Current mood:

sick

Fighting illness. It's been going around at work. It just hit Friday and settled into my upper respiratory, and I've just started coughing and the whole nose thing. Spent half of both Saturday and Sunday sleeping and the other half vegging in front of the TV. My big accomplishment: doing dishes and making homemade chicken and rice soup on Saturday, and banana chocolate chip bread on Sunday. And I have enough of both for comfort food tomorrow.

Since I was feeling a bit under the weather Friday night, I decided to finish the Netflix movie I've been sitting on for a week and a half. Pan's Labyrinth. Yikes. Dark, dreary, depressing. And gory. I don't generally mind most R-rated flicks, but this one was pretty bad, probably because it was so realistic. It was sort of a typical cross-breed of realistic fiction and fantasy, like the book One Hundred Years of Solitude. Neat ideas, but not one I could re-watch. And here I'd been thinking of possibly watching What Dreams May Come again, which I saw in college and found amazing, but left me pretty down. Probably not such a good idea.

Thus, the rest of the weekend's viewing pleasure was COPS, the assorted funny animated shows, As Time Goes By, and a lot of old TV and movies on the new digital Retro TV station, like old Battlestar Galactica and some westerns. And there was much rejoicing.

Now, writing, cough medicine, and bed. Which all sound amazing to me right now.