Sick

I absolutely hate being sick. I took off a few days from work and of course by the second evening I could feel the cold that our little girl has, she's been kind of snotty for a little over a week now and it was inevitable that one of us was going to get it too. Unfortunately both the babe and I got the evil cold. So I spent my third day off sick and trying to catch as many naps as possible on the couch while girly girl watched Harry Potter. Despite being sick it was nice to be home for a few days. The roles seemed like they were switched for once. Hubby went hunting and momma stayed home, so I guess it's not exactly the same. He never expected that he would end up a stay at home dad and I realized when I was home how much I really hate my job. But it is just that ... a job. I haven't decided what I want to do when I grow up yet, so for now it's a job that pays the bills. So I went back to work today only to find out that I will be working an eight day week before I get a day off. That usually really gets to me around day six, I need my Saturday morning sleep in. I started reading Not Buying It: My year without shopping by Judith Levine. It's actually really gripping, I'm only in the beginning of the book but I think the idea of it all is what grabs me. I'm always saying how we have to much stuff and how I hate the way society has commercialized everything. Hopefully when I'm done reading it I will be inspired to try the same but the author doesn't have children so I think that puts a little different spin on things. Kids require so much stuff. Shoes for wrestling, art supplies, books, this and that, things that I want them to have, so I don't know if I could actually stick to not shopping for a year. I think that everyone could probably spend a little less from time to time. I know we'd probably save more money and actually go on vacations if we didn't spend unneccessary money.