Word of the day: naus·over – a morning-sickness recurrence after a day of very poor eating choices.

At that party last night there were little appetizers floating around, and I partook freely. I had napped for about 4 hours before we went, and was rather hungry because of it. Unfortunately I think my belly needed a real meal, not little greasy appetizers, as I ended up throwing up a couple of times before the end of the night, and then getting up in the middle of the night to throw up the rest. So now my stomach is empty, I am struggling to get food into it, but because it’s empty it’s very sick and keeps trying to throw up everything I eat. I also woke up with a headache, which is not helping matters any. It’s a nasty circle.

As long as I can stay ahead of the nausea I’m fine – eating full meals at regular intervals throughout my day, keeping myself from feeling sick in the first place, then I’m good and the nausea stays away. But when I mess up and miss some meals? Or eat something I know I shouldn’t (but I do it because, hey, I feel good!). Bad bad bad. Trying to get back in front of this is like trying to get in front of a train.

(Meanwhile husband is downstairs trying to deal with an actual hangover – sadly, he looks better than I do.)

Now excuse me while I wander down to the basement and whine at my husband to locate and pull out the bins of christmas stuff so I can find the CDs of christmas music. I need some damn holiday spirit today.