Hillary almost killed me with laughter.

So I caught bronchitis from Hill or Tyler, which is nobody's fault.  Anywho I'm getting in the full swing of it now, and the reason I know is because my lungs have started to close off at night.  I have asthma, but it only shows up when I'm sick.  So at night, I can't take any deep breaths because my lungs feel like they've shrunk. Not like I'd try to take deep breaths while I'm sick, since they trigger coughing attacks. Again, this is fine, I've dealt with this for years.  I've found that the trick is to stay at a low regular breathing pattern as much as I can.  Not only does this keep me from feeling how closed off my throat feels, but it also keeps any coughing at bay.

ANYWHO.

After the girls and Tyler went to sleep, Hill and I stayed up making some lego structures.  The Russells have numerous lego sets.  Alas, on the weekend, some friends of Emmy and Maddie's stayed over, and all of the legos were mixed together.  Hillary, being a determined woman, set about to organizing them back to their  proper sets. What better way to do that than to build each set to make sure you have every piece. It seemed insane to me, cause that's a LOT of legos.  But we went about it last night.

As we started getting around 9-10pm, I could feel my lungs start going into their closed up mode, which wasn't a surprise.  Hill and I were listening to her iPod on shuffle, and sometimes she'd say things about the soundtrack, or enact something funny that worked with the song.  She was hillarious. I felt terrible because I kept saying "STOP IT.  Hill, SHUT IT." because I knew that if I burst out laughing, I'd start coughing like mad and it would hurt and it would go on all night.

For the most part she did try to stop making me laugh.  And then, I don't know why this joke did me in, but it did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXixixmXz0w&list=PLBF4C3801CCB406EC

go to this link, it's a song from the soundtrack of Emma.  Start it at 1:26.



As we were making our little lego village, this part of the song started up.  It was very dramatic.  Hill starts off in her spotless British accent, fretting about a crumpet disaster.  Well, hearing about a crumpet disaster from a master comedian, with this bit of music playing, it was too much.  I'd tried shaking my head to get her to stop, but buy the time she said "crumpet" I'd started laughing.  Even then I was trying to keep my laughter low so I wouldn't have to take in any deep breaths, but the more I relived what she'd done in my head, the more I couldn't stop laughing.  Thus, I was a coughing hacking mess, coughing throughout the last hour of lego building.   I ended up taking Cough Medicine (uuuuuugh GAG), because I wouldn't have stopped coughing without it, and Hill seemed to feel bad the more I coughed.  But man, that moment of theatrical hilarity was totally worth it.

Now I'm about to go to sleep again.  My coughs have subsided, and I can feel it in my throat that if I were to take in a deep breath, I'd go into coughs again. If I yawn, I'm pretty much screwed.  So I'll lay low, and do some sleeping. Apart from the coughing bits, I feel completely fine. May this sick stuff finish quickly!