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every so often, you can just have one of these great, great times that make you feel all alive and invincible and ready to take on the world – any task, mind you – dust bunnies under the bed, blog posts that are sorely behind, balancing a checkbook, losing 20#, creating peace in the middle east…. well, i have had one of these weekends, my friends, gather round while mother tells you all about it…
my sweetie came out to visit for a nice long weekend, of course, pre-visit, i did my usual twisting in the wind and generalized fretting about the aforementioned dust bunnies and how maggie would behave (which was great! except for a minor vomiting episode ON THE BED and the “let me gently lift you off of lisa” incident in which said sweetie saw the lightening quick change from cuddlebug to devil dog), but all went so well!
day one was a welcome to my town, a drive around, a tour of the neigboorhood, bonding time with the magpie. next, my very own metrosexual whips out this awsome ensemble (no capes) that put me to shame with its casual unstudied funky elegance with an edge (we call CUFEWAE for short). we went and had a great dinner at a cool place called the boot in norfolk. for reasons unknown to either of us, we had no cheeseplate – though it was there….. instead we did split a fantastic goat cheese bruchette – which i feared as it was described to include a pine nut-cumin… vinaigrette i think? i am not a cumin fan. we got it on the side and gobbled it up in 8 seconds.. 
the rest of the dinner was wonderful – wish only that we had gotten more adventurous early with the cocktail choices
as i had told trace that one of the things i love about this place is their signature cocktails - and i am NOT talking apple martinis. they had something called a “super collins” (i don’t even know what a tom collins is and i am a wine girl, so i usually shy away from these types of things) but it was homemade grapefruit simple syrup, soda water and vodka. adult lemonade. YUM! oh yes, and we highly recommend hub’s peanuts on your coffee gelato brownie sundae (we did split one in my own defense).
saturday was another fun one – it was beautiful out, but cold as sh…. – is shit cold? i think not. why do i even think that? am i in 7th grade? sheesh. we walked the magpie, we laid around, i had to wash the aforementioned barf extravaganza off the duvet that i just washed the day before! then – and this is the part that makes me go “awwwww!!!”, trace and i went to donate blood!
a dear friend, tairy over at the little red’s writing hood podcast (poetry) and of disney tidbits: did you know? has developed a charity effort 
that is so wonderful – we’ve mentioned it on those darn cats and i hope to talk about it more there and here. she has been a long time blood and platelet donor. she is asking folks to sponsor her this year, one measly dollar every time she makes a donation. i believe the monetary donations will be going to a diabetes charity – she has just finalized some of the red tape around getting this project up and running, so more details are to be found at the website. i know of several pals who donate blood regularly – perhaps you would consider linking your donation with tairy’s AND making a small monetary donation? we are talking less than $30 for the entire year? please consider?
anywho, the cool thing for me was, i haven’t donated blood in like 10 years. if you’ve attended college or grad school, i’m sure you are aware there are blood drives on campus about every 82 seconds. i’ve donated blood before, but, i went through a period (no pun intended) where my hemoglobin was always too low to be a donor. like 4 or 5 times of trying to donate and then not. i gave up. talking with my pal tairy as she was sharing her inspiration and idea for this blood drive, motivated me to give it a try. and tairy did all the hard work!!!! i just sent her my zip code and she emailed me back a place to donate! and guess what? it was RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET!!! so, in a gesture of solidarity, trace and i did this…
the rest of the weekend i can happily report was not quite so bloody…. we visited the atlantic ocean – which trace had not been to before (and which he keeps calling “the arctic ocean” given the lovely temps of the day… then we enjoyed a seafood tower of terror and a wonderful long evening of talking and noshing at catch 31 on the ocean front! yummmmmm!!!
- Dude
sunday turned into the fun lazy day i was
hoping it would be…. a yummy breakfast at the silver diner (crabcake omelettes YUM!), moving of my bedroom furniture to restore proper fung shui (me thinks it worked), a visit to the local disneystore (just to check it out), an ill motivated visit to uno’s (i should have gone for the pho that drove me there, but the smell of cheeses!!! DAMN YOU CHEESY GODS!!!) then some disney movie marathons and the oscars!!
of course there was plenty of cuddling, and fun times as well. sigh. long distance relationships…. not my fave, but hey, you can’t always pick how things turn out…. and let me just say – WOW! from a year ago??? no, from like all my life ago till now?? definitely worth the wait and the drama… even if it isn’t a forever thing (i’m very superstitious) what a joy to be with an open, intelligent, funny, cute, adult, together, responsible, did i mention super cute?, dude who has their shit together???? holy mackerel!!!! we’ll probably break up tomorrow….. cause i’m positive like that!
my sweetie is on his way! we have all kinds of cool things to do! maggie is excited! unfortunately the weather is making things a bit challenging – its beautiful LOOKING here today and tomorrow, but temps are to top out in like, i don’t know, the high 40s??? and sunday, there is talk of precipitation. we have an idea to go up towards DC sunday, but its not looking promising… and given that there are about 8,000,000 places to eat and things to do close to home, there are no worries there..
i want to be blogging more and i just haven’t been able to find the time. arg! there is alot going on now – let me just say this one thing now, maggie is on drugs and it is a good thing!!!! i seriously think the doggie prozac is working. my dog has been cuddle poo queen for the last two weeks. of course, it’s not like i’ve tried to bathe her or anything… but my dog, my dog who does follow me about the home and seems to like me when she is not noshing on my nose, comes and sits in my lap about 3 times a day and wants to sleep next to me without eating me. oh boy..
i can’t take all this lurve.
AND a jay and silent bob cameo??? c’mon!
and i am not terribly shocked by this fact – i have a semi eventful day tomorrow (today, now, actually):
- have been to the vet with maggie. she’s due for a teeth cleaning, which involves a general anesthetic, and this is going to be combined with a head to toe(s) body shave down – given that her last ejection from the groomer was mid hairdo and she has the craziest haircut ever right now. and she’s matted. and she can barely see between her overly long dog bangs and gunky hair around her eyes. its bordering on neglectful, seriously. she also has been started on “doggie prozac” aka clomicalm. this is touted as a medication for separation anxiety, which wouldn’t exactly be maggie’s diagnosis, as far as i am concerned, but its the closest thing to a mood altering drug out there and is supposed to NOT turn her into a drooling lump. we are on day 4, it’ll probably take a good month to assess if it is going to be of help in her fear/aggression issues. as an anesthesia provider, i know that anesthesia is safe, but also know that “no one” is as anal as i, and i just want her well monitored. i have confidence at the vet office we are going to. i drop her off at ~8, they’ll call me in the afternoon when she’s done and awake – hell, she’ll be 10 years younger (where do i sign up)…
- i then am returning to my surgeons office for a follow up. its been just over 6 months since my surgery, and, though i wouldn’t say i am having a setback, and i am generally very pleased with my results, lately, my “need” for the muscle relaxants and pain meds have increased, despite trying to be active and RTC tylenol. mid january, something seemed to crick in my neck and i am back to coating myself in ben gay patches every week. the surgeons office has continued refilling my meds, i had called them about that – i think mid november – and they reassured me that, yes, that’s what i should be doing, but, to my abject horror, i put in for a refill a week ago, and realized i had taken quite a bit more medicine over like 3 weeks then i had in a while and i worry that they now think i am a druggie. i worry that i am a druggie! (my meds are potentially addicting – i am sure both physically and/or psychologically – but non-narcotic). the pills don’t make me “feel” high, and thats no excuse for pounding them, which i don’t think i do, but i do think that since i don’t “feel” drugged, i don’t have qualms about taking them and maybe thats a problem too. so, given that i work with and adore my surgeon, i have a terrible feeling in my gut (my catholic guilt likes to pop up from time to time) that i am in “trouble”. in fact, its great that i am being seen, i suspect i may be referred to a pain specialist, which will be fine, so long as it is not the same practice who gave me prozac at the height of my discomfort last march when it turned out i had a severely herniated disc….
- as i lay awake, dozing in and out, i’m making mental lists of podcasting topics and emails i should be sending and organizing ASAP for the show. i have just brewed some sleepy time tea, taken 2 benedryl and am going to return to bed. i’ve got a note book there and may jot down some things, but i don’t want to continue to sit here at the computer or i will never get to sleep and completely LOOK the part of crazy, drug addict woman at the doctors tomorrow.
- valentines day is this weekend. my guy doesn’t regulary read my blog, though i wont say much about what i have done/planned for him, but i am anxious about his surprises and if he will like them and what our future may be and if i am capable of a long term relationship. in the words of stuart smaley “i’m afraid i’ll die homeless and peniless and 20# overweight”
but that’s just stinkin’ thinkin’! so time to get back in bed and at least try to rest. i’m off for 2 days now, work 2, then the weekend and the big VD….. have to clean and make this place presentable as the guy is coming to my abode for the first time. OMG WHAT IF WE ONLY LIKE EACH OTHER WITH THE HUBBUB AND DISTRACTION OF WDW????????
i don’t think that is the case at all, but, you know, i always need something to fret about.
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