I can handle dirty diapers, crayons on the walls, broken keepsakes, peanut butter in the VCR, apple juice all over the keyboard...
But the thing I hate most... is germs.
I've been sick more since the beginning of September (when the kids, coincidentally, started school) than I was all of last year! That's a year's worth of illness packed into three months. What do I have to look forward to for the next seven, I wonder?
Right now, it's strep throat. Yay me. *sigh* A hundred and two degree fever, an all-over body ache and a throat that's on fire. Don't ya wanna be me? Just in time for the weekend, too. Perfect.
Yesterday, I was a cleaning maniac. Today, I'm Cameron in Ferris Bueller... "I'm dying...!"
"When Cameron was in Egypt's land... let our Cameron go..."
Michael made me tea (Constant Comment, my favorite) and toast and brought me aspirin. Looks like I'm going to spend the day in bed. Which, really, isn't necessarily a bad thing, when I think about it. Would be nice to catch up on sleep.
"You're not dying, you just can't think of anything better to do!"
Well, he's got a point. What do I have to do? Hm... so much for those Christmas decorations. Oh well, there's always next weekend.
Besides, I'm still recovering from the annual room cleaning fiasco. Four hours of cleaning, sorting, holding up tiny pieces of plastic and asking, "What's this to?... Do you have that toy anymore?... Isn't that the one you buried in the sand at the old house and then forgot where you buried it?"
What did I discover? Here's the top ten:
1. Six marbles to the chinese checkers game. Glued into the underside of Legos. I didn't, however, find the actual Krazy Glue. Yet.
2. Seven socks that I've been looking for forever tied in knots and made into a "rope" hanging from Zoe's dollhouse bedroom window (which faces the wall - no wonder I didn't see it!) Apparently, she did it during "fire safety week" at school.
3. A naked Fairytopia Barbie with two amputated feet (dog victim, I believe, from the markings) but Michael said, "She's still hot."
4. Zoe had the paper punch, two pairs of scissors, the stapler and four rolls of tape. It took me fifteen minutes to vaccum all of the "confetti" she'd made out of her school library book. I wonder how much I'm going to have to pay to replace, "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends"?
5. Eight dollars and twenty-nine cents in change.
6. Four spoons, a very bent and deformed fork, and lots of peanut butter sandwich cracker wrappers.
7. The dog's leash (I wondered where that was!)
8. A line of McDonald's french fries along the baseboard behind the dresser leading up to a peach pit. It was like the perfect ant-highway!
9. A bottle of nail polish. Red. Thankfully, they couldn't get the top off.
10. Two pairs of tweezers, a slew of bandaids put on various stuffed animals, and last but not least, and empty contact case. I'm pretty sure they DID have contacts in them at one point.
Okay, I have a date with Ferris Bueller, a box of Kleenex, and a down comforter. G'nite!
3 comments:
I did that a few weeks ago...it was no fun here either. But you feel so much better when it's done.
I am sorry you're sick...I have a lovely cold as well that I pushed off for the holiday but came roaring back yesterday...two nights of twelve hour sleeps and I feel remotely human again. It is scary how much I love sleep these days.
Feel better!
Strep's going around, apparently. My co-worker's kids had it, then she got it and I got a teeny tinge of a cold that was around just long enough for me to take the day off work! wheee!
Consider this a gift from the Universe so you can stay in bed and take loving care of yourself!!
(Hmm, just enough coinage from the clean-out for two Starbuck's Gingerbread lattes! mmmm!)
Feel better!
Hmm!
Well, I know what you mean. I used to get sick every time the kids got sick -- only worse.
I don't get sick nearly as often now. Maybe the immunity will build up over time?
Hope you feel better soon.
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