I got really bored towards the end
Jeremy was wondering why I wanted to take pictures
Because I'm number one!
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Wine Crawl!
Before the food poisoning set in, we had a really lovely time at the wine crawl!
Waiting outside The Matador-- first stop!
Pabst Blue Ribbon Doggie treats and others at Taj Mahound
Why yes, yes those ARE pot leaf shaped doggie treats. As if $2 for a dog treat weren't crazy enough!
Jeremy being goofy outside Steinbecks
The pointiest plant EVER outside the laundromat-- I backed in to it when we were talking to the Girl Scouts. OUCH!
Best Friends
Birthday Girl
Me and Vivi-- too bad I don't have anything to fix the red eye on this computer!
Violet blushing over her new outfit
Vivi on her big girl bike!
A better look at the adorable outfit Jeremy and I got her for her birthday!
This year's cake (without a small chunk thanks to Jeremy...)
Julian goofing around with the leftovers-- Juice Box Hero!
Just not nice!
I have a lot to update on, last week was crazy, but this is what's on my mind at the moment because it's just irritating me!
Our house is a quadraplex, which means there are four apartments in one house. Our neighbors to the right are the Oakhurst Baptist Recovery House (like a halfway house-- the residents don't own cars, but do have some office staff and visitors now and again), to the left of us are four more houses that are anywhere from duplexes to quadraplexes and NONE of us have off street parking. For the last week, some guy whose mother is visiting has been having her park square in front of our house instead of in the three car garage behind his. It's not unheard of for us to come home and walk halfway up the street from where we've had to park for cars that leave after two hours. I don't want to be un-neighborly, but I find that to be distinctly rude and is something that never would have happened in the neighborhood in which I grew up.
I decided to e-mail the Oakhurst neighborhood group just in case folks didn't realize that we don't have off street parking and that it's a major inconvenience for us, not to mention there are several side streets that are actually better for guests to park on because if you're not used to the traffic, it could be dangerous. Almost immediately, someone e-mails me directly asking if I feel like I'm entitled to a reserved parking spot on a public street!
I told him, nicely, that I was just asking for the same courtesy that I extend my neighbours-- when we have guests, they park in the lot that AT&T holds at the end of the street so as not to clog up the parking. The only people who park in front of houses are people with infants in carriers.
Two words: How Rude!
Am I wrong here? I'm not being rude, I'm not being demanding, and my e-mail was really just an FYI kind of thing. I live here, am I less entitled to park remotely near my home just because I rent? And does this guy realize that probably half the houses in Oakhurst are rentals? Yeah, it's probably not something I should get so bent out of shape about, but it just sends me through. the. roof. when people are rude about common courtesy sort of stuff!
Our house is a quadraplex, which means there are four apartments in one house. Our neighbors to the right are the Oakhurst Baptist Recovery House (like a halfway house-- the residents don't own cars, but do have some office staff and visitors now and again), to the left of us are four more houses that are anywhere from duplexes to quadraplexes and NONE of us have off street parking. For the last week, some guy whose mother is visiting has been having her park square in front of our house instead of in the three car garage behind his. It's not unheard of for us to come home and walk halfway up the street from where we've had to park for cars that leave after two hours. I don't want to be un-neighborly, but I find that to be distinctly rude and is something that never would have happened in the neighborhood in which I grew up.
I decided to e-mail the Oakhurst neighborhood group just in case folks didn't realize that we don't have off street parking and that it's a major inconvenience for us, not to mention there are several side streets that are actually better for guests to park on because if you're not used to the traffic, it could be dangerous. Almost immediately, someone e-mails me directly asking if I feel like I'm entitled to a reserved parking spot on a public street!
I told him, nicely, that I was just asking for the same courtesy that I extend my neighbours-- when we have guests, they park in the lot that AT&T holds at the end of the street so as not to clog up the parking. The only people who park in front of houses are people with infants in carriers.
Two words: How Rude!
Am I wrong here? I'm not being rude, I'm not being demanding, and my e-mail was really just an FYI kind of thing. I live here, am I less entitled to park remotely near my home just because I rent? And does this guy realize that probably half the houses in Oakhurst are rentals? Yeah, it's probably not something I should get so bent out of shape about, but it just sends me through. the. roof. when people are rude about common courtesy sort of stuff!
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Tamiflu is NOT awesome
Woke up this morning feeling like I was going to puke all over the place-- called the pharmacist and GUESS WHAT? Modern medicine for the win, Tamiflu makes a large percentage of people who take it feel like that! I feel like maybe my condition would have improved if I didn't feel so pukey, but at least I haven't lost it yet...
I'm sure the medical updates are peachy for y'all out there in blogland, but yeeeeesh.
I'm sure the medical updates are peachy for y'all out there in blogland, but yeeeeesh.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Death death death and flu
OK, so that implies way more death than actually happened-- there wasn't any death, just flu. But flu... well, you know, it kinda feels liked death!
I started feeling a little tired on Friday, but that's not unusual, a Friday night is generally low key for us because after a week with crazy kids... you gotta have a little rest! We had John and Paige over for macaroni and cheese-- used ziti and mozarella and parmesean, then added in shredded prosciutto. SO good! Our bacon m'n'c was delicious, but the prosciutto hit the nail on the head. We got them to play a little bit of Mario Kart, which was a BLAST, and played with my new Evo 4G and tried out John's mint juleps for Paige's 40th this weekend. (a vintage cocktail party-- sooo cute!)
Saturday we were both totally exhausted and I was having trouble breathing, so I started using my inhaler and stayed in bed to rest. My throat started to swell up, which is always worrisome, but I thought maybe staying hydrated would keep whatever it was at bay.
Round about midnight my opinion got changed real quick! I woke up and realized I'd been having fever dreams, but not having any acetaminophen I took some ibuprofen and tried to go back to bed. I slept feverishly for a while and moved out to the couch. By 1p, I was in tons of pain and couldn't breathe, couldn't even swallow, so we decided to head to the ER. John works at Emory and it's close by, and we happened to run in to them on our way out so he called ahead to make sure the wait wouldn't be too long.
When we got there, my heart rate was over 140, I was running a fever of 99.5 (I'm guessing I'd been running one of 99-101 since midnight Sat/Sun), and was completely dehydrated so they got me in and put me in a room pretty quickly. The nurses were really nice and hooked me up to 2L of fluids, got me some stuff to get my fever down and keep my throat from swelling any further. We did get stuck there for quite some time after my chest x-rays came back, but at least we were in a room with a TV and plenty of ginger ale!
I'm doing better today, no fevers since yesterday, and my heart rate has normalized, so now I just have to rest up so I can attempt to get back to work soon! The ER doc told me to stay out for an entire week-- that's one of the problems with being a program director, you can't take time off like that!
Aaanyway, that's the most excitement we've had since both getting a lovely case of food poisoning last weekend in the midst of the wine crawl... do NOT recommend that one! The old phrase about March comes to mind-- in like a lion, out like a lamb. I'm hoping that since health-wise we've been coming in like a lion, we'll have a blissfully relaxing end of the month!!
I started feeling a little tired on Friday, but that's not unusual, a Friday night is generally low key for us because after a week with crazy kids... you gotta have a little rest! We had John and Paige over for macaroni and cheese-- used ziti and mozarella and parmesean, then added in shredded prosciutto. SO good! Our bacon m'n'c was delicious, but the prosciutto hit the nail on the head. We got them to play a little bit of Mario Kart, which was a BLAST, and played with my new Evo 4G and tried out John's mint juleps for Paige's 40th this weekend. (a vintage cocktail party-- sooo cute!)
Saturday we were both totally exhausted and I was having trouble breathing, so I started using my inhaler and stayed in bed to rest. My throat started to swell up, which is always worrisome, but I thought maybe staying hydrated would keep whatever it was at bay.
Round about midnight my opinion got changed real quick! I woke up and realized I'd been having fever dreams, but not having any acetaminophen I took some ibuprofen and tried to go back to bed. I slept feverishly for a while and moved out to the couch. By 1p, I was in tons of pain and couldn't breathe, couldn't even swallow, so we decided to head to the ER. John works at Emory and it's close by, and we happened to run in to them on our way out so he called ahead to make sure the wait wouldn't be too long.
When we got there, my heart rate was over 140, I was running a fever of 99.5 (I'm guessing I'd been running one of 99-101 since midnight Sat/Sun), and was completely dehydrated so they got me in and put me in a room pretty quickly. The nurses were really nice and hooked me up to 2L of fluids, got me some stuff to get my fever down and keep my throat from swelling any further. We did get stuck there for quite some time after my chest x-rays came back, but at least we were in a room with a TV and plenty of ginger ale!
I'm doing better today, no fevers since yesterday, and my heart rate has normalized, so now I just have to rest up so I can attempt to get back to work soon! The ER doc told me to stay out for an entire week-- that's one of the problems with being a program director, you can't take time off like that!
Aaanyway, that's the most excitement we've had since both getting a lovely case of food poisoning last weekend in the midst of the wine crawl... do NOT recommend that one! The old phrase about March comes to mind-- in like a lion, out like a lamb. I'm hoping that since health-wise we've been coming in like a lion, we'll have a blissfully relaxing end of the month!!
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