Now in Ecto-Cooler Green

On Wednesday I was feeling like life was pretty good.  Julia didn't have a fever anymore.  Alex trusted the couch to keep itself on the ground.  My leg felt a lot better.  Life was pretty good.

I teleworked that day and all the sickies went about their merry way.  It was pretty relaxing to get back into the normal swing of things without having to worry about our juice supply and making sure everyone was medicated.  On my lunch break I even took a quick run on the treadmill with my new shoes!

I have to admit that I love the color of these shoes!

My run felt pretty good.  My leg seemed to warm up quickly and wasn't giving me much trouble at all.  It felt so good to run that I felt like singing while I was on the treadmill.  Later that night we had dinner with Alex's parents.  Alex's cousin and her husband were in town so we ended up staying over there later than we had originally intended and by the end of things, I felt like I was falling apart.  I felt completely run down and my eyes were burning and I had the chills.  No bueno.  I thought that I was feeling tired earlier in the day because I had been sitting on the couch for the past couple days.  Apparently, it was my body asking me to give it some rest.  So Thursday I stayed home sick to nurse myself back to health.

Boo.  Unacceptable.  On the plus side, I made a pretty amazing pork chili in the crockpot :)  So simple.  You just put pork chops in the bottom of the crock pot and add one can of black beans, one can of kidney beans, one can of green chiles, 1/2 a can of chipotle chiles in adobo sauce, and 1 cup salsa.  Turn it on high and let it cook for six hours.  Dinner is served!

Do you run when you get sick? 

Notes from the Infirmary

It's a pretty amazing thing to watch a grown man and a five year old go through a sickness together.  I'm not trying to take away from any one's experiences or sufferings but there is marked difference with the way people react.  

Last night when I took Julia out of the car, she told me that she felt like she needed to throw up.  As quickly as she mentioned it, she shot me her mischievous grin and seemed to be just fine.  It wasn't until this morning that I took her temperature and it was 103 that I realized that she was really being serious.   She hardly ate anything today besides crackers but other than that, she acted completely unaffected by her fever.

Alex is a completely different story....

He has been running a fever as well but can hardly muster the energy to get off the couch.  Poor thing.  On the bright side of things, Julia and I finally opened up one of our presents from Christmas.

She totally cheats.  Look at her all over the center line!  It was nice to be able to spend some time with my two favorite people but I hope they get feeling better soon.  I hope that I don't get it next either.....I'm an even bigger baby than Alex ;)

Are you a big baby when you are sick?