One of those updates of doom.

[reymonkey]

Some people already know this, but I'm on Facebook now. That's right, I have caved under the peer pressure, or something. It did get me into a chat with an old buddy of mine from B'ham though so that's all good! I'm kind of digging the whole type a sentence or two of what's going through your head feel, which is easier than long rambling updates, but I also know everybody and their brother is watching it so I'm careful about what I put there. More serious stuff will still go here, and all the gruesome details.

Ahhh, but can I be horrible and link photos from it? I had a bunch of photos I wanted to post here to catch up. Hope this works.

I still hadn't posted Halloween photos. My white stag costume got lots of comments, but I ended up leaving the head behind when we went in a haunted house. This is my favorite photo because we weren't ready and the pretty girl looks extremely skeptical...


I did some babysitting, including a trip up to D.C. where I lived in a hotel room with the kids and their parents for three days. I took the kids to a different Smithsonian museum every day while their parents performed the puppet show, which probably sounds awesome if you've never tried watching a nine and almost-three year old in a public place for hours on end. Tegwyn (almost three) would get obsessed with touch screens, and Thea (nine) would get bored. In the evenings I actually had my own bedroom, because it was an awesome two-bedroom thing, except the kids decided because I am the awesome babysitter my room was the hot place to be. It was fun. We made a Tegroll...


Had dinners together with Teg on one side and Thea on the other...


And I'd like to think I held up pretty well under it all.


One last photo, from a previous trip where I helped put together a puppet show with a school group. I didn't have my camera, so it took me a while to get this photo from someone else. The two kids of the puppeteer really do adore me. They were miffed over this project, because I showed up and Teg asked if I was going to babysit them, and I told her I was there to help her mom do the show. But she took it okay.


But enough with the photos. As you can see I've been busy, but the other reason for lack of posting is that for the last two weeks at least this has been the sick house. Part of the fun was inspired by some generosity on the part of Bridgie's parents. They gave us the mattress from their guest bedroom, barely used. It was very sweet of them. It was incredibly comfortable. It absolutely reeked of cigarette smoke.
I had two migraines in one week, and if you've ever had a migraine you know they're no joke. I didn't puke, but it was a close thing, at times. I was non-functional for a full day the second time, since it started in the morning, and I always feel pretty rough the day after. While recovering from the second one I realized the migraines and a constant light-headedness that had me ask the doctor about sinus infection started when we got the mattress. As soon as I stopped sleeping on it I've gotten better.
So now Bridgie's gotten sick instead. She's had a fever a couple of nights, coughing like she's going to bring up a lung, and general misery. She's on the mend now, but it's been a bad time of things. I'm half waiting for what she's got to catch on...

I feel bad I missed placeboweek's birthday, and I think some other serious stuff besides? Catch me up people, I've been incoherent and brainless for a while.

Our tree is up, but just up, not decorated or anything. Froggy wants to eat it.

I think that's all I've got right now.