Weekend Update

Starting around Wednesday I was fighting something awful that infected me, I’m not sure if it's the bug that my boss had on Monday or if it was the mess that Jacob and Josh had the week before but whatever it was, it kicked my butt, from here to there and back again. I’m actually dead on the floor right now and I’m still getting kicked, I’m congested and sneezing and coughing and I have no appetite and I feel like if this goes on for one more day I very well might die. Laine is also snotty. I’ve got her on her decongestant and Tylenol rounds that the doctor recommends. I’m hoping she isn’t feeling anything near what I've been feeling. Its hard having something hurt your baby when you can't hurt it back.
I left work early on Thursday to go home to rest. I slept for about six hours before I needed to go and pick Laine up from daycare, it was definitely the boost I needed, without it I wouldn’t have made it through the rest of the week. I slept fine on Thursday night, the deep sleep of a woman medicated, but Friday came and I was out of every drug except for Tylenol and it just didn’t want to do its job, so I fired it. Chicken broth and water and an apple here and there is all I had to fight the Dread Pirate Roberts Bug of Doom. My kingdom for a sword! I felt useless and beaten. Friday morning I still had a fever so I just didn’t go in to the office. I couldn’t sleep though so I was stuck with no energy but wide awake. So I watched a lot of TV and just generally sat around feeling sorry for myself until around 11:00 when I was ready to tear my hair out, so I got up and started doing some laundry and in the process made myself sweat, which broke my fever. So after my Extreme Laundry Folding Championship Medal Winning Time Record was set I collapsed back on the couch to watch more TV and after about an hour, my fever came back, so I decided to exercise the sick out of me, so I cleaned a lot of the house that really needed it and I’m glad for the excuse but man was I tired afterwards. But no fever so no complaints. One thing that I really had going for me was that it was a lazy weekend, Erik and I made no plans and we didn’t have to be anywhere or visit anyone so I was able to sit on the couch and feel useless all day long and no one looked sideways at me for it. And Laine helped out a lot too; she slept all night every night. It’s like she knew mommy needed the break and so she helped.
Saturday started the same as it always does with one of us going and getting Laine and bringing her into bed with us to take pictures and spend good quality time together. This Saturday morning I built up a fortress of pillows around her so she wouldn’t crawl off the edge before someone caught her, she had an empty M&M bottle that she was gnawing on and she started putting the whole end into her mouth then flapping her arms around while making weird noises. From my seat on the couch she looked like a little dragon all mad that she couldn’t get past the castle walls, she even growled at me a couple of times. It was an amazingly adorable moment.
That afternoon we had made plans to go back to the Painted Potter but after Erik got done with his Extreme Landscaping Genius Battle to the Death he had with the front yard he was pooped and just wanted to watch TV for a while. Laine and I were happy to veg out too. Around 6:00 we got bored and decided to see what new movies were out so we went by Blockbuster and then got some Popeye’s for dinner and made a family night out of our laziness. It was really fun and relaxing and not even a little bit stressful and I thought it was wonderful.
Sunday was a little different and I’d tell you all about it if I had the energy but suffice it to say that Erik is a very smart man who is capable of great things and I’m very glad that Team God is on our side. I still haven’t talked to Erik yet so I’m in the dark as to whether or not everything is back to normal. I will say this about Sunday; I love my person for giving me the company and cookies I needed to make it through and I hate Erik’s job.


Today I’m not contagious so I’m back at work. I’d rather have one more day to sleep it off, but I take what I can get and what I can get is what I had and I’ll be grateful for it. Tomorrow is Tuesday so I’m not expecting much, but maybe tomorrow will at least not be worse than today.