Stupid Dog.
Blog Posted by kitt at 07:54 on 31 January 2005Bella peed in the bed last night. I'm at a loss for words right now.
Do You Look Back if No One is There?
Blog Instead of being asleep at 07:25 on 31 January 2005, kitt created this:I took Kris to the airport this morning.
We received a call from his sister yesterday that his father was having chest pains in church. He went into open-heart surgery 2 hours ago. Kris is flying back home today, and should be there when his father wakes up tonight.
I think I've managed to see Kris for 8 days this month. I think that's a new low water mark for us. I miss him.
When I dropped him off at the airport, I went around to park the car as he was checking in. Wade Hellner gave Kris his Southwest Rapid Rewards ticket, so he could fly out on a moments notice (thank you again, Wade!). Wade booked the ticket last night, which meant Kris couldn't check in online. So, I dropped him off, went to park the car, and then went inside to get that last 10 minutes with him before he spent the day travelling back east.
I think when we split at the "Ticketed passengers only beyond this point" spot, he assumed I left. I hadn't. I waited until he was through the line, turned the corner and walked to his gate. I managed to squeeze in an extra 4 minutes there. Even if he was 10+ yards away.
He didn't turn around to wave, though. Didn't know I was still there.
I miss you, Kris. Be safe. Love and prayers to your dad.
Worst. Weekend. EVAR.
Blog kitt decided around 15:20 on 30 January 2005 to publish this:This had to be the worst weekend ever. And I mean ever. Kinda gross, too, so if you don't like reading about dry heaves and not-so-dry heaves, how about skipping to last Friday's entry?
Having just returned from Los Angeles and dealing somewhat with my condo and visiting (thankfully at Suzanne's request) Wook and Jon Hartzberg, I fed the dogs, ate some leftovers, and settled down to watch some tivo'd shows.
Around 11 pm, I started having that achy, sore, guess-what-you've-got-the-flu feeling. By 12:30, I was in the bathroom delivering the previously mentioned leftovers to the sewer system. With surprising ease, actually. I haven't vomited in a long time, maybe 10 years? But I don't ever remember being able to do the fake heave and have it trigger a real one.
Let it be known that I eat a lot of apples. When I'm at home, I have probably two a day. And with those apples, I eat a lot of peanut butter. Vitamin E, magnesium (important for day two of this exciting weekend), protein, what's not to love about peanut butter?
Tasting it coming back up.
The dry heaves started around 2:30, when the chicken leftovers wanted to come up, but couldn't quite make it back out of my intestines. Thankfully, they relented and came up. My intestinal tract was completely clear. At some point, when lying on the bathroom floor looking up, I thought about taking a picture of the bathroom from that particular vantage point. It would have made a nice addition to this post, but I couldn't get up to find the camera.
Ah well, at least I could go to sleep now that my stomach was empty.
But I didn't sleep well. I woke up at 3:16, 4:21, 5:38, 6:24, 7:37, 8:29, 9:30, 10:14 (you see where this is going right?), keeping the trend up until around 2:30 pm when I actually felt like getting out of bed.
As much as I wanted to do something with the day (strip wall paper, convert postnuke sites to drupal sites, finish an online rostering system, learn flash, read Reality Dysfunction), it wasn't going to happen. Instead, I watched all the tivo'd shows we had, and all the Alias DVDs we have that I hadn't watched yet. In told, 12 hours in a vegetative state, unable to do much other than wiggle my fingers to fast forward through the commercials.
The good thing of being unable to sleep on Friday night, was that I slept really, really well on Saturday night.
And woke up to a migraine at 10 am.
Up. Feed the dogs. Down a 800 mg ibuprofin. Back to bed to sleep off the blindness.
No such luck. I woke up at noon more blind than when I went back to bed. And really, really hungry. This time, I took a couple magnesium and B6 capsules (as a magnesium deficiency has been shown to be a contributor to migraines), had some juice, ate some toast and vegged for a couple hours hoping the pounding in my head would subside somewhat.
Fortunately, my eyes cleared up within the half hour (yay, Mg!).
Unfortunately, Bella spent the whole freaking day with her whine, whine, whine, CHIRP! whine barking. I hate that whining. But the barking! Damned dog, stop the barking! Just shut up!
And Kris isn't expected home for another 5 hours. He's been gone since Friday afternoon on a ski trip. Did I mention that Jessica's breast cancer spread and she's on chemo? Or how about Kris' dad is heading in for triple bypass surgery?
Yeah, found those out on Friday, too.
This has to be the worst weekend ever.
Curse you, Mike!
Blog Yeah, kitt finished writing this at 23:19 on 27 January 2005Conversation with Mike, about two weeks ago:
Mike: So, did you read that book I gave you?
Me: No, not yet.
Mike: Come on, it's been 6 months.
Me: I know. I haven't had time.
Mike: Find time.
Me: Yeah, yeah.
Mike: Okay, next trip you go on, take just that book. Don't take any magazines, just that book.
Me: What? I can't do that. I might get bored.
Mike: You won't get bored. Just that book.
Me: Okay, fine. I'll take just that book.
So, I went to Los Angeles today. Specifically, I went to Pasadena to attend the monthly Housing Association meeting. My condo has been flooded, and my property manager was getting nowhere with the Condo Complex property management company. I was hoping I could break the impasse and get things going on the roof repairs.
I took along the book, The Reality Dysfunction, that Mike suggested over a year ago that I read (that I bought six months ago and hadn't read yet). When I sat down on the plane, I pulled out the book and started reading.
And stopped only to take care of business, reading every moment I could. Waiting for Cynthia, read the book. Waiting in the car for the lunatic to return, read the book. Waiting at the stoplight, out came the book. Suzannne went to the bathroom, out came the book.
Curse you, Mike! It's a good book! I'm hooked!