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house of contagion (mostly recovered)
Jan. 25th, 2022 05:22 pmFor some reason I am *still* trying to spell contagious with an e instead of the i; at least after two years of pandemic I actually know what I did wrong to go back & correct it...
Omicron hulk-smashed the Megatherium's classroom the week before last-- she had a sore throat & tummy ache followed by a few days of coughing which ended up getting grauwulf briefly sick also; I managed to avoid becoming symptomatic since I started masking in the house as soon as M tripped her first rapid test, and made a giant fuss at everyone else until they drifted reluctantly in that direction also. I am very grateful that despite our school system declaring they Will Never Go Virtual Again!!! we still managed to get everyone vaxxed & boostered before having to run that particular gauntlet. And admittedly, much as I think the temporary virtual breaks other school systems are having are on the whole a good idea, coaxing my child thru a week of virtual semi-homeschool was pretty miserable. She remains perky, happy, & non-argumentative in a classroom surrounded by her friends, and incurably contrary doing the same things when I'm the one telling her to.
And then she decided to entertain herself by brushing her argan oil hair detangler onto the cat...
grauwulf: Did she butter Jorts?
me: No, Loki. Child, buttering the cat makes the cat sick!
Megatherium: But we only have one cat.
me: Yes, and he washes himself!
her: Oh.
(are there people on the internet who have missed Jorts the cat?)
We were delighted to send the Megatherium back in to school this week to observe mealworms without us, and she says they're down to only two kids still absent. Now there's just grauwulf's brain being mean to him about positive job changes b/c OMG he had to quit the fiasco project he's been trying to get off of for the last year. (Brains are so dumb...) I have frustration-cleaned the kitchen counter by the sink & set up space to store the measuring cups & cooking utensils outside of the drawer where the mice keep periodically turning up and gnawing on my silicon spatulas, taken the appalling clutter on my desk down a few layers, attended a workshop on making vials out of river cane using stone tools, crocheted a green witch hat with sari-silk ribbon yarn, watched a bunch of Great Courses lectures on paleontology, and written no things whatsoever. *sigh.*
Omicron hulk-smashed the Megatherium's classroom the week before last-- she had a sore throat & tummy ache followed by a few days of coughing which ended up getting grauwulf briefly sick also; I managed to avoid becoming symptomatic since I started masking in the house as soon as M tripped her first rapid test, and made a giant fuss at everyone else until they drifted reluctantly in that direction also. I am very grateful that despite our school system declaring they Will Never Go Virtual Again!!! we still managed to get everyone vaxxed & boostered before having to run that particular gauntlet. And admittedly, much as I think the temporary virtual breaks other school systems are having are on the whole a good idea, coaxing my child thru a week of virtual semi-homeschool was pretty miserable. She remains perky, happy, & non-argumentative in a classroom surrounded by her friends, and incurably contrary doing the same things when I'm the one telling her to.
And then she decided to entertain herself by brushing her argan oil hair detangler onto the cat...
grauwulf: Did she butter Jorts?
me: No, Loki. Child, buttering the cat makes the cat sick!
Megatherium: But we only have one cat.
me: Yes, and he washes himself!
her: Oh.
(are there people on the internet who have missed Jorts the cat?)
We were delighted to send the Megatherium back in to school this week to observe mealworms without us, and she says they're down to only two kids still absent. Now there's just grauwulf's brain being mean to him about positive job changes b/c OMG he had to quit the fiasco project he's been trying to get off of for the last year. (Brains are so dumb...) I have frustration-cleaned the kitchen counter by the sink & set up space to store the measuring cups & cooking utensils outside of the drawer where the mice keep periodically turning up and gnawing on my silicon spatulas, taken the appalling clutter on my desk down a few layers, attended a workshop on making vials out of river cane using stone tools, crocheted a green witch hat with sari-silk ribbon yarn, watched a bunch of Great Courses lectures on paleontology, and written no things whatsoever. *sigh.*