I hate to be all down in the dumps and stuff but seriously? Today I just want my Mom.  I know that she'll be here in a week, but by then I'll be feeling better and have far more energy and be ready to have fun (let's just see if this Secret stuff really works).  To be honest, my life is not that hard.  I hate how I sound all "oh, pity me, I have too many friends who like to spend time with us." But seriously? This has been the last month for us (mostly me, but some us is in here too)

August 21: Will's Dad arrives in Oregon to visit his kids.  His first stop is Will's younger sister, C's house.  Because Will's Dad and C do not always get along, we are not sure how long he will stay with her or when he'll be up to visit us.  Will's other sister, M, stays with us for the night before heading home to the Seattle area Friday morning.  Stay up way too late listening to Will and M talk about WoW.

August 22: Will has to work a twelve hour day.  Grocery shopping in the evening where we load up on food because, again, we have no idea when or even if Will's Dad is going to show up for a visit, but want to be prepared with food he likes if he does stay with us.

August 23: Will comes home with news that his Dad will be here on the 27th and most likely staying until the 2nd.

August 23 PM-August 26 PM: Work my ass off to finish enough projects to pay for rent and give a little extra money to spend while Will's Dad is here.

August 26PM: Will calls with news that his Dad has cancelled our "portion" of his visit because M apparently had a tantrum over the fact that she wouldn't get to see him much and he wouldn't see her apartment so Will's Dad decided to cancel on us and go up to see her for a week instead.  But will try to see us for dinner before he goes back to Texas.

Rest of August 26PM: Try to comfort Will who is completely disappointed at being blown off by the member of his family he likes the best.

Late August 26: Get call that C's youngest is in the hospital with a really bad infection and is not responding to antibiotics.  M is on her way down to help out and will use our apartment as a crash pad.  Stay up until 2 AM waiting for her to arrive. Spend a couple of hours trying to figure out if it will be possible for us to drive down as well.

2AM August 27: Find out that C's son's really bad infection is not life threatening, but from a boil that errupted on his foot.  Baby will be fine, is just staying in the hospital overnight until his fever comes down and he can get antibiotics administered through an IV. M leaves for southern Oregon at 8 or so to go see C and spend extra time with the patriarch of the Farley family.  Find out that because the baby is not actually at death's door the way we originally thought, Will's Dad might come up to visit after all, but does not know when or for how long, making it impossible to take on any extra work because I don't know if I'll be able to meet any deadlines.

August 27 PM: Will's Dad calls to let us know he will most likely be in town on Sunday afternoon and will be staying until Wednesday morning.  Will is ecstatic that he gets to spend at least one of his days off with his Dad.

August 30: Will's Dad and M arrive without warning.  Find out they are both staying until Tuesday and then they will be driving up to M's house to pick up something that Will's Dad wants back from her and then staying that night with us.  M will head back to southern Oregon on Wednesday morning and Will's Dad will most likely be heading out sometime that day as well.

August 30-Sept 2: Entertaining, catering to and visiting with Will's Dad and M–show them around a little.  Try not to get into any sort of conversation involving politics, world affairs or humanity as it will likely lead to heated "debate."  Am stressed out to almost tears by morning of Sept 1.

Sept 2: Find out we need to get up at 5:30 AM on the 3rd to take M to a meeting point so that P, our brother in law, can pick her up and take her the rest of the way back down to southern Oregon.

Sept 3: 6AM: Find out Will's Dad decided not to take off yet and will be staying with us until Thursday morning. Will arranges schedule to have mornings off to spend with his Dad while he is here.

Sept 4: 10AM: Will's Dad says he is staying until Friday morning.  Am glad Will has morning off so I can do laundry and not worry about his Dad feeling like I'm ignoring him (not that he would, but I'm sensitive about stuff like that)

Sept 5: 8AM: Find out Will's Dad has decided to stay until Saturday morning.  Good thing Will already has the morning off.

Sept 6 8AM: Will's Dad leaves for Texas.  Will comes home from work that afternoon with a runny nose and the beginnings of a sinus infection.  I start taking extra Vitamin C and Echinacea because I do not want to get sick. Learn that M will be back in town and staying with us because her car is getting looked at on Tuesday afternoon.  Commence with flying around house to clean up because we think she'll be arriving on Monday afternoon or evening.

Sept 8 Early Evening:  Learn that M will be arriving the next morning and then spending the afternoon and evening with her friend.  Will spikes a fever and blows his nose so much it starts to bleed a little.  I go to bed with furry throat.

Sept 9: Will wakes up with sore throat and full blown cold.  Downs a Dayquil and heads to work.  M arrives, visits for a little while and then leaves, saying that she'll be back that night.  I try to get some work done.  E-mail clients telling them of unexpected schedule change and push back half of my projects until Sept. 11. M is back by 5:00.  We take her to dinner because her car is taking longer than expected and won't be finished until the afternoon of Sept. 10.  Will's cold starts to back off a little.  My throat is still furry.

Sept 10: Wake up with a cough.  Will is still achy and sniffly but goes in to work anyway.  Go to lunch with M and make the mistake of thinking "just a few more hours and then quiet! yay!" to self.  At lunch get phone call that our friend is having problems with wife again and needs a break.  He'll be at our place by early that evening and is staying until at least Sept. 15.  Talk to friend, confirm that he will be leaving on the 15th.

Sept 10 Early Evening: Friends arrive and the five of us go out to dinner (M stays to hang out for a while after car is finished).  Dinner is expensive.  Still have cough.  Will still has slight cold/flu/thing.  Send e-mails to clients explaining last minute schedule conflict and receive permission to push projects back a little, but still need to work on them even while house is full of people. M leaves for Seattle at about 10:30PM.  Stay up talking to friends until two AM as they are night owls.

Sept 11: Wake up at 8AM with coughm sore throat and no voice.  Will still sniffly.  Will goes off to work.  Around noon I take friends into downtown to Powells and Hot Lips and then we come home.  Gaming commences.  Will gets home at seven.  Gaming increases.  I try to get work done even with all of the noise.Go out to "dinner" at Dennys at almost 11PM.  Stay up playing fun new game (Scene It Squabble) until two AM. Again.

Today: Wake up at 8 with cough, sore throat, stuffed up head and fever.  Will is almost better.  Want desperately to go back to sleep but have too much to do.  8:45 Start first of six loads of laundry.  End up walking face first into a ginormous spiderweb that has been built across the doorway of the laundry room.  Force Will to examine hair and skull for errant spiders that might have climbed aboard when their home was destroyed by my giant not paying attention to anything because I don't feel well head. 9:45 Will leaves for work.  9:50 Ass explodes with such force that I am surprised CNN isn't immediately banging down my door demanding to know how it felt to be at the epicenter of the first explosion of the apocalypse.  Always knew that too much Vitamin C had an "I ate cherries" effect on intestinal system, but never realized it could blow someone's ass clear off their body.  Luckily I felt the early rumbles and made it to the bathroom in time or this could be an entirely different blog entry.