So it’s been a while since I hopped on here & told you all the ridiculously boring details of my daily life.
A lot has happened, if you look at it the right way. Perhaps just more busy stuff than anything else, but it’s still been chaotic.
The kids were sick, & I got them taken care of & on the road to recovery. Then I got sick, myself. I got myself into the doctor, & come to find out I had fluid around my lungs. No wonder it felt like I was trying to breathe despite the hand of God clenched around my lungs. Pleurisy – at least that’s what I’m told it’s called.
So several hours in the on-site pharmacy last Thursday, and something like 5 medications later, I’m on my way to feeling better. It’s a long, hard road. Like, country dirt road kinda hard.
Friday was baby man’s appointment with primary to get the ball rolling on getting his ears checked out. The doctor saw what I was talking about (a total miracle considering our last pediatrician said not to worry, that he’s a normal boy & his speech would progress when he was ready). Next step is testing with audiology, but I have to wait for that “referral” to go through so I can schedule it.
Friday night brought very little sleep. The fan constantly blowing to circulate the air in the kids’ room sent little girl into screaming agony with it blowing cold air into her ear. But the contrasting warm air from the heat blowing through the vent had baby man coughing and gasping for air. So we all loaded into the car and spent probably 3 hours driving around so they’d chill out and go back to sleep.
Saturday was picture day. My MIL got an appointment to get some new shots of the kids, as they haven’t really cooperated since last year. Lord knows we need this kind of stuff with The Husband being deployed. On the way to meet MIL & SIL, not only did the speedometer not work, but my GPS died (& my cigarette adapter doesn’t work to charge it), leaving me completely clueless as to my speed. (A little back story – the whole instrument panel in the car has been unreliable at best ever since The Husband bought it from his best friend’s dad. Lately it hasn’t worked at all, but for the gas indicator. And my minivan has terrifyingly nonexistent brakes & a battery deader that my beta fish from 1998. This has royally screwed me.) The girl got some absolutely phenomenal shots of the kids, which I credit to her just letting them kinda do what they wanted & snapping away while they did.
Bless my SIL, she’s loaned me her car in the short term so I’m not completely stranded at home since I had to leave our car at my in-laws house.
Saturday went from bar hopping & other associated shenanigans to picking up alcohol on base & drinking in the comforts of home. Stayed up way too late, slept in til 11 on Sunday, then got into more shenanigans at the grocery store with my SIL when we ran into some other friends who helped turn it into more of an improv show than anything else. Plenty of jokes there…I needed a day like that.
A pretty solid night’s sleep & today was mildly productive. I need to remember to call tomorrow & schedule my van in the shop. And I need to figure out how to get it there with no juice to turn over & wholly unsafe brakes to stop it if I can get it started. But it’s getting taken care of, one way or another.
I’m going to bed here soon, so I’ll still have some minuscule bit of control over my brain & motor function tomorrow. But I want to leave you with a few opinions & observations.
- calling someone every time you need money or a big favor, but being unavailable to that person when they’re in need does NOT make a friendship…it makes you a user & an ass.
- little kids are far more perceptive than we give them credit for, & they know things that never even occurred to the adults in their lives.
- I have to go put my faith in the postal service again tomorrow, & I’m more than a little nervous.
Goodnight & good luck, ladies & gentlemen.
