Barker’s Barkings.

I’ve not been around or had a chance to blog very much lately because I’ve been doing a few things:

Getting over my cold still, looking for a new job (without much luck), and sleeping a lot.

I’ve also been playing a whole lot of Super Smash Brothers Brawl on the Wii and Final Fantasy 11, and Call of Duty 4 on my computer.

Other than that, not much has been going on because I’ve been so sick.. tonight was the first night I actually felt like going out with a few friends and eating something more than just an appetizer, I actually had a grilled chicken sandwich and an appetizer, and believe it or not, one of my old favorite drinks (Woodchuck Draft Apple Cider), the place my friends and I went, had it on tap, which amazed me. I had a “tall”, and then had water for the rest of the night.

After we went out to eat, we went bowling, my first time in two, to three years. Felt really weird bringing out my old eight and a half pound ball and shoes, and bowling. My first game was 89, and my second was a rather shocking 110. I say shocking because my best game of bowling (of all time), is 132. After the second game, my friends, Joe and Allie played another, and I sat down because my head was throbbing with a headache. I think the music, and the black lights got to me. I’m not too sure.

As it is, I thought I’d update my blog while I watch an episode of Throwdown with Bobby Flay on the Food Network, and then take a very quick headache killing hot bath, and then head to bed..

Pretty eventful evening if I do say so myself. I enjoyed myself.

-A.

The flu.

The Flu spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, killing millions of people in pandemic years and hundreds of thousands in non-pandemic years. Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century and killed tens of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans.

Thanks to Wikipedia, for that wonderful and colorful description of whats been keeping me from feeling like my “normal” self.

I’ve been grounded to bed for the past week and a half. It really figures. I get over my little cold which you can read about a few posts below this one, then my dad impales my body with the flu or something like it.

Why do I say “something like it”? Well, I’m taking; Azithromycin, MucinexDM, and Tylenol, and my regular supplimental pills.

It’s craziness. I have to say my gag reflex is working. Taking eight pills a day at twenty-seven years of age feels like being sixty and taking nine or so pills a day, and I’m doing this to get rid of something that I thought I got a shot for earlier this year. I guess not. Well, next year. I don’t give a damn how much my arm hurts, or if both my arms hurt, I’m getting a flu shot, or two. The flu sucks.

So what have I been doing?

Sleeping, and reading.. and drinking a lot of water, and not much else. Seriously.

I read a 351 page book in just under three days. Unfortunately for me, the book I read, wasn’t the first book in the series like I thought it was, it just turned out to be the first published. So, I breezed right through it before my friends could correct my mistake and get me the first real book chronologically, so now I’m eight books ahead, but I’ve got a good liking of the series, so I’m reading the “first”, chronologically speaking, book, and catching myself up to speed. Unfortunately, for me, it means I’ve got to read eight books to catch myself upto where I was when I read the book that said it was the “first” book. Bah. Oh well.

After I read the chronological first book of the series that I’m enjoying, (which I may mention, is the Redwall series by Brian Jacques) I’ve got Barack Obama’s book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream. I’ve had it on my GoodReads list for quite sometime, and since I found the last copy in the library today, I figured I might as well pick it up. They didn’t have the other book I’ve desperately wanting to read for a while, The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf, but I’ll get to it eventually, I have high hopes.

Anyway, my cold is acting up, and I’m getting rather thirsty, and I wanted to give the world an update as to whats been keeping me from this little interface from the world.

I’ll write more soon. I promise.

-AdB.