On Tuesday I got up at about 6:00am.  I took the trash out to the street, and I moved my car out of the driveway so Jen could get her car out.  I then went back to bed.  I woke up again at a few minutes to 9:00 and called into work.  I then went back to bed.  At just about noon I heard a really loud bang that seemed like it came from out front of the house.  It sounded like a washing machine being dropped into a dumpster (exactly like that).  I got up and did a walk around the house to make sure everything was okay.  I then went back to bed.  When my wife came home, also sick as a dog, at 3:30ish I got up to let her in.  I then went back to bed.  At about 7:00 I got up and sat on the couch to visit with my beloved.  That lasted about 10 minutes and then we nyquilled it up and went to bed for the night.  I was probably out of bed for maybe 30 minutes in the entire day.

Today I did a little better.  I got up and sat on the couch long enough to watch an episode of Bob’s Burgers.  Later I actually drove to the store to get my dearest some orange juice, and then I cooked us both a can of chicken noodle soup.  We ate together, sitting on the couch watching a movie.  After that we went back to bed.  The kids are on their way over right now.  I got up to open the door for them.  My heart’s desire is still in bed.  I’m going to have to get them dinner, and to cook some more chicken noodle soup for me and my beautiful wife.  I think I can handle all of that.

I don’t know about tomorrow though.  There are a couple of things in the office tomorrow that I have to be there for.  I cannot call in sick, but I don’t know how I am going to pull myself together by then.

To make matters worse, the NHL didn’t even have the common decency to end its lock out while I was stuck in bed.  I figured two full days of not watching the kettle would be enough for the talks to boil over to an agreement.  Nope.  Assholes.