The Week From Hell

Well, this has been a stellar week for us!  We were going to spare you all the gory details, but really, where is the fun in that!?

So, we left off last Sunday in pretty high spirits from a really great vacation, but if you recall, we weren't quite ready for it to end.  So we added another week to it.  Unfortunately, it was not a fun week.  I went to bed Sunday with a little scratchy throat and woke Monday with a low grade fever.  Since Dad had just been off with me for two weeks, mom pulled sick duty, thinking I would be heading back to school on Tuesday.  No such luck.  I spent the rest of the week at home on the couch with a fever of 102 and a stuffy head.  To make matters worse, dad had to go out of town for work on Wednesday morning and didn't come home until Friday afternoon which means mom DID NOT SET FOOT OUT OF THE HOUSE FOR 5 DAYS.  And to make matters even worser, dad was unbelievable sick when he got home Friday.  He thought for sure he was going to die in his hotel room Thursday night and the cleaning lady would find him dead, wearing all his clothes, with all the blankets  piled on and the heat turned up as high as it would go.  Do you know what you do when you are home for 5 days straight?  It involves a lot of TV, not good TV either (think Honey Boo-Boo) and ends with mom making you watch her wedding video.  Good times in the Goedel house.  So far, mom has dodged the sick bullet (although writing that sentence probably just jinxed her), mainly by keeping a minimum of 50' between her and us and yelling at us to cough/sneeze into our elbows while throwing hand sanitizer in our general direction.  It has not been pretty and mom was very anxious to get back to work this week and treat "healthy" people!

So, we are finally back on the mend and I headed back to school today, mom and dad back to work even though dad probably could have used another day.

On the plus side of things, mom FINALLY got her Subaru!  She had to let it sit in the garage for 5 days because I was too sick to go anywhere.  She did spend some time sitting in it and taking in the "new car smell" or just standing in the garage staring at it.  Another happy reason to go to work on Monday- she finally gets to drive it!  Compared to her X-terra, which she loved, the Subi is kind of complicated with all kinds of buttons and gadgets but we are figuring it out and waiting for the next snow storm to test out our all wheel drive.

So, that's about it for our week.  I hope we have better stuff to report next week.  Stay healthy everyone!