It wasn’t a great week for me, but instead of focusing on the bad things happen, I’m going to glaze over them and talk about the fun stuff that went on this week. I’m tired of being upset.

Wednesday, I randomly got sick at work. It was out of nowhere. I woke up feeling fine. I ironed one of Dave’s shirts, took a shower, ate breakfast and felt completely normal. I started feeling sick on the way to work and it just got worse as the day went on. Dave thought I might have a flu and took me to urgent care, which was $70, when he got off work. They couldn’t really tell me what was wrong, but gave me a shot and prescription for nausea medicine. I still felt awful Thursday and ended up staying home again. I was finally able to eat some food Thursday night and started to feel better. My guess: food poisoning or some random 48hr flu.

Wednesday night we lost Brenda. The cancer finally won. That’s really all I want to say about it because it just makes me upset and I said originally I was just glazing over the bad stuff.

Friday night Dave wanted to go see some ska bands down in Ybor. Although I wasn’t feeling 100% still, I went because I knew Dave really wanted to go and he did such a great job taking care of me when I was sick. We stayed for a few bands, but I was really having trouble breathing. My chest hurt every time I took in a deep breath. It was super hot and smoky in the venue, so I’m sure that didn’t help much.

Saturday I was finally feeling like myself. We went to the USF Homecoming game.

There were guys with parachutes…

USF won (barely) against Louisville.

After the game, we decided to go to Best Buy down the street to try and let some of the traffic die down. Dave was apparently in the mood to spend money and ended up buying a new stove. He’s been talking about wanting to remodel his kitchen and we’d been looking at different countertops and appliances, but him buying the stove was totally unexpected. I have no idea how I didn’t know about this for all these years, but Best Buy has this “open item” gimmick where they sell their display models for hundreds less than the cost. So when we saw the exact same stove we were looking at when we went to HHGregg a few weeks ago was an open item at Best Buy, Dave was sold. I love a good bargain and that stove was a really good deal. This open item thing rules! I was looking around the store for other things that were open items and saw tons of stuff. How did I not know about this?

After Best Buy, we went to Pei Wei for dinner. This was the fortune in my fortune cookie…

I thought it was appropriate.

We stopped at the other Best Buy closer to home and tried to look for more open items. We didn’t have as good of luck, so we went home and I started cleaning the house while Dave fell asleep on his recliner watching the Texas game. It was the first week in a long time I didn’t have to work on my condo (it’s finally done!) so I was going to take advantage of it.

I cleaned the kitchen and dowwnstairs bathroom before going to sleep. This  morning I woke up and continued. Dave went to watch football with some friends, so by the time he gets home, the entire house should look pretty good. I haven’t really stopped since this morning, except  to take a little break to post the old stove on craigslist and write this.

The week wasn’t all that great, but at least it seems to be getting better. We are going to Dave’s parents for Thanksgiving next week and heading to that area is always nice. November has been a really bad month, so hopefully things will end on an upward note.

Tags: family, fun, life, outings, purchases, USF Homecoming

For my Dad’s birthday 2 weeks ago, I bought him tickets to the Rays game that was last night. He’s never been to a game and kept saying how he really wanted to go. I never know what to get him for his birthday, so I thought that tickets to a game would be way cooler than a gift card to Applebee’s.

We all headed to St. Pete (Dave, me, my Mom, and my Dad) early yesterday. Dave and I took my parents to Burrito Boarder (the BEST place for burritos around). They liked the food a lot. My Dad kept commenting on how good the salsa was.

We headed to the stadium and got to our seats just in time for the national anthem. The stadium was PACKED and the game was really exciting. We won, and my winning streak still stands! The Rays haven’t lost a game that I’ve gone to. If I was able to go to every game, they’d be in the world series again for sure.

After the concert there was a free Pat Benitar concert. She sang really well. Even though she’s more from my parents time, I really like her music. She put on a good show!

The gift was a definite success. My parents kept commenting on how much fun they were having the whole night. A few years ago, I probably would’ve though hanging out with my parents on a Saturday night was lame, but now that I’m older I realized ow much fun my parents can be. We all had a great time and wouldn’t mind hanging out with them again on a Saturday night.

Tags: family, fun, outings

This week went by so fast for me. It feels like just yesterday I was making a post about cereal. Days/Weeks/Months seems to go by so fast the older you get.

Last night Dave, Chrissy, Bob and I went downtown to a new wine bar that was recommended by one of Dave’s coworkers. This place was fun because you could out money on a card and stick it into a machine that would give you 1oz. samples of wine. I not a big wine drinker and don’t know much about what goes well with what, so I like a place that gives me options. I dated a guy that was one of the people that would recommend what wines would go well with your meal at a fancy restaurant. It was cool when we would go out to dinner because he always picked good wines to drink, but unfortunately none of that knowledge stuck with me. We spent about an hour sampling different wines from all over the world and reminiscing.

Best line of the night came from Bob: “It smelled like if shit could take a shit.” *heaps of laughter*

After we drank all of the money on our card, we decided to walk down the block to a dive bar called “The Hub”. I like dive bars because they are generally a lot less expensive then fancy places and they aren’t stingy on their alcohol. This place was no exception. Chrissy took 2 sips of her fruity vodka drink and said she didn’t want anymore because it was too strong.

*Side note…just because I know my mom reads this. Chrissy drove us home. Those 2 sips were the only thing she drank all night, so you don’t have to worry about me dying or anyone getting a DUI. Love you.*

We got home and I passed out until 10 this morning. I took Chrissy and Dave to breakfast, then we went to Ikea because Chrissy had never been. She ended up buying a few things and is now as addicted to the store ad Dave and I are.

I dropped Chrissy off at home and then Dave took me to my eye doctor appointment. I haven’t been to an eye doctor in a good 10 years or so and lately I’ve been getting headaches which I think are mostly due to the fact that I stare at a computer screen most of the day. The doctor said I had some trouble focusing, but my vision was pretty good. She told me magnifying reading glasses would work best for me, so I’m going to pick up a cheap pair. I’m so lucky that I take after my father when it comes to my vision. he’s had 20/20 pretty much his whole life. My mother on the other hand has such horrible vision that at one point in her life she was wearing glasses on top of contacts.

Tonight, Dave and I are going to see a live performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that one of my coworkers is in. I’ve seen the show live once before a few years ago and enjoyed it. It’s only $7, they have a full menu and full liquor bar, and it’s something different. Should be fun times…as long as I take a nap beforehand.

Tags: bars, downtown, family, friends, fun, life, outings, wine