my weekend, an epic
Dec. 27th, 2005 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanMan, this was the longest four-day weekend EVAR.
The sad thing is that the weekend itself was, for the most part, awesome, but this morning was so packed full of Teh Suck that now I can barely even remember how excellent the weekend was. :(
Teh Awesome
The first part of Teh Awesome was the package from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hawkeye7 which I posted about the other day. Isaac and I have already read the kid books from that package approx. one zillion times each (the Thomas book is this enormous thing with lots of flaps to open on each page, which he loooooves), and I have already finished Pratchett's Hat Full of Sky. Isaac is also totally loving his new Thomas trainset that grandma gave him.
The second part of Teh Awesome came at the gift exchange portion of Saturday evening, where my mom REALLY surprised me with ... the DVD of "Serenity"!
Mind you, until this weekend I was probably the only person in the world -- well, okay, North America -- who called herself a "Firefly" fan but hadn't seen the movie. (That's not counting people who can't go to movie theaters for medical reasons, likemorgan_dhu.) I so badly wanted to see it, but it disappeared from theaters a lot faster than I expected, so I never did. And then last week my mom -- forgetting that I hadn't seen it yet -- rented it and watched it and then called me up wanting to discuss it. I think she felt really bad about forgetting that I hadn't managed to see it yet, so she got me the DVD. It was super exciting, since I hadn't really expected her to get me anything. And just to complete the gift, on Sunday she took Isaac to her place for a few hours so I could watch the movie.
The third part of Teh Awesome was actually watching "Serenity." When I watched it, I was struck by the realization of how long it had been since I'd watched something actually really good. I mean, for months now, all the TV that I've been watching is sitcoms, Queer Eye, the Daily Show, Celebrity Poker, and that ilk -- none of it horrible, mind you, but none of it really GOOD, high-quality stuff. And the last few movies I've seen in the theaters have been similar: not bad, just not really really good. In fact, I can't really even think of the last time I saw a sci-fi movie that had really good acting, an interesting and cohesive and well-written plot, good production values, and all that. So it made me just indescribably happy to watch "Serenity" and remember what actual quality filmmaking looks like. Teh Awesome. My mom wins at life.
The fourth part of Teh Awesome was/were the two dinner parties we went to, a very small one on Saturday and a very not-so-small one on Sunday. Both were a lot of fun and I'd write more about that but this post is already hella long, so maybe later.
Teh Suck
Teh Suck was this morning when I had to wake Isaac up (which I hate doing, but it was getting late) and then when he did wake up, he started crying and coughing this very hoarse sort of cough. "Self," I said to myself, "granted I've never actually heard croup, but that sure as heck sounds like croup to me." (Croup is a common childhood illness usually viral in nature, characterized by a cough that all sources describe as sounding like the barking of a seal.) I knew croup had been floating around at daycare recently, so it wasn't out of the blue, but I was REALLY displeased, because frankly after four days of "vacation" I was ready to get back to the office and resume some semblance of normal life, not to mention being off kid-duty for a while.
Anyway, the cough went away within a few minutes and then he seemed totally fine. No fever, no wheezing when he breathed, nothing. He asked for food and ate it, he played with his toys, he was his normal self. I called the doctor anyway, and (this is the really sucky part) it took over two hours before I was actually able to speak with the damn doctor. And then she basically gave me the brush-off! Arrgggh. She essentially said that it was up to me whether to take him to daycare, and since he had no wheezing while breathing she didn't feel a need to see him, and I should leave her the hell alone while she's trying to see patients. Not that she actually said that last bit, but it was very strongly implied. Well, excuse the HELL out of me for thinking that she should take five minutes to talk to me at 10:30 when I call for the fourth time after first having her paged at 8:15 and getting no callback! *steam*
So I bundled him into the car and took him to daycare. They have a skeleton crew this week anyway -- only about half the usual number of kids. I explained the whole situation to his wonderful teachers and they were totally unfazed and said it would be fine. I still half-expect them to call and say he started coughing again and I have to come get him -- could be soon, since it's naptime over there now and I know this kind of thing tends to get worse when the kid is horizontal -- but whatever. I at least got a couple of hours in at the office and feel better for that.
Man, I feel like about ten thousand other things happened that I wanted to post about, but my brain is so totally fried. I need a nap. Or possibly a Valium.
The sad thing is that the weekend itself was, for the most part, awesome, but this morning was so packed full of Teh Suck that now I can barely even remember how excellent the weekend was. :(
Teh Awesome
The first part of Teh Awesome was the package from
hawkeye7 which I posted about the other day. Isaac and I have already read the kid books from that package approx. one zillion times each (the Thomas book is this enormous thing with lots of flaps to open on each page, which he loooooves), and I have already finished Pratchett's Hat Full of Sky. Isaac is also totally loving his new Thomas trainset that grandma gave him.The second part of Teh Awesome came at the gift exchange portion of Saturday evening, where my mom REALLY surprised me with ... the DVD of "Serenity"!
Mind you, until this weekend I was probably the only person in the world -- well, okay, North America -- who called herself a "Firefly" fan but hadn't seen the movie. (That's not counting people who can't go to movie theaters for medical reasons, like
morgan_dhu.) I so badly wanted to see it, but it disappeared from theaters a lot faster than I expected, so I never did. And then last week my mom -- forgetting that I hadn't seen it yet -- rented it and watched it and then called me up wanting to discuss it. I think she felt really bad about forgetting that I hadn't managed to see it yet, so she got me the DVD. It was super exciting, since I hadn't really expected her to get me anything. And just to complete the gift, on Sunday she took Isaac to her place for a few hours so I could watch the movie.The third part of Teh Awesome was actually watching "Serenity." When I watched it, I was struck by the realization of how long it had been since I'd watched something actually really good. I mean, for months now, all the TV that I've been watching is sitcoms, Queer Eye, the Daily Show, Celebrity Poker, and that ilk -- none of it horrible, mind you, but none of it really GOOD, high-quality stuff. And the last few movies I've seen in the theaters have been similar: not bad, just not really really good. In fact, I can't really even think of the last time I saw a sci-fi movie that had really good acting, an interesting and cohesive and well-written plot, good production values, and all that. So it made me just indescribably happy to watch "Serenity" and remember what actual quality filmmaking looks like. Teh Awesome. My mom wins at life.
The fourth part of Teh Awesome was/were the two dinner parties we went to, a very small one on Saturday and a very not-so-small one on Sunday. Both were a lot of fun and I'd write more about that but this post is already hella long, so maybe later.
Teh Suck
Teh Suck was this morning when I had to wake Isaac up (which I hate doing, but it was getting late) and then when he did wake up, he started crying and coughing this very hoarse sort of cough. "Self," I said to myself, "granted I've never actually heard croup, but that sure as heck sounds like croup to me." (Croup is a common childhood illness usually viral in nature, characterized by a cough that all sources describe as sounding like the barking of a seal.) I knew croup had been floating around at daycare recently, so it wasn't out of the blue, but I was REALLY displeased, because frankly after four days of "vacation" I was ready to get back to the office and resume some semblance of normal life, not to mention being off kid-duty for a while.
Anyway, the cough went away within a few minutes and then he seemed totally fine. No fever, no wheezing when he breathed, nothing. He asked for food and ate it, he played with his toys, he was his normal self. I called the doctor anyway, and (this is the really sucky part) it took over two hours before I was actually able to speak with the damn doctor. And then she basically gave me the brush-off! Arrgggh. She essentially said that it was up to me whether to take him to daycare, and since he had no wheezing while breathing she didn't feel a need to see him, and I should leave her the hell alone while she's trying to see patients. Not that she actually said that last bit, but it was very strongly implied. Well, excuse the HELL out of me for thinking that she should take five minutes to talk to me at 10:30 when I call for the fourth time after first having her paged at 8:15 and getting no callback! *steam*
So I bundled him into the car and took him to daycare. They have a skeleton crew this week anyway -- only about half the usual number of kids. I explained the whole situation to his wonderful teachers and they were totally unfazed and said it would be fine. I still half-expect them to call and say he started coughing again and I have to come get him -- could be soon, since it's naptime over there now and I know this kind of thing tends to get worse when the kid is horizontal -- but whatever. I at least got a couple of hours in at the office and feel better for that.
Man, I feel like about ten thousand other things happened that I wanted to post about, but my brain is so totally fried. I need a nap. Or possibly a Valium.
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