<p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I'm like a NyQuil commercial over there.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I woke up this morning all <span style="color:black">sniffling sneezing coughing aching (and probably a little lazy and whiny) with a stuffyhead.</span>
		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">A nice way to start the new year right? <br /><br />Well I suppose it could be worse. I don't have a fever.  
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Took some liquid Tylenol (let's see if it really should be called Rapid Liquid Blast!) and hope that <span style="text-decoration:line-through">this cold</span> whatever this is is short lived.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">But the fact I find the box of tissues to be too far away maybe an indication that either the next few days are going to be dreadful or that I'm being cranky and lazy since it's just a little after eight and I should be asleep. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">While I'm on the topic of sleep, I would really like to bribe someone to come over here and take the kids out for the day -- to the park, to a kid friendly restaurant, anywhere but within earshot, because sometimes the sounds of delightful children can still aggravate mamas with head colds. Those sounds become anything but delightful.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Sadly, I checked the weather before I dialed my mother's number and its 14 degrees feeling like 4 out so I couldn't do that to them (or to her!). I'll just have to try and rest with them home. Maybe I'll serve them up a steady diet of Noggin in the morning – which is possible now that Time Warner and Viacom made a last minute agreement … <em>phew!</em> -- and then fill the afternoon with our newest holiday tradition --Nintendo Wii bowling. 
</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">My five year old has gotten some pretty amazing scores for never playing Wii Sports before a week ago!
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		</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I'm back to work on Monday (you can just feel my happiness can't you!?) so there's enough time for me to recover if I need it.  
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</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Up Next: Tomorrow morning I'm taking Miss Nat to an Off Broadway musical for kids called <a href="http://dearedwina.com/about.html">Dear Edwina</a>.  I've been trying to spend more one on one time with Miss Nat and this play looks like fun.</span></p>