Just figured it was time to change up the blog again. I hate taking down my Halloween decorations :(
So if it looks weird...well I'm working on it. :P
Here's a nice little wordless Wednesday photo to contemplate in the meantime:
Ugh, as if having the flu myself wasn't bad enough, Thursday morning we woke up to Little Inventor having a temp of 102.5 and coughing. Dang it! So I called the doctor and managed to get an appointment for him. Took him in, and the doctor confirmed it was flu. Which one? He couldn't be sure, and he's not testing for H1N1 unless necessary because by the time the results come back, the patient is usually recovered. So it was officially an upper respiratory infection, but he did concur that it was most likely swine flu, as that is what is going around. Seasonal flu isn't really hitting right now. Isn't it lovely?
But Little Inventor couldn't be kept in bed today, and he was fever free, so I let him go out with his grandparents, as long as he did run around outside. I'm feeling much better, just a really yucky cough hanging on. And I'm getting caught up on my Nanowrimo project. I did more than 2000 words today, and brought my total up in the 7000's. I'm hoping to do double that tomorrow, since I'll have more time on my hands in the afternoon.
Lone Wolf is starting to feel a little run down, so it looks like he may be picking up the bug. At least it will have made the rounds by then, and I'll be able to wash sheets and disinfect really well. Oh well, at least Little Inventor has a few days off school because of this illness, gives me a much needed break ;)
Let me just start by saying that aside from almost getting lost, having a lot of rain, locking my keys in the car, and falling down the stairs in three inch heels, Dracula's Ball was awesome. LOL I'll just say it was one hell of a night.
So you all know that I had a cold about a week ago right? Well, Monday I was doing a good bit of coughing. Not much more than I'd been doing since I'd had the cold, but it seemed to be more frequent. I went and took a bath and then there came the chills and "prickly" feeling on the skin. All I wanted to do yesterday was sleep. And sleep I did. Except for when I was coughing. I'm feeling better today, but only a little. Still coughing. I know that it's flu because aside from the coughing and chills, yesterday turned up with body aches, everywhere. Fever on and off, my eyes hurt. Today I've got a stuffy nose and I've been on the brink of losing my voice a few times. YUCK! I really hate being sick. Of course, my doctor can't get me in this week, but he called me in some zithro in case it's something bacterial, cough medicine with codine and ibuprofen for fever and body aches. If I'm not feeling better by next Monday I'm supposed to call for an appointment, and if I start to feel worse, I'm supposed to call right away.
It was pretty funny though, because my doctor pretty much yelled at me while I was on the phone with him lol. He called the house first, but I had to go to the store (to get some cold medicine among other things) and Lone Wolf told him I was out, so he called my cell and the first thing he said to me was "Why aren't you at home in bed young lady?" I tried not to cough as I laughed and told him where I was and that I was going right back home to get in bed.
That was the other thing he prescribed. Rest in bed. For a few days at least. So here I am, laying in bed, because Lone Wolf won't let me sit at the desk to use the laptop lol. But the good news is, that I got more than 2000 words done today for Nanowrimo. I didn't get any done on the 1st or yesterday because of Little Inventor's party, and then being so sick I couldn't even look at my laptop, let alone figure out how to work the thing (yeah it was that bad lol). But I'm doing good. If I continue at this pace I'll have well over 50000 by the end of the month. Maybe I'll let you all read it at the end...if you can make it through my everyday blathering, you might be able to handle a few chapters of my vampire story?
Well I'm off to get a snack and take some more medicine. I'll be back tomorrow I hope!
Lone Wolf and I were dying our hair tonight. Do you really have to ask what color? So anyway, while Lone Wolf and Little Inventor were standing outside playing with an airplane, I was watching them and thinking it was so funny that there's this little almost blond kid in black jeans and a skull shirt standing next to his black-haired dad wearing his docs, black jeans and a black shirt. Lone Wolf has naturally black hair, but his beard has a tendency to grow in red. Go figure. So we were going to dye his beard and my hair and I thought, wouldn't that be funny if Little Inventor wanted to do his too? So I ran it by Lone Wolf and then asked Little Inventor if he would like to have black hair too.
He spent all evening pacing by our door, waiting for me to call him in for his turn! So cute :D
Because he has such fine hair, I only left the dye on for 15 minutes instead of 25 and it didn't come out quite black, probably because his hair was so light in the first place. But it is now a really dark rich brown color that looks absolutely awesome on him! He likes it, I like it, Lone Wolf likes it. I wonder what his grandparents will say when they see it tomorrow LOL
Hehe. My time is up, time to go wash my dye out.
I decided this morning after reading over that big list of everything I had to do this week that I needed to pare some things down. So, since this is an important holiday weekend for us and we are not as into Christmas or Thanksgiving (we more or less celebrate for family's sake) I emailed Little Inventor's teacher and we are taking a few days off. We doubled our lesson load today and will do the same tomorrow, then we're taking the rest of the week off. Woohoo! I might just make this a tradition. Samhain Vacation. Of course, that means we will be making up days, if not lessons, during the winter break, but like I said, no biggy. Little Inventor's teacher said she had no doubt we would not fall behind, he's one of her best students. Aww. That doesn't mean he won't be learning however. Guess who will be helping with measurements in the kitchen and doing art projects to keep him busy while Mom is doing Mom-stuff?
Okay, so you didn't ask. But I'm going to explain anyway! Hahahahahaha....
When I first moved to PA, I had NO clue what everyone was talking about when they said Trick or Treat Night. I just thought it was some way they all referred to Halloween. Nope. Apparently some time back, the boroughs in this area (I'm not sure if it's all over PA or just south central where we are) that Halloween was too dangerous for little kids to be wandering all over creation all night, not just because of the child predators that unfortunately prowl that night, but also because of the high incidence of drunk drivers coming from Halloween parties. So, for time out of mind in this area, the kids have been going Trick or Treating on the Thursday before Halloween. Once in a blue moon, Halloween happens to fall on a Thursday and then the kids are allowed to go on actual Halloween. I think it's only happened once since I've lived here. Also, there is a curfew enforced and an age limit! Trick or Treat starts at 6pm and ends at 8pm and you are discouraged from Trick or Treating if you are over 12.
Weird, I know. But all in all, it's a rather a blessing in disguise for our family. We get to take Little Inventor out in his costume on a Thursday, then on Halloween itself, we get to do whatever we want to celebrate in our own way! This year, Little Inventor is having a sleepover with his Grandma and Lone Wolf and I are going to Philly for Dracula's Ball. Most years, we've had pizza, candy and Halloween movie fests. Well, there you are, a little bit of Pennsylvanian weirdness to add to your Halloween season.
Well, I figured that I wouldn't have great results this week since I took 2 days off from exercising last week because of the cold (which is already gone!). So, I was a little surprised when I stepped on the scale to see another pound lost! Woohoo :D I was back on the treadmill today and feeling great.
This is going to be a majorly busy, busy week for our family, though I will still be trying to blog each day, or at least every other. Wednesday Lone Wolf has to go for a hair trim, then off to the store, and back home to make dinner, and dye hair. Thursday is Trick or Treat Night. (For those that aren't familiar with this Pennsylvaniaism, I'll explain in a post later today lol) so we've got to work in school, working on Little Inventor's ice cream cake, running to pick up a friend, then out to Trick or Treat and home in time for bed. Friday, I have to take Grandma to a doctor's appointment, then I have a ton of shopping to do for Little Inventor's birthday, then the store since I can't go on Saturday and home to finish Little Inventor's birthday cake.
Ahhh Halloween....Saturday I get to run Grandma to Aunt Bane's and Little Inventor to his Grandma and Pappy's, then home again to get Lone Wolf and I ready to go to Philly for Dracula's Ball. We'll pick up our friend Panda and then it's on to the Ball for a night of fun and frivolity.
We'll probably get home around 5am Sunday, get a few hours of sleep, pick up Grandma from church at noon, then head down to the inlaw's around 1pm for Little Inventor's birthday party. We're going to take him and his cousins over to Camp Hill to the Colosseum for bowling and arcade games after a home pizza party, then I'm going to go home and fall over and not get up until Tuesday.....or maybe Wednesday...Thursday at the latest.
