Long weekend, getting sick & SI............

So...the story goes....I had Thursday & Friday off last week. I had planned to spend Thursday in town getting prepared to go to Post Falls for the weekend to visit a friend who had just moved back from Michigan after 15 years and do some shopping. Ya, well that didn't happen.....We made it up to Post Falls Friday afternoon and checked into a HOJOs (Howard-Johnson in case you were wondering). Let me rate the place....paper thin walls....I spent Friday night listening to the dude in 248's TV blare the ENTIRE night, I am NOT exaggerating the ENTIRE NIGHT! Now put that on top of my being sick - sore throat, fever, back hurting from the BEDS! LOVELY I know!

We touched base with my friend and her family Friday night, had pizza, laughed and had a great visit - this was prior to my falling ILL and room 248's TV blaring all night.

So I had a very unrestful evening on Friday with a fever, waking about every 2 hours and trying to reposition myself to get comfortable.....sore throat....I felt icky and I wanted to go postal with the TV in 248 and knock on the door but I figured better of that. What a stupid idiot in 248! Oh an by the way, 248 was talking on the phone the next morning and said he was making most of his money in cash now and therefore didn't pay taxes on it.....STUPID IDIOT!!! I would turn his badonka donka butt in if I could!

So the next morning before heading out for the day I went to the front desk and asked if 248 was spending that night or had he checked out because he left his damn TV on the entire night and I couldn't hardly sleep. They assured me he had checked out. THANK GOD!

So Saturday we decided to skip Cabella's because I didn't feel like walking around for 3.5 hours (that is the average visit time in there for the 1st time - I read on the web somewhere....ya, I am sure if I would have chosen to go and stayed that long I would have been laying in one of their displays somewhere....partially dead). We headed for Riverfront Park - what better way to spend a rainy Saturday than at Riverfront Park huh? I am feeling punk, there is no close parking to the IMAX without quite a walk in and it seems long when you are sick let me tell you. So I drag my punk ass to the Imax at 10:45 and find that Madagascar 2 is not playing until 12:30.....I try my best to paste my smile on and make the best of the 1.75 hour wait while my kid hounds me for quarters for the vending machines that carry such HIGH quality merchandise - YA right! The upside of arriving so early - we were 1st in line for Madagascar 2 and it was a cute movie.

After the movie you can guess what we did - hiked our punk asses back out of the Park in the rain. I was feeling pretty bad by now but I was trying to be a trooper. We drove around for a bit after that just cruising and seeing what has changed.

We hit Valley Mall and Joe wanted lunch so we went to TGIF because I cannot remember going there although he knows WE have - I seriously think he has lived another life with another woman because I do not remember ever going there but okay....... I ordered a bowl of onion soup which I couldn't even finish because, yep, I was so sick!

I had wanted to hit Old Navy but I just couldn't - I didn't feel like it and Linen & Things was closing...i.e. SALES - HELLO!!! - again, to sick......

The guys went to Toys R Us and I was four parking spots away from the front door of Michaels....now you will relate how sick I was.....I couldn't go in...I turned the heat on HIGH and reclined the seat and fell asleep for 1 hour while they were shopping. It felt good but when I woke up I felt worse than before I went to sleep.

Back to the HOJO - room 250.....slept some more, woke up tried to communicate with my family who were both watching movies, back to sleep, wake up they are watching scary movies - great now Angelo will have nightmares but if he wants to watch it then go for it.

I determined that the walls are like paper at HOJO as the next group to stay in 248 you could hear what they were saying too and the lady who was in there had the most irritating laugh.....Again, I wanted to go next door and tell her to shut up but I didn't......I knew this was part because of me being ill and tired and wanting to sleep - you know "CRANKINESS" at its best!

Sunday we touched base with our friends one more time for breakfast - I told them I wasn't feeling well but they insisted on going to Denny's.....I did eat breakfast but still felt punk. I thought I could be on the upswing after I had ate and after leaving there decided to tackle Fred Meyer in Coeur d'Alene - someone needed new UNDEROOS (not me either) and so we wanted to go there because they carry the proper brand....... By the time we left there I was shot. Joe ended up driving the entire way home which rarely happens as he gets tired and it was foggy and rainy and icky.....he didn't complain or anything about it - I mostly slept but did offer to drive at one point! I appreciate that from him - he actually realized how sick I felt.

Yesterday I worked all day with one ear plugged from whatever I had going on. I had called my doctor in the morning but of course, they were booked....
I did get squeezed in as the last patient of the day at 5:15 - I have a double ear infection......not so good. The pain really hit when I had to go back up in to the Orchards to go home - by the time I got home the change in altitude had caused severe pain and my head was throbbing - I was sobbing it hurt so bad - I feel for kids when they have an ear infection. That was bad and I am hesitant to even think about going downtown now.....

So the moral of the story is I got antibiotics and today I may feel a smidge better but I am definitely not the best.

This is how it is on November 11, 2008.....sucky for me personally!

But I do want to THANK ALL VETERANS OUT THERE FOR ALL THEY GIVE and HAVE GIVEN IN THE PAST!