Sunday Dinner, November 29, 2009

Just a note to let everyone know that I'm alive, but barely, and I won't be cooking Sunday Dinner this week. Heck, I'm not even cooking Saturday Supper, much less Sunday Dinner!

I've been very blessed that I've not been majorly sick in a long time. It's been around 3 years as a matter of fact, best as I can recall, since I had this particularly nasty combination of maladies, and you'd better believe I'm very thankful that I've managed to avoid it until now.

Ready for the laundry list of icks?

I have bronchitis, tonsillitis, sinusitis and all the lovely crud that goes with them: deep, painful cough, raw throat, sinus headache, runny/stuffy nose, wheezing and wet rattling in my chest, and just generally feel like death warmed over.

But no fever! I almost never run fever with any kind of illness, so when I do have a temperature it's usually something very serious.

My appetite is still good, though I have a pronounced lack of interest in actually fixing anything to eat, so I've been living on baloney sandwiches, pimento cheese sandwiches, leftover Thanksgiving ham sandwiches.......Anybody sense a theme developing here?

And you'd think that all the coughing and congestion would keep me awake, but blessedly, when I sleep it's like all that goes into dormancy. Praise the Lord for that! At least I'm not sleep deprived as I usually am when I'm sick like this.

I'm taking antibiotics and have a sinus spray, inhaler and cough medicine to take, but I don't like to take anything but the antibiotics unless it's absolutely necessary. I do have them if I feel like I need them, though.

Hopefully I'll feel better soon. I've been taking the antibiotics since Wednesday evening so they should kick in anytime now.

I'm not planning to go to church on Sunday morning and I'm not cooking Sunday Dinner, so I don't know what I'll do for lunch. Probably another sandwich, or I may fix a bowl of soup from the freezer. Depends on how I feel by then.

Since I was so sick, I wasn't able to help at all with cooking Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. I had intended to make the dressing before I got sick, but it fell to Jessica to make it, and she did a great job of it.

For that matter, Jessica cooked everything except the ham that my sister Ducky brought, and she did a fabulous job with it all! Everything was great, from the turkey and dressing, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, kidney bean salad, potato salad and all the other savory dishes, to the desserts. She made my Mama's Homemade Cheesecake, a Snicker's Cheesecake and banana pudding.

I'm very proud of Jessica. She prepared a wonderful feast for her family and did it very well. Everything was delicious and I couldn't have done better myself.

The recipe for my Mama's Homemade Cheesecake is on my recipe blog if you'd like to look for it. I don't feel like doing the link for it right now, but the link to my recipe blog is on my right sidebar toward the top there.

I ate lunch and then dozed in one of Jessica's living room chairs for most of the afternoon on Thanksgiving. Well, as best as I could with Emmy running around and yelling like a banshee, just generally being a kid. I was so miserable I could almost sleep through anything.

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year, and I'm hoping next year I'll be feeling much better for turkey day.

Not my usual Sunday Dinner post I know, but this is the best I could do today. I've already typed more than I thought I would, but that usually happens when I start writing here.

I need to go find something to eat so I can take my antibiotics, so I'll wrap this up and wish you all a blessed Sunday. May God meet all your needs, and may you have enough to share, dear family and friends.