Snow Day, Part 2

If the weather forecast was event close to what was predicted, I was wagering that schools would be closed today.  The unfortunate thing is that I woke up at 2:30 am, checked the school district's web page and nothing had been posted, and then at 4:30 am still nothing.  Then at 7:00 am the phone rang and it was one of the parent's from Beth Chaim letting us know the synagogue's preschool is closed as are the West Windsor-Plainsboro school.

Good thing.  Thea was up at around 10 pm last night and lost her supper.  I bundled her off with a clean garbage basket and a towel to sleep with me.  Steve's on the pull-out trundle bed in Micah's room, without his BiPAP machine so his snoring is shaking the walls.

Tuesday at work I felt a little like I was coming down with something, but it was the first Tuesday of working later hours with Sarah, so I figured just keep moving forward and eventually the day would be done.

But then I asked Robin to take my temperature.  102.9 degrees on a tympanic membrane thermometer, which I've always thought of as slightly under-reporting the temperature.  Wow. I don't think I've ever had a temperature like that, or at least not since the early 1960s when I still had tonsils.

I was home Wednesday, feeling a little better at least until the Advil wore off.  Chills and cold feet that could not be remedied despite crawling under piles of blankets and wool socks.

A least I managed to get out and clear the driveway.  I have never been one for shoveling, definitely something on the to be avoided list, but shoveling with fever was actually not bad.  Didn't even need gloves and I got about 90% of it done.

I also managed to complete a survey that awards a $50 Amazon gift card for about 30 minutes of picking around in my brain about diabetes care.  Between that survey and one that will credit $85 to my ePocrates Visa and getting close to racking up another 80 Q-points on QuantiaMD for another $100 Amazon credit, I may have about $477 socked away in gift cards and cybercash - or half of an iPad or other tablet computer.

Other than that stuff, I was a guest of slug-puppy city for most of the day.