I’ve got a @#$$! stomach bug.

I woke up this morning with a pain in my bladder, I’ve been battling a mild UTI, but it had pretty much cleared up, but I got up to go to the bathroom and I could feel the blood rushing out of my head and I got really light headed, I hadn’t felt this bad in a while. But after a good time on the loo and a long hot bath, I feel fine, just peachy. I’m still a bit queasy, but otherwise, no fever, no more cramping, I even managed to eat some lunch. Could I be pregnant? Nooooo…. not a chance, well, hardly a chance.

Jeremy’s out with Vince buying the bike that he had his meltdown about almost 2 months ago. Vince has not for a minute forgotten our promise of getting a bike in Singapore and he ogles every bike he sees and whenever he sees any for sale, he’s there. He’s THERE! I pretty much opted to stay home as I like the security of a toilet less than 20 feet away from my body.

Vince is almost 100% better, so maybe 85% or 90%. That would be 9/10 better or 85/100 which could be simplified to by dividing the numerator and denominator by 5. He’s still coughing a little, but the fever has left for another world.

Vince. Sick, Taxi. Home.

So Vince got sick at school today and started mumbling about wanting to go home, so I picked him up in a taxi at about 3 this afternoon. He’s a bit sick and homesick at the same time. I have a feeling that I’ll pull him from the all day childcare and have him come home after lunch. This 8-5 deal is too much a shock to the system.

Today, I welcomed Rukia into our house. She’s our new housekeeper who will clean the floors and the bathrooms and kitchen once a week. We discussed the time and what equipment I’ll need to purchase. I told her about Ruby… She’s Muslim, so apparently you aren’t suppose to touch dogs, especially their tongue, so I guess Ruby and Rukia aren’t going to be spending much time together. I made sure that touching dog hair wouldn’t be a problem.

Ready for Arif’s Big Day!

I’m taking off to Dublin tonight with Ronnie, Larry and Josh. We’re slightly disorganized and I’m not sure really that any of us are super sophisticated travelers. I think we’re just staying at the hilton or something. Laff. Anyhow. It should be fun.

We’re getting to London on Friday, and Arif’s “Big Moment” will be on Saturday. There’s going to be a Dinner on Sunday too. I’m not sure where this leaves us in terms of doing things, but hopefully during the day there will be a lot of time.

Yeah.. Interesting…. we’ll see how it goes.

Not just pizza.

So today I arranged for Jeremy’s shirts to be laundered. I called a phone number and they were at the apartment within 30 minutes and the shirts will be clean in 4 days. Woo hoo! I never have to leave the apartment.

I was a little worried about Vince and his school because yesterday there was some sort of “accident” with a scooter and Vince ended up crying and the teacher told him not to cry and that only babies cry. Hmmm, not exactly an American reaction… Vince repeated the crying line a few times during the evening, it seemed to trouble him, so I was worried that he was a bit stressed at school and that the 8-5 schedule was going to be a bit too long. But he tumbled out of the bus today happy and telling me he had a good day.

Edda appetite is continuing to improve. She seems happier these days in quite a while. She ate most of a pork chop and was cheerful and happy.

The school bus is here! The school bus is here!

So, now I’m relegated to waiting in front of the complex for Vince to come home at 5 pm. This is what I got out of him today. There was some argument today with his teacher over a scooter, some sort of accident and crying and not crying. There was a shower. There was the performance of “The Hokey-Pokey”. There was a discussion of shapes. The peas and carrots and rice for lunch were good. The cream puffs were the bomb. There were mushrooms being made and left at school. Nap time did not result in a nap. A good day overall.

Edda really enjoyed her day at home with one-on-one time. She was especially pleased at the spaghetti dinner. Thank goodness we are starting to eat at home again. She’s been eating less and less since we moved to SGP, she was sick last week when Jeremy was out, so now things are improving.

Jeremy made a dash to IKEA, again, this time without the kids and I think we have pretty much everything we need. Of course, everything he picked out is orange, the color of Jeremy.

I explored a little bit more, I found the post office (long line), I found a music school, Vince and I can start piano lessons whenever we want to. I just came back from a nice swim in the huge pool right outside my window. I’m so pleased with our internet phone.