By Nadine Kam

Wish I could say I’ve been having fun but no, haven’t been posting, haven’t been toasting, haven’t been shopping, haven’t been holidaying, just been trying to recover from the flu after catching the bug from too much handshaking last weekend.

I am going to have to start an anti-handshake movement because it is a filthy biohazard of a practice that has no place in the era of the superbug. The handshake is said to have started in medieval Europe as a way for men to show they had no weapons in their hands. You’d think we would have invented a new greeting by now. I think the Japanese have it right, bowing, with no physical contact with potentially diseased people.

Entrenched as it is, it’s hard to avoid the handshake. I mean, what are you going to say? “I’m sorry, no touching please.”

I think Michael Jackson is onto something when he covers up with gloves and a kerchief over his nose and mouth. He’s no doubt learned something from a lifetime of proximity to masses.

I dug out a pair of polka-dot gloves I bought but never wore. Maybe now I can make use of them; I just have to get a dozen more pairs.

The only possibly good thing that came out of spending Turkey Day ill was avoiding the turkey weight gain that comes with the holiday. I could only nibble a few pieces of turkey, mash p, and slice of yam. Didn’t even get to have a piece of pumpkin pie.

This little setback also pushed me behind the holiday shopping curve. It’s just as well I stay home. Drivers are crazy this time of year.

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