Running Commentary

Kids home from school sick..all week..send help! January 18 2008

there have been duvet and furniture forts all over the living room…we are talking 4 duvets various comforters and like 150 pillows. Plus every chair from the dining room….an end table, the couch a rocking chair and noah’s desk.

It even has a panic room.

After constructing the first fort, brendan dictated step by step instructions to me that I had to copy down on a blank paper…and he insisted I leave enough room at the bottom so he could include his own diagram.

he titled it…FORT SCHEMATICS

There has been a LOT of soup.

A lot of popsicles.

A lot juice.

and you know.,..they aren’t even really that sick.

Noah has a cough (way worse at night) that I think will bug him after eating lunch or running around in the gym or after recess. So here we are…at home.

ANYWAY in other boring totally unrelated news…Chris has recently discovered that he can resurrect our dead-dead snowblower.

FOR CHEAP!

$150 will buy us a NEW motor…and will make our $1200 snowblower like NEW!

HUZZAH!

I ran a little last night…like a SERIOUS little. With my dog….just to feel it, you know.

And I thought FUCK YEAH! I can totally run again.

I was excited because even though it was flat…and even though it was probably only about 1km…I felt OK. Good even. No heaving. And? I was wearing my snowboots…or rather Feffie’s snow boots (which totally suck by the way) because she had STOLEN mine.

Anyway…this morning?

there is about 3 feet of snow blanketing everything. You can’t even SEE the sidewalks (where you totally have to run here in the winter on account of icy patches and near death experiences with sliding cars.) So I think i will take the Noah out for a snow show later today.

but hey, it IS a start.

The Land That Medical Advances Forgot January 16 2008

Men…you may want to avert your eyes.

Ladies you will totally get me.

I went for my bi- annual “looky-loo” today. This is the first time with my present doctor.

Also the first time with a male doctor in a long time.

Also the first time in this town for a loooooooooong time.

Ladies…it was still STEEL.

STEEL!

As in cold…hard….surgical steel!

When she brought me into the (words smallest) exam room, she told me she was going to “Set up” and then would leave me to undress and later return with the doctor.

She began lining up all the instruments of terror which was odd to begin with because I am used to my (old) Doctor doing it herself.

ANYWAY, the nurse started running the water and I am assuming she’s getting ready to scrub in.

Not so!

She was running the water to make it warm. To warm the SPECULUM (circa: 1967).

!!

And it totally seemed like she had grabbed it out of some random drawer of miscellaneous medical instruments.  Not wrapped in plastic like the ones the REAL Doctors use.

I

was

MORTIFIED.

And let me tell it was only down hill from there.

But you know, it’s done for another 2 years (or is it annually now that I am over *cough cough* 35?) and so hopefully by then he will be dead. And a MUCH younger Doc will feel me up in the name of health.

ugh

cough cough January 15 2008

Noah just this second…ok…about 50minutes ago woke up with a croupy cough.

I HATE THE CROUPY COUGH.

It sounds so painful. And seal like.

And it only happens once or twice in the winter, but the last time it happened he wasn’t even sick during the day.

Like, he could’ve gone to school.

Poor dude.

He had his swimming lessons tonight. He’s 5 and is already taking his lessons in the deep end! It scares the crap out of me.

That was totally unrelated.

I am so out of practise.

Poor Brendan joined the school hockey team and was all geared up (literally) to play today when he realized his skates were TOO small.

DUH!

I know.

I KNOW!

God.

Potty Mouth January 11 2008

This afternoon after school. Watching TV with his Dad, Noah heard a line from a movie as they scanned through the channels.

“When the fuck did we get ice cream”

Just take a WILD guess what he is chanting RIGHT now as he does laps around my house.

I’ll give you a hint…it involves Ice cream and the F bomb.

That’ll go over well at school on Monday.

!

Guess What I’M Doing Today. January 10 2008

taking

down

the

xmas

TREE.

Yeah…that’s right.

It’s still up.

What!