January 28, 2005

The Pile Of Apples In The Corner, Or Why My Living Room Looks Like A Canadian Border Checkpoint

I'm not a big believer in Feng Shui, but I must have an errant wastebasket in the Health Corner of our house. I can't seem to keep The Senator in top form.

We just finished with stomach flu a week ago. Yesterday he started with a cough and runny nose. Last night he sounded like a performing sea lion and around 10 p.m. I heard, "Mom! I threw up." I was tired, but those four words sent a bucket of cold water down the old spine. Did he get it all over his covers? Did he hit the floor? The wall? Did he think about using the trash can? Did he leave a trail on the way to the bathroom? Oh, yeah...is he okay?

He was okay. He was better than okay. He was my hero. He threw up in an empty wastebasket!

Well, it is universally recognized by child experts everywhere that good behavior should be rewarded. So The Senator and I stayed up until midnight drinking juice and watching classic Woody Woodpecker cartoons.

Today he seems a bit better, although we decided not to gamble on finding an empty wastebasket at school. Thanks to over-the-counter elixirs, his cough has been subdued. (God bless Celltech Pharmaceuticals, makers of the 12 hour cough relief syrup, Delsym.)

I'm now going upstairs to move some chairs and pile fruit in the northeast corner of the house. If that happens to be the Sexuality Corner, please, nobody tell me.

Posted by Cathy at January 28, 2005 10:18 AM
Comments

Hope the Senator will soon be well. Perhaps he has a future with the Justice League as the...

PUKEINATOR

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at January 28, 2005 10:39 AM

Sexuality corner ?

Posted by: Pam at January 28, 2005 03:00 PM

Your father would not approve.

Behavior is a plural noun.

Posted by: grammar police at January 28, 2005 08:28 PM

Thank you, grammar police. But to be precise, behavior is a collective noun. Behaviors is an abomination of academic argot. Behaviours should be acceptable only when a newspaper has advertisings. Oh, I could think of some other examples, but that one does it. Perhaps, next, we'll be talking about survival of the fittestests. Oh, while we're on the subject, e-mail is an adjective. We receive e-mail messages; we do not receive e-mails (see advertisings). As the verb said to the adverb; methinks I'm noun plussed.

Dad

Posted by: The professor at January 28, 2005 09:19 PM

Sloppy editing on my part. I did not mean to turn behavior into behaviors. I just didn't bother to re-read my post and check for errors. I'm fixing it now. Thanks G.P.!

Posted by: Cathy at January 29, 2005 01:24 PM

Moveable Type is thwarting all my efforts to edit and post. Something is afoot, and I have no idea what it is. What's worse, I'd have no idea how to fix it if I did know what was wrong. But I'm sure a hammer blow to the side of the monitor will make me feel a lot better.

More soon if MT gets moving or if I find a replacement monitor.

Posted by: Cathy at January 29, 2005 01:46 PM