Sick!
OK, it's official. David gave me his cold!
I felt it coming on this morning, with a sore throat, and by 2 p.m. I had fever/chills, the whole deal. I fell onto the couch and wove in and out of sleep for awhile...it sounded like there was good news on the radio about a court ruling and the Patriot Act...and Pavarotti died, which is quite sad. :-( So I know there was a lot of opera kept fading in and out.
I eventually got up and slugged down some cold meds, along with some Benadryl. I got bitten by bugs when we went out of ice cream...I have over 20 bites
on both my legs, from mid-shin down, and they itch like crazy. So instead of keeping them soaked in Cortisol all the time, I'm going to a systemic suppression. Did I ever mention how much I hate mosquitoes? Now let's add the fact that I'm allergic to them, so the bites are as big as quarters, all swollen up, and they'll be there for about two weeks. Urgh!
Met Jen again for breakfast this morning (before I thought I was going to die), and we hung out for a few hours. I introduced her to Word Girl and The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd, neither of which she'd known about before. And quite serendipitously, Word Girl was even featured on Talk of the Nation, though I was too zonked to really hear it.
Word Girl is one of PBS' attempts to raise vocabulary...and it's really quite cute. We have 5th grader Becky, who is really Word Girl from Planet Lexicon. She fights evil-doers like The Butcher, a crook who "butchers" the English language. (He mangles words or makes them up altogether.) Or Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy. (See, he sometimes has a hard time coming up with the right word for the occasion, hence the name.)
David asked me awhile ago, "Mom, do you like Word Girl?"
"Honey," I said, "Your mom IS Word Girl!"
Our boat trip today was canceled, due to rain.
I felt it coming on this morning, with a sore throat, and by 2 p.m. I had fever/chills, the whole deal. I fell onto the couch and wove in and out of sleep for awhile...it sounded like there was good news on the radio about a court ruling and the Patriot Act...and Pavarotti died, which is quite sad. :-( So I know there was a lot of opera kept fading in and out.
I eventually got up and slugged down some cold meds, along with some Benadryl. I got bitten by bugs when we went out of ice cream...I have over 20 bites
on both my legs, from mid-shin down, and they itch like crazy. So instead of keeping them soaked in Cortisol all the time, I'm going to a systemic suppression. Did I ever mention how much I hate mosquitoes? Now let's add the fact that I'm allergic to them, so the bites are as big as quarters, all swollen up, and they'll be there for about two weeks. Urgh!
Met Jen again for breakfast this morning (before I thought I was going to die), and we hung out for a few hours. I introduced her to Word Girl and The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd, neither of which she'd known about before. And quite serendipitously, Word Girl was even featured on Talk of the Nation, though I was too zonked to really hear it.
Word Girl is one of PBS' attempts to raise vocabulary...and it's really quite cute. We have 5th grader Becky, who is really Word Girl from Planet Lexicon. She fights evil-doers like The Butcher, a crook who "butchers" the English language. (He mangles words or makes them up altogether.) Or Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy. (See, he sometimes has a hard time coming up with the right word for the occasion, hence the name.)
David asked me awhile ago, "Mom, do you like Word Girl?"
"Honey," I said, "Your mom IS Word Girl!"
Our boat trip today was canceled, due to rain.
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