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worst. headache. ever.

It all started on Monday afternoon when I felt a headache coming on. So, I popped two Advil and went on my merry way. Later that night, the headache came back but kept moving from one side of my head to the other with no relief from Advil. The next morning I was a wreck and could barely get out of bed. I later threw up and I knew I was doomed for the day. I took the day off work and spent literally the whole day in bed. Any time I felt good enough to be upright, I tried to drink water and get a small bite to eat. Unfortunately, it would all come back up 30 minutes later. So I just stopped eating and drinking and that made my stomach feel better.

The next morning wasn’t any better so I made a 9:15 am appointment to see a doctor. I tried my best not to Google my symptoms since it would just make me think I had meningitis or something terrible. It took all my energy to get on the train and walk to the doctor’s office. I was in no condition to drive. He examined me and said I had a really deep sinus infection and needed antibiotics. He also saw pus in my nose (eeeew!) and I was very dehydrated. So, I took my prescription and headed home. Once I got off the train at home, I crossed the street and puked into a ziploc bag that I had in my bag. Gross. I looked like someone who had too much to drink the night before. Talk about walk of shame! The rest of the day was home in bed rolling around trying to find a position that made my head hurt less.  I tried to sip water as best as I could without throwing up. I made to the end of the day but then a huge one came on and Jes looked at me like I was dying as I was walking out of the bathroom.

Earlier in the afternoon, I walked my butt to Safeway to pick up my prescription. As I’m leaning on the counter trying to keep myself upright, the pharmacy tech said he couldn’t release it to me without a pharmacist present because I had never taken that medication before. It was 5:00 and the pharmacist wasn’t going to return until 5:30. I almost cried but just turned around and went home. Jes went to pick up the Rx later around 6:00 and there still wasn’t a pharmacist!! They finally let him sign a waiver and handed it to him. Why didn’t they offer ME a waiver?!

Anyway, it’s 5 am the next day and my headache is almost gone but the pain in my neck is still there. I have a heavy feeling in my stomach and I’m afraid to eat breakfast. My last full meal was Monday night. It’s now Thursday morning. Why am I not starving?! Thank goodness for ginger ale and saltine crackers. They have been my best friends for the last two days but even those have been puked up too. These antibiotics better get to work soon because life cannot be put on hold for me much longer.

Gross.

IMG_6173This afternoon started out our normal way.  I got off work at 4:30, picked up KK from school, and drove home.  Unfortunately, it all went downhill from there.  We were a minute away from home when KK had a waterfall of puke come out of her mouth and onto her chest and lap in the carseat.  She started to cry and I wanted to cry too.  Once we parked the car, I did what I could to get most of the puke off her and then we rushed upstairs for a bath.  After the bath, we had to go back down to the parking garage to clean up the mess.  It was so gross.  There was puke in all the buckles, all over the straps, and I couldn’t figure out how to unlatch the carseat from the backseat!  Being in the garage, I didn’t have much light and I also had a 3-year-old that I had to keep from getting run over by the cars that were entering the garage every 2 minutes.  She was also constantly asking me, “what’s wrong?” and “what are you doing?”  Super stressful.

So, I decided to clean it all up using the paper towels and wipes that I had in the trunk just for this purpose.  The worst of it all was the smell and my lower back was getting sore from all the crouching I had to do with my gigantic belly weighing me down.  I did my best to get all the puke out of the seat and all the cracks but the seat would have to stay in the car until the weekend when Jes returns.  The last time we had to wash the carseat, it took longer than overnight for the fabric to dry completely.  So, we’re just going to have to suck it up for the rest of the week and hope that the car doesn’t become permanently stinky.

IMG_6174Once that was all done, we went back upstairs to regroup.  As I was resting on the sofa, KK comes out of the bedroom and says “Jack jumped out of the fish tank.”  I asked her again and she said “he’s on the table”.  I went over to check and sure enough, he was on the dresser and dead.  Look how far he got from the cube tank he was living in!!  This fish has been trying to commit suicide all week!  I had just rescued him on Sunday afternoon when I found him stuck between the tank glass and the heater.  So, I picked him up with a wad of toilet paper (eew) and Jack joined Jill in the toilet this evening.

I’m glad nothing else happened this evening.  Time to go to bed.  I’m sensory overloaded for the day.

Sunday

IMG_6486 Sunday started out kinda slow.  We were about to leave for the California Academy of Sciences when the tire pressure in our car had gone down again.  We went straight to Costco to have them take a look.  IMG_6535While we waited, we had lunch at SOMA StrEats again I had a scrumptious spicy chicken and pineapple sammich with a rice cake “bun”.  When our service was done, the guy said that our replacement rim is cracked already!!!  Seriously?!  Jes convinced the manage to let us have the wheel put back on so that we could drive it home.  Initially they said it was unsafe to drive and that we’d need to have it towed to a shop.  So, we drove very slowly back to home and regrouped.

IMG_6504Shortly after, we packed up again and took Muni to the Academy.  The ride was actually pretty quick and we didn’t have to bother with driving in traffic and parking.  We had some good family time taking Kumquat around to all the exhibits and watching her discover new things about the aquarium and rainforest.

IMG_8768After the museum closed, we hopped back on the train and went straight to dinner at Hillstone.  We got off N-Judah at Embarcadero and then caught the F-line.  That’s when things got a little interesting.  As soon as the trolley stopped and opened its doors, I was carrying Kumquat and about to board when this large crazy lady cut me off.  I let her go ahead but then she stalled at the steps to enter the car on the right side of the door. So, Jes went up the left side with the stroller as I waited.  He accidentally nipped her in the hip with the stroller and said sorry but apparently she didn’t hear him.  She was taking too long so I followed him on the left side and as I was in the middle of saying sorry to her too when she straight up elbowed me in the face.  She totally did it on purpose!!  I yelled, “OW! I said SORRY!”  Then she turned around to me and said “I didn’t see nothing. All I know is that that guy hit me with the stroller.”  Before we could do anything else, she stormed to the front of the trolley.  I swear, if she had hurt Kumquat I would have gone Mama Bear on her and pushed her off the steps and thrown her back into the street.  The people that boarded behind me said to me “That was messed up!  You ok?”  Luckily, all I had was a little tingle on the cheek and a huge adrenaline rush.  That lady was crazy.

IMG_6528Dinner, on the other hand, was delightful.  I got some yummy ribs and coleslaw that I shared with Kumquat and Jes got his ribeye.

IMG_6526Kumquat and I also took a couple selfies as we were waiting for the check.  IMG_6531 IMG_6532 IMG_6534

Parenting Dilemma

DSC_3680-2We went to Reese’s 3rd birthday party today and Kumquat and I had a little drama.  Kumquat’s favorite toy of the day was this shopping cart. She had such a good time pushing and pulling it back and forth in the front yard.  That was until an older girl came by and tried to take it from her.  They struggled for a bit and Janie really held her own but eventually the older girl won and Janie was left in tears.  I tried my best to mediate but the girl won because 1) The older girl is bigger and stronger, 2) I didn’t want to cause any drama with Michelle and Ryan’s new friends and 3) I don’t really know what the rules of sharing are anymore.  Kumquat was playing with it for a while so is this one of those situations when she’s supposed to let others play with it too?  All I know is that I now had a distraught little girl in my lap because someone had interrupted a perfectly good activity that she was thoroughly enjoying.  Honestly, I wanted to cry too.

DSC_3687Well, of course the girl played with it for only a few minutes and abandoned it in the play room.  Kumquat found it again and was so happy to have it back.  Not even a minute later, the same girl came by and took it from her again!!!!  Kumquat cried and I didn’t know what I should have done.  Do I yell at the girl to stop bullying a much younger girl who has no idea what “sharing” means?  Do I stand by and watch the bullying happen?  Do I allow Kumquat to fend for herself with the risk of someone getting physically hurt?  I could see the fight in Kumquat’s face and she was ready to throw down!  Alas, I wimped out and allowed the girl to take the shopping cart once again as I consoled my daughter with a red guitar, which seemed to help distract her for the moment.  I just kept telling her (and myself) that they would be going home soon and then Janie would have the shopping cart all to herself for the rest of the evening.  I was also putting on my mental to-do list to go online tonight to order Janie her very own shopping cart from Amazon.

IMG_5783So, as I had promised, the girl finally went home and Janie had the shopping cart all to herself and went about her merry way.  She had her balloon, fairy wings, and the shopping cart for hours to pushing, pulling, and playing without the threat of a bully taking it all away from her again.

Kumquat saved the day!

This has been an unusually stressful week in our house.  It started when Kumquat caught a cold over the weekend and we just felt crummy that our little one had to sleep with a stuffy nose.  Then on Tuesday morning, I got a text from Jes saying that the dog had puked a huge amount after I left.

That same day, I got a warning light on the dashboard saying that I had low tire pressure and this was on top of the service light that we had on for the past month.  So, this morning I had to leave my sick baby and sick car at home and take BART into work.  It’s usually not so bad but I was running late and I HATE being late to work.

As if the day couldn’t get any worse, I got a text and photo from our nanny about a water leak coming from our kitchen lights in the ceiling.  What the heck?!  So I texted Jes and he called the building engineer who took care of it.

I was so frazzled by the end of the day that I made myself walk home from the BART station to work off my frustrations.  By the time I got home, I was ready to hang out with my baby girl and we went for a long walk with Koa before her last feeding.  Then, as I was about to say “good riddance” to the day, Kumquat decided to save the day by rolling for the first time!  Ah…what a great day after all.  You can just hear the excitement in my voice in the video.  I guess I needed SOMETHING to make me feel better and this did the trick.

Click here if you can’t see the video above.

Forgetful, not irresponsible.

Elephant Keychain

For the past 2 days I’ve been scouring my brain, my house, my car, and everything else I’ve touched over the last 64 hours. On Tuesday morning as I was heading out for work, I couldn’t find my house keys. I swore that I had them the night before but didn’t have the time to really search as I was hurrying to catch the train.

Yesterday I still didn’t have my keys and had to sit outside of Jes’ office building for an hour as he finished one of his meetings.   I sent him a text message saying “I’m downstairs” but didn’t really know if he had received it.   He finally came down to hand me the keys and that hour of waiting certainly felt like an eternity.   I would suck at being homeless.

I gave myself one more crazy search tonight and went through the trash, the dirty laundry, all the bags I had used within the past two days, and the coats and jackets that I had worn. Nothing. Finally, I had an epiphany. As I was going through the coat closet for the 3rd time, I remembered that I put on my snowboarding jacket on Tuesday morning to walk the dog in the rain. As I was heading out, Jes offered to walk the dog and I gladly hung up my jacket and went to work instead. THAT was the moment when I couldn’t find my keys!!!! I had put the keys in the pocket of the jacket (that I haven’t worn in months) and forgot to take them back out in all the excitement of not having to fight the wind and rain at 6:30 in the morning!!! So when I reached into one of the many jacket pockets and felt the squishy elephant keychain, I thought my heart was going to leap out of my throat and I yelled, “I FOUND IT!!!!!”  Aaaaah…I had the biggest sigh of relief of my life.  I was also confused as to why I didn’t find them the first time or second time I went through the closet.  Oh dear.  Perhaps my brain was trying to make me suffer a little so that I wouldn’t do this again.  I was SO close to calling it quits and Jes was dreading the pain of forking over a bunch of money to get our locks changed.

I really hate myself sometimes.