Are Fridays supposed to feel like this?

I just don’t feel well; I still have a lingering cough from the last week (yup, it’s been a week now) of being sick. This whole "strep throat" thing is for the birds. Congestion, coughing, sneezing, and generally feeling like crap. I started seriously feeling like crap last Friday, and proceeded to do so all weekend and just control it as best I could. I took Monday as a work-from-home day so I would try to recover a bit more, and Nina dragged me out to Urgent Care, since she'd caught whatever I had. And what ended up happening... She got diagnosed with a cough and told to control it with Mucinex and vitamin C; I tested positive for strep and was given a prescription of amoxicillin for my troubles. The doctor framed it as "Well, I don't know if I believe it, and I wouldn't have even run the test if I were doing your work-up, and it could be a false positive, but I'm not going to ignore the result." So same symptoms, and it looks like she caught it from me, but I'm lucky enough to get the worse diagnosis. Yay.

Incidentally, I need to get more DayQuil. It's for some reason difficult to find outside of a DayQuil/NyQuil double-pack, but you use DayQuil twice as fast (or at least *I* do)... So I have much more NyQuil in the house but the DayQuil ran out.

Last night I actually finally got my blue belt test done for Gumdo. I passed, which I don't think is actually a surprise to anyone involved. Noone else was in class, this time, so it went very quickly. We did paper cutting first, and while the first two were iffy, the third was fine; all the basics and warmups; the stance focus drills (1, 2, and 3); then in a change from the norm, we did things by level instead of type. So it was my first-level pattern, then 10-count, then battle drill; then second-level pattern, 10-count battle drill; then third level pattern, 10-count, and battle drill. The only thing I had to repeat (other than the paper, which is pretty typical) was my third pattern, once. I managed to muck up the footwork on one section of it slightly - even noticed when I was doing it - and so did it a second time, and hit it fine.

Grand master Traina described it as "the fastest test he's ever done", which I take a little bit of credit for (even if it was mostly just because I was alone and he had noone else to deal with).

Oh, at the WW meeting today? I was up a little bit from last week. I'm fairly okay with it, though, because last week wasn't a typical weigh-in (wrong time, wrong place) and I've had two weddings the last two weekends; I'm still lower than my last meeting (two weeks ago) and I call that a win.