Ina Garten and coming up for air.

When I got home from work last night, I felt very tired and exhausted to a new and different degree. No joke, I was asleep by 9pm (I am normally a night owl) and couldn't even stay awake to talk to my hubby that night and almost felt as if I was drugged, and had no choice in my state of consciousness.

I awoke to feeling terrible so have been home today "sick" with something of a touch of the flu and a migraine. Quite against this idea, I began driving to pick up a kid around 10am, and had to turn around, just couldn't do it.

So I've been snuggled on the couch, taking naps with the food network in the background, as I have drifted in and out of sleep. I had a dream that I was in the Hamptons with Ina Garten and now awake, still keep thinking I wish we could be friends. She seems like a lovely person and watching her show makes me want to slow down life and move to the beach where I would have time to arrange flowers from the garden (also which I grew), go to gourmet markets to pick out delicacies, and invite friends over for lovely hosted picnics and dinners. Can life really be like that? Would I even like that for long?

This morning when I first "gave in" to my sick day status, I was thinking that this would be good chance for me to catch up on life. Like finishing my paper which is due on Friday. Typing in my monthly progress notes for all my kids for work. Mopping the floor perhaps. Going on a walk since I haven't been able to work out all week. Well, none of that was accomplished because I have felt sicker than I anticipated, which leaves me wishing for a not- so -sick, but still "sick" day or a time in my life at the beach with Ina.

Well, I guess I will take a walk to 7-11 because I need a diet coke and perhaps a magazine and some fresh air.