I have different things I want to blog about, since it's therapeutic, but it probably doesn't all belong together, so I'll try to space it out amongst different blogs.
I'm still bummed about the whole weight loss thing. I tried on my Sith Cheerleader costume again and BLEH! We are only a few weeks out from Dragon Con, so I don't think I'll be able to make any progress on that front.
We went to Alabama this past weekend. Doug's band Outlook Grim played a show in Decatur. A friend of ours was in town, and playing so it was almost like a little mini reunion of sorts. Mitch, our friend, was in the band Augustine's Chapel, while Doug was in iNdULgE ... and they used to play lots of shows together, and when not doing shows together everyone would always attend one anothers shows.
We went down Friday ... first Doug and I stopped by a McDonald's to meet up with my sister-in-law, and two of our nephews. It was a good visit. They'd grown SO much. They enjoyed the Christmas gifts we'd gotten them from last year.
After that, we headed to my moms house. Sigh. It's SO incredibly hard for me to see her. She has wasted away to practically nothing. Drugs and alcohol have NOT been kind to her. It's hard for me to be around her like that. AND, my uncle Kenny has moved in with her, so he was there. Missy, her baby Erik, and Lee needed a ride to my brother Randall's new place, so I gladly jumped at the chance to get out of there and take them. I told my mom I'd be back after I dropped them off.
I stayed at my brother's place for a bit. I started having anxiety attacks like WHOA even thinking about returning to my moms.
So, I did a bad thing. I didn't go back. She called me like a million times for the rest of the weekend, left TONS of messages that aimed to lay the guilt on thick. I called her early Monday, mostly because I knew she'd still be asleep, and left her a message. ugh.
Anyway, we went back to the hotel that my mother-in-law Janice, and sister-in-law Melissa (Sissy) had checked into for all of us. Janice and Sissy were in the pool when we pulled up, lol. We took our luggage up, and joined them. It was nice, and we had the pool all to ourselves until the very end.
The next day, Saturday, was the day of the show.
Our friends Traci and Tabby were coming down from Georgia to join in the festivities, and they brought us these AMAZING orange rolls from Cullman. It's always really awesome to see them. And they gave me the most AWESOME necklace for my birthday! A cameo with a black cat on top of a skull. Perfect, and SO me.
We kind of laid around a bit. I took a nap, since the previous day was SO exhausting. I hit up the Hancock Fabric Store and found a goldmine of fabric to make things for this years Christmas rush.
We got to the venue, Excalibur Vintage and Vinyl pretty early. I got to see SO many of my old friends! It was great. Until I did something to the upper left part of my abdomen, that is. Janice thinks I may have pulled something getting out of one of the sofas there, but I don't know. It was tolerable at first, and I tried my best to hide the pain. It came and went for a few hours or so.
I stood all through Outlook Grim's performance, there was no way I wasn't standing for my husband's performance! They were completely awesome. And very well received. I can't WAIT for them to play out again!
I had to sit back down right after that though. And from there it got SO bad. I was in tears! It was really beginning to scare me. I didn't want to let Doug know because I didn't want to ruin his time. He was having a blast, and seeing all of our old friends, some of which we probably hadn't seen in 10 or 15 years. I was texting Sissy though and letting her know what was going on. I tried my best to stay through Mitch's band, Sepo, but it just wasn't meant to be. Half way through their set, I had to get Doug's attention, and get him to help me to his mom's car.
I hated not telling people goodbye. Ugh.
She thought she was going to have to take me to the ER, that's how much pain I was in. But we got back to the room, I took some medication, and laid on the side that was giving me fits. Between those two things, it eased up a bit.
It hurt the next day somewhat, but it was MUCH improved over Saturday night! Sunday felt like it took us forever and a day to get home, lol.
I was super excited to see the kitties. And they were super excited to see me as well, lol.
The pain hasn't been back since Sunday, so hopefully whatever it was fixed itself.
Anyway, all I've really done this week is ship out orders, made some YouTube videos, took care of some business stuff, picked up the house a little, loved on kitties (they've been super clingy, lol), and tried to catch up on television.
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