this year can only get better

 the end of this year is not going well. Rich and I have both been sick for weeks. I had a cold last week and just after I got over it I got a sinus infection. I missed a day of work last week and I actually called out to work today also. I don’t like being sick, and the combination of being sick plus having to work a 9 hour day in a retail makeup shop would just kill me. When I’m feeling sick it’s just hard to convincingly act like I really like doing foundation matches or finding the perfect red lipstick (Hint: if you never wear red lipstick, you’re going to hate any color that I put on you because it’s a DRAMATIC COLOR). So yeah, I took today off to try to recuperate. 

I’m worried about Rich though, because he’s been pretty sick the past two days. Initially I was concerned because we are supposed to go see John Waters host a christmas special in Baltimore tonight, but in the past two days I’ve become more and more concerned for his health. It’s weird- he’s got antibiotics, OTC drugs, and vitamins…but more often I have to nag him to take them. It would be great if we could make it to the show tonight, but I just want him to feel better for the christmas holiday since it’s going to be our first one on our own.

We were supposed to drive down to Virginia Beach to spend christmas eve and christmas day with my dad and my brother and his family, but there was little change to those plans… I had called my brother on Thanksgiving to wish them all a happy thanksgiving, and we talked about spending christmas there, but when I called him earlier in the week to firm up the plans he told me "maybe that’s not such a great idea". He said it’s because he doesn’t have room in their home (we would have gotten a hotel in any case), and that they are in bed by 8pm every night and wouldn’t be able to entertain us. I really only tried to spend time with him because Rich said that he wanted to spend time with family this holiday season, and as it turns out my brother doesn’t want that. We’ve never been close, so it doesn’t bother me but I do feel bad for Rich. We’ve spent every christmas with his family for the past 13 years and I know he’s going to feel lonely. I’ll just do my best to make this solo christmas pretty awesome. 

I bought him an electric hair trimmer (he shaves his head) that he asked for, a huge bottle of cologne, and some fancy vitamins for weight loss (the previously mentioned Perricone vitamins; I lost 10 pounds in a week on them). I will try to cook him a good dinner on Saturday, and maybe find another gift for him (I’m thinking something gadgety or internetty).

Oh well, that’s all that’s going on. I’m sick, my husband is sick, we’re across the country from most of our family, and the family that we’re near don’t want to see us for fear of our gay tainting their little nucleus. /rant