Geez, is it May???

OK, so it's been a whole month since my last post - I know, what a loser I am, right??

In all fairness, up until about 3 days ago I had been through like 13 different stages of sick - all of them involving some VERY swollen tonsils, lots of headaches and generally just feeling like crud.

After the first week of misery I sucked it up the beginning of April and went to the doctor's - he laughed (as always) that I waited so long and suffered and wrote me a prescription. The pills were huge and I don't do well with even tiny old Advil...so now I was miserable and had to swallow a giant pill. I did it, but after 10 days I had dropped most of the hacking cough and still had the worst sore throat of my life.

So, what did I do?? All the moms out here will know exactly what I did - did I go back to the doctor's?? Nope, because that would require another copay and an extra drive in to Orange County that I didn't want to bother with - I just sucked it up and mentally threatened my tonsils to deflate. Did it work?? Yeah, right...

While the cough and generalized stuffiness were gone, I still had the nagging sore throat, and now I could feel lumps and after about 2 weeks of having to take Children's Chewable Tylenol before bed just to fall asleep (that's right - the chewable stuff, I told you, I can barely swallow Advil when my throat is in perfect working order) I gave in. I couldn't handle it anymore and I took a look - I think poor Greg thought I had a tumor - everything was raw and red and there were white patches everywhere (I know, ewwww....). So, I called the doctor and was reminded that sometime it pays to keep the same family doctor that you've had since you were 4 years old - he gave me a small lecture about waiting, called in another prescription and here I am, about 4 days later and no sign of a sore throat!!!

So, the reason for the detailed medical history - partly to make excuses for not posting, and partly because I'm out of work for the day and I'm still in Medical Transcriptionist mode....it's an evil place in my head that involves words like jejunostomy and cholecystectomy and I usually can't shut it off until 2pm, which is when I would be done with work.

Oh, and for those of you who made it to the bottom of this sad, sad post - In other news....

Our big screen TV died on Saturday, Karyl came in to tell me that the TV was broken and I thought maybe Freddie had reached over and pushed a button. When I went into the living room I smelled something burning and we just assumed it was the neighbors since we had all the doors open (we get an AWESOME cross breeze!!). Well, the TV picture was tinted blue (not an option I could find to reset in the menu) and I soon realized the burning was coming FROM the TV.

It was quickly unplugged and we were left with a burning smell that lingered for a day or two. We now have our old bedroom TV (I think it's like 17 inches) in the living room. It makes us giggle every time we walk in because where the King of all Big Screens used to reside is a tiny little TV...with a lot of wall showing behind it.

We have to squint to read the guide.....

And then on Sunday I noticed water dripping from under the sink - luckily I noticed it right before bed because I opened the cabinet and everything under the kitchen sink was swimming. Yep, the kitchen faucet had decided to quit too. Long story short - my amazing husband went in to action and last night not only did he replace the ENTIRE faucet (base and hose and pull-out head) but we somehow stumbled upon a wonderful employee at Home Depot who rather than making us order the part we needed, said if we brought back the old faucet they would do an even exchange for the new one!! So, we now have a BRAND NEW faucet, for free, and it looks beautiful!! The old one was corroded because the previous owner didn't take care of it but it had been there just long enough that I couldn't get it all off. Now I get to start all new - I can't WAIT to do dishes tonight. Even the water pressure is better....and this new one doesn't have the annoying ball joint to leak from.

Ah, the joys of home ownership - replacing your own leaking faucet and not having the money to replace your big screen when it gives up the ghost. Oh, and if ONE more person tells us that "now you can get a bigger and better TV" I WILL slap them. When we bought that TV we were both working and just about to get married - back then we had what I like to call unlimited big screen TV funds. Almost 5 years later and we have 2 kids, a minivan and a mortgage - that means no more big screen TV money....although we did get a great rate on refinancing, and we figure that makes up for the payments on the van....still, no big screen.

Now, I need to get the kids up so they can watch Spongebob at a much smaller scale than they are accustomed to...good thing they are too young to complain!!