The Flu and Gratitude

I've been reminded what a ravage beast the flu is these past few days.  These achy, feverish, purging past few days.  Since I've spent a lot of my time in my bed and laying on my couch and shuffling between the two, I have had a lot of time to ponder.  However, I have forgotten most of those ponderings, which I'm sure were brilliant ideas, because like I said, I was in a feverish state.  Now that I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, (in the end of the flu sort of way, not I'm walking towards a bright light sort of way) I have a few thank yous to share for those who got me through the past few crappy days.

Thank you Netflix.  Bless your Netflix little heart for being my company.  I cannot give the same recognition to daytime television, though.

Thank you Pinterest for giving me a homemade recipe for a bath to remove toxins from my body and heal me from my ailments.  I don't think the toxin removal bath really worked, but it did give me the excuse to use all the hot water in the house and I liked that.

Thank you new couch, you have proved yourself a worthy addition to our home.

Thank you Kneaders for making the best chicken noodle soup of all.  In second place is Noodles and Company.  And dead last is Zupas, because they don't have chicken noodle soup (I don't think) and the other soup I got from their menu came rushing back up my esophagus at the 3am and was most unpleasant.  (Was that last sentence TMI? Sorry.) 

Thank you family for many of you also getting sick so we could commiserate together. Misery loves company, right?  Ok, actually, I'm sorry many of you were also sick.  It's a mystery who got it from who, really.  

Lastly and most importantly, thank you to my sweet, caring husband.  Danny was so patient while I was in my whiny, sickly state.  (Seriously, I can get really whiny when I'm sick.)  He'd leave at a minutes notice to go get me food I thought I could handle and was sympathetic when, ummm, I couldn't.  He didn't even get mad when he didn't get any sleep because of my tossing, turning, crying and so forth the night before he had a test in one of his classes.  Wouldn't you agree that Danny is the best?  His sweetness this week made me fall in love with him even more, which is useful because he is now the sick one.