tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594674.post-70756128318472145752008-03-08T09:59:00.001-06:002008-03-08T09:59:29.218-06:00<h2>The return of ambition</h2><br />I feel like I lost a week. I have had either a bad cold or the flu. It hit me hard and fast. Last Sunday was my birthday and I celebrated it lying flat on my back feeling sorry for myself. Poor me. I went to work half a day on Monday then spent the other half of the day in the doctor's office. He gave me a steroid shot that seemed a miracle, but in one day it wore off and I was miserable again. <br /><br />As colds do, they release their grip slowly. Each day I was miserable, but less than the day before. I was very congested in the chest and coughed incessantly. I felt "out of it" and my joints felt weak and rubbery.<br /><br />All of that is in the past now. Today, I feel like my old self and tonight is the birthday celebration I didn’t have last week. We are going to Zea's Restuarant. That means I will eat half a rack of dry ribs, with sides of dirty rice and roasted corn grits. Ummmmmmmm.<br /><br />Today is pretty cool, but spring is half way here. The azaleas are blooming, things are beginning to green, and all of a sudden, birds are everywhere. I noticed the birds about two weeks ago. One morning on my way to get the paper, the bird songs were much louder. It was amazing. I don't think I have ever noticed such a contrast. Either I was unaware of that moment in previous springs or this year it was more sudden.<br /><br />It is good to have ambition again. I am not cut out to be a patient. Lying around feeling bad is not my way of fun. I doubt that anyone else looks at it as fun either. I am happy, grateful, thankful, and glad to be feeling better. Now I can get on with it. Whatever "it" is.<br /><br />Have a great weekend folks and I hope your bout with the flu is behind you or you pass it like a ship in the night.<br /><br />Until the next time<br />John StrainJohn Strainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05453617294405385771noreply@blogger.com