So, I woke up with my son’s cold or whatever it is he has. Sadly, I can’t rest today. The toddler decided to make my day ‘easier’ by throwing up, staying home from school, and refusing to eat. Seriously, I hear his stomach roaring from across the room, but he doesn’t want breakfast. This is my day, which he’ll be spending either crying or watching television. He wants to be Captain Defiance about eating real food then I’m going to be Doctor Evil Dad and ban his snacks. I’m getting off-topic here.
I’m a little . . . fine . . . epically behind on the writing goals I had for this week. Typically, I’d have 4 sections done by today and not be exhausted. I have 2 done and feel like I haven’t slept in weeks. So, my comments may be simple or nutty today if I can muster up the brain power to do so. Also, my exercising has taken another day off like it did over the weekend. So, weight gain is probably imminent. It’s amazing how hard it is to lose weight, but it can be gained with such ease.
I’m still going to try to write and see how far I can get before I pass out. The toddler is going to be an issue because he’ll want to go outside, but sickies don’t get to go outside unless they go with daddy on errands. Daddy feels like he’s been gored in the head by a rhino, so that ain’t happening. We’ll see where the writing goes, but I’m sure it will be slow and I won’t get as much done as I wanted. Hopefully, the toddler goes to school tomorrow and I get to rest. Today is more of a day to make sure he’s going to get better and because he decided eating is for suckers. I’m back on this again.
I should just make an advance apology for any craziness that I post while under the influence of this. Maybe hot tea will help clear my head. Yup. Hot tea . . . that’s 90% vodka.
Legends of Windemere 
Wow, you’re in for a hard day. I do hope the toddler chooses to eat some real. And I do hope whatever you have passes quickly. Wishing you some rest and get well soon!
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He’s had some cereal, yogurt, and milk. I’ll get to rest on Sunday. Need to start cleaning the house for when my parents get home. I need a clone or a coma for this week. I’ll take either.
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I’m sorry all of this is coming about when you are trying to get some writing done! However, some of the best scenes ever get written on cold medicine…
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All I have is ‘momma says knock you out’ level cold medicine. Can’t risk passing out and giving the toddler unsupervised rule of the house. The toilet paper, fridge, and hall closet will be destroyed.
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Oh Charles, hope you both get feeling better!
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Thanks. The little guy already seems to be improving. This day is definitely to make sure he’s good for school tomorrow.
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I hope everyone is feeling better soon! 😦
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Thanks. 🙂
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hope you’re feeling better soon…
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Thanks. Me too.
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Really, I hope everyone feels better soon. I hate that feeling – but you have it times two
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It’s really nailed me today, but I think it’s just a cold. The little guy is going to be fine. His coughing is already fading away. Just having trouble getting him to eat real food. Everyone told me that children will eat when they’re hungry. If that’s true then mine has some bugs in the software.
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Un-health is sucky. I so rarely get sick, but got so…then someone told me to clean the filter of my AC, clogged with all the dust from seven months of Dry Season. Well in two days. Wish it was that easy for you. Good luck with that.
Later…
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Thanks. Gotta love the hazards of child-rearing. Like tiny, adorable plague carriers that bounce back quicker than the parents.
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Yes…taught English at university level for a while…tiny adorable plague carriers become large, often confused herds of plague carriers. Even my Human-sized Hamster Bubble failed me now and again.
Later…
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That’s surprising. I would think college students would jump at the chance to be legitimately sick for class. Unless you were one of the teachers that they liked and they’d go to your class even if an act of god was against them.
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I was…overloaded classes, until I caught onto why the older, more experienced profs who no One liked always had more time and less papers to correct or grade than I did. Wisdom, I think they call that. I don’t learn though…stayed the “fun” prof.
Later…
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That’s the trade-off, I guess. Stop being the “fun” prof and you get more time, but your classes will be smaller.
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And I would have had to turn into the same dead-eyed, dark-souled sort who survive life rather than live it. No thanks.
Later…
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I hear you. That’s why I stepped out of the rat race to pursue the dream. Too easy to fall into the survival instead of living cycle. Might as well make that type of life work hard to catch me.
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A fellow traveler.
🙂
Later…
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More of the mental wandering than physical. It’s always fun to go against the norm and try to achieve something.
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Hope the little one feels better soon.
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He’s fine beyond a cough that is fading away. I think I need either a priest for last rites (strange since I’m Jewish) or enough rum to make a pirate cry tears of joy.
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Blame the Lich.
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The toddler keeps his antics up that’s going to be his nickname. How can anyone hear their stomach rumble and refuse food?
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Lol you reminded me of the CRS club
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CRS club?
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Calorie restriction society
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Ah. My wife does something like that. Nothing like the toddler though. Wondering if we’re going to have to puree his food and force feed him.
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I eat like a horse. I couldn’t stop if I tried.
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Just so you know, each of my boys have gone through that stage. It passes in time.
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Just hope it passes before I duct tape him to the ceiling fan. At least he’s chatting now with the kids outside and no longer crying. They can’t hear him, but he’s having a riveting conversation. He should have eaten his lunch if he wanted to play.
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Does he have a favourite food?
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Goldfish, cupcakes, and Pringles. Until this past weekend, he loved chicken nuggets.
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Try feeding him nothing but one of them for a few days. Sometimes it works, sometimes it don’t. My kids got so sick of McDonalds nuggets they would have eaten their own shoe. Eventually they got jealous of what I was eating and came to the darkside.
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We tried that with the Goldfish last summer. He did become sick of them, but he didn’t replace them with anything. That’s part of the problem. He won’t switch to another food. He’ll simply remove one from his diet and make it even harder to feed him.
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Have you tried pedia sure?
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Yeah, but I didn’t like any of the flavors.
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You wouldn’t. It doesn’t come in whiskey and coke. 🙂
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Well, the toddler took one taste and demonstrated his spitting precision. The grape wasn’t too horrible when mixed with vodka. Being the guy that bought them, I was ‘under orders’ to make sure they didn’t go to waste.
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Ha! I used bicardi.
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All I had was Grey Goose vodka leftover from when I made the vodka sauce. Yes. I use high-grade vodka to make the sauce.
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I hate you. 🙂
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Because I can make vodka sauce or because I use Grey Goose vodka? I’ve gotten hate for both.
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Both I’m just an angry Imp
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Uh . . . eat a Snickers?
The reason for the Grey Goose is that my wife’s taste buds are sensitive to alcohol. I tried with cheap stuff once and it nearly made her sick. So, I have to use the good stuff to make sure she eats it.
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I like sky:)
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I really do like snickers but I’m afraid of turning into Betty white
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Never got to try Skyy. The one time I bought some, a friend drank it all.
What if you turned into Robin Williams?
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All I can see is the patch Adams red nose. Maybe that came from drinking
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Oddly enough, I think the first movie I ever saw him in was Hook and the Dead Poet’s Society.
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You have to love hook. I want to have a food fight like that one
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That food looked soooo tasty.
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Except the green sludge
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I don’t know. I like lime-flavored things. Maybe it was sour apple sludge.
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I do too. Especially when they are margaritas
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Sign me up for your version of Neverland.
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Ha! You got it
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Oh, right, so since I just professed my hatred for you, I was also supposed to casually throw in that Green Embers and all of us want you to do a podcast because you would be so much fun to listen to. They sent me because they figured I would walk out alive afterward.
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Cool. No idea how to do a podcast though. What would I need to do?
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Talk to Bradley lol you know as much as I do. I do know it involves Skype
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I do have Skype. I’ll send him a message.
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I had both home today too and I am so full of germs myself I don’t know who to help first. The love has been infected and affected. Hoping yours is a speedy recovery.
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The toddler is fine, but going on a hunger strike in demand of cupcakes. I’m hobbling along. Hope you and yours are feeling better.
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