He Built Me a Cake

My cold is not gone. You think it's gone? It's NEVER gone!
Seriously, this is literally the longest cold I've ever had in my life.

This is the cold that never ends. Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some little kid gave it to me, I don't know who it was, but he'll continue giving it to me forever just because....

Anyway, this blog isn't about my cold. It's about how my hubby has been taking care of me throughout the cold. Even when he's been feeling sick.

Here are two excellent examples of what he's done for me the past few weeks. (17 days and counting...)

He built me a cake.
I was at the stage of my sickness where my throat felt dry all the time. The only thing that made it feel better was if I was constantly swallowing something. But that something couldn't be all hard and salty like chips. It had to be soft and snacky...like a cake.

(Yes, this is how we eat cake at our house.)

He surprised me with Comfort after a long day at school.

I got home and found this waiting for me:

The instructions were for me to push start on the microwave (he had some honey/lemon drink ready to heat up), put on the comfy clothes, take a Comtrex and a cough drop, and watch T.V., play on the computer, or read the paper while I lounged on the couch and waited for him to come home.

He arrived 15 minutes later with movies and a pizza.

If this doesn't make me the luckiest girl around, I don't know what does.

Fancy Cow

This post has been a long time coming. Uh, sorry about that, D'Nell!
But I finally finished my apron! D'Nell came over and taught me the sneaky last part that wasn't actually too hard if you could read the kryptic instructions that came with the pattern. Seriosly, did the Japanese write them?
D'Nell's apron is so cute and I can finally be a "fancy cow" when I'm cooking.
Woo hoo!

Above Water SCUBA Diving is SO Not What It's Cracked Up To Be

I'm sick.
I have a cold.
Not just one of those little colds where you wake up with a sore throat and a little runny nose that goes away after a day or two. This is one of those feel it in your chest kind of colds. The kind that starts in your chest, slowly moves to your throat and then takes up a room in your nose with occasional hour-long trips to your ears. It's the kind of cold that keeps you up at night for no apparent reason except that you can't lie down without feeling like an elephant is sitting on your nose and it won't. go. away.
Cold medicine doesn't work on this cold. Humidifiers only make the room a little less dry for your poor nose. Liquids merely keep your throat from seizing up and sending you into coughing spasms. Your ears get plugged and won't pop for going on 17 hours now. You feel like you're constantly under water. ...aaand you've already discovered you hate SCUBA diving so you don't need to relive it. Ever.

On the plus side, all noise is muffled a bit and you can't tell if your first graders are being louder than normal. You also can't talk very loudly because of the throat thing and the cough thing, so you get to reinforce the fact that you don't want to get your student's attention by yelling over their chatter.
Also, since you haven't felt like eating for the past 3 days, when you do feel like eating something you feel perfectly justified in eating it on the grounds that your body needs nourishment. Any kind of nourishment. Even if that nourishment is potato chips, soda pop, and peanut butter Twix. If you're craving it, then your body probably needs it to recover, right?