One of Those Days

It's just one of those days.


Yesterday afternoon I got on my treadmill for an hour, with the baby in the carrier. Felt fine before and during the workout. Within 20 minutes of stopping, I started feeling terrible, running a low fever and having aches and pains all over. I went to bed early after taking some ibuprophren and got up to a nice temperature of just 98.3.

I started my day as usual, getting my oldest off to school, feeding the other two, tidying up the house. Then it hits me, again, the aches and pains... and extreme fatigue. So I took my temperature, and surprise, another fever. What gives? I don't feel anything except the aches/pains. Where is this coming from? Do you know how hard it is to take care of a 5 1/2yr old, 3 1/2yr old, and 4 month old while running a fever, and feeling like you were hit by a semi?

Now I had hoped that was all that I would have to deal with today, but no, something else had to happen. I went outside to refill the bird feeder. There were about 10 of those little guys fighting over the little bit of seed that was left, I had to give them more! As I was picking up after refilling it I glanced toward the carport and noticed some strange debris. I took a couple steps forward and saw it, a chunk of the ceiling from the carport had crashed on top of the kids' bikes. As far as I can tell, there's no damage to the bikes. No other pieces have fallen, but I can see other areas clearly bulging. I knew we had been getting a lot of rain lately, but geeze... to have this happen? Now you can clearly see into the attic and I can imagine some birds are going to find that big opening and think "hey! this would make a great nesting spot!" I was told by the landlord that he would come by this afternoon to take a look. Here it is now 5pm and still no sign of him. I have been avoiding taking a much needed nap for this fever waiting on him. If he doesn't show... UGH. The day is almost over, it can't possibly get worse, right?

On a lighter note, tomorrow I will be checking out a local gym. They said they have a military discount "it's the biggest discount we offer!". They have free childcare too. An hour to myself without hearing "waaah" or "mommy" once? Score! Hopefully their prices aren't too high and it's worth it. It would definitely give me conviction for those days where I convince myself "Oh I don't feel like working out today." -- I would get an hour to myself and we'd be paying for it, so ya I better use it!