better but with wheezing coughs

thursday 14th:

going to bed just after midnight, sleeping a lot but every short wake up feeling sicker and more sore

tough getting up, waiting in the car while gd dropped mr smear off, an interesting conversation with my tax consultant, taking gd to the chiropractor and hanging around instead of driving back and forth

collecting tax documents until early evening, with breaks to pick up mr smear (did i alienate a class parent when we said goodbye?), shop quickly and bounce him into a nap

dropping gd off at class, my mom joining me in feeding mr smear, psytrance shower (he loved it!), a quick bedtime, fingerprint documents and picking up gd (seeing a very small projector with an enormous display), troubleshooting an IIS installation before chatting with SxS before working

friday 15th:

before climbing into bed around 1.30am

another night of intriguing dreams (rollerblading down crazy hills behind an old friend - the crow - listening to music with headphones), another hard morning starting at 6am

dentist visit, my dry skin finger cracking painfully
telkom's technical support getting my telkom phone number wrong
picking up mr smear then four hours struggling with troubleshooting, tax documents, fingerprint documents, a frustrated child who wouldn't nap and the consequences of responding badly to an impatient cook

mr smear passing out unexpectedly while we got ready for shul, mom taking over and us arriving in time for pre-service meditation, a good service but falling asleep before choking and struggling to sing in key, waking mr smear for dinner, a fun evening, the illustrator "delivering" the work to mixed feelings. the artwork is gorgeous, but how is it that an illustrator doesn't understand "portrait" and "landscape"?!?

saturday 16th:

a very sore tongue going to bed at 1.30am

getting the early slot with the original charlie and the chocolate factory and dr horrible's sing-along blog, absolutely knackered and at some point sleeping a little on the couch

heavy winds all day, car shopping with my mom with interesting results, lots of coughing, delicious wraps from pulp (mr smear thought so too) and a fun chat with a vida regular, a "quick" stop for gd on the way to the waterfront, mr smear largely unimpressed, trying to go to the park but literally being blown back home, an evening in (dr horrible again* and breakdancing), dinner and bedtime then a bit of trainspotting t2 and an idiot abroad before crashing early - almost, i got caught up checking out an interesting parenting book i picked up on sale (It's a Boy!: Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18) so i only climbed into bed after 11pm

sunday 17th:

a really tough night respiratorily, up at 6am for dinosaur train and not-quite-jenga
a park mission with mr smear's best friend and running into other class parents, late lunch then bouncing mr smear to nap which we could properly take advantage of, resting a bit and getting good work done before he woke up, gd taking extra time so i read with him before we tried out sonic generations and returned to a little goat simulator. waking to gd and leaving alone to do a shopping run, generally successful and including an interesting chat with an old friend, then getting home in time to greet sailor and his girlfriend before jumping in the shower with mr smear and readying him for bed so we could go out for falafel and talk mostly like adults for an hour or two (or in my case, talk and cough awfully). since they left it's been work,

monday 18th:

and very soon, bed. i'm seriously in need of some rest.

* i was becoming concerned about the violence in the show, but after much research it looks like it's quite benign. if i have energy available at some point i'll post more detail.