Sunday (21) finished getting Benton setup and had him pull his clothes for the trip and get laundry done. He has serious executive disfunction on clothes washing. Sighs. Not sure how to fix that but I know that we need to purge his clothes when school gets out which is in less than 18 days. Yikes. Maybe Sunday then for clothing purge. Anyhoo..I was feeling less than stellar and it wasn't any one thing but I was tired and kinda strung out on people and errands and it was fecking wimby out and I was just done.
Woke up Monday with a throat that felt like I had swallowed golf balls and I couldn't talk...at all. I was trying to cough and couldn't and almost threw up trying to cough cause my throat hurt so bad. I tried my saline rinse for my sinus, I tried gargling with hot salt water. I took all of my allergy meds and crawled back into bed after a quick text to work hubby. It was bad. I slept until 2pm and then snuggled up reading etc. I drank what I could but stuff hurt. When Mel got home with the boy I managed to pack snacks for the boy and then headed to urgent care. Hours later I was diagnosed with acute allergy attack, given a pack of steroids and a lidocaine syrup to apply to my internal throat pieces. IT was not strep, they tested and I got home miserable at like 930 pm. We had to get up at 3am the next day to make sure Benton got to school by 4am for his trip. I got up with them after some horrible fitful sleep, gave hugs and saw Benton off and slept in. I managed to have a bit of voice and was able to work off and on. I took a very large nap after work and that was basically the week for me. I was a lump on the couch. But the steroids worked and then that mean I was a snotty fucking mess cause my body could finally expunge all of the mucus it ahd been storing in my lungs and in the back of my sinus. Additionally, my hand swelling went down so I got rings on I haven't in a while which means my allergies really aren't under control. So I think I need to get tested for food stuff and see what else I should be eliminating. cause inflammation sucks.
Benton had a great time in DC though he had a camera fail...he didn't know how to open the camera to charge it and didn't ask an adult or have them call me. So he only got photos the first day. I was pretty wiped all week and to add insult to injury a work issue of not my making reared up on Wednesday that resulted in my work phone getting shredded and my laptop was taken to be lobotomized. So I had no assets until about 3pm on Friday. I left work a bit after 5pm and then Mel and I headed to Kon Tiki for my belated birthday dinner. IT was nice, I had a few nice Tiki drinks, Mel got to have Tiki drinks and I went to bed early that night. I was so tired. Mel played video games till late. Lol. Saturday I slept well and got a really good shower and cleared up my sinuses and I took sudafed and Mel and I got out of the house and went out to antiqueing. We hit the new location for Midtown Mercantile and it was meh...more mid century stuff. We headed to the 8th Anniversary Sale at Speedway Antique Mall and got a few things, and then finally on to 22nd Street where we got the big hello's from their staff. They had missed us and were happy to see us.
Got home and I was tired so I spent a few hours working on trying to use my new
Flair58 Espresso Machine . Mel got me it for my birthday and it is way more a thing than I expected. I was a design of experiments to finally pull two good shots of espresso and a slew of other things I needed to buy like a new grinder. Mel ended up hand pestle grinding the coffee into powder. But its tasty and kinda fun and fucking bougie and did I need this? No. Is it kinda neat and I'm glad he thought of it? yeah.
So we had two nice shots of espresso after dinner and then hung out until it was time to pick Benton up. His plane was late so they didn't land until 1145 and then the kids all waited for everyone else to deplan before mobbing down the concorse to baggage claim. Benton was happily carrying a bugle he had bought at Mount Vernon. We got hugs, he gave us our gifts when we got home (I got a book on the A10 and a trex key chain, MEl got a cook Trex coffee cup). He bought some other books and things but basically made money on the trip. Lol.
So, all good minus my allergies kicking my ass and being down for a week. This week is slightly better but I've taken it easy..though work has been a PITA. And setting up the new brained computer has been ugh. My new work phone arrived last night and I'm still waiting for it to download all of the apps.
This weekend is coronation and I'm going to get dressed, knit and watch the show. Sunday I think we are helping Wander move things.