Slow walkers, colds, and volleyball
Just a few thoughts from the week…none of which deserve a full post…
Just like when driving, if you are a slow walker, you should stay to the right. I walk several blocks to/from my car for work and constantly get stuck by two people walking slooowly, taking up the entire extra wide sidewalk. Or at least enough of it that it would feel rude to squeeze past them. (it’s not the same people each time, but there are regular offenders) You should at least leave room so that if someone were coming towards you, they can get past without having to turn sideways. I’m a fast walker naturally, but when it’s two degrees outside, I really would like to speedwalk past you to get out of the cold-ass weather. At the very least, if you hear someone’s obviously footfalls 2 feet behind you, skooch over a bit. K-thanks.
Jenson spiked a fever of 102.5 on Wednesday, so we took him to the Dr. and he has an ear infection. The Dr. couldn’t see in the other ear because he has wax in the ear canal (can’t exactly dig that out), so it could be in both. So he’s on a wax softener and antibiotics – as Lo said – he gets to start building his immunity to antibiotics. It’s the pink stuff – I remember that tasting good as a kid, and he loved it. He pointed to the bottle and whined “more” until we put it away. Junkie. He did the same with the dissolving anti-nausea pills.
(Feeling bad after his appt)
(feeling better on Thursday, obviously)
I was home with him on Thursday because he was probably still contagious. I woke up feeling awful that morning – cold symptoms – probably the same that he had at the end of last week and early this week (which eventually led to the ear infection) – and that he had given Lo at the beginning of the week. I haven’t been sick in a LONG time (not counting when I found out I was pregnant, because who knows what that was about), but I felt much better after I took the good red pills (Sudafed? The stuff that you have to get from behind the pharm counter because, meth) and after we took a long nap together. That morning before Lo left, I was sitting with Jenson, feeling awful myself, and asked Jenson if he’d take 6 naps with me, and he said “no” without hesitation. He didn’t answer when I asked about two, so I was hoping I could get that from him! He didn’t have a fever most of the day – he was just extra clingy. I mostly don’t mind that – we read lots of books. His/our first nap was so early (830 or 9ish?) so I tried to get him to take a second nap later, but could not force that on him. I tried everything and he was tired and cranky. He perked up when Lo got home, and went to bed easily while I was at volleyball. I did see him pull on his ear during swimming the night before and mentioned it to Lo, but it’s likely he had water in there, so we didn’t think much of it. The Dr. said the swimming class wouldn’t have caused it or made it worse – completely unrelated. Speaking of, he’s getting more used to the class and seems to get excited more quickly once he’s in the water now.
Lo said he always thinks when I have a rough day at home with Jenson (when he sick and fussy) that I’ll be like, um…I don’t really want to stop working. Absolutely not. I know once I’m home there will be days that I have some regret and wonder if I shouldn’t have given up my career…but compared to now…when I have regret every day for going to work, I think it’s worth it. It will be worth it for our family. I can always get another job later on. I’ll be giving up a great job…but it’s not my dream job. (there’s no set timeline for this happening – mostly depends on when we find a house that we want, and we are being picky).
It’s kind of a bad time for a cold for me because it’s a busy weekend –the worst of it seems to have passed for me…just sinus junk now. I had a volleyball game last night (well, every Thursday), but luckily I felt great by game time. I had a girls’ night at a friend’s house with volleyball ladies on Friday, Lo and I have Jack White concert tickets (singer from the White Stripes) on Saturday, and I’m playing in a volleyball tournament on Sunday.
I’m nervous about that tournament. I haven’t played in a tourney in 4 years. I missed 2 years from when my elbow was junky, 1 year being pregnant, and last year I wasn’t ready to leave him for the entire day and have to worry about pumping during a tournament. I already had a nursing pad fall out while playing in a volleyball league…I didn’t need any more boob-related awkwardness on the court. I’m excited to play with this team though – I really like everyone (at least the ones that I know are playing). I just hope I don’t suck for them and run out of stamina, now that I have more lazy lunches than workout lunches. I know I can handle 1-2 games easily…but 4-6 get a little tiring.
That’s about all. I don’t really care about the superbowl this year. I’m sure I’ll watch, but, eh….