So I took last week off work (and off blogging) to deal with getting Sarah into day care.
It’s a slow process, where she spent one hour the first day, two hours the second day, etc, to get acclimated (acclimatized?). The rest of the day was Daddy-Daughter time.
This should have been terribly fun, and left me with lots of free time in the nights after she went to sleep.
However, she managed to infect me with some kind of cold on Sunday night, which really put a damper on the week–and indeed is still affecting me now.
Sarah showed no real ill effect from the cold, except for a runny nose. I, on the other hand, was completely wiped out. I think I’ve slept something like 12 or 14 hours every day (and since I was getting up at 7:45 when Trish went to work, you can imagine I was going to bed pretty early!) for the last week, and then napped during the little time I was awake (whenever Sarah did, or in the evenings when Trish was home). Hell, I didn’t even go to my weekly poker game I was so tired. (I also had congestion, and an extremely sore throat, but those were trivial compared to the weird total exhaustion.)
With me so wiped out, and Sarah now both mobile and FAST, the week was perhaps not as much fun as it should have been.
(Also amusing–Trish contracted the cold later in the week, and her main symptom seems to be a surplus of energy, as the cold is interacting in some way with her post-partum thyroid condition. So Patient Zero seems fine, I’m completely without energy, and Trish is a dervish.)
My “condition” has continued into the weekend, and thankfully Monday is a holiday in Canada, so there’s one more day I can sleep in, which improves my chances of actually shaking this at some point.
(For the record, while I did do a lot of going to bed early this week, the fact that I can sleep in on weekends in only due to my wife’s saintly generosity–someone has to get up when Sarah does, and she’s been doing it so I can sleep in.)
Expect blogging, which is definitely a late night activity for me, to be erratic until I have shaken this cold.
