Monday Afternoon Recollection

I'm such a nerd. Really I am. I chickened out last night at Chilis and never got my margarita. I got an unsweetened iced tea instead. Ok, but I wasn't the only one who "chickened out". My best friend C & my husband L got Diet Cokes. So there. LOL! Funny thing is that going to Chilis was the event of my weekend. Other than that, I didn't leave the house. I saw something a tad disturbing to me. Ok, I really shouldn't say anything because currently my husband & I do not have children. BUT, there was this couple behind us with this small child. He must have been 2yrs old. It was one of those moments when you see them sit down you do a mental eye roll because a toddler sitting behind us in a booth means to us...kicking the booth, crying, etc. Surprisingly, he was SO quiet we didn't know he was there. It was loud in there though with people talking & music playing on the speakers so we didn't see why the child was so quiet. He was watching cartoons on a portable DVD player. It pacified him. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Yeah it was awesome for us. But how was it for him. Needing that stimulation just to behave. What happened when we were kids and our Moms told us to sit there and behave. We ate our dinner & we listened. Those days are over.

We had a really good time with C and even went for ice cream afterwards. Yes, I said ice cream. We went to Dairy Queen and it was 35 degrees out. Hey, we had daylight savings time and to us, that meant having ice cream. I'll tell you that we weren't the only ones who had that bright idea. The place was packed. We stood in line for awhile and even encountered a little girl & her mother screaming over whether "Ashley wanted chocolate or colored sprinkles on her ice cream". Apparently Ashley didn't want to answer her mother & the whole place was affected by this decision. My decision was quite easy to make. If anyone has experienced a "Blizzard" at Dairy Queen you know what a delicacy it is. For those of you who don't know what a Blizzard is, it is a cup of ice cream with whatever you want mixed in. I chose Oreos & Peanut Butter sauce. Very tasty.

So after we froze our "butts" off eating ice cream in 35 degree weather, we rushed home because there was a program I wanted to see on at 10pm & we forgot to set the VCR. So I run into the house, turn on the TV...it was 9:59pm. Yes! Just made it. Then all of a sudden, another program comes on the right channel. Turns out the program I wanted to watch was on Saturday at 10pm not Sunday. Duh!! The good news is that they are re-airing it today at 1pm and L set the VCR for me. Phew! At least I had another option, unless the electricity goes out. LOL! Only I would worry about crap like that.

My sister is getting a tad better since her surgery. She has only been sleeping 1/2 to 1hr a night and here and there for 20mins at a time during the day. Her husband was going to call up the doctor and see if he can see her um, like now. She is post-op 5 days now & there is very, very little improvement. Plus today was the last day of her antibiotics. Hopefully I will find out more when I go to lunch at work when I speak with her. I hope there is good news. Here is hoping!

UPDATE about my sister (9:30pm): I spoke to my sister around 4:45pm this afternoon. She went to the specialist. He wanted to see her immediately. He thinks either her infection has not gotten better or the stent that he put in may have shifted. She is scheduled for a CAT scan on Friday to see which of the two it may be. Until then, he prescribed more percocets. I would rather he did the CAT scan right away but I don't have a medical degree...so my say doesn't count. So if it is the infection, he will give her more antibiotics (why he couldn't just give them to her now, I will never understand). If it is the stent, he will need to go back in & fix it. Ouch!