Archive for March, 2008

I just finished my course of medications for my cough, sore throat and cold. When I was taking it, I was ok. Had good sleep. Nose was clear, cough was manageable, sore throat gone, had good sleep. I run out of medication today. This morning I woke up and the sore throat is back. Chey!

I changed my bedsheets on Friday. It took 3 rounds of washing over the weekend to clean them all. Last night the girl woke up at 1.30am and coughed non-stop….till she vomitted all over my clean duvet cover. Of course the comforter underneath got all wet and smelly too. Her daddy tried to carry her to the bathroom and that left a trail of vomit on her pyjamas, the floor and the kids playrug at the foot of the bed. The girl cried and rub her vomit all over her face leaving more mess. I was too tired to clean up last night so I did the best that I could and left the pile of sheets at the foot of my bed smelling the sweet smell of vomit throughout the night.

So now its back to a few rounds of washing again. Chey! Plus I have to clean out the floor and the rug. Chey! Looks like I won’t be doing any blog hopping today. Chey!

I’m beggining to sound like a tired old housewife. Yikes! All of my recent posts have been ranting, nagging, complaining posts. And I vowed at one time, never to rant on my blog. I only wanted to fill it with positive, happy things. A fine job I am doing with that! Hahaha. However, I must say that at least I remembered to hug my girl instead of scold her for making such a mess and that is a good thing.

I don’t know what you call it but thats what I’ve got.

Symptoms: Cough, sore throat, blocked nose and a red eye with greenish discharge or mucus coming out from the corners of the eye.

This unmerry-go-round started with my girl, who passed it my boy who passed it to me who passed it to my hubby. Round and round we go again!

I’ve been resisting going to the doctor. Nevermind, no fever or body aches and pains. Thats what I told myself. But this stupid red eye bug is extremely relentless and long lasting. Everytime, I thought I was getting better, I start feeling worse again. Especially the throat. So painful!

First it was the right side of the throat, next day ok, then the left side of the throat, next day fine, then both side of the throat painful, next day ok, then the right side of the throat very painful again. AAAAAARGGGH!

Finally, I surrendered and went to see the doctor yesterday who wanted to give me an injection for the pain. Bleargh! I opted for painkillers instead.

Hopefully the medication will make me feel better soon as I still have lots to do. I’m changing the sheets today. The girl puked on her pillow and the boy urinated on his side of the bed.

Right, better go start getting some things do before I start feeling woozy from the medications. Bettttterrrr geettt gooinnng nooooowww…..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

So, how did I do yesterday? Well, lets see…

• Cook – Check. (For lunch. Dinner was takeout)
• Wipe dust of shelves – Check. I enlisted the kids help for this. The kids just love to help out (at this age 4 & 6). I took out one good morning towel for myself and cut another one into two for each of them. I dampened the cloth with water. Took everything down from the shelves ie all the knick knacks. Then I wiped the shelves and asked them to wipe the knick knacks. Of course they fought over which item they get to wipe. They also offered to wipe the cupboard doors which was great. My girl was delighted when she found a basketful of my old costume jewellery. “What a pretty basket” she said, followed by “Look, I found jewels mummy!” she exclaimed excitedly as she held out my old pearls and bangles. I found the fact that she referred to my items as “jewels” rather amusing. It makes me sound rich. Hahaha. “Oh, you found some treasure did you?” I teased her. Soon, I left them to it and went to clean out the toilet sink. When I returned, the pearls were making railway tracks all around the room and the bangles were being rolled around by the two little monkies.
• Naptime for the kids and me – Didn’t get this done because I was too busy wiping and they were too busy playing with the “jewels”. After that they insisted they wanted some tea because “doing work is so tiring”.
• Bathing the kids – Check. But I think they got dirty again from the dust and all the “wiping” they did.
• Clean Toilet – Check. I cheated on this one. What I did was made it look more presentable. There is a difference between making it look presentable and deep cleaning. To “make things look presentable”. all I need to do is spray some household substance that will poison and kill me faster and wipe dry. Very fast indeed. 10 minutes instead of an hour. As for the toilet bowl, whenever it looks dirty, I would pour more household substance that will poison and kill me faster into it, then give it a once over with the toilet brush and flush. Another 10 minutes. Sometimes you might catch me doing this in the middle of the night. Siao! Today, I decided to do just the sink. Sometimes, I do just the floor. Little steps, little steps. (Sikit sikit lama lama jadi bukit) and all will be done. Lol!
• Take kid to doctor – Skip as doctor is not around
• Supervise homework – Check. Not much homework today, luckily.
• Practise piano – Check. Teacher wanted me to memorise the Macgyver piece and play it as if I’m performing. I just can’t get it right. Been at it for weeks. I think the neighbours hate me and Macgyver by now. Haha.
• Boil water – Check.
• Wash dishes – Check.
• Fold laundry – Check. The kids offered to help as they love to do this too but I declined today after the bangle rolling incident.
• Iron clothes – Check. All 9 pieces. 5 minutes per piece equals 45 minutes of my life. A backbreaking task. My old bones can’t take it.
• Read book – No time.
• Sit with boy in front of pc to teach him ABC online – Check.
• Blog - Check.
• Exercise – Check. I’m just recovering from dunno what type of strong and long lingering bug so I took it easy. Out comes my salsa dance tape. Cha cha cha. Cha cha cha. Ok, done.

Not bad for a day’s work. Writing it down helps, otherwise I would have procrastinated and put everything in the back burner. Now, what shall I do today? Same ole same ole with some slight variations here and there like wash clothes instead of fold clothes, clean another toilet, etc.

Now lets see….

I’ve got the laundry to fold, and the the dust on the shelves and the mirrors look an inch deep. I usually bluff myself (and hubby) by telling myself that I don’t mind having a house full of dust so long as its full of love. But an inch of dust has gathered and thats a bit too much. Hehe.

And the toilet’s starting to look like a public toilet again. Yuck! Something has to be done about that. And I promised the boy that I would sit with him to do his ABCs in front of the computer. And when the girl comes home I’ve got to supervise her homework. That usually takes a looooong time.

And of course, I have to cook or there would be nothing to eat. Then there would be the dishes to do and water to boil or there would be none to drink. Then I need to bathe the kids and get them to nap in the afternoon. There’s also the book that I’m halfway reading. I simply must read the next chapter. Oh, and there are all those blogs that I want to read…. And I must practise my piano too before my next lesson. (I’m an adult learner because I never had the chance to learn as a kid).

I musn’t forget about the ironing. I better get round to ironing those shirts or hubby will have nothing to wear to work. I hate ironing second to washing the toilet.

And the girl needs to be taken to the doctor again because her cough is not going away. The doctor says that it can develop into asthma if left for too long. And I do need to catch up with my sleep too since I’m still not feeling well…. And there’s my exercises which I have been slacking in because I’m not feeling well…

Then there’s the children’s room which was turned over by hubby last night while he was searching for a lizard. Everything in the room is in a mess….. Sob. Sob. Normally its not messy. I have a motto to help me get rid of clutter in my life. A place for everything and everything in its place. That really works for me.

Thats just my todo list for the day. The rest I’m skipping till next time… like sweeping and mopping the floor, changing the bedsheets and washing them of course, and theres my beloved cross stitch gathering dust in some little corner of the house, the carpets to vacumn, and……… I think I better stop here before I start feeling overwhelmed. Better to break the tasks down into little ones and work from there. Phew!

I don’t know where to start!

Today somebody told me this. Sounds like a complement right? But its not. Hardly. It was something my girl told me because I had lost my voice due to a bad sore throat. Hahaha.

“I like you like this. Then you can’t scold us.” she said.

Which just goes to show how much I shout at them, nag and scold them each day from morning till bedtime.

“Hurry up.” “Stop fighting” “Don’t jump” “Go to sleep” “Pick up your toys” “Don’t run at the stairs” are some of the things I yell at them in desperation each day.

Once, I heard the kids discussing. “Daddy is nicer because he buys us toys. Mummy stays at home all day and scolds us the whole day.”

The kids associate daddy with fun and play and toys and “kai kai” (going out whether to the mall or to eat) so of course he wins in the fun department but I don’t mind because I’m still favourite. Hahaha. No matter how much I shout at them or scold them, I am still the favourite parent (for now) simply because of the amount of time I spend with them I guess.

And although they equate daddy with fun and play they are still afraid of him. “Don’t tell daddy” is a frequent request I hear from them.

Anyway, since she “likes me like this”, I guess I should try to be like this more often, no not the sore throat but less shouting at them. ;P