OMG so much going on this month at work. Busy last week, busy this week. Probably busy next week, though maybe a slight reprieve. Traveling for family event and maybe also for work the following week, big gigantic over-the-top annual conference on opposite coast the week after that. (I love this conference, but it is a BUSY few days.)
And a baby shower the day after I return. I was kinda hoping to finish the baby blanket before all of these trips because it is going to be substantially less portable toward the end, and the airlines are stingy with carry on lately. BUT! At least I have some guaranteed knitting time in the schedule should this come down to the wire. I just can't bring anything else with me on the plane. Not that I should be doing anything else. Oh, no. Knit knit knit if I'm not done by then.
To summarize:
Anti-whine: it is no longer February.
Whine: March will be summarily kicking my butt.
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Whine: The Great Barfapalooza of 2010 began Friday night and today is.... Tuesday, right? Still. Feel. Bleh.
Really. I did manage to shower this morning. I was drying off and looked in the mirror and my face was so pale I looked like a Geisha from Madama Butterfly. Only not as pretty. Just whiter than white. The shower exhausted me so I'm going back to bed.
Whine: NOT a good week to miss work. This weekend is THE VOTE re: amalgamation. Ya. And I probably won't be around until Sunday.
Anti-whine: I canceled a meeting set for tomorrow night. I asked someone else to do the children's story on Sunday. Delegate, delegate, delegate.
Anti-whine: I'm liking this assertive thing. Before I become deathly ill (I'll spare you the ugly - oh yeah, really ugly - details) on Friday night, I had already told the Presbytery person that I was dropping the committee from the fifth circle of hell that she had assigned to me. I was level-headed, firm, and did not apologize. She found someone else and told me later that she was glad to see me setting boundaries!! Who woulda thought?
now: nappage.
(((((Sue)))))) and good for you re: boundaries!!!!
AW: OK GO.
yay for boundaries! and delegation! and people saying yay to boundaries!
boo on sickness! hope you are feeling better soon, sue.
liz, that's a great video!
Sue, hope you are feeling better very soon!!!!
:)Neighbor Lady
thanks all - great video liz!
AW: pleased to announce that sufficient underwearage has arrived! along with comfy shoes, sturdy purse, fabulous squishable shopping bags, feline worm meds, and a spot carpet cleaner for those little feline accidents.
W: the cats do not like the worm meds, or that little machine.
W/AW: an old friend just stopped by unexpectedly with a christmas present. we were very close during her youngest son's illness with cancer and past his death [at age 12] nearly 8 years ago, but i have not been able to keep up that intensity over the years. but it was a nice visit. i think she is doing better; she will be away visiting another son on the anniversary this year.
spam be gone! ZAP! if only we had superpowers in real life.
get well soon, like now, Sue.
W: so tired
AW: February is ooooveeerrrr!!!! Yayayayayay!
W: tired, burnt out, blah blah whine whine. SSDD, as they say.
AW: after Friday I have 5 WEEKS with no school. Might do some externship, but am otherwise unencumbered!
W: May need to fly back to Cali for a week to see my beloved godmother, who is dying of cancer and will probably not wait until summer. Sob.
AW: Have the time off to make that trip possible, though not really affordable.
W: Will be able to 'afford' it by canceling plans to go to the Taize community in France with the family for a week. We've planned this trip for 3 years.
Can someone stop this roller coaster? I want off, please.
Oh, Jenevieve, I'm so sorry. Sorry that your godmother is dying, sorry that your chance to visit her means canceling your other plans. I wish I could send the free-flight fairies.
Oh Jenevieve, I'm so very sorry about your godmother. I'm happy though, that you can go and see her. It will be hard, but good for both of you.
In the "Is She Still Whining About *That*?" category - yes. I still feel like crap. Fever and rash gone. Total body aches - check - still nasty awful. Ah, but now I have the added bonus of a snotty nose and a sore froat. This party just gets better and better.
pass the jello please....
Sue! That sounds like the worst flu EVER. Gee whiz.
oh, jeni. very sorry about your godmother's illness. second the wish for free flight fairies. xoxo
virtual jello, chicken soup, funny videos, and tylenol to sue.
my W/AW probably does not make a lot of sense. my friend's suffering, depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts have been intense over the years; i feel guilty for stepping back, but constant involvement was overwhelming me. alexander's death date is this month; i was present when he died, and now i usually send flowers and a card to remember him on a different day, because that is also my wedding anniversary. their living room, where he died, has a japanese buddhist shrine for him and the urn with his ashes, where i am invited to bow, pray, and light incense each visit; it also still holds all the stuffed animals he had, the 1000 origami cranes my daughter and other friends made, etc. etc.
it is such a huge relief that she will be visiting another son on the date, this year -- he was a very good friend of my son, and i'm so glad he is doing well. also, she promises no more christmas presents -- did i mention she is very generous? but even my sisters and i stopped with the presents years ago.
Kathy, that sounds... intense. I'm glad she seems to be moving forward.
Sue, I wish I could make you some soup!
Thanks for all the free-flight wishes, guys. :) I wish the fairies were listening!
Jeni - So sorry to hear that your godmother is so ill. I hope you finagle a flight solution soon.
Ginger-lemon tea and get well wishes for the sickies.
My kids are swinging between total mutiny and sullenly resigning themselves to the situation depending on the amount of bribery used on any given day. This really is an anti-whine given the vast improvement over last week.
Delightful work week thus far with only manageable and enjoyable projects having graced my desk. Must thank teh Fates for this reprieve.
Sue, forgive me, but that sounds an awful lot like Hand, Foot, Mouth Disease. If it is, it just has to run its course (it's a virus), but it's brutal and highly contagious for a long time. Please take care of yourself.
Love, amy (who had it just a few weeks ago and knows how much it sucks)
Really Amy? I never would have thought of that - but it makes sense with the rash. The rash was weird and awful and not at all like any flu I've had - I figured at the time (while cleaning and bleaching everything in sight) that it was the result of the high fever. The worst of the rash was on my torso and even thought the rash is gone, the itch is still there.
Anyway, thanks all for your good wishes. As my brain matter pours out of my nose, I'm not sure I'm making a lot of sense. but thanks pixies.
Back to bed for me.
Oh, Sue. This just isn't getting any better.
Part of my whines are re-runs from last week...overworking husband, whiny Sweet Baboo, hold-me Mini Baboo, etc. But things are better. I'm just worn down from the no-breaks-from-the-Baboos.
New Whine: I was so productive today that I am physically wiped out. I seem to be forgetting I had surgery a month ago, and was glued to the couch for 7 months before that. I need my energy back now, please.
AW: Mini fell asleep on her own in the bouncy seat on the (shh, don't tell) kitchen counter. Seriously, she's safer there at this point than she is on the floor with her sister.
Also, the Aunt who visited last week was quite helpful, and quite a bit less particular about a clean house than I remembered.
Hope for the week: break for hubby (ha! It's Lent! And we know what that means...Holy Week is coming, which virtually ensures that someone will need a funeral) and therefore break for esperanza.
Sue -- I take it back about the rash. I didn't realize it was on your torso. The rash, if you have the digestive symptoms of HFM, is -- ah -- located at the exit of said system and is actually a lot like blisters. (Fortunately, I did not suffer that aspect.) So, probably it's not HFM. Whew! Speedy recovery, nonetheless!
My biggest whine is that Tater weaned during his illness last week. It was Too Soon for me, but I'm coping.
My littlest whines are:
*As if grieving Teh Weaning wasn't bad enough, I got my period
*I had to make an emergency purchase of feminine hygiene products, was forced to buy a store brand, am disappointed in said store brand products
*I bought cookies at the store, and when I got them home, I discovered they are gluten- and wheat-free. They are also flavor- and satisfaction-free.
*sigh* Is it spring yet?
Oh Sue, sorry you are ailing. Get well soon!
Jenevieve, sorry about your godmother. Hope the travel works and the free flight fairies need to get busy.
KathyA, I am sorry for your friend's loss and your loss and being stuck in that loss for so long.
Amy, take your time to grieve the weaning. It is a weird time, even if it is ultimately good.
Esperanza, it is hard to resist those bursts of energy. Wishing you a quiet Lent.
Days, good luck with the kids' mood swings. They're probably just trying to throw you off.
Whine: I am working too much. Not just the hours, but thinking about the job not at work. Could I be less dedicated to a job that pays so little? I know, money isn't everything, but the point of taking a job right now was purely financial.
Anti-whine: My son and the baby have been sick - cold that wouldn't end. And my son has a sinus infection (with skull x-rays to prove it, which seems like overkill to me, but I guess is the new proof). My baby daughter has strep throat. Antibiotics have restored their spirits.
Whine: what's that? Does my throat hurt? A little? A lot? I suppose I have had this cold for a while too. Maybe I can try one of those rapid quick clinics. The pediatrician said the baby was quite contagious and I should get it checked if I feel sick. But I hate the patronizing when I go to the internal medicine doctors in this situation. Unless I have it, and then they'll be quite pleased I came in.
Plugged duct. The same one that got plugged repeatedly/recurrently/persistently with the pumping. Now on plug #3, but I should probably just stop counting. I had blamed it on the pump apparatus, but clearly that isn't it. I can't "position the baby so that the chin is on the affected duct" because it's right on the top, and for some reason she doesn't want to eat while standing on her head. Bah.
Hugs for everybody, cortisone cream for Sue
And a vote for mullet for esperanza for "I can't "position the baby so that the chin is on the affected duct" because it's right on the top, and for some reason she doesn't want to eat while standing on her head."
And it looks like several folks are remembering what it's all about today.
Thanks for the kind thoughts, Sarah. It is a weird time.
Esperanza, can you press gently on the plug while the baby nurses? Maybe hold a warm wet washcloth on the spot? It sounds like you are prone to plugs. I was too, but there is hope. When your supply mellows (and it will), the plugs get less frequent.
BTW, the reason I am occasionally posting as anonymous is because I'm posting from my phone and sometimes the name/URL option doesn't work from my phone. Ah, the hardships of privilege.
Amy
Thanks Amy. I'm still covering myself (mostly my ribcage on both sides) with cortisone cream. No rash that's visible, but seriously itchy. Bizarre. I'm thinking leftover effect of fever.
Aside from a head that resembles a running tap, I actually feel closer to human-like this morning. Last night was the first night I've had a good sleep, so that helps. Keeping up the fluids etc and lots of sleep. I'm not really planning on going anywhere until Sunday.
Whine: I think I mentioned this already. Sunday? The (amalgamation) VOTE. Great time to be sick Sue, juuuuuust great.
Esperanza: It's Lent? Crap. I forgot.... And yes, definite vote for Mullet. No question.
Amy - all these years later, I still remember the weaning times with both boys. There's such a mix of emotions, not to mention possible engorgement (ick). Be good to yourself and remember that you are a great Mom. All the time.
Thanks pixies for all your love and support. Even Teh Bleh of 2010 is made better with Pixie Magic.
I just re-read that: That last statement, on this much cold medicine, translates in "Closing The Bar" language to "I love you guys" as the door to the taxi door slams behind me......
...not that I would know anything about that sort of thing, of course...
Sue, I'm not entirely sure what you are talking about, but I love you, too. I hope the cold medicine is making you pleasantly loopy.
Sue, have you seen a doctor yet? Fever+Rash+SeveralDays=TimeForMedicalOpinion.
The hubby and the boy were in court today(yesterday? tomorrow? Time(zone) travel confuses me) and we've got the decree. Just waiting on immigration papers! Yes!
Esperanza for mullet.
Sue for a closing the bar down one way or another award.
Hooray for Days' little boy!
Yay!
WOOT woot woot for days, and the entire days family!!!!! brand new pixie, incoming! happy dance!!!
another mullet vote for esperanza, and wishes for relief soon. ouch!
hugs to amy and teh weaning sad/gladness. there really should be a special prize for completely unacceptable emergency fem hygeine products AND bad cookies.
oh, sarah -- it sounds like that thing has really gone around your house in a bad way....
sue, liz has a point about the ick fever rash itch x lasting so long. [although the mean and thoughtless and juvenile and irresponsible part of me wants you to go breathe on the jerks in your work life, should you still be contagious. good thing i don't let her speak up very often.]
speaking of contagious illnesses, my son left work sick and wanted to come home. so he is busy watching TV and filling my house with germs. the TV has done a lot for the crankiness, which is a relief, because he is just not as cute and loveable when sick as he was in toddlerhood.
Ain't it the truth award to Kathy A. for "...he is just not as cute and loveable when sick as he was in toddlerhood"
sick toddlers are supposed to be cute and loveable? Crap.
Also, re: plugged duct, now healed (I'm sure only temporarily). I have tried the moist heat and the (ouch, that hurts) massage while nursing, to no success. Seems that the only thing that works is time. I also think it may only be partially blocked, b/c there is some relief after each feeding but it isn't gone completely (I can feel it w/my fingers). Anyway.
Also, yippee! Days! and family! especially new son! Yippee!
Madeleine, I was referring to how appreciative I am of all your pixie support. When I went back to read it, all I could picture was a very loopy person with too many martinis pointing to everyone at the table saying "I love you guys...."
Silly. I know.
And yes. thank goodness for cold meds. at least it makes me sleepy.
Liz - I just had that conversation with hubby. Too late of course, but I was wondering aloud if I should have asked for some tamiflu or something on Monday. Might have made the rest of the week more tolerable. 20/20 hindsight....
As for the itchy/scratchy - I agree. I'll get it looked at tomorrow. Right now it's a pinky tone compared to the horrifyingly pale skin around it. And I"m running out of cortisone cream.
Yay Yay Yay for Days!!!!!!
*snicker* biological warfare against church stupidity - that would be a first kathy a.
Congrats to Days! Many happy days ahead! (sorry can't resist the pun)
Get better Sue. I feel better for having gone to a quickie care clinic and having the rapid strep test done. I do not have strep. A small ear infection, perhaps, but we'll take the wait and see on that one.
I am officially single again, as of tonight. And, wow, am I sad about it.
Apparently living 4300 miles apart is something that can only be sustained for eight months and nine days before you crack.
Sue and Sarah, feel better. Yay, days!
Aw, Redzils, that sucks. I'm sorry. Want to swing this way? I'll buy you some beers and you can cuddle the cats?
so sorry, dr. r.
Redzils, much sadness.
Awards probably later today, so keep whining a bit longer. A few of us definitely could use it.
Redzils,
so sorry!
--Neighbor Lady
Many hugs Redzils.
((( redzils )))
Aw redzils, I'm so sorry. Sending cyber chocolate chunk ice cream.
choc chunk is very good, but i find mint choc chip to be most therapeutic.
Oh, redzils. :( I make a mean margarita if so required.
Thanks,all. The ice cream sounds good, but the margaritas sound better.
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