Quick Update: Yes, Still Living (Barely)
Sep. 22nd, 2009 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseAs you know, Bob, I have a deadline kicking my butt. What you may not know is that yesterday (and Sunday), I was down for the count thanks to a wicked flu. I was smart this time, I think. Instead of resisting, I gave in to my impluse to sleep it off. I slept nearly all of Sunday when I first felt it coming on. Then on Monday, Shawn left for Washington, D.C. on business and I stayed upright long enough to get Mason ready for school, fed him and drop him off. Then I slept. I slept and slept and slept until time to pick him up, feed him again, stand over him while we did homework, brush his teeth, and get him into pjs. Then I told him he was on his own.
We have a tradition that when one parent is away that Mason is allowed to be somewhat mischevious. This mischief can involve wanton bookshopping, daring trips to McDonalds and other usually off-limits restaurants, or playing videogames/watching TV past the usual cut off time of 6PM. Last night, since I was so very, very sick, I told him he could do whatever as long as he crawled into bed at a semi-reasonable hour (say, before 9:00 pm, which is quite late for a school night for us, but we could sleep in in the morning since we didn't have to take mama in to work by 8am.) That rascal watched RETURN OF THE JEDI and then read until bedtime. Wicked, wicked boy, that one.
Meanwhile, I only monitored him during my semi-conscious moments. I'd bolt awake at 8pm and ask him what he was up to ("just finishing TV, ima!") and I'd tell him to start getting books together or whatever ("I was going to, ima!")
The best part of having such a mostly well-behaved young man is that I totally could trust him. He was in bed and asleep before 9:00 pm as promised. Too bad I was restless and in a bad way for several hours after he was out.
Still, the important thing is that my plan to sleep it off seems to have worked. I'm not 100% today, but compared to yesterday... whoo! I'm much more bright-eyed and busy-tailed and ready to start my writing.
Strangely, I'm feeling like, with Shawn gone, I might actually make a good push. It's funny but sometimes I write more when Shawn's away. I think it's because I don't have someone interesting to talk to (once Mason is asleep, I mean.) And, TV mostly sucks now that "More to Love" is over, so what else is there to do? :-)
Wish me luck. And if you don't hear from me in the next week or so, know that I'm head down over the keyboard typing furiously.
We have a tradition that when one parent is away that Mason is allowed to be somewhat mischevious. This mischief can involve wanton bookshopping, daring trips to McDonalds and other usually off-limits restaurants, or playing videogames/watching TV past the usual cut off time of 6PM. Last night, since I was so very, very sick, I told him he could do whatever as long as he crawled into bed at a semi-reasonable hour (say, before 9:00 pm, which is quite late for a school night for us, but we could sleep in in the morning since we didn't have to take mama in to work by 8am.) That rascal watched RETURN OF THE JEDI and then read until bedtime. Wicked, wicked boy, that one.
Meanwhile, I only monitored him during my semi-conscious moments. I'd bolt awake at 8pm and ask him what he was up to ("just finishing TV, ima!") and I'd tell him to start getting books together or whatever ("I was going to, ima!")
The best part of having such a mostly well-behaved young man is that I totally could trust him. He was in bed and asleep before 9:00 pm as promised. Too bad I was restless and in a bad way for several hours after he was out.
Still, the important thing is that my plan to sleep it off seems to have worked. I'm not 100% today, but compared to yesterday... whoo! I'm much more bright-eyed and busy-tailed and ready to start my writing.
Strangely, I'm feeling like, with Shawn gone, I might actually make a good push. It's funny but sometimes I write more when Shawn's away. I think it's because I don't have someone interesting to talk to (once Mason is asleep, I mean.) And, TV mostly sucks now that "More to Love" is over, so what else is there to do? :-)
Wish me luck. And if you don't hear from me in the next week or so, know that I'm head down over the keyboard typing furiously.