Time sure flies!

Hello! I feel like I am apologizing all the time to you all. I am trying to be a good girl and update this regularly. Its been a crazy time around here. I got "Farmed" out to another organization this week and the hours there were nuts. Last weekend was a zoo. I decided that the best way to make friends in a new school.....er...I mean place is through their tummies. So I made cupcakes. I don't just mean a few, I went to wal-mart and bought several different types with frosting's to match. None of this chocolate or vanilla, no sir.....Lemon cake with Lemon Icing, Carrot cake with Cream Cheese frosting, & German Chocolate cake with pecan/coconut frosting. Yummmm. So I basically baked all day Sunday and watched some new DVD's I got from my favorite store! (BB). I just plain old forgot about writing the blog. Then on Monday I remembered but it was middle of the day, so I couldn't do it at work, then forgot when I got home. And then there was Tuesday. I went to work noticing that my neck was stiff and kind of achy, and I had a headache, so I took some Motrin for the headache and went to work, when the Motrin wore off (and the headache came back) I took more Motrin. I finally got home Tuesday night and stopped taking the Motrin to see what would happen....my temp shot up. With a temp of 103.5 I finally broke down and went back on the Motrin. Even with the Motrin in me my temp was 101 all night long. I felt awful. I called in sick to work on Wednesday (which couldn't have been worse timing). They described in detail what I had and what was going to happen next as many others have been afflicted with this awful virus. I was highly encouraged to go to the doctors due to many others having complications from this. So off I went to the new Doctors office down the street in our po-dunk town. I went there and I swear they thought I was either some wimp or some hypochondriac. All I got to see was the Nurse practitioner(all of 25 years old, mind you) who didn't sound to sure of what she was telling me. using words like "I think" and "well the usual aren't there so it must be...." were not all that encouraging. She said if it didn't change in a few days or if it got worse or moved somewhere else, let her know. Of course later that night, it settled into a sore throat (as my co-workers had warned me). Not just any....you know the ones where you seriously debate drooling all over yourself rather than inflict the pain of swallowing on yourself. (which, by the way, I did not do!). So the next morning I called in to work sick again (as nothing was better and the fever was still there) and went in for a strep test. Again, the crazy patient (that's me) was in. Strep test was negative. The advice I paid $200 for.....take ibuprofen and let it run its course. Thanks! So after another fun night or fevers, chills, throats, and aches, I still am not better today and am home trying to drink lots and eat (something). Which brings me to my next story for the week.

As I have said before, this town is quite small, right? We don't even have a grocery store. (NOTE: some of you may see where I am headed now). So when I found that in order to take 2 times the amount of Motrin I had been taking (as she told me to take more) I needed to have something in me (Milk or food). Now I wasn't prepared to be shut in for a week, nor was I planning on drinking so much (because food does not sound good at all). So on Thursday I finally ran out of Milk and knew I had to get more. So I had been told that the Gas station down the road has the "necessities" at a premium price of course. At this point I would have paid $5.00 for a gallon just so I don't have to drive 10 miles, park, walk another mile (its a wal-mart) and then go to the back of the store to get milk (I hate that, don't you ?). So into the gas station I go. With my luck still going strong , of course as I head that way (its only about 1 mile down the road) its just so happens that on this day the fire department is on the street collecting for the MDA telethon (the boot thing). And all of their equipment is parked in the gas station, which has traffic going every which way to get around it (and in some cases, avoiding the collection). I finally get into the station and park, walk in and head to the back (I think they take lessons from wal-mart), and realize that the only gallons they have are for 2% and whole. Ok, I am now a skim milk girl, so I can (on occasion) choke down 2% but not when I am not feeling well. I look in the milk case harder (hoping there might be one skim gallon hiding somewhere) behind are milk crates but I can't tell what kind is in them. So I ask the lady at the front if they have any gallons of skim in back, "no honey, we don't carry that in gallons". So I end up getting a quart (=1 big glass) for $1.80 which I didn't think was bad until I did the math.....$7.20 a gallon. Yikes. I just got one. That lasted all of one day. So today was the big adventure. I am still not feeling well, but am now out of Milk, dry cereal, and I've used all my Motrin for this as yet named virus. So I had to make the 10 mile trip to the next town over called Lacey. Its just down I-5 so it goes fast and its pretty. I managed to get myself out of bed, take a quick bath, and get ready. As I merge onto the Interstate I notice the traffic isn't moving. Yeah me....I'm stuck in a traffic jam with no way out having not eaten in days and no Motrin in me...I happy, how about you? What is normally about a 10 minute drive became a 20 minute drive because of an accident that happened hours earlier and the traffic is still backed up. Any way, I made it down and got my stuff (avoided wal-mart by going to Walgreen's), and headed back. Nice and easy. I am so happy I now have milk. Who would have thought something like milk would make me so happy!

Well, hopefully this will go away and I will live to have a better weekend (a holiday weekend no less). I hope all is well with everyone. Please drop me a line (post a comment) to let me know that someone is at least reading my ramblings. Hope you all have a safe and happy Labor Day weekend. Toodles for now!