The Road to Recovery

Good morning everyone. It's been an interesting few days, but I'll get to that in a bit. With Saturday and Sunday off, I had high hopes of a delightful and productive weekend with my two girls. Saturday morning I watched the 2nd half of the Chelsea FC game (because my NBCSports app wasn't working properly) Hazard secured his first hat trick, and a 3-0 win for the mighty Blues. That kid is incredible. Anyways, so that started the morning on a positive note. We went to the party store to get about 14 balloons (because its 2014) and went to go photograph Mia for her three-year photograph at the same location we did last year. Didn't work out at all. She was too cold and crabby to participate in this picture. FANTASTIC. Well, later we got some food in her (she may have been hungry) and we were able to shoot the photo in our backyard. Throughout the evening, I wasn't feeling the best. My stomach was hurting and I wasn't completely sure why. I had figured it was food related, but wasn't positive. We went off to bed earlier then usual, but I couldn't sleep.

I was laying there, clutching my stomach. Later, got up and threw up. Felt absolutely horrible. I was convinced the turkey meat in my pasta was bad. Went back to bed, still hurting. Heard Jill roaming around downstairs and met her in the hallway. Right after I told her what happened, I blacked out. She got my semi-conscious and told me I was out, then I guess I blacked out..again. This time when I came to, I could hear her crying "whats WRONG?? why is this happening??" THEN I blacked out AGAIN. Came to again, and she was just hysterically crying "do I call 911??" NO I'm fine, don't worry. She got my crackers and juice and I sat there in bed feeling like complete crap. My limbs and legs just couldn't hold body up. I had no food in my system and the blood sugar was dangerously low.

About 4am, Mia threw up. WONDERFUL. I was now convinced Mia and I picked something up from Play Group. Someone had to have been sick and shared it with us. So Sunday, we sat around all day. Jill took good care of us and it was just a delightful weekend. I've been on the slow road to recovery. Today, feeling pretty good. At work the last two days, I wasn't feeling the best. Stomach still hurting. Mia hasn't been wanting to eat much. She threw up Monday and Tuesday night. Wednesday night, finally didn't throw up. I was also able to get her to eat something last night too. Jill came home not feeling the best so I did my best effort to keep the kiddo with me so she could get some rest. Not 100% sure what the plan is for the weekend, but we'll see when we get there

Quick review of Metropole by The Lawrence Arms. Solid album. These guys never write "singles" or "hits". Songs just become the fan favorites over the last 10 years. This album just grows more and more on you, the more you listen. Some of my favorite tracks are "You Are Here" and "Beautiful Things". Lyrics are great. It's not as gritty as Oh! Calcutta which was their last album release 8 years ago. It's a bright, clever and well-writtened album that will be an instant classic. Hope they can make it to Milwaukee sometime.


Okay that's it for now, thanks for reading.

Juice boxes and fruit snacks

Hello! Gonna try to make this quick. I've got to wake up Jill for her daily morning work out before 7am. That's our new routine in the morning. I get up 6ish, walk the dog, come home, eat breakfast and then wake her up so she can work out. It seems to be working, but I'm getting more exhausted by the end of the day. Over the weekend, Jill, my Mom, my sister in law and the kid went to this big pet expo. Myself, my older bro and Dad hung out at home watching the Chelsea Fc 2011/2012 highlights. It was especially nice to relive the moments of when we took the Champions League cup. Almost goosebumps watching Drogba take that last penalty kick :) Tuesday, I took Mia to her friends house. FIRST TIME hanging out at a friend's house and she's 2 1/2 ! awesome. Can't believe how old she's getting. Hanging out with friends, soon school...Time is just flying.
So we went to hang out with Hannah, this little boy Aiden and Hannah's mom. Gracie, Hannah's sister (and Mia's other friend) had to go to preschool so she didn't get to play with the kids. Mia had a blast. Except the part where they walked upstairs to play dress up and Hannah yelled down 'Can Mia get naked?" and Mia interupts with  "I DONT WANNA GET NAKED!" I assume Hannah tried to take her hoody off or something. All in all, it was a fun experience and I look forward to play group Friday (as always) when we'll see them again.

Yesterday when I got home with the sleeping kid, I did some research on anamorphic drawings, which is basically, creating a piece that if you center it a certain way on the camera, looks 3D or floating. I would like to try and figure this thing out some day. Looks very cool, but highly technical.

So I posted last week that I'd give a proper review of the brand new Lawrence Arms record, Metropole. Give me another week. I listened through the whole thing once. I want another so I can give you a solid 100% on this thing. It's really good. Hang tight.

This weekend, we're supposed to go to Illinois to visit Jill's familia, but since they've been getting pounded by tons of snow (and probably will Saturday, as it is forecasted) we may stay home. It'll be weird having two days off and nothing major planned. I think we discussed catching up on laundry and taking Mia's 3-year photo. We did one last year when she was turning 2, photographed outside in the snow holding up red balloons. She was so pissed that day, but the photo turned out really nice and sweet.

Okay, that's gonna do it for now, thanks for reading.