it's the first day of the rest of my life, and i hope this isn't a trend

It's November, it's the month when I try to post every day, and by golly I'm gonna do it.

P was sick on Sunday, and he and G and Jason and I were up a LOT during the night dealing with his uncontrollable fever.

Monday morning Haney sat down at the breakfast table and began to cry almost immediately. I went out to see what was wrong and found she'd thrown up right on top of the table. It was awesome. So Haney and P missed their Halloween parties at school.

My friend brought me an emergency dose of ibuprofen to piggy back with our acetaminophen, and that brought P's fever down enough that he felt he could trick-or-treat. Since his costume was the equivalent of a hospital mask and since we really wanted that candy, we decided to let him. I hurried to slap together some dinner for my Jawa, Batman, and vampire. Haney came in whimpering, and I picked her up, and she threw up a little in my hair. Then she ran to her bowl and threw up some more.

Because I was crunched for time, I put up my hair in a clip and kept working on dinner.

P lasted less than an hour, and came back to sit with me and Haney. This morning both of them were still sick.    Haney, whose BMI was already about half the lowest number on the growth chart graph, is starting to look a little thin. Both of them just lay around and don't even have the energy to fight.

Tonight at bedtime we discovered an overnight pull-up full of liquid poo under Haney's bed. It says something about the stuffiness of my nose or the normal baseline stench of my house that we didn't find it for more than 12 hours.

And the kicker? I fear Miss A has another case of lice. If this were the same case the lice would be huge and everywhere, right? How is this happening? If I make her wear her hair up every day, will that prevent her from getting lice from classmates? What if I slather her hair in gel or leave-in conditioner every day? Tomorrow we are getting up early to apply a thick coat of Cetaphil -- thanks, Suburban Correspondent, for the tip!

On top of all this I got a large-ish contract job and it involves a dizzying amount of paperwork and getting things notarized and overnighting things. I have handled the paperwork and am comfortable with the notary at our bank, so I feel okay about everything except overnighting papers via UPS. Why? I don't like UPS. I don't like having to go to their weird store. I want to go to the post office and make them take care of it.

So, to recap, tomorrow morning I am getting up early to work out with Jillian Michaels, then treating my daughter for lice which involves blow-drying her hair for an hour, then probably cleaning up some poop or puke somewhere, then leaving the house for the bank and UPS, then coming back to work. Which means that by the time I've been up 5 hours I'll have done at least 7 things I hate. I will keep you and the internet at large up to date on my progress through this terrifying day, with probably a lot more detail than you'd like. But that's what November means around here, internet.