lainiefig
Cathlete
OK, now it could have been worse. No one is seriously ill and I have no newly dead relatives, but this has been a terrible awful week. I hesitated to vent, but this is such a fun place to vent, and looking back, it's kind of funny how terrible it's been in a mostly petty way.
Monday: not bad, did the back and shoulders split from Amy Bento's Slo-Mo Strength Challenge. Good stuff.
Tuesday: Lots of snow before DH came home. I had to shovel twice so that he could get in the driveway. Of course, I was using my back and shoulders when shoveling and they were still sore from the day before. Ouch.
Wednesday: Here's where things started really going downhill. After the snow of Tuesday, we had warm rain on Wednesday--lots of it. So the melting snow and new rain flooded my basement. Luckily it's unfinished basement but we still store some stuff down there. So I spent much of the day moving things around and scooping water out of there. Finally the sump pump caught up and drained most of the water. That was bad enough, but that evening, my 5-year old son got sick. He had a high fever and cold symptoms. Now I'm thankful it didn't also involve puking, which really would have made my week. I put the kids to bed and then proceeded to fall all the way down the stairs--from the top step I slid all the way down along my right side. Major pain ensued. Had to sleep entirely on left side.
Thursday: Woke up still in pain. Then I realized we had no hot water--the pilot light was out, probably due to all the water we'd had in the basement where the hot water heater is located. I went and tried to light it--couldn't figure it out (I'm such a dork). So I was in pain, had my sick kid at home along with my 2-year old who was also snotty but not feverish, and no hot water. It was a long day. DH came home and he couldn't light the pilot light either.
Friday: DS still sick, but we managed to take the little one to nursery school for a couple hours. While he was there, the big one and I went to the grocery store (just for pantry stuff) and the doctor (to check my injuries--still need to get an x-ray). Then we picked up the little one and went back to another grocery store for my prescription and the fresh/frozen groceries. Long morning. Came home to where we still didn't have hot water. Finally I managed to light the pilot light, though, and there was much rejoicing. DH said he would come home and take us out to dinner. Then it took him an hour to get home (instead of the expected 20-30 minutes) and we decided it was too late to go out so I had to make dinner. I'd already dressed up for going out. *sigh*
Saturday: Finally, it's Saturday. Next week has got to be better, right? Now we have hot water, at least (but I'm still sore and now both kids are sick).
Sorry for the long vent. My thanks if you managed to make it through all that. If you didn't here's a recap: sick kids, shoveled snow, flooded basement, no hot water, fell down stairs, no dinner out as hoped. That about covers it.
[font face="comic sans ms" font color=purple]***Lainie***
My fitness blog: http://fitnessfig.blogspot.com/ http://bestsmileys.com/exercising/7.gif
If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Her your plans.[/font]
Monday: not bad, did the back and shoulders split from Amy Bento's Slo-Mo Strength Challenge. Good stuff.
Tuesday: Lots of snow before DH came home. I had to shovel twice so that he could get in the driveway. Of course, I was using my back and shoulders when shoveling and they were still sore from the day before. Ouch.
Wednesday: Here's where things started really going downhill. After the snow of Tuesday, we had warm rain on Wednesday--lots of it. So the melting snow and new rain flooded my basement. Luckily it's unfinished basement but we still store some stuff down there. So I spent much of the day moving things around and scooping water out of there. Finally the sump pump caught up and drained most of the water. That was bad enough, but that evening, my 5-year old son got sick. He had a high fever and cold symptoms. Now I'm thankful it didn't also involve puking, which really would have made my week. I put the kids to bed and then proceeded to fall all the way down the stairs--from the top step I slid all the way down along my right side. Major pain ensued. Had to sleep entirely on left side.
Thursday: Woke up still in pain. Then I realized we had no hot water--the pilot light was out, probably due to all the water we'd had in the basement where the hot water heater is located. I went and tried to light it--couldn't figure it out (I'm such a dork). So I was in pain, had my sick kid at home along with my 2-year old who was also snotty but not feverish, and no hot water. It was a long day. DH came home and he couldn't light the pilot light either.
Friday: DS still sick, but we managed to take the little one to nursery school for a couple hours. While he was there, the big one and I went to the grocery store (just for pantry stuff) and the doctor (to check my injuries--still need to get an x-ray). Then we picked up the little one and went back to another grocery store for my prescription and the fresh/frozen groceries. Long morning. Came home to where we still didn't have hot water. Finally I managed to light the pilot light, though, and there was much rejoicing. DH said he would come home and take us out to dinner. Then it took him an hour to get home (instead of the expected 20-30 minutes) and we decided it was too late to go out so I had to make dinner. I'd already dressed up for going out. *sigh*
Saturday: Finally, it's Saturday. Next week has got to be better, right? Now we have hot water, at least (but I'm still sore and now both kids are sick).
Sorry for the long vent. My thanks if you managed to make it through all that. If you didn't here's a recap: sick kids, shoveled snow, flooded basement, no hot water, fell down stairs, no dinner out as hoped. That about covers it.
[font face="comic sans ms" font color=purple]***Lainie***
My fitness blog: http://fitnessfig.blogspot.com/ http://bestsmileys.com/exercising/7.gif
If you want to give God a good laugh, tell Her your plans.[/font]
