Karma's weekend!
We all have those weeks, you know the ones where you wish you could push the rewind button or better yet the fast forward button just to get it over with. Well I had one of those and let me tell it really and truly was Karma's weekend......
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday went by slower than I wanted I it felt as if I was moving in slow motion. Finally Thursday arrived by lunch on Thursday I was so tired I thought well it is close to lunch maybe I just need a sandwich I went to the break room fixed said sandwich but I was too tired to even finish it. I tried to get up and at least clean up my mess but as karma would have it my body said no way , no how stay were you are so I slouched in the chair waiting for the fatigue to pass grabbed my diet soda and made my way back up front to my desk to at least look as if I were working. My throat was a little sore but when you sleep with you month open you can usually expect that , then the aching joints came the knees , shoulder, than all joints OK maybe this was something more and my tonsils felt like they were growing larger by the minute. Oh man Oh man not know karma the boss lady is going on vacation next week I need to be well can't miss ... work... it ....is... all ... in ...my... head... I am tough I told my self I can do this. As karma would have it by the time I made my way out to my mom van. I knew I had a fever, the van knew the way home so I just kind of put my self on auto pilot and made it home came it check my temp. 101 , then fever and chills set in. I have a sweater , this sweater is my best friend in the winter, big sweater keeps me nice and toasty all winter long. but that night in the heat of summer I wore big sweater to bed and still shivered.
Hubby, Baby Bird and Wyld Child told me"Mom you better not go to work , call and see the Dr. this is not a request ,this is an order." But me being the hard headed person that I am said" Naw I will feel better in the morning." So at 8:00 I went to bed. ( the last time I went to bed at that time I was in the 6th grade)
Friday Morning -The alarm went off I hit snooze , it went off again hit snooze, Must get up I told myself , Must go to work. Body said no lay back down so I did. Then I called in to work , then I tried to call the Dr. but as Karma would have it they were booked up no appointments open at all. OH NO I need to see Dr. feel so, so bad. "Please , nurse I think I have tonsillitis. I crashed back into my bed , only to woken up a couple of hours later by the ringing phone Nurse" Dr. has some meds called in for you at the pharmacy ." Oh Thank you , Thanks.
After more sleep I dragged my self out of bed begged my oldest to go to the pharmacy and to the big chain store the next town over to pick up meds and air conditioner for my sons room but she stated that she was not sure size air conditioner to get so I had to get her to drive me. Went to store pointed to air conditioner, picked up meds, came home crashed in bed for another nap.
Hubs came in installed new air conditioner, I took meds. Baby boy came in and said mom can cousin -J- spend the night , Wyld Child said " Mom I have to babysit and will be there overnight because well they will not be home to late. " Ok I say to both kids. Hubs and I go to bed around 11:00
2:00 am we throw a breaker "Hubs, I say and poke him then poke him harder wake up we threw a breaker." Hubs sits up confused or should I say still asleep stumbles outside to take care of the breaker only..... As Karma would have it , the breaker does not come back on*(.Please note our house is about 65 years old if it is a day. She is the oldest house on the block we have painted and pretty her up but she is getting on in years. Said house is like the house on that old TV show Green Acres where they can only plug in a 3,2, 1, but never a 7 and 5 at the same time. And where something is always falling apart.) Hubs stumbles back in the house starts to get back in the bed, Um Jerry the power did not come back on. " Huh?" he says . I said " The power , it did not come back on." The big air conditioner is on a 220 circuit so it was still running. We both get up grab our flashlights and turn off one of the air conditioner's in the back and some other things and once again try to turn the breaker on, but still nothing. Come on Karma really now we are fully awake. We wake up the boys to move them to the living room so they will not bake in the night in a oven hot room . My fever finally broke sometime in the night.
Since we were not really sure what was going on neither hubs or I slept well we were both on full alert mode Maybe we should have taken shifts.? After a sleepless night called around and found a friend to come and check things out ( did I mention this was on a Sunday) as karma would have it the breaker box was fried. The Lord looked after us that night because friend said" You are lucky your house could have burned down." Now what , It is Sunday .... It will be Monday before it can be repaired.
Oh man where are we going to stay? I phoned ,text, telegraph, anyone I thought may have room for us. I hated to but sometimes you gotta do what ya gotta do. So Thank you DEZ for letting us crash at your pad.
We packed up our stuff, grabbed a pizza and went to camp out at Dez's place but like all old house's with very high ceiling's in the middle of summer in Southern Arkansas the house was just not cooling off. So Wyld Child slept on the couch, Baby Boy spent the night at cousin's -J's- house. Hubs and I tossed a mattress on the floor and tried to go to sleep. BUT as Karma would have it we could not find a comfy spot to sleep, after much tossing and turning we finally slept a very fitful sleep. I had strange dreams of cat ghost running across my bed , one of the cat ghost even "Bonked me on top of the head." I think it must of knocked me out because the next thing I remember is rolling over and the sun shinning very brightly in my eyes. I looked at Dez and said" You have ghost's, cat ghost's." She looked at me and said" What are you talking about?" "I don't have any ghost cat or otherwise." Wyld Child "Says mom that was me walking on the bed last night, I had to go to the bathroom." Hubs said " Man I did not sleep good either I think I even hit you on top of the head last night."
Well the Breaker box got repaired, we thanked Dez for her hospitality headed back to home sweet home. Were we all took a very, very long nap.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday went by slower than I wanted I it felt as if I was moving in slow motion. Finally Thursday arrived by lunch on Thursday I was so tired I thought well it is close to lunch maybe I just need a sandwich I went to the break room fixed said sandwich but I was too tired to even finish it. I tried to get up and at least clean up my mess but as karma would have it my body said no way , no how stay were you are so I slouched in the chair waiting for the fatigue to pass grabbed my diet soda and made my way back up front to my desk to at least look as if I were working. My throat was a little sore but when you sleep with you month open you can usually expect that , then the aching joints came the knees , shoulder, than all joints OK maybe this was something more and my tonsils felt like they were growing larger by the minute. Oh man Oh man not know karma the boss lady is going on vacation next week I need to be well can't miss ... work... it ....is... all ... in ...my... head... I am tough I told my self I can do this. As karma would have it by the time I made my way out to my mom van. I knew I had a fever, the van knew the way home so I just kind of put my self on auto pilot and made it home came it check my temp. 101 , then fever and chills set in. I have a sweater , this sweater is my best friend in the winter, big sweater keeps me nice and toasty all winter long. but that night in the heat of summer I wore big sweater to bed and still shivered.
Hubby, Baby Bird and Wyld Child told me"Mom you better not go to work , call and see the Dr. this is not a request ,this is an order." But me being the hard headed person that I am said" Naw I will feel better in the morning." So at 8:00 I went to bed. ( the last time I went to bed at that time I was in the 6th grade)
Friday Morning -The alarm went off I hit snooze , it went off again hit snooze, Must get up I told myself , Must go to work. Body said no lay back down so I did. Then I called in to work , then I tried to call the Dr. but as Karma would have it they were booked up no appointments open at all. OH NO I need to see Dr. feel so, so bad. "Please , nurse I think I have tonsillitis. I crashed back into my bed , only to woken up a couple of hours later by the ringing phone Nurse" Dr. has some meds called in for you at the pharmacy ." Oh Thank you , Thanks.
After more sleep I dragged my self out of bed begged my oldest to go to the pharmacy and to the big chain store the next town over to pick up meds and air conditioner for my sons room but she stated that she was not sure size air conditioner to get so I had to get her to drive me. Went to store pointed to air conditioner, picked up meds, came home crashed in bed for another nap.
Hubs came in installed new air conditioner, I took meds. Baby boy came in and said mom can cousin -J- spend the night , Wyld Child said " Mom I have to babysit and will be there overnight because well they will not be home to late. " Ok I say to both kids. Hubs and I go to bed around 11:00
2:00 am we throw a breaker "Hubs, I say and poke him then poke him harder wake up we threw a breaker." Hubs sits up confused or should I say still asleep stumbles outside to take care of the breaker only..... As Karma would have it , the breaker does not come back on*(.Please note our house is about 65 years old if it is a day. She is the oldest house on the block we have painted and pretty her up but she is getting on in years. Said house is like the house on that old TV show Green Acres where they can only plug in a 3,2, 1, but never a 7 and 5 at the same time. And where something is always falling apart.) Hubs stumbles back in the house starts to get back in the bed, Um Jerry the power did not come back on. " Huh?" he says . I said " The power , it did not come back on." The big air conditioner is on a 220 circuit so it was still running. We both get up grab our flashlights and turn off one of the air conditioner's in the back and some other things and once again try to turn the breaker on, but still nothing. Come on Karma really now we are fully awake. We wake up the boys to move them to the living room so they will not bake in the night in a oven hot room . My fever finally broke sometime in the night.
Since we were not really sure what was going on neither hubs or I slept well we were both on full alert mode Maybe we should have taken shifts.? After a sleepless night called around and found a friend to come and check things out ( did I mention this was on a Sunday) as karma would have it the breaker box was fried. The Lord looked after us that night because friend said" You are lucky your house could have burned down." Now what , It is Sunday .... It will be Monday before it can be repaired.
Oh man where are we going to stay? I phoned ,text, telegraph, anyone I thought may have room for us. I hated to but sometimes you gotta do what ya gotta do. So Thank you DEZ for letting us crash at your pad.
We packed up our stuff, grabbed a pizza and went to camp out at Dez's place but like all old house's with very high ceiling's in the middle of summer in Southern Arkansas the house was just not cooling off. So Wyld Child slept on the couch, Baby Boy spent the night at cousin's -J's- house. Hubs and I tossed a mattress on the floor and tried to go to sleep. BUT as Karma would have it we could not find a comfy spot to sleep, after much tossing and turning we finally slept a very fitful sleep. I had strange dreams of cat ghost running across my bed , one of the cat ghost even "Bonked me on top of the head." I think it must of knocked me out because the next thing I remember is rolling over and the sun shinning very brightly in my eyes. I looked at Dez and said" You have ghost's, cat ghost's." She looked at me and said" What are you talking about?" "I don't have any ghost cat or otherwise." Wyld Child "Says mom that was me walking on the bed last night, I had to go to the bathroom." Hubs said " Man I did not sleep good either I think I even hit you on top of the head last night."
Well the Breaker box got repaired, we thanked Dez for her hospitality headed back to home sweet home. Were we all took a very, very long nap.
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