My Weekend Fizzled!

My weekend got all shot to hell, before it even began this week! 

I woke up Thursday morning and had a glass of tea.  Now, hot black tea on an empty stomach makes me hurl (biiiig time), which I discovered is pretty common.  Normally, if I have hot tea in the morning, I have a piece of toast or something small with it because of that.  However, iced tea usually dosen’t do the same thing to my belly.  So, Thursday, I woke up and poured a giant glass of ice tea. 

I got about ½ of it down when I started to feel kind of icky, so I thought maybe it was too much, so I made a piece of toast.  Literally one bite of food makes the sick stop when the tea causes it.  I had one bite of the toast, put it down on my vanity and RAN for my bathroom.  It came back out faster than it went in for pity’s sake. 

Still believing that it was the tea making me sick, after I threw up, I brushed my teeth, finished getting dressed for work and then……..BLAM.  Back in the bathroom.  Hmmm.  Odd.  Don’t normally get sick twice if it’s just the tea. 

STILL believing that it was just the tea, I got in my car and headed to work.  I **smartly** brought a container along with me for just in case.  Thank God I did.  My 10 minute commute to work included 2 more instances of me getting sick.  (that container was immediately THROWN AWAY)

I managed to get into work.  Pale.  Sweaty.  Shaking.  Stomach doing Blue Angels worthy barrel rolls.  Got to my desk, sat down and literally put my head on my desk and just laid it there.  Like I’m 5 and it’s naptime at kindergarten. 

After making a quick trip to the office bathroom TWICE at work (which, for the record, is NOT near my actual desk, which is so unfortunate) by 8:30, I gave up.  I couldn’t find my boss so I left a post it note (sorry, super sick, gotta go), told my coworker I was pukey sick and headed home, then made my way.  It was a rough ride.  But I made it. 

I crawled into bed, unable to put so much as even a sip of water in my body for about 6 hours.  Miserable.  Finally, around 1pm, I noticed that it had backed off for a while, and that water was staying down, so I threw all caution to the wind and had a can of chicken noodle soup.  It all stayed down.  I was, thankfully, done throwing up every 15 minutes.  I was exhausted, my muscles hurt, I was miserable.  So I snuggled into bed with my dogs and slept. 

This all happened Thursday, which meant I was definitely not feeling well enough to go see Kevin Smith’s Q&A at 10pm.  And that makes me super sad.  L 

Saturday we ran some errands, which included going to WalMart.  On a damn Saturday.  Because I will never learn.  Oy.  But, $220 later, we made it out with our lives and some stuff we needed.  Hahahahahaha.  We went home, unpacked groceries and worked on our little redneck pool.  It needed cleaned, vacuumed, chemicaled, etc.  Lots of work on that pool.  We were going to float and play in the pool on Sunday. 

Sunday morning, the (damn) dogs got me up at about 3:30 (ass hats) to go outside.  Well, one of the dogs.  My beagle, who is creeping on 9 years old just can’t hold her bladder all night any more.  Dang it.  I stepped out with the dogs, just to make sure that they didn’t bark like jackasses at 3:30am and stopped cold. 

My pool had lost ½ its water.  HALF the water came out of the pool between 11pm and 3:30am, but we can’t find the source of the leak!  I don’t see any obvious holes, tears or rips.  Unless some relatively large critter got into the pool and sat on the edge, allowing the water to flow out, I can’t figure out what caused us to lose water like that.  We are both so upset!  We’ve worked so hard on the pool, all summer, and now, all of a sudden, the water is just gone.  Boo.  Maybe it drown the fire ants though….that would be a good thing.  LOL 

this is tooooo far away

One good thing?  WE BOOKED A NEW CRUISE!!!!   A few weeks ago, I put the deposit down for Scott and I to take an 8 day cruise right here out of home.  It will leave from Galveston and head to Roatan, Honduras, Belize City, Belize and Cozumel, Mexico.  I could care less about Cozumel (I will likely get off the ship ONLY to go buy good Mexican vanilla), but I’ve never been to either Roatan or Belize, so we are looking forward to that!  This one leaves on the same day as our cruise last year, which was a total coincidence!  I’m ready to leave right now!!!!  

I think maybe because I’m excited about this cruise, and because I was feeling so sorry for myself last weekend, Catherine has been on my mind constantly today.  I swear, today feels like she just died yesterday, instead of 3 months ago.  Been a raw day for me. But, it's the first one I've had like that in quite some time, so I'll take it.