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"This past weekend was Peter&amp;#039;s custodial weekend, and I had big plans. I was going to make my house into a serious &amp;quot;writer&amp;#039;s retreat&amp;quot; and spend the whole weekend pounding away at my keyboard, finishing (or hopefully almost-finishing) the rest of my novel and maybe getting some editing done. So much for that. Friday got derailed when Peter showed up over two hours late to get the kids. Anna finally called him and he was still at work dealing with some issue - he swore he sent me a text but a quick check of my phone showed that he didn&amp;#039;t. I finally made them dinner and got chewed out for that when he showed up because he&amp;#039;d planned to stop for dinner on the way home since he was starving. Sorry - when you don&amp;#039;t communicate, I have to do what I think is best, and feeding the kids dinner two hours late isn&amp;#039;t best. After they left, I went out and bought some groceries and as an afterthought, I grabbed a bottle of Nyquil since I&amp;#039;d used all of our last bottle on Anna last week. That turned out to be a good call. I went to bed Friday with a kind-of scratchy throat and woke up with swollen glands, sinuses stuffed to the rafters and I was talking like Gollum from The Lord of the Rings. I spent almost all of Saturday and Sunday in a Nyquil haze on the couch, attempting to write when I could but not getting much done and deleting great chunks of what I did after re-reading because it was rambling Nyquil nonsense. Ugh. Today I&amp;#039;m back at work and Dayquil is my friend, but he&amp;#039;s not a good enough friend. He&amp;#039;s not really knocking this crud back like I need him to. According to practically everyone, this stuff is evil and it&amp;#039;s going around. I figure I&amp;#039;ll get over it just in time for David to get it (since he missed it before) and give it back to me. Life with kids. So rewarding sometimes. Has your house been hit with the crud? What are your strategies for getting through it? Give me all your home remedies, stat! [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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