You know what two things don’t go together well? Sort of like the polar opposite of peanut butter and chocolate? Nausea and hunger. I don’t get sick that often, and then when I do, nausea very rarely enters the picture. What sucks about this scenario is that I am perpetually hungry. It’s been very difficult to lose weight as I get older and my metabolism has slowed. I’m always hungry. Now I’m also nauseas on top of being hungry.
Right now I’m sick. I’m sick to the point where I can hardly think let alone get work done. This blog post is going to be written in about 2 or 3 minute bursts as I am able to muster concentration.
A couple of weeks ago my daughter missed a week of school because she got sick. Then she wound up giving it to my wife, who is pregnant. Some of you are well aware of that being pregnant and sick is a horrible combination. My poor wife has had a rough pregnancy (though not her worst) but involved a few months of serious morning sickness (though morning is a relative term). Now she finally gets past this part of her pregnancy and now has a massive head cold coupled with some stomach thing.
Now she’s given it to me.
Wow – started this on Friday, and as I write this now it’s Monday. I’m feeling better, but I am beat. Today has already been a long day, and it’s not even noon. I’ll try and wrap this up though before I completely lose focus.
Saturday my daughter was attending a birthday party a couple of blocks away from our local fire station, which was having an open house. After the party I took August, Déla and Ciaran to the fire station after picking her up. Fortunately, the kids have begun feeling better at this point, but I have been full on sick. What was cool about this fire station open house was that everything was open. The kids got to poke around the whole of the fire engine, try on helmets, and more. I even got to sit behind the steering wheel of the fire engine. I just wish I was feeling better so that I could appreciate just how cool it all was.
Maybe I should just end this and cut my losses. This blog post meanders around and sort of lost its meaning. Thing is, I should completely delete this and start over, because this is a really poor entry. Then again, this serves as an example of why I haven’t been able to get anything done in the last few days.