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September 11, 2005
Playing Catch-Up
So why the hell have I been so lax lately, anyway? Hm? What's that about?
1) I can only say so much about the state of the world, and I think I've pretty much met my quota.
2) I can only whine so much, and I think I've met my quota.
What are my other excuses?
As you might have gathered from my last post, I've been sick. I still am sick. Just when I think I've got it kicked, I get sick again. Clara "Amoxicillan" Jane seems to have inherited by yo-yo illness habits, too. To wit: nearly two weeks ago, she was diagnosed with an ear infection. Got better. Then spent a day vomiting. Recovered. And then Friday, she was showing signs that the ear infection hadn't gone away. Now she's on the rebound again.
This child has never been sick in her life, save for a few sniffly days here and there. The ear infection developed shortly after her first day of daycare. I just don't get it. It's not like her daycare is squalid. All I can fathom is, those daycare germs must be something else if they're able to paralyze an entire household for the better part of two weeks after mere hours of exposure.
Wiping snot - mine and hers - takes up 3/4 of my waking hours. So what am I doing with the other 1/4 of that time, huh? Playing motherfucking tiddlywinks?
Yeah, pretty much.
Last week I developed an unholy obsession with Diner Dash. It's a wee video game in which the player earns points by seating customers, taking their orders, serving their food, and cleaning up after them, often becoming the target of their ire.
After spending many, many hours glued to this game, I had a revealation: I used to get paid to wait tables, and it sucked. That's why I no longer get paid to wait tables. So, why in the hell am I spending my free time playing a game - without pay or tips - that replicates the exact reasons why I decided to no longer wait tables in the first place??? This is why I've never had much luck finding video games I enjoy: most of them involve activities that I wouldn't want to do in real life, so why in the hell would I want to pretend to do them?
I've been knitting. I'm almost finished with my Unbiased sari-silk purse. I've also cast on and ripped out the same pair of socks 27 times, at last count. To my credit, I've only thrown the ball of sock yarn across the room while screaming obscenities twice.
I'm also quilting. Sort of. I've cut about 3864 quilt squares, and Allison sent me home with a big stack of squares to sew into my first quilt top. These are the quilts for Quilters Comfort America; they'll be given to hurricane evacuess.
Speaking of cool ways to help, one of my favorite music venues, Mississippi Nights, is doing a music drive. They're collecting CDs, players, headphones and batteries to be distributed to the evacuees in St. Louis. Bring in ten CDs, and they'll give you a voucher worth up to $20 towards any Mississippi Nights show for the rest of the year. Since there are some great shows on the schedule, this is some excellent instant karma.
Also, you might notice that I added a link to my Friendster profile in the upper right corner of the main page. Just so you know.
And that's it. Just rambling.
Posted by Robin at September 11, 2005 08:22 PM
Comments
You know, amoxicilin never works on Linnea's ear infections (she's had about four in her life...I think amoxicilin worked on the first one). I won't even let them prescribe it anymore. It's just a waste of our time.
Even Augmentin seems to be touch and go. The only thing that consistently gets rid of Linnea's ear infections is Omicef/Omnicept (I can never remember which one it is). Twice a day. Five days. Ear infection is gone.
I just think that amoxicilin has been around too long, and with all the over-use of antibiotics there aren't too many yuckies that haven't figured out how to beat it.
Posted by: beege at September 12, 2005 09:18 AM
So do you know anything about sewing quilts? I could have taken some home to cut but heck if i know much abou the sewing. I have a machine it makes lines, usually straight, thats all I know.
Posted by: mindy at September 12, 2005 02:21 PM
yeah, daycare exposure can take an entire family out of commission for weeks at a time. that daycare funk nightmare sucks.
Posted by: PKB at September 12, 2005 11:05 PM
Pre-school (SOB!) started last week.
*cough* *hackcough* 'Scuze me. *She's* fine but my motto is now "Love me, love my phlegm".
Posted by: Liz at September 13, 2005 06:57 PM
