Random Spewings, Blog Problems, Sickness, and Confessions of a Three-Year-Old

I don't mean to spew all over all of you today, but this is the most spewinest post if there ever was one. And yes, I'm aware that spewinest is not a word.

First off, yes, I have received your emails and comments about the blog shutting down on you, and no, I don't know what to do about it. Apparently at some time or another there was some kind of code malfunction in the blog, about a couple weeks ago, and it's only a problem in Internet Explorer. With Firefox and Safari there is no problem. I guess it's like you can visit the first page of the blog, but after that it shuts down if you try to open another page or link on the blog. On Microsoft's support page they list a million and two ways the code could be messed up, but dude, really, I do not speak code-ish. I don't have a clue. If you know someone who might, definitely send em my way. It does say that the best way to "resolve" the problem is to simply download Internet Explorer, the 8th version, but it is still in beta form, so it seriously was of no help.

All I can say is that until some knowledge about blog code magically hits me in the face, or until I find someone who is willing to go through my code and pinpoint where the bad code might be, you'll just have to view the blog in Firefox. God bless the Firefox people, they seem to be the only people around here who really know what they're doing.

Now on to Confessions of a Three-Year-Old, which is a day late, but I'm sure you'll get over it. My brain has been fried, so I haven't been keeping track of the monkey's "isms" as we call them around here, but I'll do my best.

On Monday when I was getting him ready for preschool he had some serious bedhead, which I tried to comb out. He hasn't had a haircut in like three months, so he looks like he just came out of the '70s, and trying to tame the afro can sometimes be time consuming.

So I told him to come in the bathroom and I'd wet (or should I say almost drown) his head and try to smooth it down a little.

He said, "Why do we have to fix my hair all the time?"

I said, "Well, so your hair will look decent. You can't go out in public looking like that."

He said, as he did a little jump, "Oh, yeah, then everybody will be so happy to see me now."

And yes, everybody probably is a lot happier to see him after his hair is combed. When is hair is of normal length I usually just let me go. I don't know what it is, but before I walk out the door I make sure my hair is properly combed, curled and sprayed, but with him, I'm not usually so fussy. I've actually walked into preschool with him when his teacher has asked me why his hair is so crazy.

And then there was today's episode with the germs. If you keep reading you'll see that I've pretty much been on my deathbed since Sunday, and I keep telling Kaydn Rye that he needs to wash his hands after touching anything that I've touched, to avoid getting my germs. And today, when we got back home from preschool he said, "Do you still have germs today?"

He was apparently pretty concerned about getting my germs.

But anyway, onto other spewings of the day.

Speaking of spewing, I've been sick with a sinus infection, again, since Sunday. I actually spent my entire Tuesday on the couch. Well, except for making breakfast, lunch and dinner for the monkey. It was so bad that on Monday morning when I took Kaydn Rye to preschool I didn't even fix my hair. Can you believe it? I don't ever go out in public without my hair blown out and fully hairsprayed. But I was that sick.

And of course, the one day out of the year that I laid on the couch the whole day, the tv wasn't working. Here in the middle of nowhere you pretty much get television for nothing with DSL internet, so we get a pretty decent amount of channels, but yesterday we didn't even have half of our normal channels. And the channels we did have were like the home shopping network, the catholic channel, the History channel...you get the gist. There was nothing on.

Oh, I take that back, there was Oprah. It was some kind of obsessive-compulsive boot camp episode, and they had this guy on there who hadn't used a toilet in like 10 years because of his fear of contamination. They made him touch the toilet seat and then lick his hands. I about passed out. If you read this blog often enough you know about my obsessive fear of toilet germs, so if I hadn't already been sprawled out on the couch, I probably would have passed out.

Today I did join the land of living and after three days of pretty much doing nothing, my house looks like I moved out and left it to my husband. I should give him some credit though. While I was in bed, suffocating from the amount of mucus in my sinuses, hubby was downstairs cleaning the floors. If only he wouldn't have neglected to dust, clean the windows, make the beds, fold the laundry....

Seriously, I don't know what I would do if I had more than one little monkey. I couldn't even get off the couch, let alone tend to a bunch of children. I probably get a really bad sinus infection twice a year, and it always requires that I take a full day of laying on the couch to really get over it. Kaydn Rye pretty much fends for himself on those days. When he was really little, I'd put up the child gate in the kitchen, lock him in, and he'd just dig through the tupperware drawer for hours while I laid on the couch.

And today, when I sat down at my desk, it was like nothing I've ever seen before, and it's been pretty bad before. See The Cyclone, which you won't be able to view I guess without Firefox.

Today I found, on my desk,

a huge box of Goldfish crackers,
my APA manual,
a pilates video,
a couple files for work,
three glasses, one half-full of green tea,
a roll of toilet paper,
two snack bowls,
tons of unpaid bills,
tons of duplicate checks,
a couple bank statements,
tons of sticky notes on various topics,
a file folder full of stuff from the judge on a couple cases I'm working on,
a stack of grocery receipts,
my copy of "Don't Go to The Cosmetics Counter Without Me,"
a bunch of "organic living" books for my new column, (I'll tell you about it later)
a few checks from judgments I'm collecting that have gone un-deposited for probably a month now,
and finally a huge stack of mail that I have yet to go through.
But as long as there's still room for my computer I guess I'll survive.

Oh, and before I go, I should tell you about my new column. Just last week I started writing the Eco-Friendly living column at Beautiful! Fabulous! You can find my column there today.

So I think that's the end of the spewing for now.





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