Things have been going along swimmingly. Classes are great, I think I’m finally getting the hang of my student nurse gig, the kids have been pretty decent about getting up and going to school, no major fights over homework, I’ve been keeping up with scouts, soccer, etc.
And then I got sick today. At 4pm to be exact. Sneezing, sniffling, runny nose, sore throat, sinus pressure headache, etc. So things went to hell in a hand basket very quickly.
As always, I had the evening planned: grocery shopping, Girl Scout prep (for tomorrow’s meeting, I was a whole day ahead of my usual schedule, yay me!), and I have a small writing assignment due and a quiz tomorrow. Kyle and Kelly are running for student council and wanted to make posters (we wrote the speeches yesterday) and Em needed to bake muffins for “Cooking Club” (which I suspect is more like “Eating Club”.)
Honestly a typical night around here. Maybe even an “easy night” since we didn’t have any scouts, soccer, etc stuff to go do.
Except when I don’t feel well, every…little…thing…is…sooooo…painful.
While grocery shopping, I kept snapping at Kelly for hanging on the cart, for not watching where she was going, bumping into other shoppers, and for touching everything. Grrrr…. When I got home, K and K couldn’t decide on pictures or fonts or words or anything for their posters and the twins were being anything but helpful. I set out all the ingredients and recipe for the muffins and Em kept asking annoying questions like “how do I make a well in the flour? What’s sifting? Where’s the wax paper? Do I crack the egg when it says put an egg in a medium sized bowl? What do I do with the extra batter?” (Apparently she only needs 6 muffins and was about to pitch the remaining batter for another 12 or so muffins.)
My original Girl Scout meeting idea of “Art to Wear” was quickly thrown out the window when I realized how much prep work I would need to do tonight for tie dye shirts and bracelets and mask making and face painting. If I didn’t feel like death warmed over, it would all be no problem. Feeling like my head is going to explode though… We’re doing “Let’s Pretend” and I sent an email for the moms to bring dress-up clothes/Halloween costumes. The twins can lead that without much help from me. (I’m holding a “Parent’s meeting” at the same time in another part of the house so I can pawn off the rest of the year’s meetings…)
Speaking of another part of the house… One of the other reasons I switched meeting ideas is because it’s suppose to be 900 degrees tomorrow evening and so tie dying outside would not be a good thing for a bunch of 3rd graders. So they can “pretend” in the basement. Except the basement is apparently a wreck. Of course…
Right now I’m trying to get all the kids through the showers. (Zach is yelling that Em is hogging all the hot water, Ally can’t find her special braces floss things, and Kyle thinks standing *near* soap and water counts.) The small writing assignment isn’t done and I haven’t studied at all for the quiz. Normally I don’t study for a quiz but this is stats (aka Weird Math) and I’m still a little unsure about sums of frequency of x and modes and standard deviation and nominal versus ordinal versus interval versus ratio let alone all the weird symbols associated with statistics. I feel it’s way too early in the semester to totally screw up on a writing assignment and a quiz but I’m not sure how I’m going to manage anything else tonight besides going to bed. It’s iffy if the coffee pot’s delay brew timer thingie will even get set before I toss in the towel and admit defeat.
I hate being sick.