From So lovely to so bad...

Yesterday was going to be a good day – and it was-great actually – at least to a point.

Last evening Dolores and I met for dinner. We had “met” in the blog-o-sphere and later discovered that we were in the same travel group with CB and that we lived about 10 minutes from each other and about 5 minutes from the GO Train that she takes. We e-mailed and decided it was high time that we meet and then we decided that we would meet at 6:15 at Kelsey’s. We recognized each other right away from our pictures on our blogs. Dolores’s husband Shawn walked in with her and my heart sunk...Oh no – I read the mail wrong and we were supposed to be meeting with our husbands – If I called Mark right now he could be here in 10 minutes. What a great first impression I was making coming alone when I should have brought Mark with me. – How could I have read everything so wrong...

Well I didn’t – Shawn was just making sure that I was there to meet Dolores – How sweet is that!!

Well Dolores and I got a table and started to GAB and GAB and GAB!! 3 ½ hours later we were leaving the restaurant as new friends!!

We discovered that we were so much alike in some aspects and our husbands are very much alike also – kinda weird really…We talked about adoption (obviously) and everything else under the sun. It was FANTASTIC!!! I can see a long standing friendship developing here that will extend to China and back!! How great that you get to travel to China to get your daughters together with friends!!

We took a photo of the evening, but I look TOO horrible in it to post it here!!

I got home and talked to Mark about the evening but I was SO tired. We were in bed shortly after that and that is when it all went DOWNHILL...

I woke up at 2:00am with a FEVER!!! Holy cow it was horrible. My throat was SO sore and I felt like I had a chunk of concrete in the roof of my mouth – YUCK!! I took my temperature to confirm my suspicions and yup, I was right. I was up tossing until 6:30am when I called into work to let them know that I wouldn’t be in. I finally fell asleep again as the sun was coming up. I managed to sleep for about 3 hours. The fever is gone but I still feel like crap!!

AND IF THAT WASN’T ENOUGH...I called the doctor to see if I could get an appointment today (as this has been going on and off for over 2 weeks now), he is FULLY booked as is every other doctor in the practice!!

So then, I decide that I should get myself ready and go to a walk in clinic somewhere. So I MUST take a shower – so into the bathroom to turn on the taps and NO WATER!! Can you believe it?? NO WATER!!! I am then just standing there in shock staring at the taps willing the water to come out – to no avail...I called a neighbour and they said that they don’t have water either. Apparently a main broke and they are fixing it. It could be hours yet. So then I am looking out the window and I can see the big truck there and they are digging up the road trying to fix it.

Now what to do – I really want a shower especially since I was in that “fever sweat” last night and I just feel ICKY and GROSS. So here I sit debating what to do. I have an appointment with the Doctor tomorrow at 2:30, but what to do today? Should I drag my unwashed body to a clinic or sit here in my unwashed body wrapped in my blanket at home? I am leaning towards staying home. I really don’t think that there is anything that a doctor can do for me anyway – people get colds and you just have to deal with it...

Well I just looked out the window again and the truck is gone – I don’t have water yet and the truck is GONE!! What’s up with that? How can these people go and take a lunch break when I have NO WATER!!!!

So there you have it my evening that was SO great and my night that was horrible...