Slow Day

After my classes were done, I left work early on Friday to take Carrie to our family practitioner  She had a low grade fever, nausea, some dizziness, and a headache. Carrie was prescribed an anti-nausea med which helps, but she's been generally feeling poopy.

That means we watched a lot of TV today.

Carrie can watch marathons of shows. 

I can not.

In addition to the watching the plot, Carrie listens to the music scores, enjoys looking at the costumes and set pieces, and even camera angles directors choose. She has an eidetic memory for lines, voices, and actors.

My viewing is much more basic. 

I like a good show, but there's only so many episodes of Hercules or Voyager or anything I can sit through. I start to get stir-crazy and want to move around and do something. Somehow it ends up leaving me feeling tired and drained  after a while. I can sit longer at a computer or a game, because I feel like I'm interacting rather than just "sitting and getting." 

I ended up sweeping and vacuuming most of the house, doing work for my online classes, and playing MWOnline some in my non-TV times. It was productive day and it was restful for Carrie, which was the point.

Shane will be back tomorrow. Carrie's still on bed-and-couch rest, so Shane and I will have some bonding time. My parents will take Shane for the normal Nana-Day-Care on Monday, too. I hope I cleaned up the house enough and did enough laundry/chores that my wife won't feel like she has to do anything more than survive on Tuesday when she's back on Shane duty.

Anyway, I better get to bed. I was working on some deadlines and didn't post this until late.

The TL;DR version: Carrie's feeling queasy, so I picked up then we had a quiet Saturday watching TV, and now I'm TV'd out.