X-Mas Cards and LONG Mornin's...

Okay so I want anyone who would like a Christmas card from me, to email me their addresses so I can add you to my Christmas Card list. I do ALL the cards for the family, so getting extra for my awesome bloggy friends will be easy! If I have your addy and you want a card, just comment it or email me!
Anyway onto my great morning...I am being a lil sarcastic yes. LOL. So most of you know I am very much a night owl, so I was still awake this morning when my Mom got up for work. From downstairs I heard her cough...I KNOW that cough! Yes she has been sick for a few days, but it was like a cold. This however, sounded like her when she gets bronchitis. And working 5 days a week now...not good. She got downstairs and sat down to say hi to Max and started wheezing, and was like "crap". She knew, she IS the nurse. But did she agree to call in sick? No. Did she agree to go to the doctor? No, they are ALL out all week. Would she let me take her to the ER? No. A Clinic? She was not sure what she was doing yet. So I waited, she said "just give me 5 minutes to wake up and I will be fine", so I waited with her...and waited. Talked to her more and more, I could HEAR the wheezing, and she didn't like that. Finally, she said, gimme the phone and I dialed for her and she called in sick. I know she is nervous, this is her first sick day since she started at Cedar Lane in August. Plus she IS in charge of Staff Development, so that is a big hole and she is worried. They better not give her grief!! Mom agreed to let me take her to the clinic, Dad has work, Sam was asleep and Kat has school, so that leaves me, which I would have probably wanted to go with her anyway. Luckily I had NOT taken my Ambien yet! LOL!

I also looked into the CVS Minute Clinic and they didn't open unitl 8 am, so we sat flipping through channels for awhile...there was a really odd movie on with Aidan Quinn and he was a jerk of a dad...and the lil Jewish boy was gonna die, I looked it up, glad we didn't watch the whole thing. So we got to CVS and yay no one else was in line yet so we got to go first. It took quite awhile, the nurse practioner wanted to know everything... I swear all she did was click on stuff in a computer program and I swear it shoots out the answer, I COULD DO THAT! Man! Anyway Mom has Bronchitis AND Sinusitis. She got an antibiotic, a cough medicine with codeine (mmm, LOL) and nebulizer treatments. We stayed while they got the RX's ready. Shopped for new toothbrushes for Mom (purple of course, her fave color), big box of tissues, swedish fish, etc. And before she came down my Mom had slept for 13 hours and hadn't had any food for almost 18 hours!! I wanted to slap her upside the head like Gibbs does on NCIS. So we stopped at Stop and Shop's Red Box (I had movies pre-rented) and got McD's. We went back home, it was like 11 am by this time and ate. She commanded me to take my pills, even though I was SO awake and felt like hey why not just stay up all day today...I think I could have too. But she was having NONE of that. And even though she had slept for 13 hours, she went to take a bath and go to bed. Poor mama. I fell asleep on the couch, Sam woke me around 1 and pushed me up the stairs, as I drunkenly stumbled about. So I slept for about 7 hours total, and it was already dark when I got up, but I am OCD, so I HAD to go do my Tuesday errands, so I went to Walmart,etc. Got my Mom NEW Swedish fish, the CVS ones were hard as a rock...how rude!

Got home at 9 just as Sam pulled into the driveway (she HAS to have aced her test, I qizzed her for 2 and 1/2 hours on blood and the heart and junk like that) and we went in together. Mom lasted a half hour and went BACK to bed. Mmmm codeine and NyQuil....work GOOD apparently! LOL!

So yeah crazy morning, I feel so bad for my Mom, she feels like crap, and sounds like it too. She is mad too, because she will most probably NOT be going up to Auntie's for Thanksgiving, not unless a miracle of energy and stuff shoots through her on Thursday...which I see as not happening. She was looking forward to the meal, and now barely eats anything. My poor Mutti, she is weak as a kitten. If her bosses are jerks, I will so run them over...and leave reindeer prints behind. 'Tis the season!! Mwahahahaha!