It’s Friday the 13th and I made that joke with all my classes, but only the seniors got it. Vocabulary: it makes a life better.

I’m still sick. It’s storming outside, I guess. I haven’t been looking outside, but I was laying in bed and I heard thunder. Actually, Annika heard thunder, and she is irrationally afraid of it, so she’s laying in bed with me. Perry the dog is also irrationally afraid of thunder, so he’s laying in bed with us too. Annika asked to watch a movie with me and I thought, sure, that would be a low key way to deal with the weather and being sick. She wanted to watch Benji on Netflix and I couldn’t talk her out of it. So we watched it. I told Annika I didn’t want to watch a sad movie, and she loudly protested IT’S NOT sad! She was kind of wrong. It was no My Girl but it wasn’t funny and there were a lot of sad parts. Ugh.

Now we’re watching Skylander Academy. It’s less sad, so I’m good with that. Besides I can write and listen to it at the same time without missing a whole lot – there’s dialogue at least. And some silly jokes.

It turns out Anders is as sick as I am, and Annika started getting the sore throat today (that was Anders’ and my first symptom too). I’m glad for Netflix today. Sometimes I worry that we have way too much screen time in our lives, but today it’s good. I hope Dak doesn’t get this virus, and that the three of us get over it quickly, and that it doesn’t thunder anymore because I won’t be able to sleep with Annika and Perry on top of me. I also hope that the sharp pain under my left rib cage whenever I breathe deep, cough, or sneeze is just a sore muscle and not a sign of something going on in my lung.

God, I really need spring to come. Even if I’m sick, I can sit in the sun a little bit.