Saturday, February 23, 2008

saturday funnies!

I think we need some extra funnies this lovely Saturday morning.

Long week at school = not funny
1 panic attack = not funny
A messy room = not funny
Freezing cold weather = not funny
Spending Thursday night in the ER shivering and vomiting my guts out = not funny

Catch my drift? I'm just now getting over a really bad case of the flu - even though I I did receive my flu shot, thank you very much. But apparently this year, they didn't get the strains right so I hear this is pretty common. Trust me, you all better get the flu shot next year because this alone makes me want to vow never to miss a flu shot again. If I was this close to death with a flu shot, can you even imagine not getting one in the first place? No thanks. K, there's my little rant of the day. Bring on the funnies!

And in honor of the Wii that has been gracing our home for over a week or two now...

Yeah, Jonathan found out Best Buy had Wiis in stock, so following in PS2 tradition, everyone in the family ran up there and bought one so we could get one for ourselves and sell the rest on eBay to pay for ours and hopefully make a little extra, too. So this past week has been filled with eBay and Madden and Guitar Hero and all things Wii. But I guess that's better than last week - I think everyone in the family was suffering from "Wii-ritis" as Jonathan calls it... well, except for me. I haven't played on the Wii yet. Too busy.

Didn't really do too much this past week, just lots of homework, American Idol (I seriously vowed not to watch this season, but seriously... one episode and you're hooked. Bad. Very very bad) and little annoying errands. And Hales got a haircut - she look sooo cute! That was Thursday morning, and probably around 3 or 4 I started getting this really huge, strong pressure in my stomach so I took a phenergan thinking I could just sleep it off, but when I woke up and immediately started vomiting, I had a feeling this was more than my usual nausea. I threw up until nothing was even left in my stomach, I was crying in pain, and I was so weak I couldn't even stand. With my other health concerns, we decided I'd be best in the ER, so off we went. Sure enough, just a bad case of the stomach flu. Nothing 2L of saline, a bunch of bentyl and some other drugs, and a nice nurse who looked like Reese Witherspoon couldnt fix. :) I'm not near par yet, but at least I'm not puking my guts out. I never throw up ever, and now I know why I am thankful for that. In the past probably 11 years, I've only had one vomiting incident and that was when I was choking (long story). So here's to hoping for another 11 years like that, right? GET YOUR FLU SHOT NEXT YEAR!!!!