An.. interesting long weekend
Mar. 16th, 2010 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hkellickK has had the Cold of Doom (if it's a cold. Maybe it isn't) since last Wednesday. What started out as a sort throat and stuffy nose has gone into an ugly cough and blood shot eyes.
Friday morning, she hit her limit. The baby had been fussy during the night and she was tired and sick and blah. She begged me to stay home and help with the boy, so I checked my PTO and made it happen.
Amusingly, Friday morning while unable to sleep, I was busy thinking of a game I hadn't played in a while, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I hadn't played it.. probably in over a year and I suddenly wanted to play it.
So Friday, while K and the baby slept and watched TV, I played. And played. And played.
Saturday was better, in general. K still had (has) the sick of doom, but the baby was less fussy, at least. We didn't do much, but we enjoyed what we did do.
Sunday, the sick got worse. She woke up coughing like crazy. We had thought of going to Babies R Us to get a swing, but we didn't. We sat and watched TV instead (I found a red box and rented "Time Traveler's Wife" for her. She enjoyed it.) and took care of the baby.
Sunday night, about 7 (as I was beginning to feel tired.),kareila calls to remind me that ChaoticMUX is going down "for good" (except maybe not.)
At first, it's like "Eh. Whatever. I'm tired. It's been a long day." but then a few minutes later I decide I may as well go in and be there, if only for a bit.
You know.. when we all got together for the LAST "ChaoticMUX is dying" party about two years ago, it felt special. Alot of people I was (at least once upon a time) close to made an appearance, if only for a bit, and for a little bit, that old ChaoticMUX magic, the place that made the place special to me, was in the air.
This time.. not so much. It felt empty. Maybe it had been busier earlier. I dunno.
ChaoticMUX feels like a lifetime ago. It WAS important. If ChaoticMUX hadn't happened, my life wouldn't be what my life is. But.. it's existence (or lack thereof) no longer really applies to my life. I kept the friends I kept. They're still important to me. The rest of it.. is another lifetime ago.
Yesterday, the Squirm had an Orthopedist appointment and I wanted to be there for that. The Orthopedist felt very positive about Mr. Robert. He moved his palm, his fingers, his wrists, his neck. She noticed movement between the thumb and pinky which could be used later to help him learn how to do things two handed. All in all, she felt very positive he'd grow to learn how to use two hands. She said she didn't need to see him again until he was a year old, and then only to start training us, her parents, on how to train him on how to use both hands properly.
Got home from the appointment, K went to sleep and when she woke up she screamed for me to come up. Her eyes had gummed together and she was freaking out that she could have pinkeye. She ended up calling her mom who suggested that it was probably the same sick she's had for six days today and that it had infected her eyes, which is not good, but a whole lot better than pinkeye.
(Meanwhile, though all of this, while K is suffering this horrid cold, I've had the occasional sore throat and runny nose, but nothing half so horrible as her. Knock in wood that it stays this way and we can figure out (or the doctor can offer suggestions on) how to strengthen her immune system.
Today, I am back at work. I have real work to do. Today, my wife is going to the doctors to check out the cold (if it is a cold.)
That's pretty much it from over here.
EDIT: I also joinedliv's friending meme over here.
Friday morning, she hit her limit. The baby had been fussy during the night and she was tired and sick and blah. She begged me to stay home and help with the boy, so I checked my PTO and made it happen.
Amusingly, Friday morning while unable to sleep, I was busy thinking of a game I hadn't played in a while, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. I hadn't played it.. probably in over a year and I suddenly wanted to play it.
So Friday, while K and the baby slept and watched TV, I played. And played. And played.
Saturday was better, in general. K still had (has) the sick of doom, but the baby was less fussy, at least. We didn't do much, but we enjoyed what we did do.
Sunday, the sick got worse. She woke up coughing like crazy. We had thought of going to Babies R Us to get a swing, but we didn't. We sat and watched TV instead (I found a red box and rented "Time Traveler's Wife" for her. She enjoyed it.) and took care of the baby.
Sunday night, about 7 (as I was beginning to feel tired.),
kareila calls to remind me that ChaoticMUX is going down "for good" (except maybe not.)At first, it's like "Eh. Whatever. I'm tired. It's been a long day." but then a few minutes later I decide I may as well go in and be there, if only for a bit.
You know.. when we all got together for the LAST "ChaoticMUX is dying" party about two years ago, it felt special. Alot of people I was (at least once upon a time) close to made an appearance, if only for a bit, and for a little bit, that old ChaoticMUX magic, the place that made the place special to me, was in the air.
This time.. not so much. It felt empty. Maybe it had been busier earlier. I dunno.
ChaoticMUX feels like a lifetime ago. It WAS important. If ChaoticMUX hadn't happened, my life wouldn't be what my life is. But.. it's existence (or lack thereof) no longer really applies to my life. I kept the friends I kept. They're still important to me. The rest of it.. is another lifetime ago.
Yesterday, the Squirm had an Orthopedist appointment and I wanted to be there for that. The Orthopedist felt very positive about Mr. Robert. He moved his palm, his fingers, his wrists, his neck. She noticed movement between the thumb and pinky which could be used later to help him learn how to do things two handed. All in all, she felt very positive he'd grow to learn how to use two hands. She said she didn't need to see him again until he was a year old, and then only to start training us, her parents, on how to train him on how to use both hands properly.
Got home from the appointment, K went to sleep and when she woke up she screamed for me to come up. Her eyes had gummed together and she was freaking out that she could have pinkeye. She ended up calling her mom who suggested that it was probably the same sick she's had for six days today and that it had infected her eyes, which is not good, but a whole lot better than pinkeye.
(Meanwhile, though all of this, while K is suffering this horrid cold, I've had the occasional sore throat and runny nose, but nothing half so horrible as her. Knock in wood that it stays this way and we can figure out (or the doctor can offer suggestions on) how to strengthen her immune system.
Today, I am back at work. I have real work to do. Today, my wife is going to the doctors to check out the cold (if it is a cold.)
That's pretty much it from over here.
EDIT: I also joined
liv's friending meme over here.