A Good Day To Be Sick?

Right, there’s never a good day to be sick, but today was definitely the lesser of possible evils. I had nothing scheduled that required me to be in the office, so when I woke up with a cough and vague nausea from post-nasal drip apparently going down my throat all night, Terry decided to let me sleep in. Turns out he was feeling about as bad as I was. This time of year is awful, with people coming into work with all sorts of junk. I really wish more people would stay home when they don’t feel well. I have one co-worker who is only in one day a week, but has been sick for almost a month now and she just comes in and hacks and hacks and hacks. It’s the most awful-sounding cough, too, like she’s going to hack up a lung. Anyway, just a pet peeve of mine, but not everyone has the luxury of being able to work from home (though most of my coworkers have this option).

So, given all of the variables – it’s a yucky day out, there’s a major storm on the way, I didn’t have any meetings scheduled and I was able to work from home. I have bread baking in the bread machine, some soup ready to be made for dinner, I’ve had a lovely mail day (more in a minute) and was lucky enough to get everything that was jammed into the mailbox out after it had only been in there a couple of hours. Plus, I’ve gotten a lot of good work done today, which is nice. 🙂

And now to my mail today. I received my SBEBB garden exchange package from Tammy! She sent me a beautiful stitched and finished limited edition Blue Carnations needleroll from Victoria Sampler. It now has a place of honor in my needleroll basket (it’s a little lonely, with only one other gifted needleroll in there so far :lol:). She also sent me such wonderful goodies; I’ve been thoroughly spoiled! She must have looked through my wishlist to figure out what to put into the package, because she included a skein of WDW Basil that I needed, along with a Beyond Cross Stitch kit from Victoria Sampler that I was looking to acquire. Along with that, she also included some lovely garden-themed writing papers, butterfly stickers and card embellishments, plus a pretty needlecard. She even included a handmade card with a beautifully calligraphied envelope. What a treat! Thank you VERY MUCH, Tammy!