tick tock

i actually managed to take it easy this weekend. it was very hard, but i made it.

friday after lunch, i had started to get a headache and was feeling pretty weary, and ended up leaving work early. i headed home and did my cleaning. after dinner, my head continued to get worse, so i took a tylenol and a warm bath. my head felt better for about an hour, but then continued to get worse. after watching a little tv, i decided to take a benedryl and head to bed, thinking it was my sinuses (which have been bothering me a little lately). well, my head continued to get worse and worse, and i felt nauseous and just horrible. i ended up being up all night sick. bryan and i decided it was probably food poisoning. i had eaten lunch at the cafeteria in my building, so it was probably the salad dressing. luckily (ha!) the most common type of food poisoning is botulism, which is too big to be passed on to the baby. so he probably didn't have such a hellish night, just a bit noisy. i felt like i wasn't going to make it, but bryan was super sweet and took care of me all night. once i finally got it out of my system i immediately began to feel better.

saturday morning, i had a bit of a lingering headache, but staying in bed until 10am helped ease that some! we did wake up earlier, and i got up a few times to shower and start laundry BUT! we didn't officially get up until 10. we laid around and watched some tv until i couldn't just lay around anymore. we headed to target to exchange a baby toy, which ended up taking pretty much all morning. the first target we went to didn't have any items to exchange it with (that worked), and the lady had already rung through the exchange. so she had to cancel it out so we could take the item to another target to exchange it. since it had been bought of our gift registry, it made more sense to exchange rather than return it since they don't always give you 100% of the price because they can't see the price on the registry/gift receipt. so we headed on to the second target, where they did have a valid exchange. however, when the clerk tried to ring through the exchange, the system wouldn't let her, telling her the item had already been exchanged. so she had to call their main line to get a code to let her do it. after nearly 15 minutes being on and off hold with what must have been the slowest foreign call rep ever, who couldn't see to understand the problem, the rep told her "thanks for calling target, have a nice day" and hung up on her, having done nothing. the clerk was like WTF. she called back and got someone smart and had it taken care of in a heartbeat. it was slightly amusing. the clerk was very apologetic, and gave us some target coupons. all in all, it was worth it - i get $6 off my next target purchase! ;)

i spent the rest of the day saturday watching tv, playing video games, and napping on the couch (it was a GREAT nap). and doing laundry, but that was easy. we went to mom and dad's for chili and cornbread for dinner, which was deeeeelicious.

sunday we decided to skip church in order to continue our resting. we didn't even leave the house, it was great. i watched the jane austen bookclub, which was really cute. i didn't get a chance to nap, since during my naptime it turned out to also be trick or treating in our neighborhood. it was a lot of fun seeing all the cute little kids dressed up. there were some really good costumes and some not so great ones. folded the laundry, had some dinner, played some video games, went to bed. it was pretty difficult being so lazy all weekend BUT it was very nice too.

no baby, though. we're still waiting on that. we keep telling him he can come whenever, but apparently he's heard my manager and is listening to her (who is sure he will either come late or never come at all... she is in denial and knows it). ;)