We have been sick in the WTF household this week, with a cold-like viral thing. Well actually, not everyone has been sick. Snake started us off last week during our Stonehenge/Bath trip. He decided to stay in the car and sleep when we did our walk through the amazingly cute Bradford on Avon village. At some point during our walk, we heard a car alarm go off and off and off and off. Then Chizz’s cell phone rang. Snake had fallen asleep in the car and turned over. Apparently the act of turning over jostled the car and the alarm sounded throughout the used-to-be sleepy town. He was a real trooper through the rest of the trip. He missed three days of school and was finally able to drag himself back on Thursday and finished out the week. He is just barely recovered.
Then Chizz came down with the same thing about Tuesday but soldiered through work for three days. He came home early on Thursday and went to bed at 6 p.m and then called in sick the next day. In our 22 years of marriage, I think I can count on one hand the number of times he has been too sick to go to work. I don’t think he got out of bed more than 2 times on Friday. He is finally feeling better today.
Kiki has also been feeling poorly since Friday. Had a swim meet Friday night and she anchored the free relay. When she got finished with her race, she started coughing, coughing, coughing. She asked if she could get out of the water but the stroke and turn judge wouldn’t let her. It is a rule in the league here that no one, NO ONE, gets out of the pool until each racer has finished or you are disqualified. Kiki stayed in and was finally able to get out and catch her breath with a glass of water. (As a side note, when she dove in the water her team was in second place. Kiki had an amazing race and the team took first with an incredible time which is why she had to wait in the water so long.) She is still feeling sick but feels she can’t miss any school because she has a big project due Monday, swim meet Monday and a huge Math test on Tuesday. Hopefully she will live that long!
Me? Nothing. I am not allowed to get sick. Actually I have been making sure I have been taking care of myself. Getting a lot of sleep and just the right amount of white, wine, purely for medicinal purposes of course and I have been feeling fine. I am keeping my fingers crossed and my necklace of garlic on just in case.
The house next door to our flat went on sale yesterday. It is a single family home (it hasn’t been broken into flats, like our building). It’s four stories, has a nice backyard and a small little studio house out back. They are marketing it as a tear down. The ad says that it has local government approval for remodel and retrofitting. The price? 7,000,000 UK pounds. That is a $13,761,000 tear down. Wait a minute. I am starting to feel ill.
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