Weekly Round Up: No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition

 

A weekly round up: eats, workouts, watches, and reads.  No one expects the Spanish Inquisition and I did not expect to get COVID this week.  But here we are.

The COVID Diaries

Monday: normal life as we know it

Tuesday: normal life as we know it.  Toward bedtime I start to get a little cough and congestion.  (NOTE: according to my husband the cough started a few days ago, which is news to me but just to let you know that there are two versions of the story).

Wednesday from waking up to mid morning: normal life as we know it with a very slight cough and congestion.

Wednesday mid morning: I start to feel fatigued but I can't tell if it's allergies or if I'm getting sick.  Just for yuks I take a COVID test which is as negative as can be.  Fun fact, this was my first ever COVID test.

Wednesday afternoon: I start alternating periods of work with periods of naps.  I come down with a case of the chills.

Thursday: I wake up with chills and have no appetite.  I continue to alternate work with napping.  When it's lunchtime I know that I need to eat something and the only thing that I can get my head around is a cheese quesadilla.  Opening the fridge makes me unbearably cold.  The dog takes me for a walk and I can barely keep up with her.

Friday: The chills are gone and I feel a bit less fatigued.   I have no interest in food and my sinuses are having a party.   The day is spent with alternating periods of work, napping, and blowing my nose.  I take a second COVID test - I mean I don't need to know anything besides that I'm sick but the rest of the family has plans so we need to know what we're dealing with.  

Result: the pinkest of pink lines.  The rest of the family cancels their exciting weekend plans (hubs does not go to a big family dinner and the kids stay at our house instead of going to their mom's).

Saturday: my sinuses start drying up thank goodness.  I'm still not interested in food and staying in bed doing nothing seems like the best option.

Sunday: the sinuses are down to a super sexy post nasal drip that keeps me coughing.  I'm much more alert and feel more like myself, and didn't need to spend the whole day napping so that was a welcome change.  My appetite isn't back yet.

As of Monday I'm not "well" yet but each day so far has been better than the day before.  I think I'm a few days away from back to normal, and once I get there I'll take another test to check on things.  Overall this feels like any other cold and I know that's not always the case with COVID so I'm happy with what I've got.

The Other Stuff that I Usually Talk About in These Recaps

I currently don't care about food, fitness is a nope, and I don't have the energy to read so you're up to date on those parts of my life.  That just leaves TV.  I don't have much energy/brain power for that but I got two good movies in.

First up: something silly.  I recently finished Fauda and I started clicking around on imdb to see if there's anything else that the actors have been in that looked interesting.  As you would expect, I found a lot of heavy handed action shows and a Thing that Was Not Like the Other Things, which was a comedy called A Matter of Size.  It's about a group of overweight friends who aren't having much luck with dieting or anything else in their lives.  And then they learn about this thing called sumo wrestling.  It was fun and silly and it's on Kanopy if anyone wants to check it out.  Spoiler, the lead actor had bariatric surgery between this movie and Fauda and at this point has had the weight off for a long time so I don't there will be a sequel.

For family viewing, we've been very in to naval military history lately which is how hubs sold us on Master and Commander.  The movie starts and the camera pans over the ship and zooms in on sailor after sailor.

Stepson #1: "this whole movie is just a bunch of dudes"

Me (joking): "Your dad told me this was going to be a chick flick"

But seriously, if not for our recent dinner table talk about Lord Nelson, I would have had no interest in this movie and here I was glued to the screen with the rest of the crew for over two hours.