If you’re wondering where all those coughing, and phlegm removal noises are emanating from, it’s my house. It’s all from within these four walls apparently. That and many small mounds of dirty tissues, and sneeze spray “cones of goo” all over every surface. My house is a breeding ground for nasal bacteria, and lung buttery wakefulness at night. If you hate sleep, and love children’s tears, then you need a helpful scoopful of this grotesque misery. I’m sure it’ll get inside to infect me at some point in the next week or two. I have that to look forward to.
So now it’s Thursday and all of my plans are in a blender while I watch my youngest at home – again. This week has seen both kids home at least once, and the youngest home again with a fever, headache, cough and a runny gooey nose. She seems fine-(ish) to me now. More lovely than I would have thought given her appearance first thing this morning. Live and learn. I would prefer to not have post nasal drip make this last for the better part of three months.
I had intentions of returning some skates to a friend, then dropping off our now too small snowboards, with boots & helmets to the care and share, as well as donating a number of pairs of girls figure skates, the white leather ones with toe picks, if that gives you a clearer visual. Then I was going to take a rain jacket over to my nephew, then walk at the farm. Now I’ll just need to do it tomorrow, provided both children go to school, and don’t stay home where I have to stay to watch them the entire time. Can’t just head out and leave my seven year old unattended for hours on end. Being in the garage or basement office is one thing, hopping in my car and driving all over town is another.
The way things are going it doesn’t look like tomorrow’s Girl Guide camp is going to have too many kids at it, as all the grade two kids I know all have this same snotty cough. Not only that but they are sleeping terribly, so the leaders are in terrible shape too. Should make for an unpleasant experience. No thank you!
I started to look through my kids closets yesterday to begin the Spring Cleaning Purge, but I had to halt that today as the little one is around. Removing stuff from the kids closets is best done in stealth mode I have found. The fewer eyes that notice items disappearing the better off we’ll all be. So that’s on hold until tomorrow now too. I almost have the garage entirely junk free. I need to throw away a few items from a storage bin, one floor mat for office chairs, and our last remaining car seat that a rodent has all ready chewed into and ruined. I’m keeping one umbrella stroller in case I should ever need one for any reason. Otherwise, I have an old cctv monitor that could go, and an ancient computer tower that could go out too. But besides that the space is as optimized as I can get it without getting rid of tool boxes, or tearing down one of the few remaining work benches. Which I don’t fancy doing right now.
You know I thought I was going to end up doing more wood turning on my lathe than I have done. I’m at a stand still with my four jawed chuck, as it doesn’t close equally on all the jaws, so loads are off centre, and gyrate wildly at high speeds. I don’t fancy taking a log to the head even with a face shield on. I do have one chuck that can be bolted right into the wood, but that leaves pretty lasting damage if I don’t have enough material to use as waste on either end. No matter. I have it on hand for when I get the itch once again. I have a lot of stuff like that. Leather/textile crafting materials. Felt for lining boxes, trunks, and drawers. Arc welding stuff (helmet, gloves, sleeves), along with a grinder, various grinding wheels, and hammers, magnets, and welding sticks. All ready to go once I have another project that requires it. I have a die grinder for holes in metal, deburring and for wood carving. All waiting for another project that requires it after I bought them to complete one, or a series of things with them.
I’m going to be on Kleenex dispensing duty today. That and measuring out Tylenol, naps, snacks and activities. Let us hope this cough & cold goes away fairly quickly. Fingers crossed.
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