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This ticks me off big time. People who think it is okay need to have their logic re-examined. If you like an author you NEED to purchase their work. It's all a numbers game for the publishers. If the books don't sell they won't buy more from the author thus there won't be anything more to steal. And really? It takes more work to find an illegal copy of a book than it does purchasing a legal copy OR *GASP* checking it out from a library.

Sadly, I'm still sick and so is the baby....and surprise Demar caught it today.

Good news...homework done a good 24 hrs + before being due. Although one quiz didn't turn out so well.

Took the little one into the doctor today. He has both a sinus AND an ear infection. BUT the ear infection is in the ear he ISN'T rubbing at. How's that for consistency? Doctor agrees that he most likely is allergic to something in the pink eye medication and won't be prescribing that to him again. He slept a little bit better last night than he did the night before. Of course I do not feel any better but at least the baby is. Things could be much worse.

Homework is almost done for the week. YAY! Now if I can just get the rewrite done. O_o

I don't understand what it is that is causing me to get sick so often. I'm tired of it and worse I seem to always pass it on to the baby. I was bad enough that Demar stayed home from work to take care of the kids while I spent the day in bed. I'm feeling a bit better but the baby is definitely not. He threw up...all over his daddy. So we put them both in the shower and that seemed to help Aiden breath better. He's not eating well though. At least we've been able to keep him hydrated with Pedilyte. We'll probably take him back into the doctor tomorrow to see if there is anything more we can do.

School officially started again last night. I thought it was today but alas was proved wrong once again. So far I'm not looking forward to the next four months. One of my professors is going to put me to sleep with his lectures and a second must not find out who we are related to on the faculty as he has a MAJOR grudge against him. Lovely isn't it? Just like high school people...only I'm paying for it, literally, in more ways than one.

Starting to get frustrated with the Do Not Call registry. What the hell is the point of it if everyone and their Spanish speaking I don't know what the hell your saying employees are still calling day AND night. And isn't there a law, no calling after 9PM. I tracked one of them back this morning and advised them that if I got one more call from them advising me of the fantastic deal that I must take advantage of by joining their gym I'd report them to the authorities. Never heard of this place until they started calling right during my baby's nap time. And let's be honest, should I choose to join a gym, which frankly isn't likely, I would not give my money to one that phone blasts people and cares less about, you know, federal laws.

Sadly at the third day of the year I am already MUCH behind on my writing and revision schedule. Seriously...not a good sign. On the other hand the house has been getting a much needed deep de-cluttering. Nothing on top of the fridge or hutch and books are getting boxed so bookcases can be sold, old toys and other things we have not used in years are headed to DI, and I have even managed to clean the boy's room once again. I must descend to their dungeon once a month to do this as I have noticed boys are just messy even when they clean daily. Their version of clean and mom and dad's version is sadly lacking in commoness. Baylee never fails to keep her room utterly lovely. There may be dirty close but on the whole it's clean and neat. AND even better it doesn't stink. Because seriously the boy's room...you don't want to know.

Anyway, I need to go feed munchkins and get Connor to school early so he can take some reading tests. Then off to drop the massive amounts of DI stuff and pick up some baby formula and country noodles.

For anyone that's wondering, the canned stew has turned out lovely. And as I pressure canned it for the 90 minutes I discovered must be used for any meat product I have high hopes of them not unsealing which would also be lovely. Now I just need to figure out if milk products can be canned. If so I've got this scrumptious potato soup that we can make a HUGE batch of and then can. Because freezing the extra is just not good. The potato go mushy in a very bad way.

And let's not forget that school starts for me tomorrow. YEESH! Lots to do.

Although we succeeded in not having a baby that was fevered last night, he has decided that sleep is overrated...again. I laugh at these books and people that claim he should be getting between 13 and 15 hours of sleep daily. My brain is fried.

Found out a cousin is going through a rough spot. Husband has decided he doesn't like the responsibility of being married with kids. Not happy about the situation but as she is still very much in love with him I'm sternly not making judgmental comments even though I would very much like to find him right now and kick his balls into his throat.

We celebrated the year's birth by cuddling a baby who was grumpy and feeling icky from a fever that ranged from 97 to 101 almost 102. I say 97 even though it is technically not feverish because he only stayed in that range for a very short period and then skyrocketed again. I do not know what is ailing him and it's frustrating me probably as much as it is him. I have a niggling suspicion that it is in fact his pink eye medication as he is just fine about 10 hours from his last dose and is running a fever again within hours of getting his first one of the day. My husband and I have therefore decided to risk it coming back and not dose him anymore today in hopes that we won't have a third night of high fevers. He only had 2 doses left so we feel safe in this. If it reoccurs again tomorrow I believe I'll then cast my vote to the teething factor that Mama suggested, even though he has not in fact run a fever with any of his previous six teeth.

Didn't get any work done on the revision today as the hubby insisted that the house get cleaned, at least in some parts. And really, he was right to do so. Although there are still monstrous mounds of laundry waiting to be tackled. Even with the front loading washer I believe it will take me a good two days of working on it. Good thing the hubby is off on Monday. Maybe I can coax him into doing it while I write. I think he's starting to get irritated with my priorities but hopefully that will change when it starts bringing in money.

Also a good thing that cleaning was done as we had friends over for dinner. We threw together a very yummy beef hamburger barley stew. It was so delicious that even the lingering smell of it is trying to convince me to go and dish more up right now before bed. I'm tempted...severely tempted.

2011...wow...the year for me to get an agent and sell some books. Right? O_O

Aiden decided that sleep was overrated last night. Didn't matter how much I tried to convince him he was sadly mistaken. So both he and I got very little of that commodity. His eyes are looking perfect again. No goopy boogers, drainage or redness. And so far the other three haven't shown any signs of getting it.

I got a little over 10k rewritten yesterday. Things are picking up since I'm in part where I can pull from the zero draft. I think my goal of having it finished by the end of this weekend is going to happen easily.

Demar is gone for pretty much the whole day. His team at work is having a team party. Going out to eat and then going to see Tron. All paid for by work. Someday my work is going to pay me to do fun things like that...oh wait, probably not since, you know, I don't get paid for what I do. Well, other than kisses and hugs and I wouldn't trade those.