ah, day 3 of being sick with the flu and it sucks. It feels like Mr. Flu went on a date with Ms. Bronchitis and theyre just chilling out in my body for a bit. This weekend we have to actually move into our new apartment no matter if I'm super sick or not. Im hoping Bryan doesn't get the flu because I hear it's really contagious. There's a rumor going around that they may shut down all public places next week because of "Gripe A"/ Swine Flu. Weird right.
Anyway, we've been working on the apartment non-stop for the last 2 weeks. Well mostly Bryan though, I've just painted and cleaned a little. Hes taken out the floors and done all kinds of guy stuff like rewiring things. Super super handy. Its more of his project. So, the apartment is getting a much needed face lift. We've tracked down most of the furniture already, we're just missing a fridge which is pretty important. We've found our stuff mostly from Americans moving back to the states and having to sell everything in a rush for cheaper. The furniture here is pretty expensive and the used furniture costs almost the same as the new furniture. It's not like back home where you look on Craigslist and you can furnish your whole apt. for $500. People hang onto and pass down their things for a while, they keep it in the family. So its not the constant, buy-sell thing going on like back home. And, there are no garage sales. Bummer.
Ya know, I don't even really feel that that awful, well yea I do, but if it wasnt for this awful nonstop violent dry cough and sore throat that feels like I swallowed chards of glass, I think I'd be alright. Tomorrow we're supposed to go to Puerto de los Frutos in Tigre which is like a huge open air flea-market/outlet mall type place where you can find basically anything, new, pretty good quality but for really cheap and its just outside the ciy. You get there by train. Its not like the San Antonio flea mkt where no matter what you buy, it always seems to break. But, considering, Ive been up all night coughing watching the MJ marathon tribute, (this is my 3rd time around). I'm not sure how tomorrows gonna pan out. Yikes.
How do you make the throat issue feel better?
- Ive already eaten a 1/2 a kilo of sorbet at a constant flow. That only helped for a little bit, plus I just felt like a fatty when I got to the bottom and still had a sore throat
- Done the chicken soup thing, but you cant eat chicken soup all day
- Tried hot tea with whisky and honey (the cab driver recommended it to me today)
- ried regular hot tea and maxed out at cup #5
- Gargled hot salt water, that was just gross.
Aw, now Im watching the sunrise. great. It's actually really nice though... thats an upside to being up all night. I've set up shop in the living room on the couch and gave Bryan the bed. The other bright side of having this, since Ive had a mild fever is that I havent been cold in 3 days which has also been nice. And eating half a kilo of ice cream would usually be considered as pathetic but I blamed it on the throat so it was necessary. So there's been some upsides to all this "gripe", it hasn't been all gripes. :)
