I've never had a flu shot, and I'm pretty sure that neither of my girls has either. On the other hand, t.o.m. gets one every year, and last year got the pneumonia one as well. I'm not sure if he got the H1N1 or just the regular one.
I'm fairly certain that H1N1 is what I had last month because of the severity, but without a test I guess I'll never really know. You're right that I've been sick a lot lately. I've taken about the same amount of sick time in the last 2 years as I did for the 19 years I was at the newspaper. Some of that is because my employers would rather have me stay home than take the chance of catching whatever I've got, which is the opposite of the drag-yourself-in-if-you're-not-dead mentality of a big corporation.