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Busyish weekend!
Oct. 14th, 2013 10:11 amFriday night, I trekked way up north in the city to visit with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dodger_sister and her sister and friends, who were all in town for Chicagoland visits. We had amazing food at Leona's and I left stuffed to the gill with excellent food and beer, not to mention fabulous conversation. I wonder what neighboring tables thought as we discussed fandoms all the way back to X-Files and all the porny fic possibilities. It was an excellent visit and I hope to make my way up to visit her sometime soon!
It was a bit tense later that evening and through the weekend, however, because my dad was taken to the ER via ambulance Friday evening ... HE'S OKAY. They think it's just a bad reaction to a switch in blood pressure medication, but the Blue Cross Blue Shield nurse told my mom his symptoms could be stroke- or heart-related, and to let the professionals deal with it. Of course she had started crying, and the niece and nephew were over, so they start crying ... By the time I got home for the night (like 1030pm), he was also home and feeling relatively okay. They gave him some liquids, ran an EKG, and drew blood, and then let him leave with instructions to not take his BP meds all weekend, take it easy, and call his doctor Monday morning. I saw my brother and his family Saturday afternoon for the kids' soccer games, and everyone seemed a lil soft about it, asking how he was, yet skirting around a real conversation. My mom, however, wouldn't let him be alone this weekend and I agreed to "babysit" him so she could get out to a friends' brother's wake, but then she decided to not go either. I think she was really spooked by the whole event and just wanted to be home with him. We wound up watching Gasland on Netflix (during which I fell asleep :-\) Then some random TV before I headed on home.
I really wanted to LOVE Gasland, especially since there's a sequel out now that I've heard is really great ... but yeah, it got really slow after a while. I wound up watching Valentine Road off HBO On Demand, and Jesus, it was heartwrenching and showed both sides of the crime/event ... and while I always get frustrated with the other side's ridiculous opinions on the crime, I always love those types of documentaries.
What I am super enjoying now is My Cat From Hell. LOL. My mom has been telling me about this show for a year now, talking about things that happen on the episodes, insisting I watch so I know how to take care of my cats. I always brushed it off because A) my cats are pretty well behaved (in the grand scheme of things) and B) I felt like this was just one more step towards CRAZY CATLADY. But seriously, it's kinda funny to see how these other people are handling their cats in ways that don't make sense, what ideas he has to make cats more comfortable, and to eventually start to see what they should be doing anyway. I even enacted one of his suggestions for giving cats perches near windows and for at least 24 hours Lucy stopped climbing my screen door.
And now I have a short week leading to a long weekend for visits frombertee and zuben_eschamali! Bertee is bringing me delicious chocolates and I'll be taking her for milkshakes and baby-sized nachos. Very important things obviously!
Totally unrelated - I am actually incredibly slow at work and it's KILLING ME. I keep looking around, trying to find something to do.
dodger_sister and her sister and friends, who were all in town for Chicagoland visits. We had amazing food at Leona's and I left stuffed to the gill with excellent food and beer, not to mention fabulous conversation. I wonder what neighboring tables thought as we discussed fandoms all the way back to X-Files and all the It was a bit tense later that evening and through the weekend, however, because my dad was taken to the ER via ambulance Friday evening ... HE'S OKAY. They think it's just a bad reaction to a switch in blood pressure medication, but the Blue Cross Blue Shield nurse told my mom his symptoms could be stroke- or heart-related, and to let the professionals deal with it. Of course she had started crying, and the niece and nephew were over, so they start crying ... By the time I got home for the night (like 1030pm), he was also home and feeling relatively okay. They gave him some liquids, ran an EKG, and drew blood, and then let him leave with instructions to not take his BP meds all weekend, take it easy, and call his doctor Monday morning. I saw my brother and his family Saturday afternoon for the kids' soccer games, and everyone seemed a lil soft about it, asking how he was, yet skirting around a real conversation. My mom, however, wouldn't let him be alone this weekend and I agreed to "babysit" him so she could get out to a friends' brother's wake, but then she decided to not go either. I think she was really spooked by the whole event and just wanted to be home with him. We wound up watching Gasland on Netflix (during which I fell asleep :-\) Then some random TV before I headed on home.
I really wanted to LOVE Gasland, especially since there's a sequel out now that I've heard is really great ... but yeah, it got really slow after a while. I wound up watching Valentine Road off HBO On Demand, and Jesus, it was heartwrenching and showed both sides of the crime/event ... and while I always get frustrated with the other side's ridiculous opinions on the crime, I always love those types of documentaries.
What I am super enjoying now is My Cat From Hell. LOL. My mom has been telling me about this show for a year now, talking about things that happen on the episodes, insisting I watch so I know how to take care of my cats. I always brushed it off because A) my cats are pretty well behaved (in the grand scheme of things) and B) I felt like this was just one more step towards CRAZY CATLADY. But seriously, it's kinda funny to see how these other people are handling their cats in ways that don't make sense, what ideas he has to make cats more comfortable, and to eventually start to see what they should be doing anyway. I even enacted one of his suggestions for giving cats perches near windows and for at least 24 hours Lucy stopped climbing my screen door.
And now I have a short week leading to a long weekend for visits from
bertee and zuben_eschamali! Bertee is bringing me delicious chocolates and I'll be taking her for milkshakes and baby-sized nachos. Very important things obviously!Totally unrelated - I am actually incredibly slow at work and it's KILLING ME. I keep looking around, trying to find something to do.
