BOY HOWDY was Franny out of it last night when she came back from her dad’s. She was repeating herself and generally acting like she was completely on drugs. I was treated to stories of naps and confusion. I can only think she has whatever virus I had. I sent her to bed early and she is home reading today. It’s hard, though. I don’t want her to miss too much school, but she doesn’t have a fever.
In other nooooos, I am looking at placing a chicken order. I think instead of going to the feed store and rolling the dice on a straight run, I will order sexed birds, which will give me a 90% chance of girls.
I worked all weekend and all my clever is squeezed out of me, I think. I feel buried–behind on email, cleaning, life.
I’ve had this thing where I’m out of it and creaky and feverless during the day (although it FEELS like I have a fever, which is FRUSTRATING), and then run a low grade fever at night. It’s like I’m just sick enough to feel like shit but not sick enough to actually run a fever, then come night my body is like “aw hell” and surrenders to the heat.
I hope Franny feels better soon, and a good day of rest and reading sets her right.
Brigid, that sounds like a viral infection and dehydration.
Fuck, I need to leave work at work.
I had that too. UGH.
There is a flu going around, I’ve got it: no fever, but I have serious mental confusion and every single muscle and joint in my body is KILLING ME. Like, nothing will touch the pain, not tylenol, advil, vicodin, nothing. I hope it is not what Franny has. I hope she feels better soon.
Place the order for the chickens. Our feed store has two buckets of chickens every year; sexed and straight-run. The sexed ones sell out really quick- but when I get them, I get all girls, no problem. Every time I’ve bought straight-run, it has been 80% males. I think they salt extra boys in there- even though they swear up and down they don’t.
Thanks for the tip. I have tried to select girls out of day olds using some monkey science I read on the internet, and my ratio has been about 3:1 favoring girls. It will be fun to get chickens at the post office!