Well hello there.
It’s Monday, it’s nearly August and even though we’re getting closer to summer (slowly but surely) I am still managing to freeze myself in my chops!
My weekend was OK. I mostly spent it at home and on Saturday afternoon we had a braai with some friends of ours. We had a really good time with them. Don’t you just love family friend dates where the kids behave and the adults don’t need to hover all the time?
Anyway, I thought I’d do a few mini-updates for today.
1. Child2 starts at the new school on Wednesday. I finally managed to get my act together and sort out everything that he will need. I should probably tell him about it too and I will. Now-now. His teachers are very sad and the one wanted to cry when I fetched him today. I will have them talk to him tomorrow too.
2.I haven’t been feeling so hot lately. Last week my tummy was all messed up and I felt myself starting to get sick – my throat felt like it was on fire. Then on Tuesday I started to get pain and tightness in my neck. I ignored it and it spread to my shoulders. Felt like a lot of knots and was super painful. I kept checking if I could turn my neck (I am very scared of meningitis) and I could. Well. Yesterday morning I was in so much pain that I could not move out of bed. And the pain had spread to the back of my head. I freaked out a bit, took a lot of painkillers and slept all day long. In the evening the pain was about 95% gone and I could actually move again. I have slight pain today and am going to the Dr in the morning because something is not quite right. I was a very good girl and didn’t use Dr Google because really, I cannot deal with more stress at the moment.
3.I learned this weekend (after talking to my friend who also has a special boy) that sometimes Google can really be your worst enemy. I am really going to have to re-think how I take my relationship with google into the future. I also need to learn to accept that everyone responds to situations differently and that denial can go on longer for some people than for others.
4. I really need to exercise but I simply can’t fit it in even though I really want to. My DH now gets a lift to and from his workplace and so this means that I do the drop-off and pick-up of kids which means that I don’t get to exercise. I am thinking VERY hard about how to deal with this situation.
5. There is drama at my DH’s workplace (he’s not involved and is trying to stay out of it but it looks like he will have to choose a side at some point) and there is drama at my workplace. It would seem that the world is in the state that it’s in because of people and their fragile egos and lack of emotional intelligence. Quite frankly, it’s rather tiring.
6.I spent most of the weekend listening to Linkin Park and I do so want to see them! My DH is not that interested but he has no choice – he MUST come with me.
7. I watched some of the Olympic opening ceremony on Friday and I quite enjoyed it. My favourite was the part where the Queen did a “sky dive” into the stadium and of course the Mr Bean bit. I actually fell asleep and couldn’t watch it to the end.
8. I slept for most of yesterday and last night I was rather hyped up. So I watched the last few episodes of Greys season 7. I went to bed (had to force myself) at nearly 2am! Eish. As you can imagine I am feeling a bit fragile at the moment so I’m about to tuck my kids in and go to bed.
How was your weekend? Did you have a good Monday?
I hope you feel better soon, that sounds terrible! We’re on the mend now and it makes a helluva lot of difference to the general order of our days. Did you get your tickets for Linkin Park yet? I am so excited!
LOL you and Louisa! I don’t even know who Linkin Park is. Seriously I don’t and I won’t google!
I lost the whole weekend travelling, it feels like! But I’m now done with Concord and Charlotte pics and have done a tiny bit of NYC so things are looking up.
LOL about having to rethink your relationship with google. I remember a couple of years ago I was googling about ladies that had the mirena inserted..I did this a couple of hours before my appointment to have mine done….I was scared shitless after reading their comments and almost cancelled by appointment…luckily DH spoke some guts into me and it only to 15minutes and it was not painful at all. From them on I’m very selective about what I “read” on google.
Hope that you feel better soon!
I stopped asking Dr Google when my second son was so very sick. Dr Google was right…but the shock was too much for me. Now I need to get to know things in a gentler way.
I hope you are feeling better.
Kidlet has had horrid flu since Friday, also with headaches. We were at the doc yesterday and she confirms it really is just flu. Checked myself too while I was there as I also had a sucker of a headache complete with stiff neck. Myprodol seems to be managing it. Hope u are feeling better.
All the best for the new school tomorrow xxx
Good luck with the new school today, Joolsie! Am sure it will all go swimmingly!
I think that the odd weather we’ve been having in CT lately has wreaked havoc with everyone’s health! Hot in the week and then icy on the weekend! Hope you are feeling better ??
Google’s bum – it was BECAUSE of an image I saw on Google about my pending op that I backed off (that, and the fact that Isabella arrived!). Not to mention the amount of conflicting info that you come across!!!!
I’ve officially climbed back on the exercise wagon – okay, so it was yesterday, but I’m on it none theless! It’s HARD trying to find the time!! As it is, I literally have only 40 minutes from leaving work to collecting Isabella – so that’s 20mins of exercise. But it’s SOMETHING, I suppose?
Work politics is exhausting… I don’t get it. Why can’t that kind of juvenile behaviour be left behind at school? huh??
Enjoy LInkin Park – and I really hope you get well soon!
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I really hope you will eb feeling much much better soon. Flu? Or stress induced muscles? Work stress is just crap – hope it all resolves soon.
And the bst of luck for th enew school
I don’t really google anything “serious” like illness or symptoms or stuff like that! There is just too much conflicting information.
Hope the new school is going well
I haven’t been able to comment on your blog forever. I hope you noticed I was absent.
I hope all went well with the new school today – will you blog about it?
And yes, end your relationship with Dr Google pls. He is really not the best qualified to dispense info and when he does he does it quite harshly, which isn’t great. I don’t find he has a good bedside manner at all
Why donm’t you go for a good massage/physio session? Am sure it will help.
I will volunteer my DH to come with you to Linkin Park. I can’t bear them. Ugh. Am sure you two will have a great time head banging along to their music
I am LOVING the Olympics. That is all x
Hope the transition to new school went swimmingly for Child 2 and you. Gosh that flu sounds aweful honey, hope you’ve turned the corner and are feeling better today. I learnt during my years dealing with infertility that Dr Google could either be my friend or my worst enemy and more often than not it was the last one. I never use Google to diagnose anymore. Hope the work drama’s get sorted out soon! I watched the opening ceremony, there was some parts that I liked and some parts that I loved and some parts that I HATED.
Anyway hope you’ve had a good week so far.
xxx
Hi Julia, hope Child 2 was fine at the school on Wednesday? Would love to know how he dealt with it.
Hope you are feeling better now? I have a love hate relationship with Dr. Google. And sometimes I realise going to google is the worst thing I do to myself but I still do it anyway. I watched an episode of The Doctors and I felt like they were talking to me… (and in a not so nice way)
You have to watch season 8. The end would shock the socks off your foot
That’s all I’m saying