Stuology

I would already be slapping meat and veges on the grill, except for one problem. My grill has cancer–aka rust. Boo. We have a big cover for it, but alas, it is still rusting and one of the gas burners has rusted away so instead of nice distributed flames, I have The Flame. I replaced [...]

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Jay has been coughing and producing great amounts of snot the past few days. Yesterday, I was helping snap his pants and he started coughing. Instead of ending his cough by just stopping, he ended his cough by puking all over me. Then last night, Ada crawled in bed with us. I was only half [...]

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Coffee and Cherry Menthol Cough Drops. Ew. I was sick all weekend with a head cold. I still have it now. I wonder if I’ll stop coughing if I distract my mouth by eating cake. My Weekly Menu has suffered. Here it is. Saturday: Real Man’s Chili and homemade mac and cheese, but with fusilli [...]

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Thanks I got my portrait book, and Season 11 of The Simpsons and the books for the kiddos, which I wrap and save for Christmas. I’ll be sure to tag the gifts from Lynn and Winkle. Illness I kept Ada home today to make sure the stomach virus (or whatever) that hit Mac and I [...]

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Ada went to her first school-invited birthday party. It even had a bouncy castle! They served cupcakes, and when they were brought out, Ada started jumping up and down and squealing “Cupcakes! Cupcakes! Look! Cupcakes!” She was the only one to do the Cupcake Dance of Glee. That’s my girl! My throat isn’t hurting today [...]

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This evening, I decided that I wanted to eat food–at least something beside chicken broth and really over cooked noodles. I was hoping that I was full of enough pain reliever to counterbalance the agonizing pain of swallowing food. I made sandwiches. I chewed thoroughly and swallowed slow. It hurt a bit, but in my [...]

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I went to the doctor this morning. He ruled out strep and mono, and just labeled it as a virus. They took a culture for more info. In the meantime, I have terrible, horrific throat pain, and I’ve been having chills and a fever since Sunday night. I had two episodes of almost passing out [...]

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Day 56: Gobo Fraggle This is Ada’s recent craze–Fraggles. Which is fine because I like watching Fraggle Rock. She put Gobo on my legs to get me to take a picture of his feet. I adjusted him a little to get something a tad more interesting than stuffed Fraggle toes. Yesterday all Ada wanted to [...]

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I tried getting ready for work this morning. I felt nauseated, but got in the shower anyhow. By the time I got out, I was dizzy and nauseated. I went to bed to lie down a bit to see if it would pass, but when getting back up, I just felt dizzy again. I wrote [...]

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James went to sleep around 2:00. He woke up at little after 5:00. I got up to check on him. He didn’t have a temperature, so I tucked him back in. He whined for only a few minutes before he fell silent*. He woke back up a little before 8:00. I got him up. He [...]

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