Weekend update 5/20-22/11

So this was a pretty boring weekend overall really.  Friday night after getting home from work HDT and I had a long back and forth about what we would do for dinner and whether we'd be going over to his grandma's for dinner with her and his mom.  And also to go see a movie or not.  The only movie we'd be able to make after eating would be a late one and we were both pretty tired and just didn't feel like doing that.  And finally we decided we'd just hang out at home rather than going out anywhere.  So he texted his mom to let her know we were staying home.

So we just made some dinner and watched recorded shows that we've been behind on because of watching Doctor Who and Ally McBeal so much.  Since he had a dentist appointment at 9am the next day we went to bed at a decent hour.

When he left for his appointment in the morning I went to the grocery store and he made it home just before I did.  We were both starving so I threw a frozen pizza in the oven for our brunch and then watched one of the recorded Mentalist shows.  After it was done I asked him if he was ready to go do the shopping/returning of items he was wanting to do, he wasn't and wouldn't be any time soon.  So I decided to go out and mow the lawn. 

By the time I got to the back yard it started to misty rain but I figured since it's not such a big yard I decided to just continue on.  By the time I was half way through it started to actually rain but I continued on still.  At one point I had to ask HDT to come out and help me to empty the bagger into the bag.  I had used up all the garbage cans and now had to use bags.  The first one I used the first time dumping into it half of the grass fell out.  So with the second bag I decided to have his help. 

He ended up staying out with me while I finished up which was a good thing because we filled a few more bags.  The rain kept going between misty and actual rain so as the grass kept getting wetter and wetter it was obviously getting heavier and heavier.  It got to where I could only do two swipes before I had to empty the bagger.

After I was done mowing he got out the hose and hosed it all off and made it nice and clean for me.  Then he hosed and I swept off the concrete/deck like area.  After all that I was pretty well worn but took a shower since we had those plans to do the shopping. 

But he decided he didn't really want to go do any shopping/returning of items so we just ended up hanging out for the rest of the day/evening doing a bunch of nothing.  Oh wait, I had my dentist appointment at 3:00 so I did that.  That lasted just under an hour so I got home just after 4:00.  Then we did nothing much for the rest of the day.

Sunday I made us breakfast: eggs, bacon and biscuits.  After I let that settle for a bit I got on the elliptical for 15 minutes then did some weight lifting for a few reps then got back on the elliptical for another 25 minutes.

Hopped in the tub and after a little while he decided he wanted to finally go do the shopping/returning.  So I finished reading my chapter and then we got ready and headed out.  We returned his ear piece that just wouldn't sit quite right on his ear.  He also has been wanting to get another electric toothbrush so we looked at those.  We ended up going to three stores but couldn't find the one we wanted for the price we wanted. 

I was so worn out and hungry by the 3rd store that I put my throbbing foot down and said I couldn't go anywhere else.  Although we did end up going to Dairy Queen to pick up a couple blizzards and then to a local burger joint to pick up an order of fries (they're pretty damn good) and went home and heated up a couple burgers that I had cooked up on Saturday along with the left over bacon from the morning for dinner.

We again watched some recorded shows and then a couple Buffy's until it was time for bed.  So it was a good weekend for me for my workouts that I've been wanting to get back into (I include mowing the lawn as a workout) but a pretty typical boring one overall.  Although the eating of the food wasn't the best I didn't eat a lot so I believe I was still pretty much in the calorie range needed.

Media quote of the day:  From Dinosaurs - The Son Also Rises.  My goodness how I loved this show, we even bought the DVD's but haven't watched them yet.  Shame on us, we should do that soon.

I thought I told you to mow the lawn. - Earl Sinclair

I told you, the lawn mower is broken. - Robbie Sinclair
Scissors. Cut it with scissors. - Earl
Oh come on. - Robbie
Geez you kids have it too easy. When I was your age we didn't have lawn mowers, we didn't have scissors, we had to get down on all fours and graze like a cow. - Earl
Dad. - Robbie
Mooooo - Earl

My boring life

I feel like I could hurl right now. And it's not from my stomach but from my head. I am so fucking sick of my fucking head. And my left arm. Well, more precisely it's my left wrist but that makes my whole arm feel like it hurts, all the way up to my shoulder. But back to my head. This whole month has been a study in pain for the fucking thing. Today is bad enough that I actually should be home in bed but since I left early last Tuesday because of having a migraine and family issues there's no way in hell I'm leaving early today. I keep spacing out too which is not good.

And what's really bad is that I'm supposed to be keeping a diary of all these damn headaches and I haven't done it at all. Hell, since I haven't even been keeping up with this lately I can't even come on here to use this as a reference. But since I've had some form of a headache just about every single day it'll actually be pretty easy to tell the doc the next time I see him. The only thing I'll really have to do is figure out the days that I took an Imitrex. (EDIT: These two paragraphs were written on Wednesday the 28th)

So now it's Thursday and I still feel like shit. But today my stomach doesn't feel very well either. I'm just a walking crapfest this month. Sux big time!

So now it Friday and I still don't feel my best. But at least my stomach is back to normal. Actually that was fine by late yesterday afternoon.

This is how my weeks have been going. During the day I've been at work feeling like crap but making it through. I get home and just want to do nothing so that's what I've been doing. Our lives have been pretty damn boring lately. He's been working overtime and I've been feeling like shit so we've been doing a whole lot of nothing.

Hell, even the long weekend we didn't do much. Well not really. Saturday we went over to mow his grandma's lawn. Her whole lot is 3/4 acres. Her house & driveway takes up a small portion of it but the rest is lawn. I was going to start on the front with the push mower and he was going to start on the back with the riding mower. I had been working on the front for a good 20/30 minutes when he got a call from his grandma that she was ready to be picked up from his uncles house from Milwaukee. Since he was still trying to get the riding mower started and I was all hot and sweaty I told him to go ahead and go pick her up and I would continue mowing until they got back.

I took a break for about a half hour to eat a piece of chicken and drink a coke but then got right back out there. Yeah, 15 lawn bags and a couple hours later they finally showed up. I continued to mow and filled up two more lawn bags when HD said the last portion we should just mulch. I did two more swipes while he finished collecting the last of the bags and then he came and took over finishing the mowing for me. The worst part was it turns out the town she lives in doesn't even collect lawn clippings so there was no reason to even bag at all which what took so long to begin with. If could have just mulched I could've have cruised along. UGH!! Oh well, so be it.

Let me tell you I was exhausted. But really it was my feet hurting more than anything that was bothersome, mainly my toes. The next day my feet still hurt but my shoulders and neck were sore and I had a killer migraine. I ended up having to take an Imitrex to try to get rid of it but it didn't. I really should've taken another one but didn't.

Especially since Jim came over and we three went to see Indiana Jones and then Iron Man right after. I liked both movies. As far as Indiana went the story line was so so really but the acting was good. Harrison is still sexy as far as I'm concerned. And Shia is a real cutey pie and I think he'll do very well taking over the role. I really enjoyed Iron Man. I'm glad I know nothing about the comic book so I have no idea whether the movie did it justice or not. I'm just hoping Samuel L. Jackson does better in the sequel than he's been doing. Because the last few movies I've seen him he's been pretty flat.

Monday I had to take another Imitrex. Bad weather came through along with hormones coming in deciding to take their toll too.

So yeah, all the rest of the week was crap as you can see by the fact that I couldn't even finish an update.

Phew so that was last week and it's now Monday June 2nd. I think I'll just go ahead and post this sucker and do a whole other post for what I did on Saturday. But since I have to go mow the lawn and pay bills now it'll have to wait for another day.

Media quote of the day: You know, for an old man you ain't bad in a fight. What are you, like 80? - Mutt Williams - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Have you ever lost an hour of sleep your whole life? - Christine Everheart
I'd be prepared to lose a few with you. - Tony Start Iron Man