A Sick Hubby on Valentine's Day.

Happy Valentines Day!!! :)

Michaels birthday went great. Well mostly. He had an up and down kinda day. Sometime during the middle of the day he said he felt like he was getting sick again. Achy, stuffy nose and sounded like what he just got over about a week ago, was starting to come back. We will get back to that in a moment. We are on spring break for Danish lessons this week so it was nice we didn't have class on his birthday and got to stay home.

For Michaels birthday he asked if I could make fajitas. Sure thing! So I spent the day running around to about a billion different grocery stores, and markets looking for all the ingredients I needed. I have found that Cilantro is near impossible to find here, and I didn't find it yesterday. I also was going to make homemade tortillas but couldn't find shortening. Michael asked some of the guys from work what it was called here and no one seemed to know what it was. They looked it up online and found that Denmark was the first to ban tans fats (which we knew) but all shortening is, is basically a big blob of trans fat. So outta luck. I was trying to use illegal ingredients. I did find a substitute, but I didn't have time at all once Michael got home to get the tortillas made too,so we had store bought ones. But I was able to manage to have enough time to make the guacamole and Spanish rice and of course the fajitas marinade from scratch.

Monday night we made a bunch of brownies. They seem to do things backwards here, but you know, when in Rome! Apparently it's customary to do your birthday like your in elementary school . You have to make the cake and bring it for everyone else instead of being giving a cake. We made some espresso brownies that Michael always loves so he could take them to work on Tuesday. We saved some so we had some to eat at night with ice cream. yum. Also on people birthdays they tend to decorate with the danish flag, so, I did too! I got the sun room all decked out for a party :)

Michael came home and I had to run out to get some chili powder (and had to go to two stores because the first one, didn't have any) because I used it all, came home and spent about 2 hours cooking while he laid on the couch, watched tv and tried to feel better. He started to and we opened a bottle of wine, ate and had fun.

I think when we pull down the shades in the sun room it makes it feel like we are in a tent like a party tent..

By the end of the evening Michael felt all better. We went to bed and the alarm went off at 5:00 (we were suppose to go to the gym this morning) Michael said he really didn't feel good again and that he felt really hot, but really cold at the same time. uh oh.. I was a little warm from the blankets so touched my neck first to feel my temp so when I felt his I had something to compare it too. I felt his chest, neck and head and I am surprised my hand didn't catch fire. He was burning up! And I could hover my hand above his body and feel the heat coming off of him. I know he had to have been at about 100 or slightly over. Unfortunately somewhere between Lubbock to Allen to Plano to Denmark we have misplaced our thermometer, and there is nothing open at that hour here so I couldn't go get one. He took some Tylenol and reset the alarm to 9 and said he would go to work late if at all. He woke up and felt surprisingly better. OK good! But I had a sneaking suspicion that the Tylenol was masking the fever and any pain. He took it slow this morning, but had a meeting with the other language school at 11:30 so had to leave for that. His skin felt cooler this morning right until he was getting ready to leave and then he was starting to get warm again (just about the time the Tylenol would have been wearing off) So he took some more and then out the door. He was going to come home early too. Poor thing. I feel bad for him.

Oh, also Michael found out he is heading to Dallas on Tuesday-Saturday then to Tokyo from there from Saturday-Tuesday then back here. He isn't looking forward to all the traveling and doing stuff he could do from here. The only thing he is excited for is to be present during a design review in Tokyo with a big wig from a big big Japanese corporation where he will be drilled about this product. I know he will do great, but he will be a MESS when he gets back home.. Jet lag in Dallas...jet lagged from Dallas and new Jet Lag in Tokyo to jet lagged from Tokyo to jet lagged again from Denmark. He isn't going to be a happy camper when he gets home.