Okay, it's not actually the time of cholera, but I was quite ill yesterday morning. I had been feeling a cold coming on since Monday, but it was nothing serious, just the sniffles, and then Tuesday night I started getting this very uncomfortable internal inflammation. When it didn't go away by Wednesday afternoon, I made an appointment to see a doctor on Thursday. At S's behest, I took a sick day on Thursday, and I'm glad I did, because I woke up feeling like absolute horse manure. It was my morning for the carpool, so I rallied long enough to get Lil' S2 and his friend to school (thankfully, it's only about a ten minute round-trip jaunt; close enough to walk, but, of course, it was pouring rain yesterday), and then I came back and crashed out hard. I woke up thinking it was around 10:30, but when I looked at my phone, it said 12:30.
Those extra four hours of sleep turned out to be just what I needed, as I felt so much better--not 100%, but a little under the weather, instead of debilitatingly infirm. I then spent most the day doing puzzles from the New York Times Puzzle Mania! book. One of my puzzles is in it, so they sent me a free copy, and it's very cool. There are a variety of really fun puzzles in it. Later, I went to my doctor's appointment, from which I inferred that the inflammation is likely not related to the cold. I just happened to get hit with two ailments at once--not great, but, if you think about it, probably better than having one after the other. Less total sick time. The doctor prescribed me some antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory and sent me on my way.
So, that's where I am now. I'm feeling good enough that I worked a full day from home, and I'm planning on going trick-or-treating with the kids tonight. Well, they mostly go out on their own, with their friends, but I'll be wandering around the neighborhood with other parents, eating pizza and not drinking beer (I've heard it doesn't go well with antibiotics). It's nice. We actually have a little community, where everybody lives close by, and we all know each other, and our kids all hang out together. I never had that growing up. I'd go out trick-or-treating near my house and be lucky if I saw one other kid out. If I went with friends, it was always in their neighborhood.
By the way, I just remembered something: I think I was really sick on Halloween a few years ago. Let me check the annals. Turns out it was eight years ago, not exact "a few," but, yeah, the rest is accurate.
In other news, Lil' S2's flag football team, of which I am the coach, won the league championship this season. I'm way more pleased by this than I should be. I know it's just little kid sports, but still it feels good to be the champ. We didn't have an amazing regular season. We won four games and lost three and went into the playoffs as the sixth seed of eight. But we pulled out a one-point upset in the first round, which was particularly gratifying, as the opposing team's coach was jawboning the referees (three 16-year-old kids) the entire game. The next week, we came back in the semifinals after being down early, scoring a game-winning touchdown with only a few seconds left on the clock. Then, somehow, we pummeled our opponent in the finals, winning 33-12 or something like that.
The beauty of it is that it was a total team victory. We have some really good players, but we don't have that one way bigger/faster/stronger, precociously developed kid on our team. We just had everybody do their thing and the whole was greater than the sum or its parts. Lil' S2 played quarterback almost the entire playoffs, and he was great. He's not the world's greatest athlete, but he's got a pretty good arm,* and he's smart. He understands the game and how an offense should work better than most kids his age. It was really cool to watch him play and to be a part of it.
*And good hands. Twice we ran a "halfback pass," in which we hiked the ball to the halfback standing next to Lil' S2, and then he threw it to Lil' S2, and both times it went for a touchdown. That's my genius play calling, right there.
Alright, it's trick-or-treating hour. Until next time...
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