife, and a big chunk of it with her amazing kids. I wouldn’t trade that for anything.