It's Been A Rough Week

The last few days have been pretty hard on me. Last Monday I was really tired all day, and in the afternoon I started to get a scratchy throat. By bedtime I was running a fever. All Monday night I oscillated between burning up and freezing cold. When I woke up Tuesday morning I was in no condition to go to work; so I called in sick. I had a fever of 101F for most of the day.  I was able to log into my work computer and get some work done, but for a large part of the day I just slept.  I slept all evening, then woke up and went right back to sleep.  Sometime in there my fever finally broke.

I returned to work on Wednesday, but I still wasn't feeling great.  A lot of people with allergies had a hard time this week also. Amanda thinks that most of my problem is with allergies.  It is all up in my head.  I have been stuffed up, had a sore throat and a dull headache for 3 or 4 days now. I have been taking medicine, but nothing seems to be able to knock it out.   I went to sleep early last night, and today I took a couple good naps.  I'm still not feeling great, but hopefully things will clear up tomorrow.

Our Next Project

Today UPS brought us Amelia's crib. Exciting! Now we get the joy of trying to put this thing together. I've never been fond of assembling furniture, but this one is going to come with a little added pressure.  I am sure the recommended assembly time will be about an hour, but I will spend no less than 3 hours making sure everything is up to code.  Our baby is going to be sleeping in there, we need to make sure it is put together right.  The last thing we need is an injury, or an early example of my inadequacy as a father.

In the next couple of days Amanda and I are going to have to put on some nice relaxing music and gather up all our patience and love for one another and knock this sucker out.  Hopefully it won't be too bad.  However, our patio set almost came to fisticuffs earlier this year.  That table and chairs was nothing compared to what we are going to face with this crib. I am expecting the worst, so our actual experience can only be more positive than what I'm imagining.

Now we have the crib, bookshelf, car seat, stroller, bumbo seat, and quite a few clothes.  The room is painted.  I'd say we have a pretty good head-start on things.  We can't relax. We still have a bunch of stuff to do/buy/prepare and I'm sure the time is gonna fly by.

The Weekend Of Sports

I am a little late on getting this one posted. We have already embarked on our next work week. It is hard to believe that it was only a week ago today that we had the gift of Labor Day. A 4-day work week. A week with 9 fewer hours of soul crushing drudgery. Actually, that was not the case for me at all. I was somehow able to pack into 4 days the same number of hours I usually work in a normal 5 day week. When Friday afternoon rolled around I was even more excited than normal to get outta there and not think about trains or dollars for two whole days.

With the return of college and NFL football this time of year is always exciting. For the first time I joined an NFL fantasy league. I can already tell I am going to enjoy it quite a bit. It engages you a little bit more with the games, even though normally they would be of no interest to you. We cut it close with our draft. We didn't finish picking our teams until about 15 minutes before the game started on Thursday. This was also a good weekend for college football. I always enjoy seeing Notre Dame lose. Purdue isn't going to give me much to cheer for this year so I will mainly be looking forward to watching the bigger match-ups of the weekend. Maybe I will even root for the Razorbacks a few times. In addition to football this weekend was the semis and finals of the US Open. The men's semi-final between Federer and Djokovic on Saturday was insane. It was so much fun to watch. This also was the weekend for the LPGA Tour event here locally. We have gotten tickets every year so far, and always enjoy spending at least one afternoon out there. Sunday we decided to skip the Colts game and go walk the course and watch Michelle Wie play. She was in the lead, but got caught on the back 9 to lose by one stoke. It was a beautiful day to be outside and we had a fun time.

We're Having A Baby Girl!

We found out yesterday morning that we are having a little girl! Amanda and I are both super excited. I was hoping for a girl, and even though Amanda thought it was a boy she was secretly really really hoping it was a girl. It seems crazy that we know already, but it still feels like such a long time until we will really be able to lay our eyes on little Amelia. Yesterday we got a glimpse of our sweetheart. Here is the ultrasound!