The weekends : A rather gross and descriptive blog about mucos. caution!

As much as I love staying home with little Jesse Bear, I work part time on the weekends as a receptionist at a children's play facility on Friday nights, and Saturdays. My job is a crazy and fast paced one. I'm responsible for the usual desk stuff like phone calls and program bookings, but we have about 200-300 different people (children and adults) enter the facility during my 4 hour shift on a Saturday morning, and I'm responsible to greet them all, sign them in, and direct them to the proper location (birthdays, classes and open play are all happening at the same time). It's actually a pretty fun job, and I like the change of pace from my week at home with Jesse. I also supervise a bunch of teenie-boppers who host children's parties and run our canteen and such, and that can also be fairly entertaining! It's been good to get out and deal with people other than my little and big babe, but I'm just as happy to get home to see them again!

After my work shifts, I get home Saturday pretty wiped out, but so happy to be home and get to spend time with Dave and Jesse together! We used to hang out with people on Saturday nights, but are both pretty wiped by 2 pm on Saturday as Dave has been dealing with teaching teenagers English and History all week (he's a high school teacher), and then looks after Jesse until Mama gets home. So... lately we've been taking it easy on Saturday night. Curling up on the couch after J Bear goes to bed, and watching some amazingness we like to call Jack Bauer, saving America one interrogation at a time. We stuff our faces with Brie Cheese and Nacho chips, and enjoy being lazy for one night. Sunday's are the best though! We pull Jesse into bed with us in the morning, and he rolls around in all his glory of having both mom AND dad paying attention to him, when he goes down for his morning nap, Dave and I have a nice leaisurly coffee and tea together, then get ready for church. After church we usually catch an afternoon nap, and tend to be social on Sunday nights.

Well.. My weekend kinda sucked this time around. On Friday at about 2pm, after dealing with sore eyes and a bit of a headache all day, my eyes started oozing out copious amount of mucos, pretty much non stop. I had to call in sick to work, as I could barely see through all the slime, and they were starting to get pretty red. After picking up some antibiotics at the pharmacy, I decided to rent a girly movie as Dave had a staff party to attend that night. Not a smart move. By 7:00 my eyes were totally red, and on top of the non stop ooze chunks, my eyes started seeping this sticky stuff that made my eyelashse stick together... It was pretty hard to watch the movie, and I had to keep pausing to clean them up, so I could sort of see. By 9:00 the tissues all around my eyes were so swollen, they were almost totally shut. I called Dave in tears (one more thing to add to the mess already happening) to come home, as my eyes were burning and throbbing, and I thought maybe I was going blind...

I didn't get to work the next morning either, as it took me about 15 minutes to scrub my eyes until they would open... and just a few millimeters at that. When I finally did get them open, I barely recognized myself. I honestly looked like a different person my eyes were so crazy! I don't think Jesse recognized me either, cause he kept staring at me funny all day,, and was rather crabby. So... I stayed home, yet another day, and was feeling so yucky AND stir crazy, but couldn't get the nerve to face the world. I looked like a drug addict with a crying problem who has been punched in the face a few times.

This morning, things are most certainly improving! I just look like a lady with pink eye, and that's about it. Jesse smiled and grinned when I went to get him this morning, and has been really happy. I think he's happy his mama is back! I'm home from church today, to keep the germs at bay. Dave and Jesse, so far seem to be in the clear... I went crazy disinfecting on Friday, and have been a hand sanitizing nazi since. So... here's hoping. Also, hoping my next blog entry will be far more interesting and pleasant! I'm out.