This weekend

The long weekend started out pretty good. First, my crazy coworker was moved to another workgroup on Thursday. Wednesday, when the news came out, she said she was happy. Thursday, she sure didn't show it! She came back after lunch to her old desk beside me. i asked, with a totally friendly tone, "Hi, L. How's your day going?" She got totally defensive and snapped, "Why?!?" i didn't quite know what to say, so i just said, "Being... friendly." "Why?!?", she repeated, "is my day not supposed to be going good?" "L, i was just trying to be friendly and ask about your first day in your new job." What a nutjob! i'm so glad she'll be moving! (Even though that means i'll be taking on almost all of her job AND my job, too.)

Thursday evening i spoke with D's bio-brother's mom. We set up a date to go to her house on Saturday morning. She also gave me some bad news; T had a febrile seizure, and they tend to run in families. The good news is there's no link to epilepsy and they usually stop when the child is school-age, but now we have one more thing to watch for. Also, in addition to asthma, he is allergic to pretty much everything including the family dog, which they rehomed. This has been my nightmare since we found out he has asthma, is that D will, too, and we'll have to give up the dogs. Of course it would be a last resort to rehome them, but it's still very scary to me, an avid dog person. But i remind myself that my sister is allergic to cats and a little bit to dogs, but i am not and neither are my brother or other sister.

Friday, Alan had to work, but i had the day off with D. We went to my dad's house and met my sister, her husband, and 3 of her 4 kids; the oldest was heading to Disney the next day with Show Choir. My dad acted completely surprised to see us, even though my sister had called to ask him earlier in the week.

We had a ton of fun playing with her kids. My niece Sadie (9) was absolutely in love with D, and my nephews (10 and 16) were pretty interactive, too. i got about a million awesome pictures, and i kept the camera in "sports" mode (meaning quick trigger, one picture right after the last) and even made a little video out of some of them. i sure wish i could show it!

Unfortunately, i woke up on Saturday morning with a HORRIBLE sore throat. i had a little sore throat on Friday but nothing major, and then Saturday i wanted to die. Who remembers that old commercial where the little girl is thinking, "It will hurt if i swallow. It will hurt if i swallow." And then she swallows and says, "MOMMY!" i was that little girl. i felt like i had a fever, but i couldn't find my thermometer. But Alan didn't think i did, based on feeling my forehead. i took a couple of Tylenol and later on i headed down to the walk-in clinic. They diagnosed me with tonsilitis (because my temp was only 99.6, even though i'd had the Tylenol a couple of hours earlier) and prescribed antibiotics. Really the sore throat was my only symptom; i just had the tiniest bit of nasal drainage, but very minor. And obviously i had to cancel the appointment with D's brother, so we rescheduled for next Saturday. ::fingers crossed that everyone feels healthy::

Today, though, the sore throat is, if anything, worse. i most definitely have a fever, and i'm coughing like crazy with congestion in my chest. i'm actually a little afraid it's something like bronchitis instead of tonsilitis, but i'm on antibiotics so i guess it doesn't matter much what it is exactly. i'm really worried about work tomorrow, though, considering how i've been feeling in the mornings and evenings. i don't want to get everyone sick, but it's so new in the new job responsibilities. Ugh.