Groundhog days…

Man I need a vacation.  I need one real bad. Going a bit crazy.  Been super busy at work lately and that’s fine but at the same time I can’t seem to get a cancel or no-show to save my life over the past month.  Having two separate days off isn’t too bad in Japan usually.  I get the weekday off to go out about town and not have to face masses of humanity all the time and I get the Sunday off so I can watch college football during the season and at least have one day to see friends and family if needed.  It’s also OK because there are so many national holidays.  Except of course, June and August.  So with the wife being in the hospital last month (tanking our anniversary and covering 海の日 as well) I’ve basically been on single days off since Golden Week with no real prospective for two days off until near the end of September. F. But now I’m thinking about maybe taking the 12th off in addition just to get a little head start on that and so I can watch the Hawks’ first game of the season.  Either way, still a month+ away… I could always get sick though, so here’s hoping for that.

Speaking of sick, the boy has 手足口病 (hand, foot and mouth disease) now so, yay!  So since the boy and wife were staying at the in-laws’ place on Monday night because she had to go to the hospital on Tuesday morning so when he spiked a fever on Tuesday we decided they’d stay there again on Tuesday. His fever got pretty bad, 40°+ at times. Unfortunately the wife didn’t have enough of her medicine so I spent my break going home to get it and then bring it back so I ended up not taking any pictures and they didn’t come back to the house until Wednesday.  We finally got to hang out on Thursday and I finally took a few pictures, here’s a little peek at one of the sores the boy has on his tongue (it’s gotten much better since I took this):

Tough to make out but here’s his little プツプツ covered hand as well:

But, luckily he was in a good mood most of the day:

Well, he was in a good mood most of the day, that is until at night when he was all itchy and didn’t want to sleep and was covered all over with a new rash… The wife took him to the doc today and learned that in addition to the HFMD, now he had hives… hives?! For the love of God!!! c’mon, give me a fuckin’ break!!!  I’m so tired of all of this shit.  Well, he got some MORE medicine and seems that the hives have been beaten back at least for now.  Poor kid, I just would really love to have him, and my wife, healthy for a few moments and it would be nice if it was on a day I don’t have to work so I can enjoy that time with them.

Different subject time. For some reason the wife and I were talking about Taco Del Mar and fish tacos the other day so I decided to make some mission-style fish burritos (also because we got a giant Costco tortilla shipment the other day) for dinner last night and they were pretty great:

Ah those were good, I could go for another one right now…

Tomorrow night is supposed to be our big city festival but we won’t be going because I have to work (although I will get off a bit early) and the boy’s still not 100%.  Hopefully we’ll be able to see the fireworks from our place, I think we should be able to but we’ve still been here less than a year so we’ll see and maybe we’ll be able to get out and see some stuff on Sunday.  Maybe.

Gotta sleep, back to fucking work tomorrow again. Again.