Getting over Sick

Today is the first day that I have not coughed my head off.  So for the record this sickness lasted about a week.  No fever and no doctor visit.  Just a lot of coughing, phlegm and headaches.

Sick

I started feeling it on Thursday night September 3.  Friday the 4th in the morning I felt terrible and I stayed in bed until about 10.

Saturday the 5th I was feeling a bit better and took the boat to the lake.  Drank only water.

Sunday the 6th went to the lake again.  Drank only water.  Felt a bit better but still a cough.

Monday the 7th felt a bit better still but still the hacking cough. Coughing up phlegm from my chest.

Today still have the cough.  Couldn't sleep.  Plenty of phlegm.

Jet Lag

Trip to India and China.

Left Newark June 28 at 9 pm local arrived in Delhi around 10 pm local the next day June 29.  Checked into the radisson blue in Delhi about 11 pm slept from about 1 am to 5 am.

Arrived in Kolkata June 30 about 9 am did factory tours until about 7 pm.  Slept from 10 pm to 4 am July 1.

July 1 left hotel about 9 rode two hours to visit knitting and dipping factories.  Rode back to Kolkata to visit company headquarters. Arrived back at hotel about 7 pm.  Slept from 11:30 pm to 3 am on July 2.

July 2 factory tours from 10 am to 4 pm. Slept from 5 pm to 8 pm.  Slept from midnight to 5 am July 3.

Another Adrienne Saying

Adrienne sitting in London's bed (becausae she is afraid to sleep by herself in her room) on her iPad talking about the wireless signal:

"Dad, I only have two bars.  We are living like animals!"

Called out

We are in Goldsboro staying the night getting ready to drop the children off for camp tomorrow. The kids of been swimming at the pool and I've been hanging out watching them.

Tamara has gone back to the room to help the girls to go out to dinner. Atticus has been in the pool swimming by himself. He got out of the pool came up to me and said "dad, that is your third beer!"

When the hell did he become the beer police?

Stubborn little ass

Here's the shit that I have to deal with on almost a daily basis. Atticus comes downstairs with about 20 minutes left before we have to leave for school and ask for breakfast.

I tell him that I will be happy to make the breakfast for him. I ask him what he would like. He asked for waffle with chocolate chips placed in each cavity and a chocolate smoothie.

I explained to him that I will not make both those things for him because he will not eat them both.  He insists he will. So then I tell him he can either make a choice or have no breakfast. He storms off back upstairs to see his mother Who comes downstairs and opens the freezer to start making the waffle and smoothie. I told her that I would not allow him to have any breakfast this morning because of his completely unreasonable demands.

His mother did not like the fact that I requested that she not make him breakfast. In my opinion, I think that the fact that his mother will do just about anything he asks her to do his part of the problem.

Hanging with Adrienne

So I'm here at Fort Walton Beach Florida at the Waterscapes resort.  We arrived yesterday morning and the kids have been super active the entire time.

Right now it's about 8:30 PM and everybody has gone upstairs to hang out in the room except for me and Adrienne.

For the past 30 minutes she is been swimming around the lazy river in the reverse direction against the current. She doesn't mind play by herself. Earlier today she was playing by herself under all of the water features.

She usually hangs around everybody else until she's ready to go do something else on her own. Then she'll go and do it and not think a thing about being alone.