Jaci Dawn

If you check in here every single day (and I seriously doubt anyone is that bored, but just saying), you’ll have noticed I was gone yesterday. No post, no photo, no reply to comments.

So what happened?

Well, it snowed.

OK, all of you who live in snow country and still have snow piled up meters high, quit guffawing. That really is snow falling between the house and the camellia (by the way, the only time a camellia is pretty is when it just starts to bloom and before the flowers fall off and turn into muddy brown slush under the bush). I never said the snow accumulated, only that it fell from the clouds.

But that is not what kept me from posting.

Yes, that’s a box of tissue and one of my favorite coffee mugs with Airborne™ in it. No, my nose isn’t stuffy, but my head is. My throat is itchy and I have a heck of a headache. That started Sunday night with a lot of sneezes and a dose of some sleep-through-the-night drug.

I called in sick on Monday. To my horror, my husband was already up (he goes to work earlier than I do) and he had also called in sick.

What is worse that having to spend the day sick in bed? Having a spouse home and sick at the same time. And having the modem to the computer die at the same time.

Yes, here it was6AM and I’m trying to find my boss’ phone number and Don is telling me that the modem isn’t working.

“I paid the bill,” is all I could think to say. I’m not really into modems at 6AM. He went on about it and I added, “All you have to do is call Qwest.” Notice that *I* did not volunteer to do this for him. I dropped it all on his plate. Then I called my boss, left a voice mail and crawled back into bed.

Sometime in the day, I woke up to hear him on the phone with Qwest. Or wait? Was it that he came into the bedroom, modem in hand, looking for a different phone plug in to test it on? And the dog followed him and jumped into the middle of the bed (and me)? Oy.

I went to work this morning and left Don home in bed, sick. I’m not certain going to work was a good thing, but it kept me sane.

Qwest moved mountains to get us a modem, too: they had one here early this afternoon, just about 24 hours after Don called them. Don told me that it took two hours of tech support time to get the thing installed, but he’s a patient guy and everything works now. I am so glad I let him call Qwest this time.

Oh, and by the way, more of this is predicted for tonight:

(Not the pink flowers: the little white dots between the lens and the pink flowers. That stuff. Snow.)