Uggggggghhhhh

Zombified is probably the best way to describe how I feel at the moment. I started with a headache on Monday (Sunday too? I can't remember) and assumed it was allergies. It was the usual pounding headache.

By the time Charles got home last night, I was just glad that the girls were playing nicely enough that I could lay on the couch and read. He thought I felt warm, but the thermometer said pretty much normal (maybe a teensy bit high for me.) After dinner, though, it was around 99.5, and by bedtime it was over 100. I finally figured out that the Advil I'd taken for my headache must've been the reason my temp wasn't any higher when he first got home.

This morning I thought I felt better. I even begged to go with the girls on the LLL berry farm field trip, but I have my "laying on the couch" orders. Sigh. I'm kinda glad now though, because my eyes feel watery and my forehead feels warm again. And there's that whole "can't fully breathe" feeling, but that's been there since I woke up this morning.

Maybe I'll have some cute pics from the berry farm to post this afternoon after Charles brings the girls back. (He has to go in for a meeting this afternoon.)

Panic time

It didn't occur to me until yesterday that my kids will need somewhere to be starting next fall. (As in 2009.) I hadn't put too much thought into anything regular, but now I'm realizing it's not just Adia that we'll be paying some kind of tuition of some kind for.

As it stands right now, there are two schools I would consider putting Adia in (one Montessori and another that focuses on science, tech, and math.) Those would accept Francesca too. There's also the base center, but that would only apply to Francesca. Of course, I can only find information about tuition for the Montessori school, and it's far more than my college tuition. To put both of them in for one year will be equivalent to two full years of college for me. (Yikes.) The base center looks AWESOME, but I know they usually have a long waiting list. I may have to send Charles by to get more information tomorrow. (He's on foot today -- dropping my car to get the oil changed.)

The other thing about putting Francesca somewhere is that I'm going to have to be super-comfortable with their methods of discipline, because she's going to be 3 and some change. Big discipline time.

On a happier note, let me close with another picture. (J took this at the LLL mess party last week. I hope she doesn't mind my stealing it from her myspace. :)

Overwhelmed

Today's horoscope:
As your life becomes more complicated, you may be longing to get back to basics. Nevertheless, you are drawn into a complex and tangled web. You might want to complain, but you also realize you have to handle any situation -- even if it makes you crazy. Be determined and push your way through the intensity, and if necessary, make it up as you go along.

Right now, I'm taking things one step at a time. If I don't, I'm going to sink. At the very least, I'll start thinking too much about how life is going at the moment, and I'm trying to avoid that.

This morning I focused on getting Adia a pediatrician appointment.

After that, I focused on surviving until the appointment.

After that, I focused on getting through the initial part of the appointment.

After that, I focused on giving Adia a breathing treatment in the exam room while Francesca did her best to climb on things and fall.

After that, I focused on getting a treatment plan.

After that, I focused on driving to the pharmacy. (Although I made a wrong turn and decided to swing through Starbucks drive-thru. I literally had nothing but caffeine until Charles got home and made me drink water with dinner.)

After that, I focused on driving home.

After that, I focused on eating dinner.

After that, I focused on getting to school orientation. So much so that I didn't give Charles and Adia hugs or kisses goodbye. (Francesca came with.)

After that, I focused on driving to the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions.

After that, I focused on the idea of driving to Richmond tomorrow for Francesca's dentist appointment.

I had to backtrack and focus on school for tonight. I got school off to a fab start by not buying one of my labs for BIO and then forgetting to attach files to an email to my stats prof. A+!

Now I need to go try to fall asleep so I can drive to Richmond, then to the farm to pick up CSA goodies, and then to the coffee shop for breastfeeding cafe night.

No updates, what?

I'm so good at blogging. At least I must be, because other bloggers make these "sorry I haven't posted" update posts all the time.

Last weekend's excitement was working the LLL booth at the baby fair at the mall on Saturday. It was a lot of fun meeting breastfeeding moms and moms wanting to breastfeed. The time slot I picked wound up being the busiest too!

During the week we stayed busy with appointments. Training meeting on Monday and dentist on Wednesday. Where we figured out my "treatment plan." All $10k+ of it. *sigh* And it begins with re-doing a root canal at an office in the west end of Richmond (so, a longer drive.) Then a root canal or extraction of the tooth beside what was my wisdom teeth.

When we weren't out running around, I worked on decluttering the guest (read: junk!) room. It still looks like a tornado hit it, but the tornado carried some things away. I've tossed like 4 trashbags of stuff out.

Friday morning I had a coffee-mergency when I woke up out of coffee. So we bundled up and went to the coffee shop at 7:30am and then to the grocery store. We were home by 8:30, which was kinda nice. I didn't really feel like being social, and there aren't too many people to be social with that early in the morning.

Yesterday I got up and did my coffee shop breakfast thang, then hit up the rescue squad auxillary's yard sale. After that, I grabbed a pregnancy test at the drug store (not a chance in hell, but I've felt kinda crappy lately and I know that would be the first thing the doctor suggested if I called. I'm not, BTW.) I also got an Office Space calendar for us for next year. I'm pretty excited about that. (And a dork, apparently.) Then I started my grocery shopping, which I remembered my Zune for for a change. I listened to the Rent soundtrack, which is a bad plan because it leads to things like dancing in the aisles. Whatever, I know I'm the town freak anyway, what with my crazy babywearing devices and cloth shopping bags.

I came home and got ready to make homemade curry (this is the awesome book I used!) and realized I was short on onions, so back to grocery store #2 for those. (When I realized "I go to the grocery store a lot." I get to go back again today!)

The curry turned out fantastic! I need to get to an international grocery (heh) for proper chilli powder and fenugreek, but it was really good. My interpretation of the nan recipe leaves a bit to be desired. I have no problem using the frozen variety of that, though. :P

Last night, Adia woke up around 2:30 coughing. She then puked all over the bed. (Fortunately?, she sleeps in the full size bed with Charles now. Fortunately for me, I guess anyway. ;) She woke up for the day at 6:30 and she's full of energy. That's apparently the course for this virus, since Francesca had it for a couple of days this week, just out of the other end instead. She was still wild girl throughout it, just with a sore bum.

We had contemplated a trip to Fredericksburg today for the aforementioned international grocery run, but we decided it was ill-advised with the viral fun. Now to decide what to do with our day...... (And I got a different kind of coffee the other day, as they were out of my usual. I think I'm twice as wired as normal. Wheeeeeee!) So far we've moved the router into the kitchen next to the phone jack. Yesterday my computer finally went wireless, so we just have a 6' phone cord from the jack to the router instead of a 25' one, plus the looooong cat-5 to my computer.