Colds but no rain

Mr. Smarty Pants is back in school today, finally. The barking croup cough is gone, and he's grumpy and a little tired but otherwise okay. I picked up a cold/virus thing that I've been working through, and I get to be such a baby about it. I'd rather have a broken bone, honestly. Megadosing Vitamin C is helping though, and lots of sleep.

I'm frustrated by not feeling well, since there's so much to do on my list. I need to get out in the garden to plant and weed. I need to clean the house a little better than it is right now. I need to write. I need to get some things listed on Ebay. So far I've gotten three loads of laundry, the dishes done and taken a small nap. Underwhelming, but I do have a fever, so I'm trying not to be too hard on myself. Instead I get whiny and grumpy.

My beloved geek is on a new work schedule: 7-4. I think I like it, although it means crawling out of bed at 5 to hustle and get his lunch packed and some breakfast made for him so he can leave at 5:50. I'm very used to waking up at 5:30, enjoying the quiet and my coffee for half an hour before I start getting everything together, so it's an adjustment. The hard part is adjusting bedtime back by half an hour for me, longer for the beloved geek.

He also caught a piece of this cold/virus, so we are both grumpy, not getting quite enough rest, and a bit broke. It's very easy to pick at each other and get into ridiculous fights in these kinds of situations, so I am trying very hard to be mature and reasonable, even though it does not come naturally.

A friend of mine is flooded out with rain, a few hours south of here, while we haven't had more than a token sprinkling or two. Florida seems to like extremes like this. If it doesn't rain today, I'll be out in the garden hand-watering the flowers, and coughing. I've already watered all the vegetables, and used the soaker hose twice in the past few days, but I can hear my poor Mexican sunflowers begging for a long drink of cool water.

Better go shower, see if that makes me feel a little more human. My mother used to always say that even if you don't feel well, if you clean yourself up, and try to look like you're healthy, sometimes you can trick your body into feeling better. It's worth a shot.