Brrr

This year already kind of hasn't gotten off to a very decent start.

Point-in-case: I returned to my apartment on New Year's Eve, for the first time in a month, to find that I had no natural gas service. Which means no heat, no hot water, no stove, no oven, no dryer.

And it being New Year's, and the weekend, there were also no natural gas dudes available.

And then yesterday I get the idea that taking a cold shower might invigorate me and make me tough. In reality, it was simultaneously excrutiating and strangely invigorating.

But then, by yesterday evening, I had developed a bitchin' cold. And I feel like the totality of ass. Despite keeping my esophagus full of vitamins ranging from the popular "C", to the oft-overlooked "A", to the completely inexplicable "Lysine".

And tons of water.

And I had chicken soup for lunch yesterday! Even before this cold started! What gives?

But do not despair. I am sitting contently here this morning, waiting for the natural gas man. If he doesn't make everything better, he will at least make a lot of things better.

And then I will have hot water, and heat, and stove and oven, and a dryer. For four days, before I leave for five months.

Luxurious.