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By heather | April 7, 2009
I don’t have the strength to write a post with a well written intro, and really, if you’re not me I think this one is pretty high on the boring scale. (File under: Dear Diary:)
YAY! – Emily Kate is officially crawling. And pulling up, grabbing things, chattering, and cruising. Most of the time I set her down and the next thing I see is her round little backside rapidly moving toward whatever inappropriate object has been inadvertenly left on the floor. She got lots of practice this weekend due to my inability to move a single finger to chase her when…
BOO! – Saturday I woke up a little queasy but still functioning. We did normal Saturday things, then Alex woke up from his nap a little cranky and listless. A short 30 minutes after Brett left for what was sure to be a late night playing poker and roughly THREE long hours until bedtime, Alex wailed then barfed chunks of cheese, Craisins, and free samples from Costco all over the playroom rug. Cheese-puke is the smelliest, worst puke to clean up – exacerbated by the fact that my stomach was queasy in the first place and that Emily Kate’s new found crawling skills found her scooting toward it and I came back from getting the steam cleaner out to find her mere INCHES away. And also to find Alex giggling hilariously running around the playroom spraying Resolve into the air, what would prove a short lived intermission between clinging to me and puking over and over until beyond bedtime at which point the queasiness I’d been feeling caught up with me and…
Finding-the-Silver-Lining-YAY! – I haven’t been able to keep food down since Saturday evening and I got to spend the whole day Sunday in bed. And I felt not a twinge of guilt, due to above mentioned poker tournament. To use my favorite line from “The Devil Wears Prada” I’m ‘one stomach flu away from my goal weight’ and I better lose at least five SEVEN pounds from this misery.
More BOO! – To make it worse, as of Monday my stupid job relocated to a different FARTHER AWAY city making my commute unfriendly traffic wise, and unpredictable which I do not handle well (I see Zoloft in my future). So as not to incur comments about being too much of a princess to move boxes and load trucks on Monday I couldn’t even call in sick. So I dragged myself into work, probably spreading disease along with my discontent. I felt better by Monday night so I…
Just-Plain-Effing-DUMB - ate some chili. It was very mild, but also a VERY BAD IDEA. Like, THE WORST IDEA EVER. After 2 hours sleep and taking some two-years-past-expiration-Immodium I dragged my ass into work today because a) any germs I was going to spread would have been spread yesterday and b) I was so not wasting a precious vacation day with SPRING! coming on being sick.
RECAP – Alex is better, I’m still sick but skinnier, playroom rug is sticky/stinky, EK is mobile, and I would be making fun of Brett for the cold he has that is so getting trumped by all of this, except he has been very understanding about my combination sick/traffic induced crankiness.
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April 7th, 2009 at 10:30 pm
Oh, no! I’m sorry. That really, really sucks. I hope you make a full recovery soon. Oh, and that line from the Devil Wears Prada is awesome!
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April 9th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Ugh, the stomach flu is my biggest nightmare. Anything else I can deal with, puking – my personal hell.
Hope you’re all on the mend soon.
And yes, that’s the only silver lining of the sickness – skinny!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Hope you are feeling better. I think that is the worst flu to have, but even worse is when the kids get it.
July 13th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Please suggest me car which is comfortable & efficient ie. a “comfortable high miler”. Diesel car would be an ideal choice & my budget is highly variable….
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