Weekend (Severe) Highs and Lows

The highs and lows this weekend were pretty extreme. I’m really hoping this next week is calmer, more even keeled.

Friday

HIGHS:

I got my Spanish 1B tests graded. This was a massive accomplishment and it allowed me to put down a big weight I had been carrying. I was really excited to get them done.

I got them done because I didn’t need to take my son to the dojo (he had been sick at home that day) and because my husband was covering with the kids upstairs. Then my husband and I started the new season of True Detective Night Country and loved it. I can’t wait to keep watching.

LOWS: I had to work until 8:30pm on Friday night to get those tests graded. Not the best way to start the weekend, but I was glad to be done with them.

Saturday

HIGH:

My son was feeling a lot better, and my knee was feeling a lot better, so I asked my friends if they still wanted to come over Saturday night. I had actually asked them a lot earlier, and then cancelled because of my knee, but then reinvited them, but then cancelled again because of my son. But then Saturday morning he seemed so much better and no one else seemed sick so I asked if they still wanted to come, warning them that I couldn’t be sure the stomach bug wasn’t still circulating. They decided to come and they brought their daughters and we had a great time. It was so good to see them all. I haven’t hung out with them since our trip to Grass Valley for New Years, so it’s been way too long.

Before they came over my son, daughter and I went to the mall to run a few errands. We got my daughter a strapless bra for a dress my mom gave her to wear at her Black and White dance later this month. They were having a Buy 2, Get 1 Free sale so we grabbed two other bras. Then a woman at the cashier next to me handed me a $20 coupon she couldn’t use, which helped a lot. Plus my daughter got to pick out a free lotion. I cannot abide scented lotions, so I never get them and my daughter was very pleased indeed.

At Target I was loath to restock tequila for hosting my friends, because I prefer to buy my tequila at Costco and I knew it would cost way more at Target. How could I let myself run out of tequila?! But then at Target my preferred brand (Cazadores, nothing fancy) was on clearance so the giant bottle that is twice as big as what they sell at Costco actually cost less. I was so stoked! I bought two giant bottles because why not?

We found everything else we wanted at Target (in the right sizes!) and just generally had a good time with each other. It’s rare for my kids to get along that well with each other, and me, on a trip like that so we all declared it, “A W!” (as the young people say). It was nice to have such a fun experience with them.

LOWS:

About five hours after everyone left on Saturday evening my daughter projectile vomited all over the bathroom. The toilet lid was down so none of it got where it needed to go. Then she used the sink, which got clogged, so at 2:30am I was cleaning copious amounts of throw up AND taking the U-pipe out of the bathroom sink to declog it (but not after I used the sink plunger, which filled the sink with a horrible black sludge.) It was a really shitty way to spend such early morning hours. It was really, really rough.

{A silver lining was that clearing the bathroom sink ended up being really easy once I got the U-pipe off. Sometimes it can take a full hour for me to declog it, but this time it was super fast. I really appreciated that.}

Sunday

HIGHS:

Sunday I had book club. I wasn’t sure if I should go with my daughter going down with the sickness, but I felt fine and asked them all and they said I should come, so I did. It was really nice to see them, and have adult conversations about all kinds of things, especially the book we read, There There by Tommy Orange. It was an amazing book, and now I really want to read his latest book which just came out and is evidently a kind of prequel and sequel of one of the stories in There There.

My son and I put up these wall mounts to display his mini-funko pops. We’ve been waiting for them for several months (long, boring story), so it was nice to finally do it! And they look great!

Also, the cargo carrier came, along with the hitch adapter. I was really unsure if the hitch adapter would fit, but it does – perfectly! – and I’m relieved because the hitch on our car is kind of weirdly placed and I was worried that if this adapter didn’t fit, nothing else would either.

My son and I did some martial arts work together, which I appreciated because we always say we’re going to but we rarely actually do it. We practiced bars and weaves and started learning his new form. My knee is feeling a lot better, so I was able to do most of it, just without such low stances. I have my appointment today and I still plan to go to it, so I’ll be able to ask her what I can and can’t do (or should and shouldn’t do) moving forward.

LOWS:

Around 7pm I started feeling queasy and by 8:00pm I was in the bathroom feeling absolutely awful. A couple of those hours were just a nightmare, especially since I still can’t kneel on my knee. I haven’t been that sick in a long time. But by 11pm I was feeling much better and was able to leave the bathroom rug for my bed. I never got sick again all night, and while I didn’t sleep great, I never felt horrible again.

This morning a friend texted to say she had it. She was at my house on Saturday and at book club on Sunday. I really hope we didn’t get anyone else sick. I would feel awful, even if people did know what was up and either came to my house or told me to join Book Club. I shouldn’t have had people over and I shouldn’t have met with other people. I know how contagious stomach bugs like that can be. I just really hope my one friend is the only one who has to suffer like we did. And I hate that she does have to suffer! She seems to have it worse than any of us did. We were all bad for about 3-4 hours and then felt relatively okay for another 12-16 hours. I actually feel “fine” today. I’m not 100%, but I don’t feel nauseous at all. I’ve even eaten Saltines and there were no adverse affects. But my friend got sick around 5am and still feels horrible. Blerg. I feel so bad.