Year Two, Day 119: Shaking of the Tail Feathers

Precious baby calf

CCR Cover Band!

My daughter and son-in-law had been planning to go to the Oregon State Fair today. They had an extra admission ticket and invited me.

At first I declined. My daughter gave me her look and asked me what important thing I had to do today.

"Lots of things," I blurted. "Laundry, the gym, piano practice, blog..."

She rolled her eyes at me. "You do that everyday.

I poured a cup of coffee and pondered. I realized, of course that she was right.

So I went to the fair!

We had a blast!

I ate fairly reasonably- pineapple chicken, peach smoothie, corn on the cob and a coconut popsicle.

Oh, and then there was the handful or two caramel corn, but I ate that really fast so it doesn't count right?

The highlight was the live concert. The CCR cover band played all of Creedance Clearwater Revival tunes. And we found out two members of the band were from the original band! The drummer and the bass player, who were both 71! And dude, they rocked!

I jumped to my feet when"Bad Moon Rising" started. And I didn't sit back down until after the encore.

I danced that caramel corn right off, baby!

I haven't had that much fun in many moons- good and bad moons!

I also loved seeing all the farm animals.

Especially the goats and llamas.

I do need to get out more often. And shake my tail feathers!

Happy Labor Day! :)

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Year Four, Day 31: Sleep Business

I did it! I survived my sleep study.
It was quite intense. I think my expectations were a bit skewed. I was envisioning more like a mini retreat.
It was all business. Sleep business.
And the minute the lights went out and the door shut behind the sleep technician as she whispered, "good night", I went into full panic mode.
Luckily I was really tired. She had asked if I wanted to watch a bit of television before I fell asleep. But I declined. I knew to take advantage of the heavy lidded, dull brained feeling I had when I was really sleepy. Television might wake up my brain.
As she was attaching my electrodes, I watched a show on Animal Planet called "Lone Star Law", about Texas game wardens. I was hooked! It was fascinating. I rarely watch tv, and we don't have cable at home, thankfully. But this show drew me in. In retrospect, I should have continued to watch it until I fell asleep.
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Year Four, Day 41: The ER

This morning about 4 a.m. I woke up with severe stabbing pains in my jaw. My whole head, face and neck felt like someone had it in a vice. And was turning the lever.

I had already taken a dose of Thera-Flu before bed. Since Wednesday morning is my time with Gracie, I wanted to make sure I was well rested. I didn't want to be groggy on Gracie duty.
But with the pain I was experiencing, I was questioning how effective I would be at all.
I was wide awake, holding my jaw as everything throbbed. I made a decision to take another dose of Thera-Flu. The package said I could take one dose every 4 hours.
So I boiled some water and sat hunched over the kitchen table. I poured the hot water over the powder. As I waited for it to cool, I put my face close to the cup. The hot steam gave my poor face a bit of relief.
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Year Three, Day 308, 309 and 310: I'm Back...

...from the brink of death.

Most dramatic am I. But I feel like I went to hell and back this weekend.

One mistake was to take over the counter medication (Tylenol, Thera-Flu and Ibuprofen) and drink massive caffeine in order to make it through teaching classes on Friday.

I felt really good until early evening. Then it felt like my head was going to explode. My cough returned with a vengeance, dragging along massive sneezing and nose dripping.

Then like a big dummy I downed another mug of Thera-Flu before bed. I didn't even consider cancelling Saturday breakfast with my mom. And definitely could not afford to cancel anymore piano lessons.

Oy, I felt miserable Saturday morning. But I managed to get up and stagger down the road to the bus stop just in time. I was halfway to our regular restaurant before I remembered it was St. Patrick's Day. I looked down at my outfit. Not a speck of my favorite color green. So, before I joined my mom, I stopped at Rite Aid in search of a little…

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