May 9, 2009

• Blue sky Saturday

  Hello all. It is just after noon here and we’ve been busy this morning! I sure hope this finds you doing well and less productive than us! Haha.

  Let’s see, I think I posted last on Wednesday… I made Tancy some baked chicken with Allegro and onions, I also opened a can (that’s right, you read that right) of spinach. The chicken was yummy if I do say so myself. I am not a fan of the spinach, but there’s this one brand that comes all seasoned and such and Tancy really likes it. Anyway, she was up fairly early, I guess around 1:00 or so. She ate and we got caught up on the events since we had a chance to talk last. Before long it was time for her to start getting ready and head out for work.
  After she left for work I bummed around the house. Did some dishes and some laundry, nothing terribly exciting. I posted a blog for you all about the important women in my life. Before I knew it, it was 10:00 and I was still in the living room, uncommon for me on a night that she’s at work, I typically retire to the bedroom early if I am home. So I headed to the back and got a bath and then settled in to bed for the night. Fairly uneventful and definitely nothing exciting!

  Thursday morning was the usual. Let the dogs out, make coffee, feed the dogs, fix my cup of coffee and try to be quiet so Tancy can sleep. I decided to fry some potatoes with onions and do a breakfast burrito type thing. So I started getting all that going. Before long Tancy was up and I made her a cup of coffee. We ate till we were full and then both got baths. We got fairly caught up, as we do between her waking and heading off to work, while we got ready. She had work, I had my Infant CPR class. I was looking forward to it. Before hand I was going to stop by a friends house to make plans for Friday night. So I left the house when Tancy left.
  I didn’t stay long at the friends house, she was mowing grass and I didn’t want to keep her from it. I got to the CPR class, at the hospital, a bit early, but not too bad. It was a good class. The instructor was humorous and informative at the same time. She gave us all the information we needed without scaring us worse than we were before we got there. I was pleased that I decided to take the class. It was over around 9:00, right on schedule, and I got a shake at Cookout! From there I came directly home. I piddled around in the house, took care of the clothes that I hadn’t finished earlier and got in my jammies and ready for bed. For the first night since Tancy went back to night shift, and possibly since she’s been on nights period, definitely for the first time in the third trimester, I slept well. I woke up twice, that was it! I was asleep by midnight, which sounds late, but given how late I have been up… and what all I got done before going to bed (after getting home at about 10:00) it really isn’t that late. And I slept so well. I think I slept till about 8:30. So a full nights sleep. Yay me!

  Friday morning I got up with the puppies. As soon as my feet hit the floor I was in pain. First thing I noticed what the tightness and tenderness in my belly low. I had to brace myself on the bed and catch my breath. This woke Tancy up “what’s wrong?!”. I told her nothing that my belly was just sore, round ligament pain I assumed. Once I caught my breath I went through the usual routine. I had to get Tancy up for around 11:00 and I really wanted to get some things done in the house before I got her up… but that didn’t happen. I hadn’t even gotten the water and the grounds in the coffee pot when my sciatic jumped up and bitch slapped me. My back was burning from the bottom of my right butt cheek, clear up my right side. Oh my, this is not good. I got my cup of coffee and parked it on the couch, trying to find a comfortable position… very elusive. And before long my lower back started to hurt. Like the way your lower back hurts when you are on your period, not like it hurts when you have pulled something. It seems like it was just a minute before it was time to wake Tancy up. I had talked to Mom on the phone, her and Dad were having a great time and that made me soo very happy. The both needed a break!
  Anyway, I headed in to get Tancy up and, poor thing, it took her a bit to rouse. The first day off of nights is always hard on her. I came back in the kitchen and made her a cup of coffee, before long she was in here sipping on it. I forget all the details of the morning but she got a bath and I got a shower and we were ready just in time to head out for her physical therapy.
  We got half way there and I was really wishing I had stayed home, I hurt so badly. I was trying not to limp or crip around, but man, it was really tough. Therapy went well, I got to sit, so it wasn’t too bad but I was sure ready to be home. It was after 2:00 when we got back home and we grabbed a quick bite… ok, I’ll admit it Tancy made me a sandwich, brought me a drink and got me a Tylox to take. She’s good to me. Before long it was time to head out, we had to stop by the bank on our way to dinner with Heather. The Tylox had taken the edge off (now ya’ll know how bad I must have been hurting to take that) but the pain was far from gone. We stopped by to see the “fish guy” for a bit cause we were too early to go to Heather’s. I couldn’t take the standing, so before long we left. We rode around Belmont a bit, just killing time, I was glad to be sitting again.
  By the time we got to Heather’s it had drastically reduced from an 8 to a 3. We left and went to this hole in the wall greek/italian restaraunt. It was yummy. Really, it hit the spot. We hung out there for a while, just cuttin’ up and laughing. Then we headed back to the house. We sat out on their back porch till dark. It was so nice out. This makes Tancy really, really, really want to cover our back deck. We had a great visit. Lots of laughs. I hope Heather enjoyed the company as much as we did. We were a fairly boring group, dinner and then the back porch, lol… but I just couldn’t do much else.
  We headed home around 9:00 and were both exhausted. We changed into jammers and crawled into bed. Tancy had been snoozing off and on during the drive home. We were up about 20 minutes once we got in bed. Tancy started to drift off to sleep, but Lillie was kicking and moving so much I was having trouble, that and my sinuses were draining and making that water dripping noise that makes me insane! Finally though I did get to sleep. I woke up around midnight to go to the bathroom. I made so much racket getting up and getting back in bed that I woke Tancy up. She thought something was wrong, nothing, just takes alot of work and is usually an uncomfortable feat to get out and back in bed and find a comfy position to fall back to sleep. Sorry honey. It certainly wasn’t a full, pleasant or sound nights sleep… but it was sleep.

  We were both up at 7:20, dogs cutting up and carrying on. Ugh! Tancy went through the paces this morning, coffee, dogs, fed, etc. I had a whole cup of coffee and could not keep my eyes open, so by 8:00 I went back to bed. I fell asleep fairly quickly, though lightly at first because the dogs wouldn’t settle down, then because Tancy came in to get dressed to go cut the grass. I was SOUND asleep when the mower passed our bedroom window and the dogs barked so loud I thought I’d shit the bed!! This made me grumpy. A warning would have been nice. I layed there till my heart settled back down into my chest, beating at a normal rate, and back in its proper location. I got up and let the puppies out and sat on the couch and tried not to be an asshole. Tancy was inside in just a minute or two, asking if I was crabby, I nodded yes and she didn’t ask anything more. She headed out to do the trim work with the push mower.
  Before long I got up and got dressed myself. I started cleaning the bathrooms. Then I moved on to the kitchen. By now Tancy was inside and she started on the floors. I was thankful for the help and to be getting less crabby. She finished the floor, I finished the kitchen. She took a break, I wiped down the mirrors, the trash can in the kitchen and got the laundry going. She caulked the tub in our bathroom and we have both decided to take a break.

  Now Heather and Adreanne are here. I need to move the clothes around and then visit with them some. So I’ll close this out for now. I hope you all have a great day today. The weather is gorgeous here. I hope it lasts all day!!

  Love to all!

  • 12:42 pm
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