missroserose | Taking stock

As I'm sure many of you are aware, Brian and I've been suffering from one of those long, lingering "knock you flat on your back for a week" colds. It's especially frustrating for me, as I don't get sick often (and when I do, I usually bounce back quickly), but there wasn't really much I could do about it, so I basically just tried to sleep through it and convince myself that someday I would have the energy for more than stumbling to the kitchen for a glass of water now and then. (It's amazing how many parts of your life seem inconsequential or needlessly complicated when you can barely think.)

Anyway, now that I'm firmly back in the land of the living, I've been taking stock of things, trying to figure out where everything stands now. I'm short some leave time for our honeymoon, but I can deal with that - my job isn't exactly high-stress, and given that I'm Getting Married I don't think it'll be a problem if I want to take some leave without pay. Amusingly, I've also lost five pounds and stayed well within my budget for this paycheck - something about not going out to spend any money and Brian not being up for cooking anything, and me barely eating anyway. So while it's not been an experience I much want to repeat, at least it hasn't been a total loss.