what??
i thought i had more than three posts here!
i know that every time i sit down to write a post, i'm in a rush to get through it in order to be somewhere else, so maybe that's why i felt like there should've been more?
anyway, it's exactly 8:00am right now and i have been awake for about 15 minutes. it was a late night for me last night: right after work i went to joel's house just as kyle was leaving for bekah's house and momma was headed for a date with sophia. poppa d is in florida for pastor stuff, so the house was just stuffed with joel and his sickness. he's been sick for three days! he's missed two days of school and one day of work...that never happens! whenever i'm sick and dying, he is always healthy and bouncy - even weeks after i've been over my illness, he's still going strong without ever having encountered a chink in his savvy immune system.
honestly, there have been times when we're sitting right next to each other on the couch - i'll just have conquered a virus - and study i'll joel. i'll fold my hands in my lap and peer at him from the corner of my eye while he's zoned into the tv or the computer, and wonder how long the incubation period might be for the little monster that's inevitably wriggled its way into his body. surely he'll be showing signs of the flu, or some itty bitty snicket of a lung-rattling hack, but no. he never ever ever gets sick. i could have snot pouring out of my face for days, and be coughing up blood...he'll kiss me! he'll kiss me when i have a fever! NOTHING! nothing!
it baffles me to no end! he doesn't even take vitamins!!? i have two sour gummy vitamins a day (finding nemo ones and superhero ones) and a glass of vitamin c every morning. i drink about 3 green tea drinks a day. it doesn't seem to help me at all...although i suppose perhaps it has saved my life, since i get sick so often, but have not yet died? maybe those vitamins are keeping me from total destruction, and only stave off the possibility of a life-sucking plague while rolling over at the feet of bacterial and viral infections.
anyway, he's finally sick and i wish he weren't. it bothers me all day. i want to bring him water and make his tummy stop hurting and give him headache medicine, but he just wants to sleep. i try to let him sleep, but also, i just want to play, and he's too dead to play. he's lifeless. sapped. withered away and he hadn't showered until late last night, so his hair was sticking out and lumpy all over...and his eyes were quite glassy. from what i can tell, he's feeling better. but whenever i ask him, he says just a little bit. i, however, believe he is a lot bit better, but he just hasn't embraced that the worst of it is probably quite over. i think men wait until they're bouncing off the walls again before they're able to admit that they're not as sick as they were a few days previously. he's definitely not there, yet!
anyway, i came over and everyone left except my half-dead boyfriend, and we snuggled on the couch for a little bit, watching espn, talking and resting. i was waiting for robin to call me when she got to red roof inn. she called around 7:20 and said she and percy had made it safely in. there was much rejoicing and with much deliberation, joel and i finally decided that we would drive to go pick up chipotle for all three of us, joel would meet (and i said, "and maybe come in and eat dinner together with") robin at her hotel and then he would go write his paper and return to nab me from robin's room when he was finished. we got chipotle and joel seemed to be just fine. we pulled up to robin's room and he just sat there, buckled, and looking at me while rummy (his car) puttered and chugged beneath us in park position. i said, "you're dropping me off?" he said, "well, yeah.."
"i thought you were coming in to at least meet robin? i thought we were going to eat together?"
he looked at me.
"can't you at least come over and meet her? yes, yes you can. you don't even have to go inside - i thought that was the plan?"
i guess i was wrong, but he did come and meet her, which made robin very happy. she was so cute! i love robin! joel went home to work on his paper and i listened to robin's adventures over the last 6 months or so, and was entirely enraptured. she had me captivated for three hours! every time she tried to throw the ball back to me, i tossed it right back because even the exciting things that have happened to me are boring. robin can make the most ordinary things sound like indiana jones wrote the script.
her cat, percy prowled around, licking our food and hunched in a chair, mostly glaring at things. and the tv whizzed and cheered with nascar for most of our conversation.
joel came and got me around 11 and i think i'll have a chance to say goodbye to robin this morning. but last night, joel finally let me do one of his english assignments while he went upstairs to take a shower. momma came home and disclosed all the wondrous events that had unfolded in her magnificent date with sophia, and kyle slumped in, having just watched x-men. ARGH! i wanted to see that movie!
i lay down with my lovely, dying boyfriend while he fell asleep and then went downstairs to watch tv with kyle. kyle cracks me up - i really like hanging out with him. we watched everything from underworld to jimmy kimmel until 2:15. then i went to bed in joel's room. he was sleeping in the office (there's a twin in there, and he likes that bed much better than the bed he has in his room...he's so silly! i like him a lot!). i fell asleep about 2:30 (put new sheets on bed so as not to get sick) and woke up at 7:45. yay!
ugh i think i'll go back to bed.
