Last Thursday night, I was minding my own business and doing something terribly important (I can’t remember, exactly, but I’m assuming that I was either counting down the seconds until Scandal started or watching my 4,378th episode of Diners, Drive-ins, & Dives when I realized that I didn’t feel so hot. I told myself that it was just a little indigestion, and that’s what I continued to tell myself several hours later, when I was still in denial about the possibility of a stomach virus even thought I was tossing and turning and basically longing for some Tums or maybe even a couple of sticks of sidewalk chalk.
But by Friday afternoon, the virus / plague / Masque of the Red Death (apologies to Edgar Allan Poe) had made a believer out of me. I thought the worst was over by Saturday morning, but that was only because I had not yet experienced what was coming my way Saturday night and Sunday morning. It was SOMETHING ELSE.
Today, though, I am so much better. I’m a smidge dehydrated and a little dependent on bananas as my primary food group, but compared to a couple of days ago, I am downright peppy. Doing high kicks in a field of daisies while puppies frolic nearby. Relatively speaking, of course.
Oh! And since I’m watching the NCAA Championship Game right now, I guess this is as good a time as any to point out that the most unlikely thing EVER happened after the first two Final Four games.
THIS IS UNPRECEDENTED.
Now if Louisville loses, I’m guessing this whole phase of being atop the leader board will be, as Joey Tribbiani would say, “a moo point – like a cow’s opinion, it doesn’t matter” – but given my embarrassingly poor showing in the early rounds, I’m a little tickled that things have turned out this way. Even if it’s only temporary.
So that’s pretty much all that’s been going on around here: a whole lot of virus-ing (D feel prey to the plague on Saturday, I’m sad to say), an impressive amount of sleeping, and a little bit of basketball-ing. I did watch parts of the ACM Awards last night, an experience that left me wondering when exactly the men who sing country music for a living started to get spray tans (at least they LOOK like they get spray tans – I have no real evidence, other than the muted orange head-to-toe hue that I noticed on several performers). To each his own, I reckon, and honestly, who cares what I think? I mean, I still can’t get used to the sight of male country singers wearing skinny jeans, so clearly I am all sorts of ancient.
Maybe tomorrow I can stand on my porch and shake my fist at the sky and find a reason to scream the word “hooligans.”
I’ll get to work on that first thing in the morning.
Love,
Mamaw
Glad you are feeling better. Being sick stinks to high heaven. I’m going on a mission trip to Thailand in May and spent the evening reading about all the nasty diseases I could get just breathing. Good luck in your brackets. Mine were shot when Duke got knocked out. Amy
I checked the leader board before tonight’s game, and I must admit, I laughed! Way to go, Sophie! We tried, indeed. Now, that pesky Michigan team will just have to cooperate. What a great game! (Glad you are on the mend; that stuff is murder!)
I noticed earlier today too that you were topping the leader board. :) My bracket in your group TANKED. I’m down in the 74th position, I believe.
I still have faith that the University of Kentucky will win the whole thing.
I have had that stomach virus three times. Water is my friend. And plain baked spuds.
I’m glad your feeling better. All three of my kids had it, and I basically spent the time praying to God I wouldn’t get it. (I guess I should confess to praying something more motherly like, “I wish it was me instead of them” but I had enough nausea throughout all of my pregnancies to last through the rest of my life, and I did that for them so…
I don’t know why I felt compelled to write all of that. Anyway, glad you’re better!
I’ve loved your blog since I started reading it but neverore than now when you included a Friends reference and one of my favorites at that!! Glad you are feeling better.
Amen Holly! Amen! Boo mama AND Friends quotes? It’s like some kind of jackpot tailor made for me!
Two sticks of sidewalk chalk…LOVED THAT LINE!! :) I am with you on the denial thing. “I am not getting sick. I am not getting sick. I am not…well look at that, I just got sick. Must have been something I ate…” Moms just don’t have time for getting sick!
And with the Cardinal win, looks like you came out on top. Congrats! :)
Okay, so that’s what it was. SPRAY TANS. I seriously thought King George (aka George Strait) was ill or something b/c his coloring looked so bad. It must have been a spray tan gone wrong.
Look at you-You did it!
Glad you’re feeling better. . that stomach virus going around is WICKED!
And oh the ACM’s. . .what was going on there? The sound was so OFF and Stevie Wonder . .? Legend Yes, Country Music Legend Not so much. . .need more George!
So glad you are feeling better! You know the world is going to hell when you see more men in a salon than women…..is that being sexist? I just miss the days where men smelled of carburator grease and were not afraid to get their hands dirty or their hair messed up.
My 11-month-old daughter has slept through the night only 5 times since birth. Last night was one of those nights. It was also the night that I sat upright in bed at 2:30 and thought, “Great googly moogly, why is my stomach on fire?!” If I stop for a second to think about how terribly unjust it is to have a tiny bug when I should have been enjoying 8 hours of consecutive sleep, I may weep.
Sophie! I had a stomach bug not so long ago, and after reading this post I realize you will understand the worst part of it. While sick, I was unable to watch Diners, Drive Ins and Dives. I KNOW. Glad you are feeling better!
Reading of your illness made me TREMBLE, I swear our family can catch things by reading them. Kristen Welch from We Are That Family gave us a middle of the night child barfer on Facebook last month.
Also, I cannot wait to read your book. Hurry up and come out already. I just went ahead and pre-ordered it to ease the angst of waiting.
Glad you’re feeling better BooMama xo
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