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Sunday, January 30, 2005
sunday afternoon and the living is easy
This sinus infection is still hanging on, although it's better than it was. Now I only feel like my head is going to explode if I sniffle, or if I bend over to pick up something off the floor. Just enough to make life interesting, right?
Henry the cat (who, you may remember, was coughing) is still coughing. He has a vet appointment on Tuesday, which was the soonest they could get him in. I am worried enough about him to have been excited enough to run outside and tell T about half an hour ago when I saw him drinking water from his dish. He behaves nearly normally during the day -- still a champion purrer, even. But at night the poor boy coughs and/or sneezes in the most miserable-sounding way. It reminds me of when the kids would get croup, and you'd wait for night with a mixture of dread, hope, and curiosity -- will it start getting better tonight? I even have the humidifier running for him. :)
When we got home from church today T made me lie down on the couch and take a rest. I started out reading Anne of Green Gables (which I have pretty much memorized, but I can't just start with Anne of Avonlea because that would be Reading Out Of Order), got as far as Anne crying herself to sleep in the east gable on her first night at Green Gables, and laid the book down "to close my eyes for a few minutes". I woke up THREE HOURS LATER. I actually got to take a nap on a Sunday afternoon. I will have to mark it on the calendar.
This is a nice week coming up. T only works three days, since I have a doctor's appointment AND we both have optometrist appointments tomorrow, and then Friday is his usual Friday off. So we have two three-day weekends in a row, PLUS he has Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of the next week off because we're taking our little overnight to Morro Bay so I can see the 6.7-foot high tide and the I-can't-remember-the-number-but-it's-really-low minus tide because I am a total geek and a half. Also because we need to eat the best fish and chips in the world. So T has a three-day week, then a two-day week, then a four-day week (regular Friday off) and then another four-day week (President's Day) and then ANOTHER four-day week (regular Friday off). Maybe after that he can break a bone to get some real time off. (Um, that's a joke. But seriously, we had such a blast when his ankle was broken two winters ago and he was home for 2 1/2 months solid. Yeah, he was in pain, and yeah, I had to wait on him hand and foot, but the whole family got to be together for such a nice long time. And compared to being at work with his word-I-don't-use-unless-I'm-really-super-angry of a boss, that sort of "vacation" looks really pleasant right now.)
And before I lapse into a hyphen-and-parentheses-induced coma (ack! there I go again! and here, too! oh dear), I will go update my 1001 Days journal and then fold some laundry, because Mommy Guilt won't let me just spend an ENTIRE day in idleness. Not today, anyway. :)
