Charming, no?

for the love of Pete

another weekend come and gone and another round of sick kid.  My poor boy.  Got a fever Saturday and is riding out another round of this virus.  It just wont kick.  I'm so tired of him being sick.  You worry your self sick when they get fevers and you just get tired of sickness in general.  Im worried Im going to get sick, my husband is going to get sick.  Then my poor boy will get sick again.  Its been a long road of late.

Im just kind of tired of having to be strong.  I want a small period of not strong.  just calm and let someone else handle it.  There is no break and no one is going to swoop into rescue me.  Time to suck it up again, sorry for the short lapse into sorry-for-my-selfness.

In happier, less whiny notes, I have made the monumental mistake of agreeing to coach my son's preschool soccer team.  me and 12 4-5 year olds. I played in high school, but I was terrible.  My husband was very talented, but he works evenings so I am not looking for much help there. My sister-in-law graciously offered to help, she helped coach our nephew when he was that age, but her work schedule may not allow her to help all the time. So I hope to have many hilarious and not at all horrifying episodes to relate in the coming 10 weeks. Oh God,what have I signed up for???

what I'm reading...7.6.12

I'm trying to see what I read in a year and I lack the discipline to log into Goodreads or LibraryThing on a regular basis, so I'll note these things here.

Yesterday, I finished Stalking the Others by Jess Haines.  This is a really fun series.

Today, Im starting the Wolf Gift by Anne Rice.  I love love loved Anne Rice's vampire books, so I'll give this one a shake.

move already

its early afternoon and I am taking a brief break at work and banging out a quick post to get things off my mind.  I think of this as my to do list, without any of the organization.  Today is quickly spiraling into a rotten one.  Got my son up to take to my mom's this morning and he had a fever.  So I gave him some advil.  Which he promptly threw up while I was getting my lunch ready.  This caused me to wake up my 3d shift-y working husband to stay with him, which almost made me late to work.  I managed to get a dr appt for Jack, but its at the farthest office, since the closest is inexplicably closed.  Everyone is tense, frustrated, etc.  I can't send him to my mom or a sitter sick of course, but I am not exactly lousy with sick leave either.  If everyone could just stay healthy for 5 minutes maybe I could build some up, but it doesnt look good.

Still trying to get my house under control.  its not going well.  The garage sale really took a strange toll on our place.  I can't get it back to rights.  The biggest plus of that though is my treadmill has been unearthed!  I've started the couch to 5k program and have gone about 3 days.  I am looking strangely forward to it.  I dont know if it is just my personality type or everyone just reaches these points, but I am ready to work out.  Its not about losing weight exactly, though God knows I need to.  Im just ready to do it.  I was like this with smoking too.  Once it was time to quit, I did.

Update:  since I never got around to posting this, I can update by saying that my kid is still sick, and headed back to the doctor today.  Poor kid has had a fever all week.  He's desperate to go to school, which is nice, but not practical.  I HATE the parents who bring their kids sick, as mine inevitably gets whatever it is they have.  So, more to come on that front.  On a more positive note, I have completed day 4 of the Couch to 5K program.  progress.
more to come....

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