Catching up

Priority business 1st ….

I saw this video on Saturday morning and thought of one of my readers that I suffers from Migraines.  I thought this might be beneficial.  I learned a lot by watching this despite the fact I don’t get headaches that often.  Wanted to share just in case it helps that person or someone else.

Now on to the regular post.  Friday I got to enjoy the day with the cats upstairs and had very little work to take care of.  The cats loved it and they were all over me so I tried to get some writing done but it was difficult at times. 

I took 1/2 of a muscle relaxer Friday night because I didn’t want to be wiped out on Saturday.  So much for that idea.  I didn’t want to do a damn thing.  I just stayed in, watched TV and slept off an on.  I could have pushed myself a little harder but just didn’t care too. 

Sunday I had to get moving.  The plan was to get up early, grab a shower, get breakfast and then get some shopping done.  What happened was I got up early, fed the cats and went back to bed.  I slept in for a few more hours.  Then got up had breakfast, got my medicine and sat in front of the TV.  I wound up watching Jumping Jack Flash and cuddling in bed with the cats.  Mora was right next to me and she managed to lull me into a sleep.  The TV went off and out I went.  It was so enjoyable and we all had a really good time.  That wasn’t getting things done though.  By noon I was up, grabbed a quick bite to eat, got a shower and then hit up the post office.  Nothing exciting waiting for me there, just a little junk mail and bills.  Moved on to the grocery store.  I was supposed to make a Target run but just wanted to get back home.  Walked through the store like I knew what I was doing but still managed to forget to get cheese.  I realized it when I was in the checkout but I didn’t want to make a run for it.  No big deal. 

Made it home, unloaded and put all of the groceries away.  Then sat on the couch, my stomach was bothering me a little bit.  That went away and I opted to venture out later in the afternoon for Mexican food.  I had a nice meal.  Service was slow.  I needed to use the bathroom and the waitress wasn’t moving fast enough.  I wanted to duck into the bathroom but I didn’t want her to think I skipped out on my bill.  Well the waiting turned out to be a bad idea.  I think you understand without me saying more.  They were out of toilet paper and that didn’t help me.  I used seat covers to clean up.  Headed out after scrubbing my hands twice like a surgeon preparing to operate.  Their soap sucked!  I came home and grabbed another quick shower.  Then did laundry.  Let the cats roam around in the basement because I didn’t want to fight with them.  I was running out of energy.  Then I had to take care of the litter boxes and after that I had to put my pills out.  Then back down stairs and I had to shoo Rudy to the stairs.  Mora was just a loaf and I had to pick her up and carry her to the stairs.  She tried to claw me but missed.  Then my legs were turning into Jell-O, I felt like I was dehydrated and all I wanted to do was get some water and sit down.  I was out of breath. 

That’s what I get for trying to do everything in one day.  It’s worked out for me well in the past but not this time.  Once I caught my breath and hydrated a little bit, I had a small individual Hagen Daz ice cream Carmel Crunch, along with an anti-acid pill.  Between the two they helped to settle my stomach which was starting to act up again. 

Then the internet went out.  We were under a Tornado Watch and then I got a pop up on my phone, hey you don’t have any internet.  Thank God for cellular connectivity, it has become more reliable than the cable company.  I watched TV in my room via my hot spot option.  Got into an old Whoopi Goldberg Standup and it was really good.  Cuddled in bed with the cats but not before taking a double dose of sleeping medicine.  My body didn’t want to pass out until closer to midnight.  Thank God the internet came back up just before I turned the TV off, so I had my white noise via my Echo. 

What a weekend.  I slept really good, had some far out pleasant dreams and Rudy tried to wake me early.  He likes to climb on me a couple hours before I wake up, he sleeps on top of me but makes his biscuits first to wake me up and let me know he’s there.  Then I get him to settle down and he goes to sleep and I get to fall back asleep.  The alarm clock went off, which isn’t normal but Rudy knew what it meant and he was all excited.  Morea apparently sleeps on the cedar chest and then once Rudy climbs on top of me, she moves to get in bed and take her spot by my feet.  They have an interesting routine. 

I woke up and really just wanted to go back to bed.  Yesterday didn’t exactly help my back but my ribs bother me from Rudy sleeping on me and making his biscuits.  I think they are slightly bruised.  I’ll mention it to the doc when I am there in a few weeks.  I wanted to take the day off but I didn’t.  It started off calm and then all hell broke loose, then finally things calmed down to allow me to catch up on work and personal stuff. 

I’ve got a slight little problem looming in that I started to run out of guys to write about.  I scraped my brain a bit more and managed to conger up a few more names.  It was kind of depressing over the weekend I didn’t know what to do.  I managed to crank out a few stories on Friday night which helped to eliminate guys from the list.  I have a nice little folder going of stores to transcribe from written to typewritten form.  I’m eventually going to give the OCR software a try and if it works I guess I will pay for it.  I am still working on proofing the one story I am super proud of and making some edits.  I’m anxious to publish it but I am also having some second thoughts. 

Work’s calling so time to go.  Hope that Monday is a great day for you and that you had an excellent weekend.  Take care!