I’m spending nearly 24 hours a day with another man. A tiny, 8 month old man. My husband? I see him about six hours a day. At this point, that means six hours of him across the room or in another room to avoid passing the flu germs to me. I’m sleeping on the couch. Maybe a little extreme, but it would be BAD if I got sick. For everyone.
Meanwhile, Cool Dad is jealous that I get to be with the baby and the baby gets to be with me and we’re not coughing up nastiness throughout the day. I think the ultimate low point came this morning.
Cool Baby woke up early, so we were having a dance to the soothing sounds of Bebel Gilberto in a dark living room. Cool Dad watched from a lonely corner of the dark kitchen, putting his socks on.
“This reminds me of prom,” he says.
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Stay strong, cool dad! Don’t let those past pubescent nightmares creep up on you again!
isolated sick cool dad = video games
clayton – thanks! don’t tell anyone, but i actually had a good prom experience. my date was so charitable with her time, dancing with all the guys there. what a saint.
travis – i was tempted, but unfortunately the Wii was packed up and i was lazy to hook it up!
(j/k about above just in case Cool Senior Prom Date is reading this)
awe…does that mean you guys are high school sweethearts?
nope!
Geeze, you’re STILL sick?! Bummer! Sorry about that.
Can’t we give you sympathetic points?
And give Cool Mum points for sleeping on the couch?
Or do I have this whole point system wrong? =)
I’m just feeling generous today!
Go for it, tam! We could use whatever you’ll give us. Maybe we’ll reach the upper echelons of the Cool Scale.
(i’m sure we’ll do something dorky that will bring us back to reality soon after anyway)
BTW, the Bebel Gilberto album is SWEET. I wish I could express how cool I feel for listening to it.
[+5 cool points]
Ah… yeah, that works.