Short Circuit --Just venting cause I don't feel well
I've got a fever today and can only find energy to read or post on my laptop for a short while and then I need another nap.
I don't usually like to post negative posts, but I'm so down today I need to vent!
I am trying so hard not to come out of the bedroom and touch anything so as to make anyone else sick. Therefore, my hubby needs to take care of me, but he continues to have a short circuit! Why oh why do men not connect their brain waves! And I live in a house with four of them!
I was so full of energy yesterday, washing our bedding and cleaning windows. Last evening it hit and I was barely sitting a watching tivo. This morning my nice clean bed was soaked in sweat. I knew that coming out from the covers with the wet clothes would cause shivers in every part of my body.
So, my first thought is to take care of my family and I gave hubby instructions step-by-step on how to put beef stew stuff in the crockpot to cook all day for dinner. I asked him for a drink of hot tea.
An hour and a half later I still had no drink, really needing to replenish my bodily fluids from all the sweating. I thought I was being patient. I finally yelled. His answer: "Oh, I forgot." So much for someone taking care of me. When I finally did get my hot tea, it was cold.
A while later, at 1:30 in the afternoon, I mention to him "I'm getting kind of hungry." To which he replied, "I've got the stew in the crockpot just like you told me to."
UGGGGGG!
Okay, translation here:
I'm hungry
Wait 5 hours until the stew is done to eat.
Why do I HAVE to say things so direct to him like: "Honey, I'm hungry, go get me...." You'd think a polite suggestion would be understood, but not in my house!
And when I do get in the habit of speaking to him in blunt commands because that's all he hears, others look at me like I'm a horrible person. After 21 years, I'm tired of working so hard to get my point across.
Then, I went to take a shower. I changed my mind after being in the warm water for a while and changed it to start filling the tub. You see, this fever has given me a headache (and I never get headaches) and every part of my body previously hurting has intensified, so my pelvic area (yes, too much information) and my wrist (which I hurt on on December 10th and refuses to heal) is now a constant pain. I guess my head couldn't hurt by itself.
I hollered and hollered for hubby so he could bring me some bubble bath to no avail. As it turns out, he's gone from the house. Where's the taking care of momma when she's sick?
So, I get out of the nice warm bath with my hot body and begin streaking across the floor with cold chills chasing up my spine to every part of my body.
When I returned to the nice warm water, it was much more welcoming and joyous having just experienced the frustrating chills.
It's been a while since my regular readers have had a Bathroom Babbles post to enjoy. However, as I was sitting in the tub enjoying my bath, I was thinking.
I was thinking about how God has us go through pain and suffering often before he blesses us through that pain with joy.
James 1:4 My brothers and sisters, consider it nothing but joy when you fall into all sorts of trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect effect, so that you will be perfect and complete, not deficient in anything.
See, I may being going through a bunch of trials today, but God is testing my faith. Am I turning to Him or am I just being grumpy? He reminded me in that nice warm bath that He will bless me even through my trials. If I had not been weary from being sick and running buck naked across the floor in my fat wet fevered body, then I would not have enjoyed that bath as much. Just when I needed a reprieve from enduring my pain, God gave me just what I needed. Oh, not the warm bath; but the reminder to turn to Him when frustrated and in pain.
7 WARM FUZZIES--comments SO appreciated!:
You poor girl. Hubbies just don't get it and they never will. We have to do it all no matter. I have an AOL journal and alot of what you have is going around all parts of the country.
Hope you start to feel better soon. Now get that Hot Tea and relax. Hope you feel better soon.:)
If someone was ill and sleeping, would you wake the to ask if "you" could eat, and then not even bring them a bowl?
Ya gotta understand - it's a "man thing" ... not just your husband. LOL They just aren't wired like we are and cannot understand why we would even ask to have them get us something to eat or drink...I hope you feel better soon... and glad the bubbles did their job after alL!
Sorry to hear you are not well - hope you are feeling better soon!
oh Hummie! Hope you're feeling better soon! I don't know what it is about guys...If you don't tell them exactly what you want they just dont get it! lol hang in there!
Poor thing. I know what you mean. My hubby recently lost his job and has decided to spend some much needed time at home with the kids and the house remodel while I work, since he's a truck driver. Hey it gives me a break, but it's so frustrating to have to spell out everything to him every day that needs to be done around the house and for the kids, ARGGGG! One blessing is that he is a wonderful cook and we don't starve!
Go ahead, you have the right to express yourself and be heard. I always say and have said that it is better to speak out with sincerity to your audience or family than to hold all that anger inside to fester. Once it has been said, then you have multiple options to try to hopefully change your circumstances for the better. I know with the weather changes, that colds are spreading along with the aches and pain that seem to linger forever. You must try to understand that as everyone has stated, it is a man/male thing both physically and emotionally. He can't help himself due to his basic DNA strain. When you have children, you must always remember to include him in that number count. I hope that the sickness has slowed and the awful feverish feelings have abated. LUV!!!
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