I just ache today, it sucks. I wonder if I’m ever going to get better. *sigh*
Twitterpated…
June 28, 2007 at 10:59 pm (Uncategorized)
I don’t know what it means but I found it in the Imoods list… and thought I felt kinda twitterpated right now… not really great but not horrible either. 
Last few days before we head north!
June 28, 2007 at 10:51 pm (Da UP, Friends, La Leche League, baby stuff, blogging, cats, class reunion, family, home, kids, mono, sickness, sleep, travel)
I am really looking forward to spending some time in the UP. We are heading up there on Sunday and will be there for two weeks! I am very homesick and I can’t wait to be home… down here is OK but it’s not home. I know I’ll be visiting the beach in the above picture, so I’ll probably get a new beach picture for my blog! It seems like when we travel, or when we have company here from out of town, it all revolves around when we are eating and what (or where), and this time is no exception. When I talk with my mom in the next couple of days, she’ll go over menu ideas, and I already know we’ve been invited to a friend’s for fried fish (YUM) and out to dinner on July 4th. I know the rest of the plans will revolve around food. But that’s ok!! Some of the best fish anywhere is out of Lake Superior! I’ve arranged for pet care, my neighbor usually at least partially moves in when we aren’t here and that’s always reassuring.
I am not doing too bad right at the moment. Sophie has been OK at night the past couple of nights so that’s helpful. However two nights ago my temperature was 100 and my throat hurt the next day. And I still have some body aches too. Sometimes (most of the time) I don’t think I’m going to ever get better. Sure wish I’d had Mono in high school, I could have at least stayed home and slept.
I am getting together with the other La Leche League Leaders in the area tomorrow for a meeting, they all went to a conference and I’m excited to hear about it. I had strep throat but hadn’t signed up to go anyway, I couldn’t have imagined being with Sophie in a hotel room with a bunch of other people! It will be nice to see everyone, I’m the newest leader in the area now. I will have to see who will cover my phone calls when we’re away.
I’m not sure if I will be able to update this while in the UP. The last time we were there, we had to use a painful dial up connection, and even getting my email was very hard. I can try to update if I have time to sit at the computer, maybe while the baby is napping, if I’m not asleep myself.
Clane’s sister is moving back to Florida tomorrow. She has been in Michigan a little over a year, but unfortunately had a heck of a time finding a job, and the one she did find didn’t pay well and required her to work every Saturday as well as all the days during the week. I’ll sure miss her! It kinda stinks that she’s leaving. But I think Florida is more home to her now, she lived there a long time before this.
Well time for me to head to bed. It’s getting late. I hope it will be easy to update this from the UP because I’ll probably have a lot to talk about. It should be a fun trip! I also think I am done using blogspot and will be using wordpress from now on. I like it a lot better, I like being able to read my stats and stuff.
Seems like all I ever do is piss and moan about how bad I feel…
June 24, 2007 at 10:07 am (Friends, coffee, mono, sickness, sleep)
I’m starting to get quite boring, as if I was ever that exciting to begin with. Last night I turned my head just the wrong way for just a second and now my neck still aches, 12 hours later! Why?? As if I need any more aches and pains and reasons to feel like crap! I’m just so tired today, the one thing I need to get rid of this damn mono is more sleep and I just can’t have it. It feels like I am going to be sick forever.
On the upside, we had some friends here for dinner last night – steak on the grill. My husband and his friend have birthdays close together so we’ve made it an annual thing. It was a great meal and great company too! We had a nice time.
I am drinking Finnish coffee this morning. I think I should go on a quest to try different coffee from around the world! Sounds like a romantic notion but what will probably happen is that I’ll start in the international foods aisle at Meijer. And I will probably wind up with 100 little bricks of coffee (since it seems to come that way everywhere else, at least in Europe) in my cupboard with my husband saying, “Do you REALLY need more coffee?” All I know is that the coffee in Germany was absolutely awesome! I drank copious amounts of it.
OK so maybe I’ll finish up the German, Lebanese and Finnish coffees I already have before getting more. Doesn’t it sound like fun though?
I’m sitting here drinking Lebanese coffee…
June 20, 2007 at 9:16 am (Friends, baby stuff, breastfeeding, coffee, family, home, kids, mono, motherhood, sleep)
and OH is it good! It’s ground very fine, almost like a powder, and this one has cardamom in it! They have it at Yasmeen’s in Saginaw. The owner is so nice, they are opening a deli on July 1 and I can’t wait to go there to pick up some lunch!! I am really loving this coffee!
This weekend was kind of crazy. On Friday, our new furniture came. I love all of it, but the kitchen table is just so pretty, it will look great no matter how I would ever design a kitchen, and the recliner is wonderful for those 4 am nursing sessions! On Sunday Sophie was baptized and had two godmothers, one of them came down from the UP and yesterday she and my mom drove back home. It was so nice having TWO adults here all the time to help me with the kids, getting to shower and poop alone is WONDERFUL! After having a cup of delicious Lebanese coffee, I had more energy than I’ve had in weeks (go figure!!) so I started cleaning, well after that and running some errands, I got both kids to sleep and just crashed. I was pretty much useless for the rest of the day. Damn mono! I really thought I was getting better but by the end of the day I’ve got a headache and sore throat again, and I’m just all worn out.
Both Sophie and Will had bad nights again, he was awake way past 11 so Clane went in with him. Sophie nursed around 4:30 and decided she was up for the day (WTF???) so she proceeded to bounce around in the bed and finally Clane got irritated and went to the couch and I held her tight and she screamed (for some reason she almost always SCREAMS now right before falling asleep… it’s like her last release of pent up energy) and then she finally crashed and is still sleeping now at 10:15. I was going to take Will to a somewhat informal playgroup today but I don’t want to wear myself out, maybe I can arrange to take him there in the next day or two.
I hate having mono, I don’t even remember what it’s like to feel good and I hate not being able to get anything done… this house (and my life) feel so chaotic and disheveled…
Did I say this coffee rocks? I was warned (lol) that it was going to be strong and it is, but it’s so smooth, and the spice is just right! Thanks Habib! 
Getting new furniture, and other things
June 14, 2007 at 10:27 pm (Friends, baby stuff, family, home, mono, sickness, sleep)
I really should be going to bed (what the heck am I doing up so late?) but I haven’t posted on here in a long time so I thought I would do a quick one here before I turn in. I am still sick, but it turns out that all the back pain I was having was because I’d actually put something out of place in my back. My doctor is an osteopath and she told me one time over the phone how to get it back in. So after some hot packs, a muscle relaxant and rolling on the floor on a rolled up towel, things felt better and the pain was 100% better the next day. However I am still dealing with the headache, sore throat, occasional fever and tiredness from the mono. That’s no fun.
We are getting new furniture tomorrow!! A recliner and new kitchen table with chairs. We’ve been using borrowed/REALLY old used furniture for a long time and finally decided to replace some of it. The recliner is very comfortable, you could almost spend nights in it, if you can stand sleeping on your back. The kitchen table is really pretty, I think, it’s plain, unstained hardwood (oak?) and it’s very Scandinavian looking, comfy chairs… and the cool part is that the leaf is self storing under the table! It’s very sturdy and something our grandkids can fight over when we’re gone.
My mom has been here visiting this week and for the past few days I’ve gotten to take naps with the baby. She is restless but it’s better than no naps, although when I wake up I feel like I could sleep all day. I know it’s beneficial but I just don’t feel any better. But I know I won’t get better if I don’t get sleep, this will just hang on all summer if I’m not careful.
Sophie is going to be baptized on Father’s Day, we have a cute dress all ready for her (with matching shoes!) and all the arrangements have been made. We’ll have lunch at a Chinese buffet in town afterwards. I just talked to one of Sophie’s godmothers today, she is down here visiting a friend and will be here at our house early Sunday morning.
Mono sucks, but not as bad as strep throat, and I’d rather have strep throat any day over nausea/vomiting/diarrhea!
Oh my…
June 8, 2007 at 11:09 am (sickness)
Now today I feel like the day AFTER someone beat the snot out of me with a baseball bat… my whole left side from my ribs to my knees hurts like crazy, I can hardly even touch it… I feel like a crippled old lady, I can hardly get up from a chair or sit down, or turn over in bed… someone shoot me…
I HAVE MONO
June 7, 2007 at 10:48 am (Da UP, class reunion, sickness, sleep)
I’m 38 years old, I’ve been exposed to mono a million times or more, and now I have mono!!! 
No wonder I feel so awful… I’m so tired and it feels like someone has been pounding on my body with a baseball bat. My Epstein-Barr titer was 4 times higher than normal. The really crappy part is that Epstein-Barr virus can cause chronic fatigue syndrome (although in my not so humble opinion, so can having two small children who don’t sleep!)… so on top of everything else, that would suck so bad… I don’t need to be any more tired than I already am!! EBV can flare up later on so let’s hope it doesn’t… but chances are, if I can’t get decent sleep on a regular basis, it probably will. I don’t have a chance if I can’t sleep. And I’ve been sick so many times in the past 12 months, with stuff I either rarely get or have never had before!
The good news is, no more strep throat. I don’t know why I still have a few white dots on the back of my throat, but my culture was negative. I’m really glad about that because the doctor said she was going to send me to an ENT who would probably talk to me about having my tonsils out. At 38 years old!!! Can you imagine?
Well at least I know all of this, what I’ve been feeling, is due to something, and not just me being tired and having nothing abnormal show up. I hope I am feeling better by July when we are going to the UP for my 20th class reunion! But that will consist of sitting on a boat, eating and having a beer… so at least it’s nothing strenuous…
Why, oh why, am I not getting better…
June 4, 2007 at 9:43 pm (Da UP, Finland, family, sickness, travel)
I’m back to the doctor’s tomorrow… even though I had another week of antibiotics, I still have a sore throat, a low grade temp and a few small white spots on the back of my throat. I am tired beyond belief and just SO irritated that this has been going on so long!! When I looked at the calendar, I couldn’t believe that it’s been a month already that I’ve been sick! This STINKS!!! I know it’s because I don’t get enough rest and I just don’t see how I can right now, really… I’m sure being alone last week didn’t help me at all (even though Chris and Sarah brought me cookies – thanks guys, they were really good!), I just feel like I’m never going to get caught up or ever feel good again!
Clane’s trip to Sweden went well… he brought home a little stuffed reindeer for Sophie, a toy plane for Will, a pen with the Swedish flag all over it for me and a neat piece of carved and pained glass that is signed and numbered by the artist. He said Sweden looks like the UP which is not a surprise, since there are a lot of Scandinavians living up there – it must have reminded them of home. Someday, we’ll all get over there together. I know absolutely not a single word of Swedish… and I don’t think I would even recognize it if I heard it. Finn, on the other hand, is so unique… I’d recognize that anywhere! I would like to go to Finland even more than Sweden (sorry!)!
I’ll see what my doctor says tomorrow, probably more cultures and who knows what after that, more antibiotics I guess… good thing I am eating handfuls of acidophilus capsules because I’d be sprouting mushrooms by now!!
THANK GOODNESS…
June 1, 2007 at 2:05 pm (family)
My husband is on his way home from Sweden today! Should be landing in Chicago in about 3 hours!!
To all you ladies out there who are single moms… I don’t know how you do it… you military moms sure are tough women too… I don’t think I’m a fraction as strong as you are…
