Joe is in Corsica for two weeks, which based on these Google Image search results seems like a pretty sweet assignment. Of course, NATO has managed to suck all the fun out of it by sticking them in French barracks, feeding them crap food, and not letting them leave the base for any reason. His woe-is-me texts have been so entertaining, I’ve decided to share the highlights with you readers. Please, enjoy my lovely husband’s misfortune.
From the first night there –
Dinner was couscous with hotdog. Awesome.
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And the next morning –
Bread and plain yogurt for breakfast. No cups so we drank coffee from bowls. No toilet paper. Six people in my room, but only one key. Corsica supposed to be beautiful, but I can’t tell from here.
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Around then I started harassing him for a lunch update. He had heard that the food would be bad, (so very industriously packed 5 boxes of Cheese-its in his luggage. I’m sure that’ll get him through these two weeks, no problem) but who could’ve anticipated this level of badness? Couscous and hot dog? Seriously? This is some kind of record breakingly bad food right here. Lunch did not disappoint –
Lunch was rare hamburger and lots and LOTS of mashed potatoes. And wine.
so the NATO job is not quite as fabola as Army Wives would suggest? hee hee…
but, more importantly, having dealt with TWINS having overlapping bouts of rotavirus, OMG you poor thing. There was nothing worse – NOTHING worse – than dealing with that and the bed stripping and showering and bathing and then the freakin groundhog day quality of life because it would just start OVER AGAIN every. freakin. day. It was such a nightmare that I didn’t even blink or think twice about getting bonus baby the roto vaccine. Which, apparently, is really working here stateside — sorry it’s not working quite as well in Italy. I’m so sorry 😦
The Dr. was asking me if he got the roto vaccine and I don’t think he has. :shrug: I haven’t protested any shots for these kids (just staggered them a bit – honestly – why should a 4 year old get six shots in one day?) but I don’t remember him ever being given an oral vaccination?
Annoying, that apparently there is a cure for this out there, yet I’m still up to my elbows in :censored for readers who may be eating breakfast while checking the blog:
While I am sorry for Joe . . . I am an infinite amount more sorry for you and poor Jonas. I got that “I survived Rotavirus” t-shirt with McKinley when she was 1. OMG. Brutal. Hang in there.