Being ill sucks! (and an urgent purchase of a carpet cleaner at Home Depot).

Sorry bloggers - I have been sick for pretty much the whole month of January so I haven't been blogging.  Here's the lowdown of my month so far:  (Cautionary Note:  If you are squeam·ish [skwee-mish] Adjective 1. (of a person) Easily made to feel sick, faint, or disgusted  then don't read this!!)

January 1 - woke up with a sore throat and hurting all over - uggh, it has started...  Sick for the first week of January with a throat infection/body aches/chills.  January 8 - I start to feel better but energy is still zapped.  January 11 - begin to feel almost 100%.  January 17 - I get sick again with the same thing!!  Can this really be happening?  To me - YES!  Sleep for 4 days straight with throat infection/body aches/chills/absolutely zero energy.  January 18 - Our youngest boy gets it but only for 2 days - thank goodness!  January 20 - My oldest boy gets 'it' too!  January 28 -  This past Friday my youngest begins complaining of a headache and his cheeks are really red and he feels 'tired'. Ohhh nooo....I knew that he was coming down with something.  This is my son who is never tired!  (Unlike my 16 year old who can sleep until 1pm in the afternoon!!)  So I get him to lie down with a cold cloth on his forehead in his bed and tell him to sleep a little bit.  Half hour later he comes downstairs to tell me he puked, barfed, threw up in bed.  Uggh.   And its everywhere!!!  (he had eaten lasagna for lunch ...you can imagine the rest!!)  On the walls, carpet, bed and sheets!  Poor little guy.  My husband, oldest boy and I attack the situation with buckets, paper towel and empy trash bags.  My husband and I had been comtemplating buying a carpet cleaner for a while and this sealed the deal.  I ran out to Home Depot and bought the Hoover SteamVac Spin Scrub Extractor:

Ran home and fired it up.  It worked great!  January 24th - I finally come out of my second sick haze and slowly my energy returns - so I hit the gym again.  January 29th - I decide to get all keen and take an aerobics class for the first time in about 2 years (I will expand on that one in another post!!).  And I threw my lower back out with the first 15 minutes!!  Gosh - I feel sooo broken!!  But being the trooper that I am I stuck it out and didn't leave the class.  Came home and took some tylenol and basically I have been shuffling around since!!!  So the month of January has completely sucked at our house - can't wait to turn the calendar on the fridge over to February!!  Has anyone else out there in blogland been hit with the sickmonster?
I do have some upcoming projects to post - please check back to see!!!


P.S.  Big props to my husband for looking after us and making meals.  He completely ROCKS!

Heather