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Forgotten on Christmas

Nick and I got up extra early to start our Christmas Eve day festivities. Actually we got up at 10am, but that’s considered early when you stay up till 4am. The plan was to head out to Nick’s Grandparents’ house so he could work on their computer, then head to his step dad Terry’s around noon-noon thirty.

We got to his grandparents’ house around 11:30am. Jake was there because he spent the morning hunting. Their grandpa had to run to the store and since I needed some supplies for dinner with my step dad’s family I went with him. We weren’t gone very long, maybe 30 minutes. When we got back I realized our vehicle was gone. It was about 12:15. I assumed the boys went to Terry’s house, but I thought it was strange that they would go without me.

All of a sudden Nick and Jake pulled up behind us in the driveway and asked me if I wanted to go to Terry’s. Of course I wanted to go to Terry’s. Then he told me that he forgot I was with them until he passed us on the road. How do you forget your wife somewhere? On Christmas??!?

Cipro

Last Thursday I was fortunate enough to get a urinary tract infection. Merry F*cking Xmas to me!! Since I seem to get super advanced strains that seem to advance to a kidney infection within hours, I get super advanced antibiotics as well. On this particular occurrence I was prescribed Ciprofloxacin, six pills over three days.

I conveniently placed my bottle of pills on the nightstand so I wouldn’t forget to take one in the morning when I woke up. I got up the next morning and grabbed my bottle. Nick rolled over in bed and with a horrified look on his face angrily said “What are you doing?” So I angrily retorted back that I was “taking my pill.” The look on his face turned to confusion, then back to horror. He told me he took one because he thought it was his malaria medication. He must have thought it magically appeared on the nightstand so he didn’t bother looking at the label…

Since I only had six pills I felt it was vital to get a replacement. I called the pharmacy and was on hold for what felt like forever. The pharmacist recommended that I get another pill and said she would have it for me later in the day.

Nick didn’t know where his malaria pills were so I assumed I had them from the Belize trip. I dug out his prescription bottle from the pile that was still sitting in my suitcase. I glanced down at the label and read “take as needed for traveler’s diarrhea” before remembering that he didn’t take the malaria medication on the trip only the traveler’s diarrhea pills, the… Ciprofloxacin. I immediately did a double take. Yep, it said Ciprofloxacin all right. The same thing I was taking for my UTI was the same thing prescribed for traveler’s diarrhea.

So it appears I didn’t need to spend the time on the phone and going to the pharmacy to pick up one little pill after all. I had 10 replacement pills under my nose the entire time. And all I’m going to say is I bet they would work real well on traveler’s diarrhea.

And Nick’s malaria medication was in the bathroom, where it probably was located since before leaving for Belize.

Here in Minnesota…

First day home from our trip to Belize. Boo was super happy that my hand was the hand that fed her this morning and she even bit me while I was petting her on her cat stand. Looks like she’s back to her good ol’ self.

What can I say about being back. For starters the bed was nice, as was the water pressure and the smooth ride to work. Breakfast sucked. Lunch wasn’t much better.

I put all the above ground pictures in the gallery. You can view them here. The underwater pics will be posted soon as well. Nick said he’d put them in his gallery, but after resizing and color correcting them, I need to have some glory. Besides, no one goes to his site anyway.

I’m also in the process of putting the videos online. Check out the player at the bottom of the post or visit youtube.com/jillapalooza.

I heart shoveling

Today marked the second official driveway shoveling of the season. Technically it was my first time… but I did shovel the sidewalk last week so that should count for something.

I always get all mad while shoveling, because I know it’s just going to melt. Maybe in a week (like every time it snowed last year) or maybe not until next spring. Either way it will melt. I say let’s just leave it for a season and see what happens. Nick and I both have 4WD vehicles. So maybe everyone else will struggle a bit… not my problem. Oh well, guess this is the price I pay for wanting to be nice. *sigh*

In other news, tomorrow’s my last official work day before leaving for Belize. Yesssssss. Hopefully the fit won’t hit the shan and everything will go well so I can finish all the stuff I wanted to get done.

And hopefully no more snow until we’re out of here!!

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