Must be Tuesday
Oct. 19th, 2018 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
garnigalTuesday kicked my ass. It's still kicking my ass.
I knew it was a possibility, (we'd had letters home from school saying there were multiple cases) but on Tuesday we got a call from the after-school care provider that they had found lice nits in Vv's hair. Ugh. Just typing that made me itchy again.
Mom was staying with us to babysit because we had concert tickets, so in the 2 hours between picking her up and leaving for dinner and the concert, I washed her clothes and bedding, got lice treatment and applied it, combed the nits out, showered and changed.
After the show, I was exhausted, so I went to bed. D stayed up. At 1 am he came in to say "Ann! There's something in the wall in the laundry room!" There was no time or energy to deal with it that night, but Wednesday he pulled the laundry room apart. It had become a dumping ground for tools, so first he put all his crap into bins. 4 bins of stuff that didn't belong there. Then we pulled everything out, undid the hoses, ducting, everything. I ran back and forth to the hardware store (Vv in tow, since she'd been banned from school until she was lice free), and then took her to swimming. When I got back, he'd moved the appliances. We'd planned to reorient them, he tried a couple of ways, and we finally settled on the best layout. By that time we were done in, so we wrapped everything to make sure no animals tried that again, and went to bed. Thursday and today - still no laundry room. He had to catch up on all the work he'd missed on Wed. I managed to test another layout thing - 3 sheets of 3/4 plywood to raise the machines enough to slide the laundry baskets under when the door is open.
So tomorrow - tae kwon do, putting my laundry room back together and experiments with Vv.
And then I die.
I knew it was a possibility, (we'd had letters home from school saying there were multiple cases) but on Tuesday we got a call from the after-school care provider that they had found lice nits in Vv's hair. Ugh. Just typing that made me itchy again.
Mom was staying with us to babysit because we had concert tickets, so in the 2 hours between picking her up and leaving for dinner and the concert, I washed her clothes and bedding, got lice treatment and applied it, combed the nits out, showered and changed.
After the show, I was exhausted, so I went to bed. D stayed up. At 1 am he came in to say "Ann! There's something in the wall in the laundry room!" There was no time or energy to deal with it that night, but Wednesday he pulled the laundry room apart. It had become a dumping ground for tools, so first he put all his crap into bins. 4 bins of stuff that didn't belong there. Then we pulled everything out, undid the hoses, ducting, everything. I ran back and forth to the hardware store (Vv in tow, since she'd been banned from school until she was lice free), and then took her to swimming. When I got back, he'd moved the appliances. We'd planned to reorient them, he tried a couple of ways, and we finally settled on the best layout. By that time we were done in, so we wrapped everything to make sure no animals tried that again, and went to bed. Thursday and today - still no laundry room. He had to catch up on all the work he'd missed on Wed. I managed to test another layout thing - 3 sheets of 3/4 plywood to raise the machines enough to slide the laundry baskets under when the door is open.
So tomorrow - tae kwon do, putting my laundry room back together and experiments with Vv.
And then I die.
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Date: 2018-10-20 01:30 am (UTC)But ugh. I got lice when I was 10 or so. I hope things get cleared up without further trauma.
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Date: 2018-10-20 03:08 am (UTC)