Saturday, November 25, 2006 , late at night

Well *that* was stupid

I felt so horrible last night.  I started with a headache earlier in the day and barely any appetite, but I forced myself to eat a little anyway.  Then I felt worse, my headache continued to throb, and I was nauseous.  I sort of blindly stumbled around the house trying to put the cats to bed, feed the foster kittens, give Eli her eye meds, etc., so I could fall into bed.  It was just before bed that I realized our schedule was so messed up that I’d neglected to take at least two different medications the previous night, and they’re both medications which can cause “withdrawal” symptoms if you try to quit them cold turkey.  By going 48 hours without them, my body had started to react in a “cold turkey” manner, and that was a big reason why I felt so horrible.  I tried to rectify the situation by taking all my meds (although I was worried I’d end up tossing my cookies *and* my pills), and I took 1mg of Ativan and went to bed.  That was great, for half an hour.  I woke up after 30 minutes and my body was a jumpy, jittery mess.  I was hot, I was cold, I was sweating, I was shivering, I thought I’d throw up, I had stomach cramps, yada yada yada!  I added another half mg of Ativan and tried to sleep, and finally at about 4am (3 and a half hours after I’d woken up) I took a final half mg of Ativan so I’d taken 2mg total.  That seemed to do the trick—I slept.  When I woke up, I mostly felt fine (Ativan causes a person to feel very fine), and although I’ve been bit drowsy today, I’ve also been relaxed and mellow.  I must stick to my medication schedule!  Someone needs to give me a pill dispenser equipped with a timer/alarm.

I feel rather dumb because when I posted my quick and brief blog entry last night I thought I was either dying a slow death or had a horrible case of food poisoning, and it turned out what happened was my own fault.  Well, mostly my own fault… the leftover steak that kept returning to haunt me and caused me to take Breath Asure and Maalox to make it go away didn’t help the situation at all.  Thanks for all the good wishes, and I promise to be more careful in the future (or at least, more aware).

A lot of the blame for my trials and tribulations must be placed squarely on the shoulders of Thanksgiving day and Black Friday.  On Wednesday ("Thanksgiving Eve"), Flippy and I went out for a nice dinner with her family.  We got dressed up, we drove down to the Strip, and we got home around 10pm.  Once home, I was caught up on my freelance work and finally had some time to myself, so I had fun playing online with our new cell phone (getting ringtones for it, wallpapers, learning its quirks, etc.).  It was so much fun to just goof around that I stayed up very late.  When I finally dropped into bed, I had to set the alarm to get up in time to put the turkey in the oven for “family dinner” on Thanksgiving day.  That meant I only had about six hours of sleep, had to stuff the turkey, cook the turkey, make gravy, and do all the things one needs to do to take a turkey to someone else’s house to eat.  We drove to Flippy’s parents house for Thanksgiving dinner and it was nice.  Here’s how the camera phone viewed my 18 lb. turkey:

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We got home from dinner around 11pm, and on a lark, decided to be one of the crazy 5am shoppers at Best Buy on “Black Friday”.  There was no point going to bed, so we just stayed up until we left the house around 4am.  We foolishly thought that maybe a few dozen people would show up at Best Buy for 5am bargains, but this is the scene that greeted us when we arrived at the shopping centre:

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The section of people you see lined up represents about 5% of the length of the entire line—it was unbelievable.  We’d hoped to maybe snap up one cheap laptop computer (18 per store), but knew it was pointless to even try when we saw the line.  We went to Starbucks (it was just opening) and got two peppermint mochas.  We then decided to try Circuit City, because it was closer to home, and there was no line outside the store.  There was, however, a huge line of 100+ people inside the store, waiting in the checkout line, and the shelves had been cleaned out.  There were people with shopping carts filled to overflowing with every gadget you can imagine—each cart must have contained a few thousand dollars worth of merchandise.  I can’t imagine any thought went into the purchases—people just got into the store and grabbed as much as their carts would hold.  I know this is correct, because today on eBay I see many of the sale items from Best Buy and Circuit City.  I don’t begrudge people the opportunity to earn a living, but seeing Black Friday up close and in person wasn’t very pleasant.  There was no “shopping fun”, just a lot of greed and selfishness, and we’ll never, ever leave the house for post-Thanksgiving Day shopping again.  We prefer to shop online, anyway, and this experience reinforced that fact.  Oh, we also thought of going to our local Target for one gift item for Flippy’s parents, but again, line out the door and wrapped around the entire building.  We eventually made it to McDonalds (where the TV was showing the news from Mexico, in Spanish—take that, Pahrump), bought breakfast, and came home to eat and read the newspaper.  We fell into bed around 8:30 in the morning, and got up around 3:30.  Here’s a photo of a Las Vegas sunrise for you… enjoy it, because I don’t even want to see that hour of the day again:

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So, we’ve really been hustling and bustling and running around and not sleeping (or medicating) properly over the last few days.  Today was just a nice, quiet day, and I hope tomorrow will be the same.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 11/25 at 11:00 PM
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