Three Sick, Sick Days

Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Isla continued her sickness today, and both Owen and Jennifer claimed to be falling victim to the same bug. For the first eight hours or so, I felt pretty good. A friend of mine, Grant, came over to assist me with some computer issues.

As you may know, I volunteer as editor of The Minnesota Atheist, which is the newsletter of, appropriately enough, the Minnesota Atheists. A few days ago, Jennifer updated our computer which has since left it operating better than it has in over two years. The problem, though, is that I need Mac’s Pages to create the newsletter. I thought I had a back-up copy of this program but, if so, I can’t find it. I found a trial version, which I promptly installed. But for some odd reason, I couldn’t paste into Pages from Word. So, I put out an urgent call for assistance, and by 2:00, Grant was here making everything all better.

At 3:20, I went to the dentist’s office for my six-month check-up. It seems like a stupid time to go, I know, but I wanted to get my second cleaning in during this calendar year and, well, this was a good day since I didn’t have to go to work and was able to go whenever they were open.

By 6:00 this evening, I could tell that I was getting sick, too. This should be a great next few days.

Thursday, 27 December 2012

Yep, still sick.

I had a fever that alternately gave me the chills and hot flashes. Jennifer and Owen were also sick, and though Isla appears to be getting better, she’s still firmly rooted in the “sick” camp.

So there’s not much to write about today. I updated this blog, forced myself to work on the newsletter, and read a book for a while. This afternoon, I took a 2+ hour nap.

In the evening, after Isla had fallen asleep, the rest of us started watching the movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which was actually better than I was expecting. Jennifer lasted to about the halfway point, then decided to turn in for the night. Owen and I stayed up and watched the rest. After that, I asked him if he wanted to go to bed. Typical for our kids, he said no, so I told him to just sit there and relax. I worked on the newsletter a little more and then, about 20 minutes later, told him we were heading off to bed.

Oh, and by the way, here’s the wood robot that was waiting for the kids on Xmas morning…

Friday, 28 December 2012

Another sick day.

On the one hand, this is a great time to be sick, because I’m home from work anyway. On the other hand, it’s a lousy time, because I had all these starry-eyed plans.

For one thing, I planned to brew some root beer during my time off, and at the moment, it looks like that’s not happening. For another thing, Owen and Jennifer had planned a play date yesterday with some friends. That had to be cancelled. And today, Jennifer was going to spend the day at her parents’ house and then leave Owen there for two nights. But that, too, has been cancelled.

Meanwhile, Isla is at about 90%. Which is good, I guess. However…it’s extremely difficult to be in a house with healthy kids when Jennifer and I are sick. They’re not exactly filled with compassion, and they don’t limit their normal non-stop requesting. Isla didn’t even go down for a nap today, and she spent a good chunk of time today thrashing about and crying over extremely trivial things (even for a two-year old). I guess she doesn’t like it when her parents can’t cater to her. I think she’s a bit stir crazy, too.

All in all, a pretty shitty week off of work.

My wish for this holiday season is to get to enjoy the last three days of the year like I want to.