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Posted on November 23, 2009
So.
This week has really sucked.
And today is Monday.
Chris still feels awful. A bit better but still really bad. If he’s up for more than 15 minutes or so his headache gets severe and he has to go lay down. He’s hoping to go to school on Wednesday but I don’t think he’ll be ready. H1N1 seriously knocks you on your ass. I had no idea.
The kids and I ALL woke up with colds. Runny noses all around. Parker is coughing. Grayson has a slight fever and some diarrhea. My head is pounding. I can’t believe I made it through a week of the swine flu and now have a cold. I feel awful and have so much to do I’m not allowed to feel this bad. Hoping tomorrow is better.
Kim is out of town and we have 9 orders coming in tonight. Kim does all of our ordering. She’s working from vacation as much as she can but I’m trying to also take care of it here first so she’s not worrying. I am NOT good at dealing with orders. This is not my normal territory and I’m doing it with half a brain. Praying I keep everything straight and can give Kim a much needed break! Thanks for your patience to our wonderful clients!
I have blown my nose 6 times since starting this post.
Our Christmas deadline is Nov 30th for orders. I have yet to have photos taken or to design our Christmas card, which means it’s not happening this year. So I think I will just put a note on last year’s cards (explaining why our kids look a year younger) that never got mailed and call it a day.
Oh. And I’m not sure if I mentioned this or not, but a few weeks ago we finally got the girl’s bunk beds. It forced us to rearrange the playroom and their bedroom and since that cleansing we spend most of our time upstairs… and it’s been awesome. Until yesterday when I sat on Parker’s bottom bunk and it broke.
(photo from my dad’s phone)
That’s right. I was just sitting there and it broke. Do you know how you feel when your ass is personally responsible for breaking an entire bed? Awesome. That’s how you feel. Just awesome.
And of course incredibly fat.
The only upside to this week so far? Seeing a photo of some friends from Spokane we haven’t seen in a LONG time…
It makes us miss the Northwest and our life there so much… but it also made Chris and I smile while talking about those days with these sweet friends.
So this week has been fairly sucktastic so far.
And that’s about all I have to say about it!
oh you poor thing! ah, could it not have happened at a worse time…when it rains it pours. hang in there jod… and now it makes sense where you’ve been!
Oh girl, life is kicking your ass right now. BAH HUMBUG! Here’s hoping things start looking up real soon. Is it any consolation if I tell you that I am hanging by a thread, more sleep deprived than when I had a newborn and non sleeping 2 yr old AND will most certainly not be able to send out my own Xmas card this year despite having designed and ordered about three dozen different ones for all my clients in the past few weeks? Yeah……. SO, anyways, just wanted you to not feel quite so alone. And my kids are sick. But no H1N1 (knocking on wood) so I got that going for me at least. Sending you LOTS AND LOTS of love! We’ll make it to January 1st…… somehow…… with our sanity hopefully intact.
Hope that life starts looking up for you soon. You have a way of saying things that makes me want to laugh and cry right along with you.
Jodie, I’m SO SORRY! I can’t believe how bad things are sucking right now! But it is perfect that you still have last year’s Christmas cards…
Hate that life sucks for you right now! It HAS to get better soon, right? On another note, I had to laugh at your witty remarks about breaking the bed. I’m sure it had nothing to do with your hiney and more to do with the bed, because A) Based on your pictures, you’re NOT fat! and B) Is that the IKEA hemnes bed? ‘Nuff said! (Albeit I am an IKEA addict, I wouldn’t neccessarily use “IKEA” & “quality” in the same sentence. :- ) We have the IKEA Hemnes twin beds for our twins and I must admit I get a bit nervous every time I sit down on their bedside & hear a crack/popping sound. :- D
Hey SPOKANE!!! Woot! It’s mighty fine here today. Nice & drizzly!
Take a nap. I know it seems impossible… but it really might help. 
hey, did you see that tyra episode when the tabloids called her fat in her bikini? well if you missed it, she put the same bikini on and yelled “kiss my FAT ass cuz i look GOOD!”
you look good girl. flaunt it and give the bed a good swift kick for messin with you during THIS week.
(#7 Brooke)
#7 Brooke
I vote for #7 Brooke!