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