Sickypants

I guess my immune system finally felt my body slow down and decided now was a good time to attack. Fine with me this week, since my goal was just to lay around and do nothing while DBF was away, but now he's coming home today and I'm at the height of my congestion and overall snottyness. Joy!

Our double-date movie night got cancelled for tonight because our friend has to work and they don't have a sitter for the night anyway, but it would have been nice to get out of the house. Probably for the best because no one wants to listen to me sniffle and snort in a theatre for two hours. I'll keep sucking back the Dayquil and Dimetap and maybe we can still go on our own.

Tomorrow night is supposed to be our big date night though. DBF is leaving again on Monday for three weeks, and will miss Valentine's Day so we wanted to go out for a nice dinner and drinks. Hopefully I can suck it up and feel good enough for that. I would be sad to miss date night!!

Of course, if they don't come plow our road soon it is going to be a tad difficult for me to pick him up from work today anyway....

Something a little different...

Normally I try to stear clear of all of the hype surrounding celebrities and their untimely deaths, etc. (...not to say that I don't occassionally get sucked into celeb drama... Britney is a car wreck that I can't look away from sometimes...), but I just read an article about how Heath Ledger's death has been deemed an accidental overdose of prescription pills.

Read it here.

It caught my attention because on the list of drugs was OxyContin.

This is one of those situations that is brought to light by my job. I work for a legal website that provides daily legal news about everything under the sun. One of the main topics that comes up every day is prescription drugs....whether it be about unknown side-effects, off-label use, or addictive qualities. I read multiple complaints from the general public each and every day about how addictive OxyContin is.

These complaints come from normal, everyday people like you and me that have been given this prescription by their doctors as a painkiller. They've been told that it's not addictive. Yet, here they are months later feeling like meth-heads that just need one more fix. They've tried and tried to get themselves off the painkiller, but to no avail. They find themselves financially strapped and overusing each and every day. It might as well be heroine.

So here we find yet another stressed out person that has been living each day pumped full of prescription drugs for anxiety or sleeplessness or whatever the ailment of the day may be. Can't doctors come up with a better way to help these folks deal with stress? There has got to be a better way.

Read here to see what draws people to our site to seek help. Or here is an interview we did.

Winter Exercise

OK, so I suck at driveway shoveling. I need to work on my technique. It looks like a small child did it. LOL. I'm looking at all the neighbors driveways all clear and slush-free....and mine is this haphazard mish-mosh of shovel scrapes and missed patches.

However, I'm sick and I went out and did it. So I'm still proud of myself!

Of course, wouldn't you know it that it started to snow again just as I was putting the shovel away. What's with that?!! haha. And I think I just heard the mini-sidewalk-snowplow go by. Nice timing jerk!

;)

Honey's gone for the week

haha, my turn to spend the day with no pants! OK, well honestly, because I work at home there are many a day that I spend in either PJ bottoms or yoga pants and a hoodie. And for me, that's even better than having no pants!

I suppose I have to wear pants anyway, because someone has to take the dog outside. :)

Last night I decided to be a lazy bum and left all of the chores for today. I had a glorious long, hot shower, curled up in my fuzzy robe and watched Disc One of Gilmore Girls Season Six. (I got it for Xmas and this was my first chance to get into it.)

I plan to do something similar tonight, but not until my chores are done....

- laundry
- polishing living room tables
- polishing dining table
- dishes
- sweeping
- vacuuming area rug
- find restaurant for Saturday date night
- call gym and set up appointment
- walk the dog & drop off/pick up mail

I think that's enough for one day. :)

Happy Housewarming!

Sorry for the delay in this post, folks! Yesterday was dedicated to nothing more than eating leftover snacks and watching touching football related movies on TV. Oh, and DBF spent the day trying not to wear pants. (He succeeded until later in the evening when he needed to get something from his car.)

The party actually turned out quite fun! We were starting to worry a little that no one was coming because all but a couple of people were like 2 HOURS late!! We said anytime after 7:00....expecting that people would roll in between 7:30 - 8:00. A few people came by about 8:30, but the remainder of the group strolled in at like 9:30!! Turns out a bunch of them decided to come together....so when the one group was late, they brought the other group down with them.

Oh well, such is life...and in the end it was all a blast anyway!

We had too much food. I made my fabulous guacamole, a lobster/cream cheese dip (with real lobster!), and this chocolate/Skor/cream cheese ball thingy with chocolate cookies. Plus 4 kinds of meats, 5 kinds of cheese, crackers, pickles, olives.... I never even got to making the egg rolls, spanakopita, or mozza sticks we had in the freezer. Ha, and never opened the chips or pretzels. The girls brought more food too.....

We got a few fabulous gifties too! Another beautiful plant (yaaaieee), a tall hurricane-style candle holder (perfect for our dining table I think!), a Home Depot GC, and at least 3 bottles of wine. Score! hehehehehe :)

With all the guitar playing and singing going on (turns out our neighbor is a guitar/bass player so DBF was pretty stoked to find that out), the evening lasted until almost 4am! I guess that's what happens when the party doesn't start until 10pm. After the last few people left, DBF and Marky decided that they needed to hear the opening scene from Empire Strikes Back blasted on our new TV & sound system. Thankfully only 5 minutes of that!!

All in all it was a great evening. I got to meet some of DBF's co-workers, plus a couple of buddies I've heard about but never met. DBF had a great time playing guitar and working on his new songs with our friend Colleen. We need to recruit more girls for next time though....it wasn't quite the sausage party we had predicted, but it was close!!