Sick Day

Sick Day = GREAT DAY!!! At least for me, because I'm not the one who's had a fever of 102 degrees F for the last 3 days...that would be Mohit, who BTW NEVER gets sick, at least not since I've known him for the last 4.5 years :-) That's why I'm home, to take care of him :-) We had a nice stop at the UCSB Urgent Care this morning, which was not surprisingly, useless...and now he's back to sleeping, taking acetaminophen every four hours, drinking lots of fluids and eating the nutritious meals prepared by Moi ;-) Yesterday I made a yummy veggi soup...potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, peas, green beans, ginger, green chili, + 4 whistles of the pressure cooker and voila! soup to warm your soul...today I made a hearty Mediterranean eggplant stew..yum! It's so nice to be able to cook during the day, when I'm fresh and happy and not dead on my feet after along tiresome day in lab, it's also nice to nap during the day...I dropped in on one of Mohit's naps in the early afternoon and woke up so nicely refreshed! We watched Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince a couple of nights ago, so this fever is giving Mohit a chance to catch up on his HP re-reading :-) Even though we're having a nice day together, I hope Mohit gets better soon :-) We've got our big inaugural half marathon coming up in 1.5 weeks, we'll see how it goes!! I think we both would have been in great shape for it about 3 weeks ago, but now Mohit is coming off of a deadline and illness, and I've got very hurt feet (my own fault for running in worn out shoes :-() so this is going to be a "feel it out race"...with wine tasting at the end WooHOO! The big news of the day is I bought my first new beach bathing suit since starting graduate school, crazy...in high school and college bathing shopping for the summer was one of the highlights of my year, and now I really can't remember the last time I laid out! I'm not sure I'll be doing that much laying out (must protect my skin!!) but at least I'm beach ready :-) That's all for now, got to get back to enjoying my not so sick day!