Argh

I suck at blogging these days. I have no TIME for it anymore. I have no time to keep up with it. Apparently, I used to have way too much time on my hands, back in the day. Which is not to say that other bloggers have too much time on their hands, it's just that I am crap at time management.

This weekend has been a Stuck Around the House weekend, because the Big Kid is sick. She is not an easy patient, which is hardly surprising. She hates every form of medicine out there, which makes her totally hard to take care of. I can't give her much relief. If there is something she HAS to take, she makes a huge deal out of it, and throws up a lot when she has a fever or has to take something she finds objectionable. I was able to con her into eating yogurt laden with ibuprofen, which was an enormous and unprecedented victory. She still has a fever, though, so I suppose we're off to the doctor tomorrow.

I'm pretty much giving up on ever getting to yoga again, since I have had one week since school started where they have both managed to be in school at the same time on their regular schedule.

School is a drag. That's all I'm going to say about that right now.

I'm trying to ignore the tickle in my throat and the tightness in my lungs, because I refuse to get sick. I'm too busy and having too much fun to be sick, dammit.

So we stuck close to home this weekend, and I did a lot of cooking Friday and Sunday. Friday I made a chicken in the slow cooker, warm red cabbage salad with pecans, pumpkin pecan muffins, and pumpkin anadama rolls. Today I made hamburger soup (which is a pretty good soup with a pretty lame name), brussels sprouts with dijon/caraway butter, yeasted dinner rolls, and leftover cabbage salad. (I am in LOVE with this warm red cabbage salad, it's so bizarre.) Tomorrow I will probably be stuck close to home again, except for doctor's appointments, so I will probably be cooking my ass off again. I had planned to do more house painting this weekend, but that didn't pan out. Painting is something that's hard to stop and start and do little bits of at a time ... for me, anyway.

Another reason I don't want to get sick is that I'm learning so many cool new things at the dojo! I got my brown belt two weeks ago, and now I'm working on judo throws, a new kata, and bo staff. I don't want to take any time off for any reason. So there.

Stupid school and its stupid germs.