Sick Again

I feel like poo-poo.

I was just sick a couple of months ago and somehow I got it again. What a drag. I'm sneezing all the time and my nose won't stop running. I'm so tired. It's the same routine. You wake up with a tight throat and the next day your nose is chapped from blowing it 150 times an hour. Then after a few days the crap finally moves down to your chest so you have an attractive wet cough. From there you just pray it doesn't move back up to your head so you have to start the whole process over again. I hate it.

I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow and get on some antibiotics ASAP. I typically like to hold off for a week on that, but next weekend I leave for Iowa for my brother-in-law's wedding then I'm off to Moscow. I definitely don't want this hanging around for the 20 hr. plane ride.

For a while there I was really wondering how I caught it. I take a multi-vitamin and ecanacia every day. And I've already been sick this year! But I soon realized how when Carrie and I went back to the accountant's office and half of the people there were either blowing their nose or coughing.

Yes we went back to the accountant to inquire about our enormous tax debt. After waiting over an hour and a half in the hallway (you heard me) we finally got in to see the accountant. See, the first time I went a couple of days ago we met with one of his assistants. We were really blown away by how much money he said we owed. How much was it you ask? How does $5,000 sound?! But we saw the head accountant today and after looking through our paperwork and making a few quick slashes with his pencil he had our tax down to a much, much, MUCH more manageable total. How did he do it? I have no clue. And I really don't care.

Accountants rank right up there with lawyers and car salesmen if you ask me. All are professions that can seem really shady.

Early tomorrow morning I have a gig at a Middle School. It's one of these gigs where you give a concert then talk with the kids about the instruments and music. I usually look forward to stuff like this. But this cold is going to make things tough.