For the past week, Soupo has been home sick from school. A. Whole. Week. Luckily for him, he got better and I’m unloading him onto the school system so he can get some much-needed book-learnin’, and more importantly he won’t be here. Not that I don’t love my kid. I think you’ll see I love my kid very much. I just don’t want him around right now. I’ve actually had quite enough of him, thank you.
Like I said, he’s been home sick for a week. Actually it was four days off school since last Monday was President’s Day and he didn’t have school anyway. But the Friday before that he was also off for a Teacher’s In-Service Day. So he’s been home ten days straight. And eight of those days he’s been laid low with illness. But not low enough. The first couple days went pretty smoothly. He was feeling his worst and sitting on the couch watching TV hadn’t lost the whole novelty aspect. After that though… well, he was still too sick to go to school (even by my rather lax standards), but boredom had set in.
You know what you can do when you’re sick and stuck on the couch watching cartoons all day? Go take a nap and rest and help yourself get better. BWA! Hahahahahaha! I say funny things!
No.
What you can do is pester your brother til he whines and crabs. Yay! Then he’s all crabby, so Katcha decided “turn-about is fair play”. No, it’s not. Turn-about is a good way to really get on your dad’s nerves. But the bickering hit critical mass about day four. And stayed there for a solid week. Whee.
It’s really a good thing Soupo’s better today and can go back to school. If he stayed home one more day I’d be picking up one of the boys (it doesn’t matter which one, they are within a half pound of each other- Soupo’s tall and skinny while Katcha is more the fireplug) and just beat the crap out of the other one with him. Do you think this would get me on the news? I’ve always wanted to be famous.
But Soupo’s all better now and he can go back to school. To pick up some other nasty bug from the Germ Factory. Oh boy. Can’t wait.
And in more good news: Katcha has what Soupo had. (This is a surprise how exactly?)
And even more good news: so do I.
What are the odds someone’s going to let me sit on the couch and watch cartoons and maybe make me some chicken and stars soup (No, I do not have a sophisticated palate, why do you ask?) and bring me orange flavored ibuprofen when I need it?
My girlfriend hogged the couch and the big TV for the last three days solid.
She’s suspiciously chipper this morning, and I suspect that she was down to faking the sick for most of the day yesterday. Probably just so she didn’t have to do any laundry.
Gee Rue you don’t sound too surprised that yer sick with what Soupo and Katcha had. Been through this before, have ya?
Today is definitely Monday. When I woke up there was rain coming in over my CDs near the fireplace (Factotrix says the flashing around the chimley leaks), and an order of cables that was supposed to be UPS overnighted during the weekend to the customer in Seattle instead is going ground to Virginia to us. Yeah, definitely Monday.
Sean who today is going to be the other other white meat at a customer’s meal.
Kids today just don’t know how good they have it…by crackey! When I was a kid, I got a dose of Scarlet Fever. Did I get videos and cable TV? Couch time and lotsa waitin’ on by the parental units? Hell, no! I got solitary confinement with a radio! :eek: For a week! Talk about stir-crazy! I’m just sayin…
Yesterday Mr. Anachi and I went to the local takeout furniture place and ordered up a new diningroom set. We hardly ever use our dining room so we figured disposable furniture would be okay. We got a hutch, a round/oval (with the leaf) pedestal table and six chairs. The table top and hutch top have slate tiles inlaid. The style is kinda Tuscan antiquey. The chairs have upholstered seats what look like leather that’s been sitting in the attic for too long but they did that on purpose to make them look antiquey. The wood is “distressed” but I don’t feel sorry for it. The hutch has faux wrought iron pulls and glass doors on top and a wine rack and lights that you turn on by touching the hinge on one of the doors. We thought that was pretty neato. We’ll take delivery on March 19th. Now I just have to find a chandelier (AND NO, I do NOT want Fairy Chat Mom’s!!!)
It was rainy all weekend and really windy last night. A coupla tornados touched down but not in our neighborhood, thank Og!
Feh - I have no idea what is wrong with you people. Have you not listened to Denis Leary? The original is the only flavor of NyQuil there is. Part of the fun is the shock of the strong licorice of death flavor right before you gets the spins and collapse into bed.
I don’t even want to talk about the weekend just yet.
But today is The Boy’s birthday. He is seven years old and very excited that it is his birthday. I remember that, once upon a time. He also has a report due today on Franklin Pierce. It’s a President’s month thing (they already did the Black history thing last month). He picked Pierce because he likes that word, along with words like slice and sphynx (which for him is also a verb). So he made a bust of Franklin Pierce out of dough. It’s very cute and actually looks a bit like Pierce.
As for our house, so far one flu over the cuckoo’s nest.
A bust of Franklin Pierce out of dough? Is it edible? Cause that’d be cool for a presentation. I mean, The Boy talks about his dead president and then the class gets to eat a dead president’s head. The Boy would be the coolest of the cool amongst seven year olds everywhere!
I’ll be kinda in and out of here this week btw. I got a lot of stuff to do. I am evaluating people this week. That means I get to torture…err… test folks and write lengthy reports about possible vocational outcomes for each person. Fun for everyone! Well, more fun for me. And money. I make lots o’ dough doing these things.
Nobody I know has the flu. I’m glad. Glad cause people I know ain’t sick and glad cause they can’t give it to me. I don’t like having the sick. I get grouchy and want to be left alone but other people think I want to be taken care of when all I really want to do is eat soup, take medicine and sleep. I wanna sleep when I’m sick dangit! The good thing in all this is I have learned that ACBG is pretty much the same way when he’s really sick. So we wouldn’t bother each other so much. That’s good.
It’s supposed to be raining right now but it’s not. It just keeps lookin’ like it’s gonna rain.
Oh, and I made taco salads yesterday for lunch. They were good. So good, I had one for supper too.
[Bill Clinton] Ah feel yuh pain Rue.[/Bill Clinton]
January and early February were hellacious with illness between LilMiss and myself. Luckily, with our track record we’ve managed to evade babysitting my grandneices or LilMiss’s sister. “We’d like to watch them, but AHCHOO! maybe it wouldn’t be a COUGHCOUGH good idea”.
We went sale shopping this weekend and boy howdy did we make out like bandits! LilMiss recieved a pair of LEI jeans, two shirts, a Nike coat, undergarments to last a few years all for under $20! That was only at Kohls. THEN we hit Penneys, Sears, Marshalls, TJ Maxx and Catherines. At Catherine’s I bought cute kitschy linen pedal pushers for… $1.97.
Unfortunately our shopping excursion was broken up here and there by phone calls from LilMiss girl scout troop “We need more cookies!”. So we’d leave the store, I’d run them a case or two, get to another store “We need more cookies!”. They had a cookie shop at a local grocery store. Did very well too. I now only have 18 cases of cookies in my kitchen.
Yesterday we lazed around. LilMiss cleaned her room (sorta) and I relaxed. It was beautiful sniff
The next two weeks are going to be busy around here with lessons, meetings, family coming in from California, so come next weekend yesterday will be naught but a delightful memory.
None of you had better get me sick - I’m warning you! Stay back!
Did some museum hopping this weekend with brother & his wife this weekend - was definitely fun. Went to see Million Dollar Baby - was definitely not the feel-good movie of the year. My SIL had wanted to see Bride & Prejudice (I want to see it too), but it wasn’t playing at the local theater, and my brother wanted to see MDB. Problem is, I knew about the ending - and they didn’t. My brother thought it was an inspirational movie about boxing. Not quite. So SIL cried for about the last 45 minutes of the movie - and my brother definitely has to take her to see Bride & Prejudice this week.
It’s snowing now. I woke up this morning and looked out the window expecting heaps of snow. Parking lot wasn’t even wet. Talk about disappointing.
There have been so many various illnesses going around here too. Ugh. Fortunately, I’ve managed to avoid them so far, but dodging all the germs is getting tough. I hope everyone who’s sick gets better!
I had a dentist appointment this morning. No cavities, and my gums are in great shape, but the hygenist asked when poking around my mouth if I’d chipped a tooth. I said, no I didn’t remember doing that. Then she got to the other side and said, oh your teeth just have a strange shape that makes them look chipped. Well, that’s nice! I’m real glad to know my teeth are strange-shaped! Sheesh.
As edible as raw dough is, I suppose. They should have made Pierce out of chocolate chip cookie dough. I might post his actual report here later, it’s kinda funny, although not intentionally so.
The flu really sucks the big one. Thankfully (knock wood) I’ve only had it once, back in 5th grade. I remember being horizontal and exhausted for almost a week.
I’m back at work for the first time since last Tuesday. I had a hellish amount of email to sift through. But it’s amazing how many things can just be deleted because they are now completely irrelevant. Bob Jones was out of the office on Friday? DELETE!
Oh I never learn from anything that comes before Sean. Everything surprises me.
Like that one time I lied to my wife and went to the big Bowling Tournament instead of taking her out for our anniversary dinner. Who would have thought she’d find me out? Boy was I in Big Trouble that day. I wound up having to take her out to dinner and buy her jewelry.
Or that one time I lied to my wife and went to the Water Buffalo lodge because they were having a big party with a lady jumping out of a cake instead of taking her out for our anniversary dinner. Who would have thought she’d find me out that time too? Boy was I in Big Trouble when it wasn’t some young girl in a bikini jumping out of the cake, but my wife. But there was plenty of Trouble to go around that day since all my Lodge Brothers’ wives were in on it too.
I just don’t learn nuthin’ week to week.
Hey Shibb, did you see that commercial for Starburst (I think) where that kid made a bust of the cheerleader out of candy and then showed her his handywork? Then he wound up eating her candy face? That was disturbing.
Flu sucks. Rue, I love you, but stay back. We’ve both already had it.
The cats were very frisky most of the night. They were sacrificing to the Gods of Gravity. When I finally locked them out of the living room they sat by the door and cried very loudly. Consequently I don’t feel very frisky, and think I might do minimal housework today. Today is my Day Off, which means laundry and dishes and sweeping. I might skip the sweeping and spend some time lounging on the couch instead.
Yawn.
Quasi-Daughter showed up with a pair of pants for me last night. They’re a style that I love, but they’re about two inches too small. I can get into them, but it’s not really flattering. So I’m trying to figure out how to let out pants with a waistband and a snap, instead of a button. I can’t move a snap. Any ideas? No, going pantsless is not a good idea.
I’m just sayin…