So I took last week off work (and off blogging) to deal with getting Sarah into day care. <\/p>\n
It’s a slow process, where she spent one hour the first day, two hours the second day, etc, to get acclimated (acclimatized?). The rest of the day was Daddy-Daughter time.<\/p>\n
This should have been terribly fun, and left me with lots of free time in the nights after she went to sleep.<\/p>\n
However, she managed to infect me with some kind of cold on Sunday night, which really put a damper on the week–and indeed is still affecting me now.<\/p>\n
Sarah showed no real ill effect from the cold, except for a runny nose. I, on the other hand, was completely wiped out. I think I’ve slept something like 12 or 14 hours every day (and since I was getting up at 7:45 when Trish went to work, you can imagine I was going to bed pretty early!) for the last week, and then napped during the little time I was awake (whenever Sarah did, or in the evenings when Trish was home). Hell, I didn’t even go to my weekly poker game I was so tired. (I also had congestion, and an extremely sore throat, but those were trivial compared to the weird total exhaustion.)<\/p>\n
With me so wiped out, and Sarah now both mobile and FAST, the week was perhaps not as much fun as it should have been.<\/p>\n
(Also amusing–Trish contracted the cold later in the week, and her main symptom seems to be a surplus of energy, as the cold is interacting in some way with her post-partum thyroid condition. So Patient Zero seems fine, I’m completely without energy, and Trish is a dervish.)<\/p>\n
My “condition” has continued into the weekend, and thankfully Monday is a holiday in Canada, so there’s one more day I can sleep in, which improves my chances of actually shaking this at some point.<\/p>\n
(For the record, while I did do a lot of going to bed early this week, the fact that I can sleep in on weekends in only due to my wife’s saintly generosity–someone has to get up when Sarah does, and she’s been doing it so I can sleep in.)<\/p>\n
Expect blogging, which is definitely a late night activity for me, to be erratic until I have shaken this cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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