Can't. Breathe.

Or swallow. Or stop shivering. I don't know what I've caught, but I've had it since a couple days before dad left for home...it's been that long! If this continues, I'm going to have to go to the doctor, which sucks, since my doc is apparently on vacation. My throat hurts so bad, and my neck is so sore. And I can't think of anything else to whine about right now, so my lovely followers just lucked right out! I really didn't want to take a sick day, being as it's only 15 days into the new year, but at this rate, I may have to.

I think I'm going to take my first ever received copy of Domino Magazine (thanks Upstate! I received my first issue in the mail today!), and hunker down in my nice warm bed. And tomorrow's my late day at work, so once I get The Boys off to school, I can come back home and lay down again.

Once I'm well, we will return to our regularly scheduled programming, I promise!

Purging.

I've been going through our office, affectionately called The Bunker (don't ask), and cleaning out my side of old papers, stuff I just don't need or use anymore, you know: Spring Cleaining a good couple months early. I certainly hope that things are supposed to look a lot worse before they get better, because they look worse. I have so many things I wanted to get done today, and all of them require an enormous amount of time to finish, which I have, but they all require patience too, which, uhm, I don't have. I'm absolutely going to make the cinnamon rolls though, because I bought whole milk special for them, and it will go bad if I don't do it soon. Plus, I figure I could always use the extra 2-3000 calories that eating those will entail. {insert rolley eye thingie here}

I would also really like to finish priming the living room, and also The Boys' room. That way, there's a destinct possibility that I could actually {GASP!} paint tomorrow. Yes ladies and gentlemen, that's right, we've got COLORS picked out. Incredible. We've only lived here for 6 years now.

And a budget must (repeat MUST) be made today. If we can't figure it out alone, I'm calling in the reserves. I don't quite know who those people are yet, so friends and family...if you get a call from the Ax household today or tomorrow, be prepared...be mentally prepared. And be afraid.

And laundry is actually down to almost what I'd call a bare minimum, since Dad did much of it while he was here and I was at work (thanks again Dad!). I also got an ink refill kit for our printer...God help me...I'll try that tonight, as we have things that must be copied and faxes that must be received and pages that must be printed. I can't remember the last time we had ink.

My father-in-law is actually doing very well now. Talk has been mentioned of releasing him to rehab, and apparently he ate some lasagna a couple nights ago and didn't complain one bit! Way to go Ax Man!!!

So...if I'm going to get all this stuff done, I must lift my luscious behind from this chair (I think my cat would like to sit here anyway), and get to work.

Have a wonderful Saturday everyone! And remember, no hiding from me with your caller ID...I'll get through eventually ;)

It's incredible.

Well, seven days have flown by, as they usually do, and I'm beat! I've got updates, news, all kinds of good stuff! So keep reading!

My father-in-law had his surgery (a day later than I'd originally thought), and remains in ICU in one of the best hospitals in his area. This is his second bypass surgery, and apparently in maybe 3 out of every 100 cases, scar tissue from a previous bypass forms and connects an artery to the sternum. Since the sternum is obviously broken during bypass surgery, this caused his artery to be very unhappy, and thank God the surgeons are on their toes in there! They fixed him up right, but he's run into some trouble in other areas. So in ICU he stays until he is back on the up and up. This should not take long, as fiesty and rarin'-to-go as he is.

My dad was in town from blustering, snowy Minnesota. He spoiled The Boys rotten, took them ice skating and may have even gotten them interested in hockey. He also helped rid our home of those rats with bushy tails I've mentioned before, as well as fixing a screen door that's been broken for ages. Thanks Dad!!

I also took the time yesterday to actually prepare and freeze fixings for meals later this week. We got a grocery store gift card from my mother-in-law (thanks Jeannie!!), so I went a-shoppin'! I've got P-Dub's Chicken Spaghetti in the fridge for tomorrow probably, and I prebrowned taco meat for walking taco's. Later this week I'll be making The Best Lasagna. Ever. I also purchsed the makings of the infamous Cinnamon Rolls. I think I may actually be drooling right here and now.

Now I'm off to ready the kids for bed, and hit the hay myself. I'm currently on a book entitled Happy Housewives. Seems a little old fashioned, doesn't it? It's well-written. Shine has a "rather caustic sense of humor", and although some of her ideas are good in theory, she tends to turn people off with insult. We'll see though...I've only read a few chapters of the book thus far.