Ramblings from my neck of the woods

Ack! I've been the most terrible blogger lately. I don't know where to start to try to actually update you on our lives soooooooo...... let's see... This past week has been BLA! Child care has one huge draw back - getting sick. Those turkeys kept getting sick and I thought I was going to be able to avoid it, but alas, it struck and struck hard. Right now I think I have the worse cough I've ever had in my life. I've never coughed to the point of throwing up, but that is life right now. Ugh. sorry if that's TMI. I'm heading back to work tomorrow for the first time since last Tuesday so we'll see how it goes. I'm open to prayers for health around here. And Dave is supposed to take his big huge oral exam a week from tomorrow (a major hurdle in getting his PhD) so I've been so paranoid that he'll get it. It would be pretty rotten timing. Also, about this cough, I feel like I've tried everything and nothing really helps- Vicks (even on my feet, Rita), lemon juice and honey, cough drops, etc. Steam does help for awhile so I've been boiling water and hanging my head over that and it helps for maybe a half hour or so. yeah. So the other night, it was sort of a joint effort between Dave and I - I asked him to turn the burner on that the water was sitting on (so many poorly placed prepositions) so he did and when I went to check on it, the living room was filled with smoke and there were terrible sounds coming from the burner. Turns out the burner was fire red hot, but all the water had steamed out and the empty pot was sitting on the burner. yikes! It was not pretty. Then the smoke alarm started going off. Nice to know it works in case we ever need it. ah well, at first I thought the pot might be ruined, but I think it'll be okay. What else is going on here? football - BORING! So tired of hearing about football. This Saturday, LSU is playing Florida something and apparently it's a big fat huge deal because right now, LSU is ranked # 4 and FL is ranked #1. If LSU wins, they will be #1. And it's a home game. The town shall be in crazed uproar that could only possibly be brought on by the combination of the south and football (I think it's worth than the North and hockey, if you can imagine). We are finally, slowly getting things together in the living room area of our apartment. It's taking forever, part of the reason being that we had to get some new furniture and get rid of other stuff to make everything work in the smaller space that we now inhabit. Anyway, I want to post pictures of it sometime soon. When this place is finally in order, I shall be beside myself with glee. And I spose we don't have as much time to waste as we once did, since come the beginning of May, there will three of us crammed in here. Okay, so that's still a ways off, but... that also explains why this nasty sickness has been particularly unpleasant. Alrighty, well, on that happy note, I think I'll sign off.