It all started Thursday afternoon. You see, my friends Mr. Robot and Ms. Aaah got to drinking Wednesday night at trivia and their relationship and alcohol just don't mix. It is toxic! They get into their customary drinking fight and I heard it was an all-nighter. As in Ms. Aaah showing up at his house at 3am still going on about it. Thursday afternoon she decides that I am the only person she can trust to talk to about their problems. For one thing, I am on Mr. R side. I've known him for way longer, he's like a son to me, my loyalties lie with him. How uncomfortable would it be to have Ms. A telling me all their nitty gritty stuff? What if I give her advise and she goes back to him and says "well wissa says blah blah blah" which she has done before? Besides I have my own life and am tired and pregnant and just don't have time for their pettiness. She was texting me all afternoon and my headache started, so yes I blame her. I knew I was going to say no, it is an akward position for me to be in. I have such a hard time saying no when people are asking for my help. I was really at odds! I want to help her because she is Mr. R's fiance, but I don't have the energy or patience, or loyalty to do it. Therefore, migraine time.
I tried going to the gym because everything I've read and even my doctor told me exercise helps migraines. I am here to tell you IT DOESN'T. When I was done at the gym my headache was 5.7 times worse and getting worser (more worse?). I even cried on my way home. I tried so hard to tough it out. I watched all our shows with Man-Meat and as soon as I laid down in bed it all kind of hit me how hard I was trying to block it out. No kidding, as soon as my head hit the pillow I started bawling. There was nothing I could do to stop it. Man-Meat got me ice packs and towels and tissues and made sure I was comfy. I took 2 tylenol and laid as still as possible. The ice packs worked wonders. My head was pounding so hard I could literally feel the wash cloth on my head moving. I could see the veins pulsing in my forhead worse then I have ever seen. I was eventually able to fall asleep.
When I woke in the morning I felt absolutely fine. However, but noon on Friday the headache was back. I went to lunch and felt like I could tough it out for the rest of the day. Fat chance! I ended up going home at about 3 and I can't believe I stayed at work for even that long! What was I thinking! Well I wasn't because thought it nearly impossible when you have a migraine. Pretty much sobbing and drooling is all I can manage. I went home and went straight to bed with my ice packs. I started to feel much better then fell asleep. When I woke up about an hour later the headache was back in full force. Damn! More the of same followed with the headache always lingering coming back in nasty waves then dwindling all weekend.
Fortunately by Sunday I was feeling ok. I did take 2 tylenol in the early afternoon. We had a huge superbowl party. I made hot wings, fried vegetables, guacomole, another avacado dip, onion dip, all the goodies. I fried the veggies with this new deep fryer we got on Sat. The one and only reason I wanted it was to make fried pickles. If you have never had the honor, you should seek our fried pickles at your local bar or pub and try them. They are amazing! And I LIKED THEM BEFORE I GOT PREGNANT, so it isn't a weird pregnancy thing. Seriously though, I know have a deep frying and will gladly make a batch for you if you want, or we can go to Henry's where I had them originally. The party went off well. Oh! I also made mini bagel dogs! They were a huge pain in the ass but they were so good I will make them again. Basically you make bagel dough and wrap it around a lil smokie. You have to boil the smokies for a couple minutes then back until golden brown. They are quite like the ones from the store, but they were still amazing. I made almost a whole package of smokies into bagel dogs and it took about an hour to roll them all up. It made one cookie sheet worth. Oh man they were good!
This is Mank's last week at works. Waaaaa!! They she's gone on Tuesday. I took Wednesday off to deal with it.
The good news is I feel great now! I still haven't had any morning sickness except for those few odds days around 6 weeks. The headaches are the worst things I've experiences besides being a moody bitch. Poor Man-Meat can't keep up! One minute I want to hug and cuddle, so he does, then I'm like don't touch me. It is very strange to be this uncomfortable in your own skin. I feel like it really doesn't belong to be anymore. It belongs to my little gummi bear and I'm just a house guest. I get this anxiety at night that I absolutely have to get into my jammies right now! If I am not in jammies I start to freak out and Man-Meats gets bitched at. It is the weirdest thing, kind of like my shower claustrophobia, I have "day clothes" claustrophobia. It even happens if I'm in work out clothes which are as close to jammies as clothes get. Twinkie will probably get a kick out of this section.
My gummi is the size of a walnut at 10 weeks. I was reading online that some woman are already in maternity clothes by now. I look and weigh exactly the same except my pants are oddly tighter. Maybe it is such a small change that I can't notice it. I guess if I really want to be critical my belly is a little bigger, but that's from bloat and the fact that I eat all day. I don't eat a lot, just a little but I do it all day long, but again, no weight gain. It is also nearly impossible to suck in my stomach or flex my abs. Try as I might it doesn't happen. I'm still going to the gym at least 3 times a week. I walk and do the eliptical. I can run a little bit, but get tired really fast and I have to warm up for 15 minutes of walking before I can even attempt to run. I do run though because it feels great , just not very much. I guess in a 45 min work out I run 15-20 minutes off and on depending on how I'm feeling. Thursday-headache night I only walked and comparitively slow to the speed I normal go, but that's because I felt like rat poo.
Oh! Speaking of rat poo!! We've had a mouse in our kitchen since this really cold snap in December. We have traps and sticky paper everywhere. We hadn't check the traps under the stove for a while so we pulled them out and this is what we found!
DOUBLE PRIZES!!!
And the fun doesn't stop there! Violet, our beagle dog-neice was hanging out on Sat. We were resting from the headaches. She got up and wandered into the kitchen. She loves food and is a compulsive water-drinking. If there is water in the bowl she has to drink it all. I thought she may have been getting up to check the status of the food and water bowl. A few seconds later there is a commotion in the kitchen!! I just up and there is Vi with a mouse cornered between the kitchen cabinets and the fridge. They are both motionless. I said to Man-Meat "Mouse! Floor! Kitchen!" Then told Violet to "get the mouse, get it." She snapped out of her trance and wandered casually away leaving the mouse behind. At this time Sister has gotten up and she sees the mouse and I tell her to "get the mouse." Her large bodies self rushed over there and stuck her nose right on it. It understandably tried to scurry under the fridge, but only made it half way and stopped. I put some winter gloves on and tried to get it, but got squimish and made Man-Meat do it. He pulled it out by it's conveniently long tail and held it up. It had blood on its back so Violet injured it in someway when she pounced it. Man-Meat flingged (flung??) it over the deck and to it's most certain death. The count is at 3 which only means there are more out there.
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Awesome post! I can't believe the dogs got a mouse! That's so funny! CK got a mouse. Mommie and I were walking to the tack shed and we heard this bang! I look in, and there's the Himsy with a mouse in his mouth!!! It was cute.
ReplyDeleteLove the day clothes claustrophobia, too, and the fact that I could figure out who Mr. Robot and Ms. Aaaah (though it should be Ahhhh! as in crying out screaming, right?) are.
Much love!