ugh, brief update

There has been some strange vortex of time since last Wednesday, when I woke up with the beginnings of a cold. I stopped at Rite Aid on the way to work and stocked up on Zicam and Zucol, my secret weapon to decrease the severity and duration of colds.

(Said weapon previously included Airborne, until I realized I was already getting healthy amounts of most of that stuff from my daily multivitamin; plus this lawsuit kinda turned me off of the product. Things like DayQuil that treat symptoms rarely work for me, since they usually just include a painkiller when I have no pain, a cough suppressant when I have no cough, an expectorant that doesn't work, and my favorite placebo, phenylephrine, pseudoephedrine's redheaded stepchild. What I need is something that will stop the flow of snot. After that lovely picture, back to our story.)

Thursday I was pretty tired, but still managed to go to a Cleveland Orchestra concert with Allen. Friday I was dead tired and blowing my nose every two minutes, so I called off work. I thought I might get some work done at home, but I basically drank tea and ate chicken noodle soup whilst piddling around. I still dragged myself to The King and I that night (blowing my nose only during the applause) so I could be prepared to sub on Sunday.

But what annoyed me the most was that I had been waiting for months for Cedar Point to open, and now I might not be able to go. I'm not kidding -- I've been craving coaster since January! We decided to play it by ear, and when I woke up Saturday morning, my voice was still deep but my nose wasn't too stuffy; more importantly, I wasn't overly tired, so I called Stu and we were off to open the season.

We didn't get there quite as early as planned, so we didn't get to avoid the long lines resulting mainly from the number of music students in the park. Top Thrill Dragster was rolling back, Maverick was on the fritz, and after a morning of waiting in lines, we met up with Laurie and Chloe after noon; we'd yet to ride anything. We did get an excellent flight on Millennium Force to kick off the summer, but after that we largely did what Chloe wanted to do. With season passes, we're spoiled and don't enjoy wasting our time with long lines -- particularly when with 2-year-old.

But with the great weather it was nice to just be there and walk around. We left by 4:00, by which point my nose was clogging again and I was getting tired anyway. It was just enough to tide us over until my birthday (one week away!), when Chloe will be in daycare and the three of us are taking a vacation day to visit a virtually empty Cedar Point! Hopefully this will break the tradition of rainfall on May 19th, which it has done ever since 2004, when I started taking a vacation day on my birthday.

I was still a little skittish about The King and I, so I got home, ate a quickie dinner and drove out to Euclid again. I'm glad I did, because I picked up on a few more things. When Sunday came, the show went better than I ever could have imagined, so that was a bit of an ego boost.

The cold is on its way out now, and hopefully by tomorrow I'll be able to function mentally again. I've certainly got plenty going on this week and this weekend that will require some semblance of brainpower.