I felt like absolute hell yesterday. My head hurt so bad I could not even think straight. Ben, Cassidy and I are all sick at the same time so there is nobody to baby me!

Anyway, I felt better last night and Ben and I got to bed early. We were in bed at like 9 which is WAY early for us. We talked for quite awhile, fought over blankets… we had not really had a lot of alone time lately because I’ve been working such crazy hours. It was really nice.

So I took Cassidy to the half way point where I drop her off half way between here and Bakersfield so she can see her dad. On 152 I was stuck in traffic going East (normal for Friday). It took me over an hour to go 7 miles. On the way back, the same 7 miles in the other direction took 7 MINUTES!

Some genius decided to cross 152 and 156 without an overpass. There is literally an intersection with no light, just a stop sign, and it backs traffic up for miles and miles. When I was on the way back (around 7ish) the traffic was backed up over 10 miles.

/me remembers why Ben showed her that alternate route that she will ALWAYS take from now on on Friday evenings. heh

On a good note, it gave Cassidy and I time to practice writing her name and letters. I’d write letters or her name on some paper then she’d write them. So now I know that even though I don’t have her this weekend, at least I got SOME practice time in.

Top 5 reasons to never get Strep Throat:

#1 - The Pain: Oh my GOD the pain. Like hot pieces of little sharpened glass shards being ground into your throat. That’s actually not even bad enough. I couldn’t even swollow my own saliva, I was having to spit it out. Vicodin was not getting rid of the pain.

#2 - NO KISSING! - It’s amazing how much you miss even just having a little peck on the lips. I’d lean in to kiss Ben and then suddenly remember I was not allowed. When you feel that bad, you want to cling to the thing that brings you the most comfort, the most pleasure… when you can’t have that if feels like torture. At this moment, we have not kissed since Sunday evening.

#3 - Dehydration/Malnutrition: When you can’t swollow, you can’t drink or eat. On Tuesday night I realized that my heart was beating so hard I could feel my pulse in my fingers. I knew that I needed to get some fluid in me right away and I forced myself to drink. I’d have to put water in my mouth, then sit there for a few seconds and talk myself into actually swollowing it. Water, mouth, think, swollow… *pain* *shudder* *pain* *whince*… repeat. Through three glasses. It took me almost an hour a glass.

#4 - Shot! I had to have a Penicillin shot. The shot itself was nothing, I could not even really feel it. That night as I prepared to get sleep for the first time in 4 days though, I realized that I felt like I had a huge bruise on my behind. And it hit right in my comfy position for sleeping!! Cassidy got a kick out of watching MOMMY get the shot though!

#5 - NO KISSING!!!

*UGH* I spent all day yesterday dealing with LICE!!!! Cassidy had a bad case of it. :< I spent the day shampooing, combing, washing and vacuuming. It was horrible! Thank GOD that Ben and I have not managed to pick up the nasty little parasite. The actual living lice was full grown so that means that she's had it for at least 10 days. Troy called and told me that she had it and that he was getting rid of it but he must have let a few nits get by because she STILL had them.

They are all gone now. For those of you who don’t know the nit is the egg and the louse (singular for lice) is about the size of a small grain of rice. Here are some pics for those parents of you that have never had to deal with these little gems before.

Ouch…

I have a really bad headache. I’ve had it for about three days. I used to get this same headache when I got really stressed out or depressed. I’m not depressed right now, I really think it’s just stress. Cassidy’s immunization, school, job hunting, money being really tight, missing my mom and Cameron and Gene… I thought last night that it could possibly be that my eyes are needing to be checked again and that my contacts could be what’s making my head hurt but I have not put them in at all today and it’s still hurting. It’s keeping me awake at night and it’s making me irritable and it SUCKS!