| Welcome Back -or- The Good Bad Good Bad Weekend |
 Welcome Back -or- The Good Bad Good Bad Weekend
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Jun. 23rd, 2009 @ 08:09 am 
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My weekend started Thursday with a Michigan based brewery beer tasting after work in downtown Monroe (So metropolitan. I know. Y'all are jealous.) I tasted many great brews, and was extremely impressed with Monroe county's own brewery Original Gravity Brewing in Milan, MI. I tried their smoked jalapeno and Belgian (lambic-style) brews. Yum.
Afterward, we were hungry and the wife, a new found friend and I headed to the Mexican eatery across the street. *Insert diabolical music snippet here* The food tasted good, and off to home sleep off the happy beer buzz.
Friday, the wife wasn't feeling it and so stayed home from work. I wasn't sick in the least and had a productive day, leading into another quiet but productive drinking evening, this time at home. After sleeping for two hours I had to get up, and to put it mildly, it was Old Faithful on the flip-side all night long.
Understandably I was feeling queasy, sleepy, irritable and more than a bit tender Saturday morning. I did what any Dad would do. I took two anti-diuretics and made Becca drive the car up to Kensington Metropark (awesome park by the way.) Despite my previous bouts with evil, I had a good time. I read some of my book Legacy by Greg Bear while watching the kids swim, helped Toby attempt to fly a kite and once I felt up to it rented a peddle boat to tool around the lake with Toby as my skipper. A good time was had by all, and heat exhaustion that a day spent in the sun can bring was brought to a pleasant end by cool shower at home.
Woke up Sunday morning, went to church and then off to my dad's for father's day. About now I'm beginning to feel like an over-inflated beach ball so I didn't eat much of the yummy ribs my dad made. My dad offered me a beer, so I drank it, but continued on with plain water the rest of the day. Other than that, it was nice seeing my family and I was grateful to be able to catch up with a post-op Uncle Art who is doing better than expected, although he is obviously antsy to get back to his normal active life. He's not one to stand still for long.
After I returned home, the wife went off to the store and I stayed home to fold the clothes and do laundry. As it turns out, I was able to fold the clothes. I had no energy, was now extremely uncomfortably bloated, and it was becoming obvious to me that I was dangerously dehydrated. Of course the gallon and a half of water I was consuming in order to take control of final issue didn't help any with the primary or secondary issue.
Monday morning I awoke with a dehydration headache, called in sick to work, brought the kids into day-camp and proceed to sleep and drink fluids, plenty of fluids, lots of fluids, and was mostly normal around eight-o-clock hydration-wise. Hooray. And the rumblings in my belly region foretell of an impending and probable sudden end to my beached-dead-whale-laying-all-day-in-the-sun syndrome, though hopefully not in as violent a fashion.Current Music: Welcome Back Carter |
You're a really good dad :-) Your boy is very lucky. I'm sure he doesn't know how lucky he is. Happy belated father's day.
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