{"id":218,"date":"2009-02-23T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/wordpress\/?p=218"},"modified":"2009-02-23T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T22:26:02","slug":"long-weekend-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billyrhythm.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"Long Weekend Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, it&#8217;s an exciting one!<\/p>\n<p>Grandma(Susan&#8217;s mom) picked the kids up on Wednesday. They were going to be gone until noontime on Friday. I was supposed to have President&#8217;s Day off, but, because it was the day before billing, I needed to be in the office. I was going to take Thursday off, because the kids were going to be gone all day. Instead, I decided to take Friday off too, and parlay the whole thing into a mini vacation.<\/p>\n<p>So Wednesday, after work, I came home and picked Susan up. We ended up going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafemiranda.com\/\">Cafe Miranda<\/a>. I had the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafemiranda.com\/images\/pht25.jpg\">Pitch A Tent<\/a>,&#8221; and Susan had something called Jim&#8217;s Beef. It was all very good. You should click on the link, and check out their menu. It&#8217;s <em>huge<\/em>. There&#8217;s so much stuff from which to choose!\u00a0 Then off to the grocery store to pick up a few things.We came home, and watched a Jeff Dunham comedy show.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning was Eggs Benedict morning. We had had some snow, so we decided it would be a &#8220;stick around home&#8221; day. Around noon, Susan was feeling sleepy, so she went to take a nap. I stayed up and worked on a web site. With four or five uninterrupted hours, I was able to get it mostly done. I thought perhaps I&#8217;d use the leftover Hollandaise to make a Bearnaise to eat over a fillet of beef. At $15\/pound for fillet, though, I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to buy it. Instead, I bought some less expensive stuff, some broccoli, and a Pepperidge Farm lemon cake. I think we watched some uneventful movie before bed.<\/p>\n<p>Friday morning, and Susan was going to treat me to breakfast at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagesoup.com\/thebrasscompasscafe\/\">Brass Compass<\/a>. Instead, though, we got a phone call: Julia wasn&#8217;t feeling well, and wanted to be picked up immediately (instead of noon). So we picked up a few items at Wal-Mart, and had a delicious breakfast in the car provided by, um, McDonalds. In the afternoon, I remember I made some biscuits, and we had them under hamburger and brown gravy for supper: sort of a take on SOS. At one point, while getting the boys ready for bed, I lost my temper, and put myself to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning was mostly the same as all my Saturday mornings. Blueberry pancakes for the family. Wash dishes. I stayed home with Julia while Susan and the boys went to nephew Caleb&#8217;s birthday party. A nap in the afternoon before my gig. It was during this nap that my gut started to churn. I played my gig, but I wasn&#8217;t feeling great. The guys noticed. I wasn&#8217;t myself.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning, and I noted on Facebook that I wasn&#8217;t feeling 100%, but I was still going to church. And I did. And I still had lunch at my Mom&#8217;s. I come home, though, and take a nap. When I got up from my nap, I felt worse than before. The boys hadn&#8217;t had a nap, and they were starting to falter, so Susan asked that I stay home, and put them to bed. So I didn&#8217;t go to evening church. At one point, my stomach was churning so much I went into the bathroom. I was able to fight it off, though. The snow was starting to come down when Susan got back from church, and she reported the roads were quite greasy.<\/p>\n<p>My sleep last night was fitful. I woke up at 3am, stomach in knots. Then, I couldn&#8217;t get back to sleep. My mind kept whirling. I wanted to stay home, but I knew I would have work to do at the office from two days off. And I knew, with the snow, other staff members would be running late. What should I do? I would drift in and out, but never really fall back to sleep. So I got up at my usual 5:30.<\/p>\n<p>And, everything was as I expected at the office. All kinds of people couldn&#8217;t make it in due to the snow. On the good side of things, Gina, the bookkeeper, kept most of the customers at bay while I enjoyed my time off. So there wasn&#8217;t a huge pile on my desk this morning. I got the fires put out around 11am, and then came home. I put my jammies on, and took a nap. I think I&#8217;m starting to feel better: I ate supper, and it&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve felt hungry in days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, it&#8217;s an exciting one! Grandma(Susan&#8217;s mom) picked the kids up on Wednesday. They were going to be gone until noontime on Friday. I was supposed to have President&#8217;s Day off, but, because it was the day before billing, I needed to be in the office. 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