Still f’in sick

Yep still sick, as a matter of fact I feel worse.  Bad enough that I am once again home from work.  Starting Saturday night I started feeling really tired and worn out and it worsened yesterday.  I am concerned because all along we have figured I caught the flu from Alison’s mom when we were in PA and she since has been diagnosed with mono.  Wouldn’t that be a kick in the ass?  Well I have a doctor’s appointment today at 3 to hopefully at least figure out what has been leaving me so weak and tired for the almost two full weeks.

My birthday weekend was good otherwise.  For most of the weekend it was overcast, dreary with off and on rain, appropriate for my feelings about turning 39.  And in a way I was glad for the rain because it meant I didn’t have to water stuff outside at least.  I have had my birthday present from Ali for a week or so, my 22 inch LCD which is awesome.  On Saturday night we went to Carrabba’s for dinner with my mom and friends of ours.  We were amazed when we got there and sat right down.  You just never sit right down at Carrabba’s once season has started on a Saturday night, but we did.  In a way I was bummed because I wanted to pound a few at the bar before we got started since they have the two for one happy hour.  Evidently while I parked the car, Alison and my mom slipped the word to the staff that it was my birthday so at the end of the meal I got all the waiters/waitresses singing happy birthday to me in Italian, something I specifically requested to not have done last year.  I didn’t mind, I had four beers in me so I just smiled and went along with it.  So now it is official, I am one year away from being REALLY old.

I started getting really, really tired Saturday night and crashed in bed.  Then Sunday came and I just felt wiped most of the day.  Ali had to go into work.  She has had a very bad string of luck with work.  The person that ran the kitchen quit a month or so ago and Ali is the emergency backup when there is noone around to run the kitchen.  So when this happens, she has to fulfill the responsibilities of two people which is very difficult.  To make things worse, they have hired two people to fill the job in that time period, both of whom Ali thought would be great.  The one never got past the drug test and the second one started and then quit less than a week later because her husband developed a serious medical condition.  So Ali has been left holding the bag, working lots of extra hours and piling on the stress which is never a good thing for her.

I did what I had to get done around the house and was playing WoW.  While I was playing, Nicki was giving me her normal, stare down mixed with copius amounts of dog whining, she wanted attention, so I thought.  So I take a break from WoW and lay down on the floor and try to wrestle with her.  She engages me a little bit but not very much, she keeps kind of running away from me as I am trying to grab her.  So as I am laying on the floor, she runs around behind the sofa.  I can still kind of see her between the sofa and the chair and I notice she looks very still…..  WTF.  I shoot up and see Nicki in her full out shitting posisition, dropping a nice pile of runny diarhea on the carpet. “NICKI WHAT THE F ARE YOU DOING??!!!” I scream.  She stops the stream as I scream for her to get outside.  I throw open the slider and hook her up and take her outside.  She drops a little more outside but clearly the motherload was released behind the sofa.  Oh my God I was pissed.  I could not believe that the dog took a shit right in front of me.

  Well I yelled at her some more and made her stay out on the lanai while I performed the disgusting task of cleaning up the puddle of dog shit. It was extremely nasty.  Something is defintiely up with her digestive system because she had diarhea the rest of the day (outside at least) and threw up some later in the day.  Ali is going to get her checked out today.  What a fiasco.

Wow what an Eagles game.  I totally expected them to lose, badly.  The game started out just as I expected.  The Giants marched right down the field and pushed around the Eagles defense.  But the Birds hung in there.  Jeff Garcia has established himself as a legitimate alternative to McNabb.  He wants to win very badly and that is something you want out of your QB.  The Birds had plenty of miscues throughout the game.  They had enough penalties for two games.  They made some dumb plays but they offset it with enough big plays to grind it out for a win.  The defense overall played better than they have in a month.  It was the most excited I got about a win since they beat the Cowboys earlier this year.  Now the game Christmas night against the Cowboys means something, a whole lot of something.  Amazingly, the Eagles can win the division if they win their last two games, something last week seemed to be a joke.  Now it is within reach.  Just when I thought I could put away my hope for this season, now I have dusted it off and put it back on my sleeve. Go Birds! 

Friday was the deadline I gave the van lady to shit or get off the pot.  Well Friday came and of course she did not call me back.  So I call up her cell number, the same number that I called the day before leaving yet another message.  The number is no longer in service….  This is a nightmare.  I have 500 dollars from these people for a month and a half but they won’t buy the van, it’s almost like they are holding it hostage.  Later in the night, I remembered I had a business card her boyfriend/significant other gave me for some kid talent business he runs.  I call that number, leave a message asking for an address to send the money back to and expressing my concern for how this is all going down.  Of course, I have received no call back.  Over the years I have had some really bad experiences when it comes to selling cars privately.  Those of you that know me personally may remember the name “Whitey”, he was a guy I thought I was going to sell one of my cars years ago to whom just happened to have just gotten out of prison.  Oh my, talk about fiascos……