Fever!

Manny has been having temperature for throat infection.

Actually all three ladies at home were down, pneumonia, flu and sore throat. I am as always suffering my own brand of infection - insomnia.


So, there has been a lot of cold water sponging to keep the temperatures down. Today, all three seem much better, until of course a small tragedy waiting in the wings to happen.


Me and Sri get nervous when the house is quite - it usually means the younger one is in some corner with her exploration / experimentation with her natural habitat, and usually that proves costly. Not that we complain, but hell ya, something you tend to get nervous about when you realize there are BILLS to pay!

It was one of those times. The house went quite, well, almost quite except for the sound of running water from one corner of the bathroom. The older one went over to conduct a proxy investigation, that ended in a sharp laments and refrains.


We went over to find the little one scale up bathroom sink (after a detour that is left best un-described) - she was holding the older ones favorite "Leapster" game in the water.


Apparently the younger one, as we found out amidst peals of laughter, might have reasoned in her tiny mind while experimenting with the instrument, figuring out things:


"Hey Janu plays this everyday, let me finally figure this out today"


"Hell this is harder than I thought"


"Sheesssh, how does she even play it??"


"Yeah! maybe I figured it out now!!"


"Hell, wrong call!"


"Oh wait - this damn thing is getting really hot on my legs!"


"Ouch, maybe its caught the flu!!"


"Oh!! god - now what!!"


"Janu akka will be mad with me if it konks off!!"


"Yeah, maybe I know what to do!!!"


"VIOLA!!"


"I love myself!!"


"guess I am smart!!!"


"WATER SPONGING!!!"


"If it fixed me, it gotta fix this!!"


"Hell Yeah!! - no one will know this thingy ever got the flu from me!!"


I like the line of thought, only the older one didnt agree with me, my wife didnt know what to do. So hey, I end up promising a bigger game - Wii!!!


#$$%%@&%&^*(^* - with love to all those who invented the notion of credit cards, bills and Wii!!


And of course, the evolution of virus!


PS - At walgreens I saw a sign that read "Flu shots available for the flu season!!", I am sure if it was not indecent he would have had a banner that read


"Welcome to the flu season, get ur cards out guys!! We got shots!! you got butts???"