the one where I wonder what it’s all about.

Oh inter­webz I’m in a mood! We’ve all been sick and I think it’s affect­ing my tem­pera­ment.  Squidge wasn’t feel­ing well for a cou­ple of days then looked like she was feel­ing bet­ter so I got her dressed and off to nurs­ery we went.  We made it to the nurs­ery gate before she spewed all over her­self and the ground.   So off back home we went where she dete­ri­o­rated until I finally called the NHS Direct (on call after hours med­ical helpline). After answer­ing a series of ques­tions it was deter­mined that she had a sus­pected case of swine flu.  I spent the rest of the night cradling her in my arms as her fever spiked to about 104 and she hal­lu­ci­nated her butt off.  The hal­lu­ci­na­tions would have been funny if I wasn’t soo wor­ried. In the morn­ing I headed off to one of the tam­i­flu col­lec­tion points in Man­ches­ter to pick up her meds.

mak­ing paper flow­ers to keep the cra­zies at bay

Wal and I fig­ured we would be com­ing down with it too con­sid­er­ing Squidge had been cough­ing and sneez­ing in our faces for a cou­ple of days.  Sure enough both of us got sick but thank­fully not of the pork vari­ety!  We were all house­bound for an entire week and it sucked.  I went to BMF this morn­ing for the first time in a week and when I told peo­ple Squidge had a sus­pected case of swine flue they ACTUALLY took a step back!  OMG PEOPLE!!  They did this after I told them I stayed away from BMF for a week until I felt bet­ter and knew I wasn’t con­ta­gious!! Idiots!   We’re all feel­ing much bet­ter thank you for asking.

Need­less to say no work was done on the bath­room.  We are sooo close to being fin­ished I can smell it!!  I’m hop­ing it gets done this week­end and then we can call the estate agent and get the house listed.  We are plan­ning on redec­o­rat­ing our bed­room but will have the house on the mar­ket before we start on that.  I’m sick to death of think­ing about mov­ing.  I have wanted to move since I found out I was preg­nant w/ Squidge– that’s a long damn time peo­ple!  I’ve been on right­move again and have found a few houses that would be great.  It’s hard com­ing to terms with what your money will get you here in the UK– noth­ing much is the answer in case any Amer­i­cans were won­der­ing.  Still I slog on look­ing at house after house in our price range.  Won­der­ing if we should up our bud­get and get into real debt.  I think it’s the only way we’ll get what we want but it makes me ner­vous.  Still, oth­ers do it, they get into seri­ous debt for that fan­tas­tic fam­ily home.  There is some­thing in me that doesn’t want to do that.  Some­thing inside me that tells me peo­ple shouldn’t be mort­gaged up to the hilt.  Any­way this house thing is really get­ting me depressed.

On a pos­i­tive note I’m head­ing to Mass­a­chu­setts on the 20th!  Squidge and I are really look­ing for­ward to see­ing our new baby cousin Ella.  We’ll be stay­ing for 2 weeks so gob­ble gob­ble we’ll be home for Thanks­giv­ing too!  This will be Squidge’s first Thanksgiving!