It’s 2:30am! I have been lying in bed, listening to the rain fall outside. Coughing. A lot. Tossing. Turning. Not sleeping. Coughing some more. The kids will be up in about 3.5 hours. I’ve not had caffeine in over two weeks now, but that’s obviously not helping the insomnia.

This weekend, Josh and I watched Creation of the Humanoids, a 1962 sci-fi movie that meshes nicely with many of the ideas that Battlestar Galactica has put into my head. It’s not high-budget, by any means, but the point gets across. I recommend it. Warning: there is a groan-inducing love-struck fluttering-eyelashes-and-swooning female character that might cause vomiting.

Another interesting movie is The Fall. This one would’ve been great to see in a theater– beautiful scenery, deeply saturated colors, impressive wide-angle shots. It was pleasantly quirky. Crackmonkey, you will like this one.

I’m going to go lie in bed and try not to think or cough or thrash about.

One of the fun things about Josh working out of town so much is that the kids are ready to celebrate every week when he comes home. Dad’s coming home tonight! We should have a party!

Khai doesn’t understand why I won’t make a cake for Daddy, nor why I didn’t make him a cake last week when he came home. We’ll likely have the same discussion next week. He probably thinks I’m off my rocker, that I just don’t GET IT. When you celebrate, you eat cake.

p.s. I do love cake. The problem with cake is that we eat it. And we do not all have the children’s metabolism. Sigh. LIFE IS SO UNFAIR.

Family photo 2008:

Mustaches FTW!

We did take a non-mustache picture, too:

My husband is teh awesome. One of our cars has been dead for ~3 weeks, and all attempts to jump it/start it/revive it have been futile. He bought a book, spent about two hours getting messy under the hood, and now it works. YAY!

I started out 2009 being sick, but I figure things can only get better. I hope everyone else had a better NYE than I did!