Annie Elise

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of Serialistly with me, your host, Annie Elise.

Welcome to the already dark pit of 2026, okay?

If you're watching the video version of this episode, then you can see I am not in my studio today.

I tried really hard to get there, but norovirus tapped in and I have been on my ass.

Well, literally, I have been knocked on my ass for the last couple of days.

I mean, the good news is I've lost about seven pounds, but the bad news is I'm like throwing up.

I'm just so sick.

I have been like drinking Pedialyte, like it's going out of business.

And let me just, for all my parent friends out there who have ever gone through not only norovirus, but have gone through even like just a stomach bug with a sick kid, this is my first time in life when I have been sick at the same time as one of my children.

And my six-year-old son also got it.

let me tell you something, trying to throw up nonstop while simultaneously trying to help your son or your child throw up is no easy feat.

And I had my, I made my husband like quarantine in the other room.

Cause I was like, you can't get it.

You stay with our daughter.

Like we're going to just lock ourselves in my room, but like not to get TMI and graphic, but like taking the bowl, helping him throw up, then me getting triggered and me needing to run to the bathroom and like

It's been chaos.

So needless to say, I'm still in the thick of it.

I don't want to infect anybody at my office.

I also personally just cannot get in a car and drive right now.

So I'm here because I didn't want to let you guys down.