Showing posts with label sick day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sick day. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 18, 2013



I kind of miss the good old days when I was so dedicated to blogging I even did an outfit post when I was sick. Right now I've been wearing the same sweater and pajama pants for two days and I wouldn't put on a dress and pose for pictures if you paid me a hundred dollars. I'm not sure what changed.. I still love blogging but I guess I've gotten so used to it and have a very blasé "eh, nobody will notice if I don't post for a week" sort of attitude that when I'm under the weather I just let it go. But I miss how every single day of my life was documented in 2011 (and most of 2012)... I think I might add "put more effort into my blog" to the long list of resolutions that are mounting for 2014. Although, honestly, as a very scatterbrained, disorganized person I'm pretty pleased with myself for having maintained my blog -- even if it's no longer updated on such a strict schedule -- for almost four years.

I'm definitely under the weather because I actually just wrote (and promptly deleted) this huge long post about diseases, the black death, funneling technology investments into curing all human ailments, and my general frustration with how many illnesses still have no cures or treatments in 2013. When I get sick I can be a little dramatic. I just hate not feeling good -- I know, who doesn't? I just don't handle it well. As much as I kind of hate my body right now (does anyone else ever feel that way, like as if it's totally separate from your brain? I think it's the sick talking again, sorry) I'm going to pamper the heck out of it and hope this goes away by Christmas. Fingers crossed!!

In the mean time I actually did take some pictures of my workspace for the first part of my apartment tour so I'll edit those tomorrow and post them :) The glamourous sick-day outfit posts, however, are probably a thing of the past lol ;)

Monday, October 15, 2012



Still sick.

Last Monday I went to a walk-in health center since my doctor was booked, and they gave me some medicine, did some tests and sent me home. I've just been getting worse ever since. Now I have this dry cough and tight chest that's so bad I gave up talking yesterday morning, partially because it made me start coughing uncontrollably and partially because nobody could understand what I was trying to say anyway. I think I bruised a rib or pulled a muscle from coughing so much. The only time I feel ok is when I'm sleeping so I've been trying to do that as much as possible.

Normally when I'm sick I still try to stay on top of things but this time I honestly don't care. I obviously have an obligation to answer my etsy messages and send out orders, and I'm doing that (with help from my fantastic brother & mom) but I'm just letting everything else go this time. Ironically, my etsy shop is actually having the worst month in over a year so there isn't actually that much work to do (of course the downside to this is that it's making it harder to pay for the medical bills I'm slowly racking up. this week I am really wishing I had a regular job where I could call in sick and still have a reliable income to pay for prescriptions and tests and doctor co-pays.)

Sorry I'm being so mopey... I'm just so sick of being sick. And I had so many fun projects to work on and exciting things to share here that have to be put on the back burner for now. And my Disney trip is coming up in less than a month... I'm so worried I won't be back to normal by then. I have a history of things that seem like colds turning into huge medical ordeals that last for months, so I'm just nervous this is going in that direction...

Anyway. I have an appointment with my regular doctor tomorrow afternoon so hopefully she'll give me some good news and I'll be on the road to recovery lickety split. I'm not going to post here until I'm feeling ship-shape again, but hopefully that will be very soon. xo

ps. I'm going to extend all the current sponsor spots by one week, since I don't really think it's fair to pay for ad space while I'm either absent or just moaning about being sick..

Wednesday, May 16, 2012



dress - c/o modcloth
shoes - c/o bait footwear
belt - from a vintage dress
cardigan - old navy

One week of being sick and I'm *finally* starting to feel better. Hooray! I had to venture out to Staples and the grocery store on Saturday and I think it set me back a bit, so I've been taking it easy and generally loafing around ever since. Today is the first day I've gotten dressed all week, actually!

I'm so happy mint is in style right now! I don't know about you, but I think all of my favorite colors can be traced back to the Crayola crayons I favored as a kid. Sea green and periwinkle were my most frequently used crayons and I definitely gravitate towards those colors as a grown-up too! What were your favorite crayon colors? :)



Tuesday, May 8, 2012



Being sick stinks. I'm not fantastic at handling the discomfort, so I get all whiny and dramatic and generally drive my family crazy. So as I was sitting here wallowing in my stuffy-nosed misery, I decided I'd try to look on the bright side and come up with my top five favorite things about being sick. I could only come up with four, but considering how generally terrible the whole illness experience is, I think four is kind of a lot ;p

1. Watching my favorite movies from my childhood. It seems like The Brave Little Toaster and The Land Before Time only make an appearance when my temperature is hovering around 100'. They bring back happy memories and remind me of the days when being sick meant getting to stay home from school. Aka, the days when I was happy to get sick.

2. Sick comfort food. I don't think I have ever had Lipton noodle soup unless I was huddled under the covers on the couch sipping Juicy Juice and Nyquil. The funny thing is I LOVE this soup, but I only eat it when I'm under the weather.

3. Not giving a darn what I look like, and wearing my most comfy pajamas. Not only is it kind of nice to forgo the makeup for a couple days and give the tights and belts a rest, but it makes getting dressed again when I'm feeling back to normal that much more fun! I think I feel my most healthy, pretty and happy after I've just gotten over a nagging cold. There's nothing like going from a deathly pallor and sweatpants to eyeliner and posh frocks to make me feel spiffy!

4. Random bursts of fever-induced creativity. You know how your best ideas usually come when you're in the shower or JUST getting ready to fall asleep? Mine also appear whenever I'm in a sick stupor. For some reason, nothing does more for my muse than a stuffy nose and a wheezing cough!



dress and belt - h&m
shirt - forever 21
shoes - target

This is the outfit post I was taking in the photos I posted yesterday :) I really love the way shirts look layered under dresses but I always forget it's an option. I seem to continually grab a dress and a cardigan and forget that any other form of layering exists.

Right now I'm as far removed from how I look in this picture as you can possibly get. I got knocked down by a super annoying virus yesterday morning and I've been miserably moping on the couch ever since. My doctor has me hopped up on sudafed and mucinex while the virus runs its SEVEN TO TEN DAY course. Argh! On the bright side, I see time for an entire re-watch of The Office in my future...

Wednesday, April 25, 2012



skirt - thrifted!
shirt - h&m
shrug - forever 21
belt - from my grandmom
shoes - kling

So many bloggers I love always find the most amazing things at thrift stores, so I've been going more often to try to find some of my own treasures, too. And I always fail miserably. I don't know if I'm just missing the "amazing thrift find" radar, or if all of the stores in my area have a consistently hideous selection, but I've always come up dry on all of my trips. Until now! I went to Goodwill with my dad a couple weeks ago and found this fantastic 70's skirt. I love the thin, soft denim fabric and the pretty white embroidery at the bottom. But what I love even more? The $2 price tag! woo hoo! I think it was worth all the unsuccessful trips to find something unique and wonderful at such a stupendously low price :)

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