Author: Doris

It’s Friday night and Vince is out watching Captain America.  Yesterday, only me, Vince and Edda had dinner and we tried Marie Callender’s Chicken Pot Pie.  We were underwhelmed.  I remember these being so good when I was a kid, but I think we aren’t going to get them anymore.  We might have to try Stouffer’s French Bread Pizza next week.  Though Vince suggested that we have Hot Pocket night.  Mmmmmm, the ham and cheese ones are pretty good.  Without Jeremy at dinner, my desire to make something plummets.  Tonight Jeremy was at dinner and I made a delicious pork shoulder in adobo sauce.

Today, the sun came out after two weeks of rain.  This is going to be a banner year for my peonies!  Excited!

I spent some time today at Nordstrom Rack trying to find shoes for Edda’s new ankle foot brace.  It’s not as easy as it looks.

I think this is as good as it gets.

OK, SNL made fun of my haircut.  At least I don’t wear the mom shorts.

Edda is finally really, really well.  She laughed and laughed while I gave her a shower, lots of smiles.  She’s eating well and having a good time.

Speaking of showers, we had the durable medical equipment guys come in today and measure for a bath chair.  I’m hoping insurance will pay for this beauty…

Edda did go back to school today, but she still seemed a bit wobbly. Because I had finals and wouldn’t be able to pick Edda up if she couldn’t last the day, Jeremy worked from home.  The change of the au pair room into his study is complete (almost).  It has even a Maxi-resting chair in there and last night, when Jeremy couldn’t sleep because his mind was swirling with work crap, he started work at 3:30 am.  Crazy.  My husband loves to think about his work during non-work hours.

Maxi has a whole new life now, she sleeps with Vince at night and not us anymore and she hangs out in the room she’s never been allowed in her whole life.  I just hope she’s not peeing everywhere.

School has been so relaxed for me this term, many weeks I barely knew I was in school.  I will say the first two years were stressful for me (this is my third year out of four), I was carrying too many classes and the classes were way more work than I wanted them to be, I was blindsided.  And then I volunteered to do too much tutoring/teaching.  Anyways – this term, I didn’t make any close friends, I didn’t do any extra work, I didn’t work weekends, I studied so little for the exams, I put what I considered the minimum amount of work for projects and I just skated through this semester.  I’m not sure this was the best tactic, but it’s what I did.

Tonight, Jeremy took me on a date to help Rockville develop a master plan for 2040.

We ended up in the traffic and transportation break out session – it’s a little weird to be talking about buses or whatnot when we all know that we are all going to just call up self-driving cars from our phones by 2040.

Edda stayed home today – though Jeremy took her to get her new ankle-foot-orthotics in the early morning.  They don’t look super comfortable to me and now we need to find a pair of shoes that these can slip into.  I’m afraid the shoes that we’ll be able to find won’t be very attractive.

I want them to fit into shoes like these!  These are my Mother’s Day gift.  They glow in the dark too.

Boo ya – this flu/cold/combo is never ending.

Jeremy made some delicious blueberry loaves for brunch this morning.   Edda is still the sickest one of us, alternately shivering from her cold and then puking.

The rest of us also napped with her.

Vince flossed her teeth because some stuff was stuck in her mouth.

My kids crawled into bed with me and indulged me by watching Legally Blonde.

Everyone is recovering nicely, though everyone except me has taken ibuprofen today.  I’m looking forward to going on a run tomorrow after many, many days off.   I’ve lost four or five pounds this week, which mostly I was sad to see go because I patiently built up all this random muscle strength via running, jump roping, weight lifting and it just goes away with a few days of excess video watching and sleeping and virus fighting, but also makes me slightly uplifted because, as most girls know, you can never quite rid yourself of wanting that number on the scale to go down a la Romy & Michele’s HS reunion – Michele: Remember the prom? You got so thin by then. Romy: Oh, I know. I was so lucky getting mono. That was like the best diet ever.

We bumped into Sophie again who admired Ruby.

I had unsubscribed from Netflix a few months ago because we were getting the same videos from Amazon Prime and I watch so little TV, I thought saving the 10 dollars a month was worth it.  But it turns out when you are sick, all you want to do it watch videos and the UI for Amazon was killing me softly.  I would watch a video, then fall asleep, then not be able to find it again when I wanted to.   And I couldn’t browse efficiently.  When I’m sick, I almost like browsing more than enjoy watching the movies themselves – I like reveling in the endless possibilities. Argh.  Also, I missed the auto-next video Netflix has so I can just turn it on and let Edda binge watch from 4:30-6:30 am while I sleep next to her.

I went to bed early last night, so I forgot that Jeremy had a VIM (very important meeting) today because I didn’t have a chance to catch up with Jeremy when he came home after a meeting he had last night.  Edda was up all night – just talking – and getting slightly warm and sick again and I punted on taking care of her.  I just couldn’t bring myself to manage Edda in my sleepy/sick state and I made Jeremy do it (even though I knew he was getting sick too).  I’d like to think I would have not punted if I had remembered the VIM today.

Then we were all up at 6:20 am trying to decide if Edda was well enough to send to school with a prophylactic course of Motrin.  We decided to keep her home – with the other sick kid taking care of her.  Ibuprofen cocktails all around.  Hopefully we’ll all be well by Mother’s Day.

We are falling over like dominos.  I’ve been feeling crappy since Monday night.  Now Vince and Jeremy seem to be not feeling well.  But we are all still trucking along – still working, trying to go to bed at 8:30 pm.  Blech.

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We are juggling around dinner duties.  Vince has Wed night – this is what he made.  Udon noodles:

With various toppings – spinach, mushroom, pork, eggs, shrimp.  And a bunch of fried rice.

Vince got some blood drawn today for routine tests for his annual checkup.  He had to fast for the lipid tests – but we replenished his lipids right after we left the testing center.

Jeremy orders olive oil online.  They’ve usually arrived OK, but this time, one of them broke.

Who’s that in my bed?

Sweeties!

I am a little sick today – but nothing 2 Motrin didn’t take care of.  I think I’m on the upswing, maybe. We managed to have a one block walk tonight with the doggies.  We bumped into Alice and Sophie.