what are *you* doing on a Saturday night?

I'm sitting at home, recovering from a nasty viral tonsillitis, I think,(self-diagnosed) warping the kids by letting them watch [Adventures In Babysitting.](http;//www.imdb.com/title/tt0092513/) A few more details: am at home partly because Pat has taken the car to have a day long adventure in mobile [amateur radio](http://www.oqp.us), and partly because this virus really knocked me for a loop.

I figured it for a 24 hour thing, and since I went to couch the day before Sashie's birthday and pool party, I couldn't malinger if I wanted to. Though Pat took the day off work, made the cake, swam with the kids and in general, made the party go, I still had to get the stuff for the goodie bags, help Gi shop for a present, pick up the pizza and *be* at the party, so I swallowed some iboprufen and sucked it up. The drugs made me feel much better than I was (don't they always?), so despite having my lymph nodes, parotid salivary glands and tonsil on my left side painfully swollen, I was functioning. *Yes, I have had the mumps---on one side only and no, I don't remember which side.* As they wore off, I went back to the role of sick chick.

I was further deluded as to the severity of the virus by Sashie developing a fever at the end of his party. 24 hour viruses usually sweep through our house in, oh, 60 hours or so, and I thought this was what was happening. Sashie was having the same symptoms: headache, general achiness, sore throat, fever. But only I had the swollen neck, which spread to the right side by the next morning. Pat had a general feeling of malaise and a slightly sore throat and Gi was fine, hopping around like a grasshopper. I was feeling so ill that I had him look up symptoms of viral meningitis, mumps, mononucleosis and viral tonsillitis. I didn't have nausea and vomiting, confusion or trouble touching my chin to my chest, so that knocked out meningitis. I could drink sour things; (I'd been chugging Emergen-C at a rate of 2000 mg QID, as well as chewing oscillococcinum) which nuked the mumps. The swollen glands and general malaise looked promising for mono, but I had no white spots on my tonsils so I guessed not. QED, it must be viral tonsillitis. I'm sure that doctors cringe at what the internet has done to their erstwhile less-opinionated patients.

But here it is Saturday and I still have some slight swelling on my left parotids; I'm low on energy and the left tonsil is still a little sore. Granted, we took some friends to see Star Wars at COSI yesterday, but that was about all I did. And Sashie was up and around in 36 hours, running around like usual at COSI. And Pat, who usually succumbs to these things first and worst, never got any sicker, and is feeling great. This is ruining my supermom image and pissing me off.

The kids are loving AIB; of course they identify best with Sara. It's fun to watch through their filter. We've had a busy summer, much of which is on the digitial cam; and I've been trying to get Pat to show me how to upload pix here for weeks. Understand the lack of entries now?