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Medifast Status: Day 269, Down ~73.5lbs (27lbs to go)

I am at home today as I have strep throat and don’t want to be spreading it around the office.  I am contagious at least until tonight and possibly until Saturday.  So best to be safe and just stay home.

It was quite a busy day at the office so I got very little time to spend with the girls during the day.  Still, being home all day means that I do get a bit of time with them even if I am in my office for nearly the whole day.

Today has little news.  We are all sick so we are taking it easy.  I didn’t have to work all that late this evening either which was brilliant since I was already home and able to just go hang out with my girls.

I felt pretty good all day.  The strep really never wore me down and I could barely tell that I had it at all.  Dominica felt pretty awful all day, though.

We watched more of How I Met Your Mother tonight and are nearly done with the sixth and final season available on Netflix.  We are nearly caught – years after we first started watching the show.

We’ve been talking about getting our bar set up in the house and to that end I got a couple of books on bartending for the Kindle tonight.  Dominica wanted me to go out shopping for supplies but the liquor stores close pretty early and I didn’t want to go out shopping while the girls were still awake.  That is a waste of family time.

Medifast Status: Day 268, Down ~73.5lbs (27lbs to go)

I got up and went into the office this morning, a normal day.  By mid-morning Dominica said that she was feeling worse than she had yesterday so she was going to make an appointment at CareNow and I would stay at home and watch the kids while she was there.  So at around noon I went home and let the office know that I would be at home until we found out if Dominica had strep or not, but we were pretty confident that she did.

Dominica’s throat culture came back immediately as positive for strep.  So she was out for a while making runs to the pharmacy and getting supplies.  I will be staying home this afternoon as I am very likely contagious, even though I feel fine, and will make a trip to the doctor’s myself later on once work settles down to see if I am sick too.

So I had a nice afternoon at home with the girls.  Work was pretty busy, though, so I never really got a chance to relax much.  I had to work pretty late, in fact.

At six I ran down to Brookhaven and picked up dinner.  Dominica didn’t feel like going out, for obvious reasons, and did not feel like cooking.  A perfect day to get takeout.

We ate dinner and watched How I Met Your Mother on Netflix.  I got a bit of time with Liesl and Luciana today since I was home nearly all day, even though work was busy.

At eight I went in to CareNow and got checked out.  I felt fine but we wanted to be proactive.  I got the throat culture and, lo and behold, I have strep.  The doctor was pretty amazed that I knew to come in with strep and even told him that it was going to be strep when I had no symptoms and felt completely fine.

So I am on antibiotics now as well.  I stopped by at CVS on the way home and picked up my meds and some meds that Dominica had waiting for her.  I got home around ten or so and we called it an early night.

Medifast Status: Day 267, Down ~73.5lbs (27lbs to go)

I felt good this morning.  I woke up a bit late but with having gone to bed early that was over eight hours of sleep which I never get.  Awesome.

I got ready for work but got a call from Dominica’s cousin just before heading out the door.  We talked for about an hour.  I might get involved, again, in online training for IT certifications.  We are trying to come up with a plan for me to write about computer based training.  This could be a really cool opportunity.  I have always enjoyed doing computer based training, ever since I got unlimited access to it while working with CTG at IBM in Endicott back in 2000 but I have not had very much opportunity to do it myself in a very long time.  It would be nice to do some again and get some certification efforts underway once much.

The rain was really coming down today and there was significant flooding all over the DFW.  They are saying that this rain might actually replenish our water table after the drought that we had this summer.  It is nice to see water around town again although it makes the drive a little harrowing since every so often you come upon a large amount of standing water without much warning.

I went home at lunch and spent some time with the family.  We though about eating lunch then but at the last minute decided against it.

For dinner tonight Dominica decided that she wanted something different so I picked up Rockfish on the way home.  They have the best cedar plank salmon around.  I love getting it there.  So we ate dinner and watch How I Met Your Mother.  We are making huge progress on that show and are on track to be caught up with the current season very soon.

Dominica started to feel a bit under the weather this evening.  She has a soar throat and a stuff neck and is feeling a little run down.  We know that a friend of mine has strep throat, she just found out yesterday, so there is a risk that that is going around.  We’ll see tomorrow as it was pretty late this evening when she started to not feel so hot.

Medifast Status: Day 266, Down ~73lbs (27lbs to go)

More rain today.  A lot more rain.  It was actually clear this morning but the rain snuck up on us.

I went into work today.  It was a quiet morning.  For lunch I met a friend at Sfuzzi which is right around the corner from the office which makes it a decently convenient place for lunch.  I got the regular salad and “Mama’s Eggplant.”  That turned out to possibly be the best eggplant Parmesan dish that I have ever had.  It was simply amazing.  I’m sure that I should not have eaten it, it was way too good.  But boy am I glad that I did.

Lunch was good, we had a good time.  While we were eating lunch the rain returned and it went from sunny to pouring rain while we were eating.

Work was normal today.  After work I went back to Sfuzzi and got take out for Dominica as well as she decided that she wanted the same food as me as it sounded so good.  It ended up taking like forty minutes for me to get the food.  While I was waiting they were doing a photoshoot of some of their drinks and when they were done I got one for free.  So that was pretty nice.

It was around six thirty when I got home.  Dominica ate dinner while we watched How I Met Your Mother.  Liesl is so funny.  She is only three but says, “But I don’t want to watch How I Met Your Mother.”  But, in reality, she enjoys playing at my feet or sitting beside me while we watch it.

It was a quiet evening.  I played catch with Liesl quite a bit.  I barely got to see Luciana as she was on her way to bed when I got home.  Dominica kept her up just a little bit so that I could hang out with her before she went down to sleep since I had barely seen her today as I was not home at lunch.

I went to bed early tonight.  Oreo and I turned in at eleven.  Dominica stayed up for a while as she was not tired.

Medifast Status: Day 265, Down ~73lbs (27lbs to go)

Back to work. I took the day to work from home because I was paged out so late last night and got so little sleep.

I found another book that I was the lead writer on.  At least this time it was really accredited to me.  I wish that someone would tell me about these things, though, so that I would not have to do a search on them to find out when my writing is being used someplace interesting.  You can check it out online, The Guide to Managing IT Staff from Internet.com.

It was nice being home today.  I got a lot of time with the girls.

The rain started last night.  This is the rain.  I’ve heard a rumor that it is going to be raining all week, in fact, going as late as Friday.  It has been hypothesized that this rain storm may be so big that it might actually replenish the DFW regional water table that has been so heavily depleted following the drought that lasted us all summer.

It rained all day today with it getting pretty heavy at times.  It was a nice day to stay home.

Liesl’s new thing is playing with a large balloon in the living room.  She has gotten good at both playing catch with it and playing “keep the balloon in the air” which she just loves.  I can’t believe how good she is at that.

We have been watching a lot of How I Met Your Mother and we are rapidly catching up with the current state of the show. We are into the fifth season now.  I believe that the sixth season is the current one.

We stayed in all day today.