What a week!

So let me give the break down of this week...

Sunday: Came home from three day conference.

Monday: Had the day off of work in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. By 8:00 p.m. my son was volatile-ly sick. The bathroom was disgusting. But since he was sick until some time past midnight it didn't seem necessary to clean up until it was all past.

Tuesday: Went to work with the plan to come home early since my son (The Boy) was still pretty sick. Just as I was leaving work, I got a call from The Boy that a pipe had busted outside and water was flooding the front yard. The details of that adventure are in a previous post.

Wednesday: The plumber called in sick, so still no water. Still no clean up of The Boy's bathroom, and dishes piling high around the kitchen sink.

Thursday: The plumber finally made it to the house. The problem had been a cracked coupling on the outside faucet. It took the plumber only about fifteen minutes to fix it. Yay! Water again. I did some quick clean up of the bathroom, did the dishes, took a shower... Hard to say how wonderful running water is until it's off for a while. I really do love brushing my teeth, washing my hands, flushing toilets with ease and without a thought as to the logistics of it all.

I headed off to a long evening at work. I had a Board meeting scheduled with several important topics for discussion. By 3:30 I wasn't feeling so well. I was queasy, hadn't eaten since breakfast and food sounded awful. My secretary asked what I wanted to do. I insisted I wanted to stick it out. I didn't want to postpone the Board meeting. In an hour, I knew it wasn't going to happen. I couldn't possibly survive until 9:00 or later what the meeting wrapped up and drive home. I caved. Called the meeting off. Drove home and curled up in bed for the next 36 hours.

Friday: No work. Too sick. No eating. Too sick. Mostly slept. But thank heavens I had running water.

Saturday: So far so good. I'm up out of bed. Sitting in my livingroom catching up on my plan to blog. I've had an egg and toast and it's sitting pretty good in my stomach. I've had water... fresh running water.