Well, that's a fine how-do-you-do!

What a way to start out a new month. Actually didn't have a bad day yesterday (Saturday the 1st). I got up, cleaned house, washed and waxed the kitchen floor (yuck, it was gross!). Bill did laundry, etc. I vacuumed the carpeting, and so forth. I really should have gone in to work, as I am in charge of this ginormous fundraiser at work, and I have a lot to do still. It's amazing how much I can get done when no one else is around! heh

But this morning, I woke up with one of my migraines. Now, I really can't complain too much, because my migraines are relatively mild. I don't get them for days and days like some people. I don't have an aversion to light or sound or anything like that. What usually happens, is I wake up with this excruciating headache and I am nauseous. That is how I know it is different than a regular headache, is the nausea. Usually, I toss my cookies once, and then I know it's okay to take my Vicodin. So I took my vicodin about 8:00am or so, and then laid back down and slept. Usually I sleep four hours, wake up and the migraine is gone. Then I just take it easy the rest of the day because if I do too much, the migraine comes back. Plus I usually am really groggy the rest of the day from the vicodin. I still feel it lurking a little bit behind my eyes, but generally I'm much better now.

I feel very thankful that my migraines are few and far between, and mild. Mine are usually triggered by stress. When Bill's mom passed away a couple of years ago, I got one on the day of the funeral, and I had to stay home from the funeral. When everyone got back home I was fine. I'm sure that some people thought I'd faked it to avoid the funeral, but not so. That's just the pattern of my migraines. I guess if I have to have migraines, I'm lucky that's all they are. At least I don't have to avoid chocolate or wine, two foods that often trigger a migraine. I mean, who could live without chocolate or wine?!? Pure torture. LOL

Anyway, I'm so glad I got this on a weekend, too. I cannot afford to be sick or anything until the fundraiser is over -- and that won't be until a week from next Thursday. Then I can fall apart! LOL

Anyway, hope everyone had a better weekend than I did. :-)

Quick update

Sorry I haven't gotten to Part 2 of our trip to SF to see the Giants play. I've been super busy at work, and with the smoke and all in the air from the fires, I haven't been feeling too well. In fact, I stayed home today with a migraine. No fun!

I'll get to it later. We're still alive; just tired. Having poor air quality really begins to take its toll after awhile. I may just post the rest of our pics if I don't have time to write a full post. I wish I had a great memory for details the way Jake does in Tales of a Dysfunctional Family blog (see link on the right). Must be because he's still young! :-) And they have a great group of families on their block. They all play together, hang out together -- it's really awesome. It's the way neighborhoods are supposed to be. That's the same neighborhood where my SIL and her family live. They are very lucky to have such great neighbors. Jake, you have no idea how convenient it is for a parent to have such a reliable babysitter just across the street! :-)

Anyway, I'm tired and still fuzzy from the Vicodin. Have a good one, everybody!