Damn! I am sick. As usual, it's happened at a really bad time (when is it a good time to be sick??). But in this case, I would really rather not have gotten sick just now. See, for the first time in many years, our whole family will be together for Christmas and my mom has taken advantage of the situation to schedule a family picture. The last time we were all gathered for a phamily foto op, my now-20-year-old brother was still wearing diapers.

My face has finally cleared up, my hair looks good ... and I get sick. I suppose with a lot of makeup I can still make this work, but I'll look like Rudolf the rest of the time.

Waaaa. Poor me. I get this way when my head feels like it's stuff with cotton. I'll stop now (sniffle, sniffle).