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..at least this year we have functioning heat and hot water.
It's been an extremely tiring and trying few days. After 2.5 days of cleaning, a new bookshelf, grocery shopping, and a few suppressed explosions, Cat and Nicky arrived in time to help us finish up preparations for our week early Thanksgiving dinner. By the time Ryan's family showed up I was almost our of order, and I hadn't been out of my pajamas in almost 48 hours, so I showered while every one ate and found myself a place to sit. Everyone seemed pleased, and the night rolled on as well as it possibly could have. I finally got to take in a little dinner around 8pm, after I'd gotten notice that I'd been adjusted to work at 430am the next day. By then I'd been stumbling into walls and screwing up pies for hours. This was NOT going to happen. Most of the crowd filed out, and a few of us started a round of poker while we drained a large bottle of Jameson. As soon as we started to set up the mattress for Cat I lost use of my legs and began to spin inside my head. I got upstairs just in time to throw up the plate of food I'd managed to keep down earlier in the night and stumble to bed. Not as bad a day as my whining makes it sound. It was great to see every body, and it really makes our place feel like a home when we can welcome into it those we consider family (minus a few faces). We want all of our close people to know they are always welcome here.
Yesterday we went to the Please Touch with Nicky. I did my best to stay upright for the short time we were there, and Ryan kept me on my feet when I couldn't do it on my own. We wandered around playing in the Alice in Wonderland maze, rode the carousel, then headed to Olive Garden for soup, salad, and breadsticks before coming home for a nap. The game of the night was Munchkin, which I'm terrible at, but it was still a good time with friends and some wine to send me to bed in MUCH better shape than I was in the night before.
This morning was a little rough, but we made it. I got Cat and Nicky to the airport and wandered around Center City before heading home where I've been thrust back into the reality of sickness without distraction and bills we can't pay. I miss them already. It reminds me of when they left Philly. I still feel a little out of sorts, but I should be in ok shape for work tomorrow and Wicca 101 on Saturday. Still, there's a loneliness in the house being suddenly empty. The money situation is really starting to run us both down, and we're so close to breaking even...it just never happens. I need a nap. I need a hug.
I need.....something.
It's been an extremely tiring and trying few days. After 2.5 days of cleaning, a new bookshelf, grocery shopping, and a few suppressed explosions, Cat and Nicky arrived in time to help us finish up preparations for our week early Thanksgiving dinner. By the time Ryan's family showed up I was almost our of order, and I hadn't been out of my pajamas in almost 48 hours, so I showered while every one ate and found myself a place to sit. Everyone seemed pleased, and the night rolled on as well as it possibly could have. I finally got to take in a little dinner around 8pm, after I'd gotten notice that I'd been adjusted to work at 430am the next day. By then I'd been stumbling into walls and screwing up pies for hours. This was NOT going to happen. Most of the crowd filed out, and a few of us started a round of poker while we drained a large bottle of Jameson. As soon as we started to set up the mattress for Cat I lost use of my legs and began to spin inside my head. I got upstairs just in time to throw up the plate of food I'd managed to keep down earlier in the night and stumble to bed. Not as bad a day as my whining makes it sound. It was great to see every body, and it really makes our place feel like a home when we can welcome into it those we consider family (minus a few faces). We want all of our close people to know they are always welcome here.
Yesterday we went to the Please Touch with Nicky. I did my best to stay upright for the short time we were there, and Ryan kept me on my feet when I couldn't do it on my own. We wandered around playing in the Alice in Wonderland maze, rode the carousel, then headed to Olive Garden for soup, salad, and breadsticks before coming home for a nap. The game of the night was Munchkin, which I'm terrible at, but it was still a good time with friends and some wine to send me to bed in MUCH better shape than I was in the night before.
This morning was a little rough, but we made it. I got Cat and Nicky to the airport and wandered around Center City before heading home where I've been thrust back into the reality of sickness without distraction and bills we can't pay. I miss them already. It reminds me of when they left Philly. I still feel a little out of sorts, but I should be in ok shape for work tomorrow and Wicca 101 on Saturday. Still, there's a loneliness in the house being suddenly empty. The money situation is really starting to run us both down, and we're so close to breaking even...it just never happens. I need a nap. I need a hug.
I need.....something.