redfirefaery

i am playing hookie today...

well, not really. i'm actually staying home because i have to get to my doctor, and if i go to work, i will never be able to get out early. they like to make good promises, but it never happens.

this weekend started out fun and good.....
friday, plans for a late night dinner/coffee meeting with a friend from work ended up with rescuing another friend from the cold because he got into a fight with the woman he lives with and was wandering the streets. so we rescued him and fed him coffee and alcohol, gave him crap high school poetry to read, and made him happy...
saturday started out slow with a call from my mom to tell me her new doctor finally figured out what has been the cause for her health problems all along, which can be treated. the only thing, now, is getting all of her symptoms under control because it causes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney problems, etc...but at least she has a doctor now who knows what it is and isn't going to tell her it is all in her head.
anyway, after the phone call, spott and i went to procure ourselves some food, and headed out for canandaigua. spott's dad said he'd take a look at my car. the first half of the trip wasn't bad. a little rough on the steering (wind + big car = wrestling with steering wheel), but i discovered that my tape deck works, so i was listening to stuff i hadn't heard in a while. the second half of the trip started out wth my "check engine" light on, and then came the snow...
by the time we got to spott's parents' house in canandaigua, i was flat out tired. from there, the plan was to go see "the vagina monologues" with spott's jew, but the roads got bad so we just hung out with spott's family. then stayed the night. notice i don't say slept there. i was awake every hour at least from 12:30 when i fell asleep to 6:30 when i finally gave up. and, funny, in a way, the youngest sister and her teenage fiance ended up sleeping not only in the same room, but in the same bed! i got to half-sleep, wary of the room because it isn't part of my home, without the comfort of my girl even in the room, and freezing my ass off, because i am a significant other and the only couples that sleep together in that house are married--but it is fine for her teenage daughter's boy and her teenage daughter to sleep in the same bed? WTF. spott said something about speaking to her mother about it, but i don't know if she did or not.
after the sleepless night, i couldn't bring myself to do much, and spott really didn't have an opinion on doing much... seems she didn't sleep much either. we ended up sitting around watching movies for hours. then i took a long nap--i think i slept about 4 hours--we ate dinner, and afterward came home.

now i feel nothing but icky. i've been having issues with breathing and circulation for days, mostly since i've been cutting down the caffeine, and today i have the floaty feeling that comes before all-out spins. i'm not going to work, unless i can get in to see my doc and she says i should. she probably won't.

i also just found out one of my friends got beaten on this weekend by a guy she's spent a lot of time with, and that makes me sad. i've seen something coming for weeks, even though i wouldn't have guessed this bad, and i've been trying to encourage her to leave him in the dust because he doesn't respect her at all... i am going to find out more about that later.

i think i'm going to go take a shower, then get a cup of tea and maybe some breakfast. or maybe once i'm clean i'll just go back to bed.