Another Loss

I have resigned myself as of a few weeks ago, that the Redskins were not playoff contenders this year. What I did not know was that they would become the doormats of the entire NFL. I knew when we lost to Detroit that the low point of the season was yet to come.

We still watch and hope, we still wear our "uniforms" on Sunday, but we are not emotionally involved as we were in years past. Its getting pretty old, this rut they have found themselves in.

Its the owner. Everything else has been changed, but the ownership. Thanks for taking such a proud franchise and fan base and demoralizing them, Danny.

Awwww Mannn...

Mystery Package

We received a mystery package in the mail on Friday from Grandma Witchey and Tino. It was a coloring book for Halloween, her favorite non-holiday. Jack opened it, checked it out and gave it a thumbs up.

Thanks Grandma.

Crafty Kid

I picked Jack up from daycare on Friday and found that they had made pasta necklaces as a craft. He made it for mommy, thank god, I just couldn't pull the look off. I told him to say "I made this for you, Momm, I love You.", we rehearsed on the way home and when I we get home and we show Mommy the necklace, I prompt him and he says, "Thank you."

Its good to know I can't feed him lines, it would get real dumb , real quick. I would have him regurgitating every stupid movie line I ever thought was funny and would make him learn them and say them on command.

Right now he does actually relay some movie lines but from the "Cars" movie. He just says stuff like "Low and Slow", "Speed, I am Speed" and "Yo Yo, Check it out, we got ourselves a nodder."

Kate thinks its something in male DNA that makes us relay lines from movies. I agree.

Tongue -Tied

We went to the Fall Festival in Fairfax City last week and walked around a lot to see the different vendors. Popped in to see Kristin at her t-shirt tent and got something for my Dad that I can give him at Thanksgiving.

We stopped to eat some really good, but really bad-for-you, festival food. You know, the elephant ears, french fries, gyros and soft-serve ice cream. Soft-serve ice creaaammmm...

While we were sitting and noshing our food, I look over and see this dog, a boxer that was alert and guarding its owner as they ate. The dog caught my eye because of the enormous tongue that protruded from its mouth. Maybe he just had a small mouth? Naww.

Take a look at this fuzzy guy, he was adorable.

Anita's

I remember when we used to go to Anita's, a little Tex-Mex restaurant growing up, my Mom loved the chips and we liked the tacos. We have an Anita's a few blocks away and we still go to it regularly for some good mexican food.

I learned this week that Anita Tellez, the persona behind that small restaurant chain passed away.

Interesting Conversation

Jack and I went out last week to Micro Center so I could get a new laptop bag and he sometimes brings a toy to make the trip more interesting. This time he brought a race car with the number 88 on it. I asked him about the car, if it was "Chick Hicks", a character from the movie Cars. He said it was 88, so I ask him if it was Chick Hernandez, a local sports reporter, he said no, I ask if it was Chick Fil-A, and he said no to that too. I like to play word games with him sometimes.

He says that he "held a chick at school, a little baby chick". He then says "it was black, a little baby black chick. Dad, do you like black chicks?"

The question halted me for a second and I assured him that I like black chicks.

The Flu

I awoke Friday morning with a sore throat, after I got up it was just sinus pain. After a few hours at work, I took some Advil and it helped a lot, really relieved the pressure. Made it through the day and had a decent evening. Even sat out and had a pit fire in the back yard.

I awoke sometime in the night shaking and trying to keep warm. Kate got me some more Advil and I did better, but my sinuses and throat were on fire. Awoke really early with the same symptoms and took more Advil and again the symptoms went away for awhile.

Kate let me sleep in and I felt pretty good, the Fall Festival was at the Gubamint Center that day so we decided to go. There is always good food there and plenty of stuff to do. The Dayquil kicked in and I lasted a few hours, but faded after holding Jack up to see the model trains for a few minutes. Took it out of me, like I ran a marathon.

Went home and slept for three hours straight. Got up and took more Dayquil and the rest of the afternoon and evening I couldn't get warm, but was burning up. Finally broke a sweat and fever that night as I was trying to keep my mind off of the coughing and general misery. Took some Nyquil and went to bed upstairs so that Kate could get a good nights sleep too. Sunday was better but then it was coughing up stuff, lots of stuff, but the shakes and temperature were not around. Didn't have any energy and slept a lot. Watched the Skins (yeah, we won!) game and slept more.

I decided to take Monday off cause I awoke with congestion and still didn't have my strength back fully. Feel better tonight, so tomorrow I will go in, unless this thing has another round I don't know about.

If this thing was Swine Flu, I would say it was much more abbreviated than the last time I had the flu, which was only a few years ago, so this one was short but intense. Just glad to be feeling better and feeling normal again.

Jack has had the sniffles all this week, but we have had a change in the weather, the first cold snap. That usually means he is constantly walking around with a runny nose for a week. Kate hasn't had any symptoms either, except for a headache. But that could have been from my constant whining all weekend long. :)