April was one seriously awful month for me and my family. Sickness went around and around and around the four of us like you wouldn't believe. I mean, the illness bounced around from person to person like some kind of stomach virus rubber ball. When it was all said and done, I ended up using every bit of the sick time I had available to me and spent a good portion of the month at home, on my back.

We should have set up some kind of pool and each put in some money and the person in the house who ended up logging the most days sick could have taken the whole pot.

On top of that, at work there was a death that affected a lot of us. The father of a beloved employee passed away. It didn't come as a total shock because he had fallen ill some time ago, so she had warned us that his passing may come at any time. Still, no matter how prepared you think you are for something like that, it does hit you hard anyway. Needless to say, she was out for some time after her loss, and even though people had to work a little harder to cover, our thoughts were with her and the rest of the family who lost a very dear loved one.

I'm not sad to see April come and go, believe me.