Full-On Flu

   Three nights ago I woke up at 2am puking my guts out.  At least that's what it felt like.  Black Pepper Beef and veggies with rice out the nose.  Literally.  It was so gross.  I absolutely hate throwing up.  A fact that has always kept me from drinking too much.  I hate the flu.  I puked until I had nothing.  And then I kept on puking.  Yuck.  I had a moment between violent purgings to be grateful that I had just cleaned the bathrooms top to bottom, including scrubbing the floor on my hands and knees. This is the bathroom I share with my husband.  And I spent some time nestled against the porceline throne, so Thank God it wasn't as disgusting as it could have been.  If you think my narrative was bad, I'll have to say that I am keeping the worst of it to myself.  Suffice it to say I was a miserable wretch and a baby.  I hate being sick.  I'd rather ignore any infirmities and just keep going about life as usual.  But this put me out of commission for three complete days.  I figured if I wasn't better today I was going to have to go in for IV fluids and Phenergan.  I actually looked to see if I could get just NSS bags and needles online yesterday, but I'm not sure I could have stuck myself.  I took a blood sample from my hand vein once and it was hard.  I'm a tough stick anyway, and I haven't done an IV on someone in about four years.  Last night I started feeling better and ate something.  I had lunch today as well and it stayed with me.  Now I just feel tired and thirsty. 
   I am back in action, though.  I had the overwhelming urge to clean the kitchen and bathrooms.  No matter what the house looks like, I always need to feel like the kitchen and bathrooms have been disinfected recently.  I'm kinda preoccuped with it.  So I did them, and started the laundry: some clothes, the couch throws, but still have to do our bedsheets before I feel good about that task.  Then I cleaned all the door knobs and lightswitches.  (OCD?  Maybe a little.)  Lastly I did a major trim and clean on the aquarium.  I am taking trimmimgs to the plant club next weekend, so I went ahead and got them ready.  I took two stands of Hygros all the way down in a cut and replant.  They are about 4-6" high now.  They were almost to the surface this morning.  The tank is showing signs of nutrient difficiency, holey leaves.  I've heard both Mg and K, so I have to look up which and fix it.  I thought that was potassium, but today someone in our club said Magnesium so now I'm confused.  I have both, so it's just amatter od research.  Luckily DH bought me the Walstad reference so I don't have to wait for the library.  In the mean time I cut two Hygro species back and replanted the tops.  They'll be back up in afew weeks.  The tank looks pretty bald right now.  You can see the background picture.  I scrubbed all the walls except the lower back wall, cleaned the scale off my heater, cleaned the UV filter and changed half the water.   I did add some Excel because I'm concerned about the sudden reduction in plants allowing a algal takeover.  I really don't want that BBA.  I am floating the trimmings, too.  They are all hardy and this will actually give them some roots before I hand them off next week.  All the plants in the tank are pearling now, even the floating trimmings.  I'm afraid I lost most of my duckweed again.  It's almost impossible to trim and not take out duckweed.  I have about two tablespoons in there now.  It just started to increase again the last week or so, that's how I knew I could stand to change the water.  So now I am wiped out and done for the day.  Mostly.  I have to get some of DS paperwork going for him to start Kindergarden.  More on that later.