Archive for February 13th, 2008

My brain…my brain is dripping out my ears and pooling on the floor.

The A formerly known as “home sick from school” is outside running around like a madman (it’s 68 degrees right now; and 4-6 inches of fluffy goodness tomorrow! Oh yay).

Tom had such “a day” at work that he’s walking around in a daze. He’s now running an errand, aka “holy crap, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day!”

And I…I have spent the last four hours doing our taxes. No, that’s not entirely correct. I don’t do our taxes, I simply gather up all pertinent information, stick numbers where I think they’re supposed to be in the tax organizer our tax preparer sent us, curse a lot, and send it off. That is what I did this afternoon, except for the sending it off part. Sweet Jeebus, let us have a refund, I’m going to need a cork to keep my brains in. Sigh…

Well. Here we are, not even halfway through February. Stiff upper lip and all that. It’s going to be a delicious 60 degrees today here on the Front Range…and 4-6 inches of snow by tomorrow morning. Can’t go out and enjoy the gorgeous weather because A is home sick today. This child rarely gets sick. In fact, when he was but a tot I would hope and pray he’d come down with a mild bug, just so he’d slow down a bit. Bad mommy, I know. But the kid was at about 75mph whenever he was awake and he exhausted me. Still does, but I have better coping mechanisms now (bwahahahahaha….riiiiiight). So today he has a ongoing cough and schnurks instead of blowing his nose (note to his future wife: I am so sorry, I tried, really I did). I kept him home and dosed him with Benadryl. He’s crashed on the couch, no tv or computer today. He’ll get some rest before J gets home from preschool, then the games will resume. You know the games. The “run around the kitchen 5k,” the “American Idol screaming contest,” and the “dump all the toys on the floor and swear there’s nothing to play with as mom’s left eye stars to twitch uncontrollably obstacle course.” Fun times, fun times.

Everything is dull and lifeless in February. Multiple shades of taupe outside the window…and that’s just the houses! Ba-dum-dum. I’ll be here all week, folks, try the veal! Sigh… I see why bears hibernate. I’d love to hibernate through February. Every day it’s harder to haul myself out of bed. I’m not tired, I’m sleepy. I’m soooo over the whole tired thing; the thyroid meds have slapped that around and I feel better. I’m sleepy. I just want to sleep.

Anyone else feeling this way? I’m sure I’m not the only one. And I know for a fact that I get more sun here in the winter than a lot of other places. So what do you do to chase away the February blahs?