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Cabin Fever Update

Posted on March 23, 2008

So I got outta the cabin, but whoa, there are certain people that make a gal long to be at home and quarantined instead of out with the masses who all appear to be unshowered and meriting a quarantine. The aisles of Target were teeming with the slow and inconsiderate and even the people who appeared to be normal, like the clerk at Guest Services, were really just Target enjoyment impediments in disguise. The $20 gift card ‘just for a little virtual shopping,’ turned out to be so much more costly than that. I should have walked away when the clerk with the kind eyes blinked, smiled and then blinked again as she looked at the card, shrugged, giggled and said, “I’ve never seen…

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Cabin Fever

Posted on March 22, 2008

There is light at the end of the tunnel, the stomach bug, which gripped our house for so long, seems to be lifting. No more glassy eyes, relief from the side-splitting cramps and, most importantly, a shower. I have to admit to being too nauseous to have taken one and so this morning I washed several days of sick and yuck off. I feel renewed and am chomping at the bit to get out. The girls and I will be cutting Easter eggs forms and bedazzling them the old fashioned way, with bits of glitter, sequins and ribbon and then hanging them in the window. Sean and I have a project planned, taking an old glass cabinet door from what used to be our…

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Honey, if you are reading this – STOP!

Posted on March 21, 2008

Seriously, Sean, this is the kind of post that shatters the illusion of grace and wonder that I have so laboriously cultivated with my never-ending quest to look perfect…ok, we’re both laughing now, but seriously, this is probably more entertaining for pregnant women, and maybe fat guys, but maybe not. I tend to do several things at once – watch tv and blogdo the dishes and cook dinnermanage painting projects and telecommute Nothing too earth shattering, right? I also scrub the grout while bathing and Clorox wipe the bathroom after getting out of the shower, I heard once that by doing these little things you stay on top of cleaning etc without realizing it. Well, something I’ve done for quite some time is brush…

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Mama’s Turn

Posted on March 20, 2008

Each towel, sheet and nightgown that was hurried out of the room was done so without a second thought. I don’t regret a single kiss or cuddle. Even now I wouldn’t go back, except perhaps to not make corn the night before the bug hit. I am sick, the kind of sick that makes you tread softly for fear that any undue jostling might lead you into a dizzy fall, landing you smack in front of that impossible to hug at 8+months pregnant porcelain throne. I cannot eat, cannot drink and cannot get the throbbing in my head to go away. I am also decidedly out of sorts. Whiny and unhappy, so desperate not to feel sick or further compromised in what I can…

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