umm, what?

it’s 5:35am. and i’m awake. and my son’s not.
what’s wrong with this picture?

i had the worst night’s sleep ever. i’m not even really sure i slept much at all. well, i know i did at some point, because i had more tornado dreams. why is it that when i have them, there’s never just ONE tornado? there’s either a grouping all at once, or there’s one and as soon as it’s gone we have to run from the next one. it’s gay.

i’m in bed (matt’s snoring next to me) because tim slept on the couch so i can’t use the computer or TV and i don’t know what to do with myself that won’t make noise. i feel like i’m in a hospital bed right now. because, on my night stand, are two prescription bottles (both matts – one antibiotic, one coughing pearls), a bottle of ibuprofen, a box of sudafed, a box of tylenol cold & sinus, a bottle of nyquil, a bag of cough drops, a box of tissues, and more glasses and mugs filled with misc fluids than i can count (containing everything from water, to juice, to gatorade, to clear pop, to tea). i think it’s fairly obvious that we have been trying it ALL!

whatever we have is freaking nasty. there’s no nausea or poops involved (sorry, had to say it), and thank goodness for that. but everything else? yeah. EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS. we’ve all had fevers, which makes us think flu…..and to be quite honest? i kind of hope it is. because if that’s the case, luke’s had his flu shot and will more than likely fight this off. otherwise…he’s doomed, since he’s been taken care of by 4 sick adults for the last 2 weeks. i will suffer through this, but it will absolutely tear my heart out of my baby has to, also.

and another thing to note? it has a kind of slow onset (i didn’t come down with it until 6 days after matt did, and it took a full day to full develop into being completely sick), but after that? it just absolutely ravages you. it travels. as soon as one symptom feels better, another starts up. and for matt, it traveled to his ears. he has TWO terrible ear infections. and me? wellll…..i’m pretty sure it’s traveling to my eyes. i’m not 100%, and i’m going to watch it today….but when i woke up my left eye was absolutely fillllled with tears and goop. as soon as i woke up my thought was "pink eye"…but since i’ve wiped it nothing else has seeped out. so, maybe not. we’ll find out, i suppose.

it’s still snowing. it was supposed to wind down by 6pm yesterday. then they bumped it to midnight. and when i just got up to go load up on my drugs, it was still snowing. def not as heavily as yesterday since the snowblowing tim did last night doesn’t seem to be completely un-done, but def still snowing.

i need to paint my nails. badly. i haven’t painted them since christmas eve, and the leftovers of that paint job are still hangin’ out on my nails. yeah. that should give you a hint as to how completely nasty they are.

i’m kind of nervous for this week. i’m not going to have any help with the baby. it’s really freaking hard to relax and nap and try to get better with an almost-toddler. matt goes back to work, my mom goes back to work, tim goes back to work, mal goes back to work….ugh! matt’s mom offered to help…but in order to get that help i have to go to her house. sooo nooot worth it. not only could i not get comfortable there, can you imagine the packing efforts i’d have to do? no thanks. i’d rather deal with it myself here. i’ll just nap when he does, i guess. and i’m gonna need it after the night’s sleep i just had.

yesterday, after searching all my fav crafty blogs i was so utterly inspired to create something that i felt like i just had to get up and do it. i wanted something to get my mind off how horrible i felt. i still felt completely terrible. it sucked being upright and thinking that long. but, it turned out SUPER CUTE. i’m going to take pictures but i can’t post them just yet because it’s for someone!

ugh….what i wouldn’t give to take more nyquil and let it knock me out again. ibuprofen has been a really huge help, and now sudafed is working it’s magic….but nyquil is just, pimp. no way i could stay awake enough to take care of luke if i took it, though.

i should stop talking about being sick, it’s annoying. peace.