I’m slowly getting better. I’m still congested, but at least I’m off the steroids. I’ve still got the awesome horse decongestants and I still sound pretty bad. But, at least I feel well enough to go to work and actually contribute.\
Today, I did a favor for my old manager and did training for some of his new folks. We talked about standards-based development, markup, CSS and DOM scripting. It was fun going through the old presentations again, but it was obvious to me how rusty I am with the whole teaching thing. There was a time last year when I had those presentations down and could go through them and the explanations were all practiced and came out fluidly. Today, not so much. I blame the congestion and the drugs… but I’m just out of practice. It was still fun, even though now I’ve almost completely lost my voice.\
This weekend is all about recovery… soup, sleep, stupid movies and football. Oh yeah, and I updated the blogroll today. It’s much bigger than it was before, and is still an export of my feeds from NetNewsWire (minus all the Flickr feeds, wikis, work and my stuff). So, it’s actually a pretty decent representation of what I follow.
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Slow Recovery
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I’m alive!
The kids and I made it through Kevin’s first day back at work and I slept for 5 hours straight last night. I think things are finally improving. (Knock on wood.)
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Beware
A plague has descended upon this house. :(\
Why no, that is not me being melodramatic about everyone being really sick AND having to clean up kid vomit in the middle of the night. Why do you ask? -
Waa
Earlier when I said I was sick, I was wrong. I was merely being inconvenienced with a splitting headache, burning chest, hacking cough and menstrual cramps on top of all that. Now, I am really sick. Fever, sweats, stabbing pain throughout my body. My legs and hips feel like the victim of a voodoo doll in the hands of an enemy. And my mouth tastes like some roadkill that was resurrected, moved in to my mouth, and then was creamed again. There isn’t enough mouthwash in the world to get rid of the taste right now. :(\
After I have one of my half-coughing/half-vomiting attacks, Brian mimics me by fake coughing, all gravelly-like. I worry he is hurting his throat. But I guess he’d stop if it became painful.\
ETA- Ahh, bad!mommy strikes again. Max’s school called because he is sick. Even though he had a slight cough this morning, I sent him to school anyway figuring he’d be better off there. Guess not. The poor boy threw up in the lunchroom and has a fever of 102. -
Oh Come On!
How unfair is it that I have a chest cold that makes it impossible to breathe deeply AND menstrual cramps that require deep, relaxing breaths? I think I need a brownie. But that would just clog up my throat even more. Pooh! So unfair.\
ETA- And my Midol isn’t working at all. It is a conspiracy, I tell you! Sheesh! -
You are now entering the Twilight Zone
Ex 1) Max has requested that his bedtime routine start earlier, so he can quietly read in bed for longer before lights out.\
Ex 2) Apparently, some people are upset that Rosie O’Donnell said that radical Christians are bad, bad like radical Muslims are bad, and killing innocent people is bad too and are demanding an apology. Seriously, who are these people?\
Ex 3) Wegman’s Ultimate Chocolate Cake is very bad. Shocking, I know. Thankfully the store was giving out samples, which I couldn’t even finish, so I didn’t have to pay for the nastiness.\
Ex 4) A church friend invited me to attend a meeting to discuss the Virginia Marriage Protection Amendment with community leaders “to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unity of society.”\
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FUCK THAT SHIT.\
I politely declined. No, really. I was polite. I even inquired about the well-being of the family.\
Whatever. I am going to attempt to veg on the couch all day and remove the phelgm from my body. What are your plans for this Sunday? -
Worse timing ever!
cough cough. Damn. cough cough. Yea, I have a cold. cough cough. Don’t tell Kevin, though. cough cough. But do watch Veronica Mars and Supernatural.
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The Perils of Pneumonia
According to the x-ray they took today, I have a “shadowy abnormality” in my lungs that looks like pneumonia (or my lungs are haunted). So, it’s more steroids, antibiotics and rest. Rest includes bad movies, television, cup-o-noodle and split pea soup (my favorite “I’m sick” meal). My ribs are a mess, as is my right shoulder for some reason (violently coughing does that). Ugh.\
I’d much rather be working and playing with the kids than laying on the couch wheezing and coughing (sometimes productively, usually just loudly). I’ve watched all of Battlestar Galactica, a bunch of crap movies, and am about to break down and watch Jen’s Buffy DVD’s.\
Yeah, so don’t expect a lot of blogging or other fun from me for the next few days. I get another x-ray next week and hopefully the shadows will be gone. -
K and J
Kevin is at the doctor’s right now. Hopefully he can get some better medicine. I wouldn’t be surprised if the doctor said he has pneumonia. I don’t know how pneumonia is different from bronchitis but I do know that Kevin has been really sick for a long time. Poor Kevin.\
Apparently, I am “very Jen.” I don’t know what that means, but I will take it!\
Yo, peeps, youse gonna watch Veronica Mars and Supernatural or I gotta knock some sense in ya?\
ETA- Sadly, I was right. Kevin has pneumonia! Who the hell gets pneumonia in the middle of the summer? Poor, poor Kevin. -
Countries I’ve Visited, Because Tim Did It
Because Tim did it, I’ve done it too… and I’ve been more places than Tim. I guess it’s not fair that we went to most of the same places in Europe when we were kids. I’m protesting Portugal though… we didn’t go there as kids. When did you go to Portugal, Tim, when?