Welcome! This week in “Quicksand”, it was my wife’s turn to win the illness of the week award in our household. She has chills, stomach aches, and an overall achiness that she just can’t shake. Congratulations honey, we’re all very proud of you.
What this really does is assure a couple of things. Number one, that we still don’t have any two time winners of this coveted award. Secondly, it means that I will be the last one in this family to be knocked on their backside by some type of seasonal malady.
You’re probably thinking, Tim you are one lucky son-of-a-gun to be the last man standing when so much illness is running wild, and most of the time you’d be right. But not this time. This time I’m running the risk of being the unluckiest guy I know. You’re asking yourself why (play along with me and just ask the question) are you heading straight for a town called luckless?
Well, it just so happens that this Friday my wife and I are heading to Milwaukee to see Steely Dan perform their classic album “Aja” in it’s entirety. This Friday also just happens to be Friday the Thirteenth. Isn’t it becoming all too clear? I haven’t been sick yet and I’m due. A great show that I’m dying to see is coming up on a day known by most as a day when bad things have been known to happen. I’m not sure if I stand a chance in hell of making it to Friday sickness free.
I may just be stressing myself for no good reason. I am aware that I’ve been known to do this in the past. But this time it just seems like a perfect set-up. Time will tell if I’m right or wrong I guess. In the meantime, heavy doses of vitamin C are in order and double hand washing will be the rule of the day.
I may get whatever the illness of the week happens to be, but I’m not going down without a fight. Now , hand me the hand sanitizer and pass me the orange juice. This is war.
P.S. My four year old daughter Ella, whom I’ve written about before, continues to be, in my opinion, one of the zaniest kids of all time. In her latest installment, she’s renamed the godfather of microwave popcorn from Orville Redenbacher to Never Pakenbacher. As if this wasn’t enough, she also changed the words “this instant” and made them one new word, dissistent.
To hear her use them in conversation is priceless. I guess Art Linkletter was right, kids do say the darndest things. Is darndest a real word? It sounds like something Ella could have made up, but I digress. Discuss it amongst yourselves and we can talk about it next time I’m “Playing In Quicksand.”
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