Yes. It's true.  I've been infected with the Ebola virus.  According to Wikipedia, the symptoms of Ebola are: fever, headache, aching muscles and weakness.  Yep.  I have all of those.

Seriously, I've spent the last four days being beat up, drop kicked and unmercifully lashed by a virus, which I assume is just a variant of the common cold.  Friday at work, I started getting a sore throat and the chills.  By Friday night I was sick.  I spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday filling up trash bags with Kleenex (I'll spare you the details).  I made it to work today, and although I feel 80% better than yesterday, I am still not well. It's a good think I took Monday off.  I would have been useless at work. I just took a DayQuil which I hope will remove the lingering symptoms.

I guess the good news is that I should be back to normal by Turkey day.  It would totally suck to miss all that yummy food!

Speaking of Thanksgiving... I am just beside myself with the idiocity of retail companies.  We are not even to Thanksgiving yet, and many retailers are already playing Christmas music and have out their holiday selection.  Can I please, please, please celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving without hearing Christmas music and hearing Ho-Ho-Hoing Santas walk around???  Bow down and worship the almighty buck.  Pretty soon Christmas will end on December 26th and start on Jan 2nd.  Grrrrrr.